Info on the Lodestone!

[Gracious]

I like fruity Pebbles

Chocolate Pebbles FTW! And more missions makes me really excited too!

[Starlord]

Chocolate Pebbles FTW! And more missions makes me really excited too!

Missions are not Quests... thats what people are seem to be missing here... Quests are "ment" to be small little tidbits
Missions are ment to be long and chained lead to the final result of the Mission, and within that mission has alot of stuff to do.

[Cairdeas]

Missions are not Quests... thats what people are seem to be missing here... Quests are "ment" to be small little tidbits
Missions are ment to be long and chained lead to the final result of the Mission, and within that mission has alot of stuff to do.

Its still a quest system its just segregated with different rules.

Guild Leves Regional
Guild Leves Local
Guild Leves Gathering
Missions
Class Missions
Side Quests
Guild Tasks
Grand Company Missions


Are all quests but all follow different ruless.

[Ava]

"I speculated what companies were 3 months ago and they are just confirming what I already know."

This is what I hear from a lot of people... They just told us that companies are going to tie in directly with dungeons. This could mean a lot of things. A lot of people have been suggesting some kind of rep/fame system, companies tying in with dungeons could be the start of something like that (speculation). They also released some foggy screenshots (granted, they were thumbnails) from the dungeons themselves. It looks like this first dungeon they are talking about is going to be in Gridania, we're going to be fighting some danger the Garleans are creating (sounds like they are disrupting aetherite energies and angering creatures).

Some people don't like RP, and I can understand that but to say they released a bunch of information we already knew - that's not true at all. There is a TON of speculation about this game and just because a few people speculated just that doesn't change the fact that this is, in fact, an official release of new information. Just be happy they're still working on the game and have provided some of the best compensations ever seen in the MMO genre. Most games would have closed doors and the devs would have moved on to other things in FFXIV's launch situation.

[Lerris]

For those complaining that this information should be in-game, it almost certainly will be, though in a different form. If you don't want to read it, don't. Go ahead and wait for the patch, the rest of us will enjoy our glimpse at what is coming.

Presenting information in an alternate location in advance is a strength, not a weakness.

[Delmontyb]

Our concepts of time must be very different... 6 months of post-release production is not a fraction of a second...

As for this game... I can't even remember the last time I logged in... I just come for the lawls.

Hum, I think this says it all... You can't remember the last time you logged in? Are you planning on logging in after 1.18 or are you waiting for PS3 release to check the game out again? Just curious.

[Delmontyb]

Oh, for people complaining about the post "not telling anything".

Well, it actually tells.

A - One of the purposes of Companies is to give quests. As you do these quests, you will unlock new ones. You can get some powerful equipment from these quests. Will it use a Fame system? Quest chain? That really isn't explained yet.

B - You can be part of only one of the Companies

C - New dungeon in the black shroud

D - There are 'barriers' and other garlean tricks in said dungeon. This could mean some puzzles

E - There are djiggas and puks in the dungeon, see pic (LOL)

F - We will be fighting against garleans and beast tribes more often

and

G - We got some lore on top of all this information.


Still sure we know "nothing new"?

I'd add that we will be given a rank and as we do things we will rank up within the company, I like that.

[Gracious]

Missions are not Quests... thats what people are seem to be missing here... Quests are "ment" to be small little tidbits
Missions are ment to be long and chained lead to the final result of the Mission, and within that mission has alot of stuff to do.

Oh, I was thinking it would be like City Missions in 11. I'm happy with quests too. As many quests and missions they dole out I would absolutely enjoy.

[BloodLotus]

Non-ls based content please. There's hardly anyone on my server so asking us to group up is a bit too much to ask with the current tools we have.
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SE WOULD IT KILL YOU TO INCLUDE ALL THIS STORYTELLING IN THE ACTUAL GAME PLEASE?!!!?![/SIZE]

Why not let people see this info in the game in a newspaper or something? Or meaningful NPC dialogue for once?! Dammit it's so frustrating to watch the actual website of the game to beat the actual game it's about.

>.> How about giving us mailboxes and sending us an edition of the newspaper updates ingame? that would be neat.

[IveraIvalice]

For those complaining that this information should be in-game, it almost certainly will be, though in a different form. If you don't want to read it, don't. Go ahead and wait for the patch, the rest of us will enjoy our glimpse at what is coming.

Presenting information in an alternate location in advance is a strength, not a weakness.

it probly isnt gonna be in game the way that they have it on the website. they didnt have that after story of the easter event in game at all, if people didnt read it online they would never know the story. im not one of the people who were complaining about it kuz i do go to the website often but i do think they should have it in game as a newspaper or something. but what everyone fails to mention is that it CAN be in game AND and the website. i have been waiting for someone to say that but no one has so ill finally throw that out there.
i played FFXI on the ps2 and xbox and i liked being able to read upcoming events and news on playonline before i actually entered the game (yes theres someone who actually liked playonline) and im going to switch to the ps3 version when it comes out so i would prefer to not have to go on my computer JUST to see news about the game.
just put some kind of newspaper in game thats exactly the same as the website and make everyone happy