RG: Was there something you or your team wanted to bring into A Realm Reborn, but didn’t make it into the launch. Also, if at all possible are you reviewing this for an expansion and is there anything from 1.0, like the Goobbue mounts that you will be bringing into A Realm Reborn.
Ok, one of the biggest things that we had planned for 2.0 or
A Realm Reborn release but weren’t able to get it in was, what we mentioned before, the Crystal Tower and the 24 man alliance raid that we have planned for that. When we had it almost complete, and when we were testing it, we found that it was very very difficult, almost as difficult as the super difficult Binding Coil of Bahamut and realized that by having these two sets of high-end content, something that only the hardest of hardcore players could play, not enough people could access that, so we decided right at the end to take it out and readjust it to make it more accessible. With the 24 man raid, you want to have fun with at least 24 people and we want something regular players can get in and have fun with this. So we decided to move it to 2.1 after adjusting it. That was one of the things that, while we wanted to have it in at the release, we decided it was better if we adjusted it and released it in 2.1.
So, going onto something that was in 1.0, that we didn’t get into the game, but that we wanted to get into the game was the battle with The Good King Moggle Mog and that Moogle battle we had in 1.0. But, we realized that writing the main scenario and the main story for
ARR, that it didn’t fit the story and we didn’t have a way to get it to fit in and so we decided to push it, rather than forcing it into the story and have it be unnatural – we decided we are just going to put it off. But, now we are working it into the story and we have a way to get it in the story, so we will be releasing it in 2.1.
As for the Goobbue mount, that was a present for those fans that stuck with us through the hard times and its for them, we don’t want the meaning of that to get watered down by bringing it back for everyone. We want it to be that thank you from us, for sticking with us through those hard times.
However, we understand that we have a lot of players would like to see their characters ride on a Goobbue and so maybe bringing in some type of Goobbue for those fans that weren’t with us in legacy, is something we might consider.