Beastman Coins

[Molly_Millions]

I know what they are used for!

You know when you buy new electronics, and sometimes there is a little plastic spacer shoved in the usb port or whatever so the port doesn't get dirty? Beastcoins are like that little plastic spacer. They make it so that your inventory slot doesn't get gunked up with all those useful items!

[Physic]

I doubt that is the case. It's Tanaka's fault these things are in the game in the first place, and considering the unfinished state of the game at retail release, if there was a "plan" I doubt it would have been anything more than "we'll fix it later", as was the philosophy they applied to every other aspect in the game.

the npcs and old leaked item lists imply there was going to be some kobold gears, npcs who craft talk about setting up kobold workers in his shops, and other npcs mention if you could find a way to deal with kobolds you might get their secrets. So, its fair to say they probably had some plans for deals with beastmen, and content built around that. It probably just got scrapped or put on indefinite haitus.

[Molly_Millions]

the npcs an old leaked item lists imply there was going to be some kobold gears, npcs who craft talk about setting up kobold workers in his shops, and other npcs mention if you could find a way to deal with kobolds you might get their secrets. So, its fair to say they probably had some plans for deals with beastmen, and content built around that. It probably just got scrapped or put on indefinite haitus.

Or maybe they are somehow involved with the beastmen encampments that are coming but the devs don't want to reveal how just yet because the plans could change.

[Rentahamster]

So, its fair to say they probably had some plans for deals with beastmen, and content built around that. It probably just got scrapped or put on indefinite haitus.

One could call it a "plan" in some form or another, but I doubt Tanaka's team had anything concrete. There are a lot of things that NPCs say that allude to stuff that should be in the game but currently isn't.

Even if the development team hadn't gotten reformed, I don't think we'd have seen anything regarding beast coins in the game by now.

[Leonesaurus]

If you ask me for my opinion, I'd suggest to them:

When beast tribe lairs open in the later patches, such as O'Ghomoro (Kobold Lair), Pag'lthan (Amalj'aa Lair) and so on, they should have at least one friendly or cooperative beastmen that offers you rare gear, abilities, or items at his shop (sort of like Guild Marks) in return for a set amount of Beast Coins and depending on the value of each coin as well (3 total for each).

Just some food for thought rather than get lazy and use them as an excuse to take up inventory space and eventually NPCing them off. I've been collecting them all for some time now and hope they use them for something useful.

Maybe... You can buy a cool looking mask that resembles one of the key tribesman, and in doing so enables you to not get aggro'd by them out in the field. Which also gives you some elemental stat bonuses, depending on the tribe. Considering Amalj'aa are Fire from Ifrit, Ixali are Wind from Garuda, and Kobolds are Earth from Titan, and so on...

I think being able to wear a mask and looking like one of them would be silly but really cool, especially with nice effects like that.

[Peregrine]

Okay, someone made these things. Some PERSON in Square Enix HAS to have a vague concept why they exist. Seriously. For real. If that's not the case, and there's any question left about what went wrong with this game...welll..you have people making entire sets of things that no one even knows why they're being made...

FPWEUIHWERNFWEPO THAT IS WRONG. WHO DOES THAT...WHY WOULD YOU EVER...HOW DO YOU...I DON'T EVEN...

Good freaking grief this is the crystalized reason why we're in this mess.
Because none of us know what freaking beast coins are for.
Not a single person. Not a player. Not a developer. No one?. And yet there they are.

[AlexiaKidd]

Wow if people are getting this mad about the Beastcoin's then I can wait to see the rage when they announce the class changes ^^

Have to admit I myself was collecting the coins as I remembered when I started FFXI I kept throwing all my Beastmen seals away and didn't want to make the same mistake this time around

[Cutriss]

Okay, someone made these things. Some PERSON in Square Enix HAS to have a vague concept why they exist. Seriously. For real. If that's not the case, and there's any question left about what went wrong with this game...welll..you have people making entire sets of things that no one even knows why they're being made...

FPWEUIHWERNFWEPO THAT IS WRONG. WHO DOES THAT...WHY WOULD YOU EVER...I DON'T EVEN...

Nidhogg Scales.
Cardian cards.
Doll Gizmo. (Although apparently it's now known to have an indirect purpose)

[Rentahamster]

Wow if people are getting this mad about the Beastcoin's then I can wait to see the rage when they announce the class changes ^^

Have to admit I myself was collecting the coins as I remembered when I started FFXI I kept throwing all my Beastmen seals away and didn't want to make the same mistake this time around

Same, lol

I'm sure they'll have some useful purpose eventually. Whether that time is next month or 2 years from now, no one knows, hehehe.

[zaviermhigo]

Mad about what? The games still in beta yo!

Oh and out of 7 kills in a row of Kokoroon, we got 5 bodies... we ended up just giving them out to other campers, as my Bow refused to show up. Then it showed up, and the people rejoiced.

We got 5 bows, it "seemed" like everytime we incapacitated him with concussive blow he was for sure going to drop the bow. But it was late, so don't take my word as fact. Maybe we're just unlucky on what we really want :/ I dont even have an archer and I have that bow now :/