Quote Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd View Post
Very true, however I kinda get the feeling that what they are doing with the story is more for our benefit to explain things that they are changing. Kinda hard to explain but basically I think come the "relaunch" (when they think it's good enough to pay for possibly PS3 release) they will have already restructured all the story missions and things, so they won't see any of this stuff when they start. Kind of like we are in a prequel of sorts to the actual game so we get to experience the changes to the lands and the story of how and why it happened but for new players it will have already happened.

I only played WoW on the trial while the servers where down because of the earthquake but did Cataclysm bring something similar? My LS friends who joined me who had played before were telling me "oh this is different" and "it wasn't like this before" but to me never having played it before it just all seemed normal.

In an interview with Yoshi P. they asked him what he thought FFXIV 1 year anniversary would bring and he said it would be when new players and old players would return and current players would tell them that all this stuff has happened and we need to save the world, something like that anyway. I kinda get that this is what he was hinting at.
I'd love the world to change because of the umbral age, but no matter how you look at it... it's a huge undertaking. The only reason why I say this is to point out that no one should expect this any time soon. Should just take this along with the new side quests that were implemented recently about Grand Companies. Everyone is seeing signs of the age coming and are starting to prepare.

I mostly read this message as the age is about to be here and that grand companies will be making their way into the game very soon.