Grand Companies

[Demacia]

Sounds like it's gonna be a copy of campaign from FFXI.

Complete with three generals that use Mythic/Relic weapons from FFXI, one of which uses the blue mage mythic weapon from FFXI and even shares the name of the blue mage captain of the immortals from FFXI. His fucking group is even called "The immortal flames". Real unique, not that I mind any amount of glorious FFXI in stinky FFXIV.

[Sigmakan]

I'm really not seeing them being much more than that...

Grand companies say "Go complete this dungeon to save the princess"
You say "Okay! What an active role you're playing NPC!"
<You complete it.>
You say "I'm done!"
Grand Companies say "Nice work, heres your reward!"
You say "All Right! What an innovative system we've developed!"

Hi Mav! Stop trolling our forums.

But sadly, I think the scenario you've described is the most likely one. You going to start playing again?!

[Jericho]

You're saying all that like it's a wonderful thing we get to play this "failed at launch" game (which I and others paid $60 for).

It's not a wonderful thing, but most of us have accepted it and stopped whining about it. $60 didn't break any of us, especially since, at that time, we expected to have paid another $100+ in fees so far.

[giftforce]

Grand companies are just lore and questhubs probably. They're not going to be worth the wait anyway.

[Molly_Millions]

Hooray for complaining about content that's not even in the game yet!

...now where did I put my torch and pitchfork?

[Sigmakan]

Hooray for complaining about content that's not even in the game yet!

...now where did I put my torch and pitchfork?

The fact that its not in the game yet is part of the complaint here. What was the purpose of all that massive Grand Company hype?

[giftforce]

Hooray for complaining about content that's not even in the game yet!

I feel justified in my complaining (not that I reall was anyway) because SE saw fit to make these "grand companies" in place of the "player run companies", which by the way seemed like a really good idea.

I feel like I get more enjoyment creating my own fun than I do just running around "talking" to NPCs. Talking in inverted commas because really I'm not talking at all. I'm just reading a couple walls-of-text.

Wouldn't player-driven content make for a more memorable experience than running around reading walls of text? I dunno, you tell me.

[Molly_Millions]

I feel justified in my complaining (not that I reall was anyway) because SE saw fit to make these "grand companies" in place of the "player run companies", which by the way seemed like a really good idea.

I feel like I get more enjoyment creating my own fun than I do just running around "talking" to NPCs. Talking in inverted commas because really I'm not talking at all. I'm just reading a couple walls-of-text.

Wouldn't player-driven content make for a more memorable experience than running around reading walls of text? I dunno, you tell me.

No they haven't, Player run companies are still in the works according to recent interviews with Yoshi-P. Public companies are just coming first.

[Kailok]

I thought they were going to introduce the Grand Companies along with player companies? Perhaps not. It never did make much since to have both LS and Companies, but perhaps they could at least take the features they had for ideas as companies and implement them for Linkshells.

I also want some more information on the Grand Companies.

[Molly_Millions]

The fact that its not in the game yet is part of the complaint here. What was the purpose of all that massive Grand Company hype?

I was specifically referring to folks saying that grand companies will be nothing more than a few NPCs giving crappy quests. Nobody knows that yet, and so nobody has ground to stand on in order to forge a legitimate complaint.