Interesting Images...

[Yisi]

I was very excited after seeing those pics, but had a crazy image in my head. Picture it, your company shows up to an alliance with a rocket launcher to battle the Garlean Empire, another company shows up with war boats, and then... some midgets show up with a giant Birthday cake! Sorry just had to share the funny thought in my mind after viewing that.

[OminousAnonymous]

Umm.. Trojan horse anyone?

Err.. trojan cake in this case? haha xD

[ssppiikkeeyy]

i want to build rockets looks like fun lol.

[Molly_Millions]

holy crap, is that a naval battle?!

[Griss]

holy crap, is that a naval battle?!

not included in these pictures was a rough "first pass" of metal fingers unfurling from the boat in the foreground of http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...xiv06.jpg.html and latching onto the ferry to create boarding gangplanks.

[Calpis_G]

cake.... :Q

[Wenceslas]

The cake is a lie.

[Raim]

Weren't these taken before the change in development? I believe this is something that may or may not have been part of companies, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with what is planned currently. What I am getting from these current previews are simply large scale quests meant for entire linkshells to participate in. Nothing for crafters/gatherers to take part in.

[Peregrine]

Those are Tanaka's boats, cakes, and missile launchers.You can't have them any more!
So yeah these concepts were showed to Yoshi-P a while ago. He says he has the giant cake, but doesn't know what to do with it yet.

[Rinsui]

It's nothing but old concept art from a veeeeeeeeery long time ago.
Like the commercial trailer where a conjurer casts fire on an archer's arrows,
and a morbol bursts into flame and people actually jump around and cooperate.

Just concept art

...

or broken promises, depending on how you see it.