Please Advertise the PS3 Version Effectively

[Kailok]

Well, the world is going to double in size by the time the vanilla ends. This paired with the redesign of the existing areas.. it may not be called an expansion but it sure as hell is going to takeas much resources to pull off.

I sure as hell hope so. I wonder how long it will take them to rework the existing areas..I'm not a game dev (yet, going to school now) so I don't know the process. I know it's a big undertaking though.

[Betelgeuzah]

I sure as hell hope so. I wonder how long it will take them to rework the existing areas..I'm not a game dev (yet, going to school now) so I don't know the process. I know it's a big undertaking though.

It takes them half a year to prepare new armor models, and that is fairly standard in the modeling scene (not to mention SE's 3D artists are geniuses).

That doesn't mean redesigning areas takes exponentially longer, but as you could imagine it's a larger project that is usually only started when the company is preparing an expansion pack ahead of time. Usually the development starts as soon as the previous expansion has shipped (XIV's artists were working on new areas for an expansion before the management shakeup).

Needless to say they probably aren't working on said expansion at this point.

[Kailok]

It takes them half a year to prepare new armor models, and that is fairly standard in the modeling scene (not to mention SE's 3D artists are geniuses).

That doesn't mean redesigning areas takes exponentially longer, but as you could imagine it's a larger project that is usually only started when the company is preparing an expansion pack ahead of time. Usually the development starts as soon as the previous expansion has shipped (XIV's artists were working on new areas for an expansion before the management shakeup).

Needless to say they probably aren't working on said expansion at this point.

Well that's good. At least I know it won't be like 2 years or something before we see the new Eorzea! I hope they do a really good job with it. But, alas, I am getting off track.

I do like how much Yoshida seems to be trying to get his own personality out there. He's been posting loads on the JP forums, and since he's been doing interviews it's obvious he wants people to know things are coming. However, when the time for the PS3 release is ripe, he needs to go beyond the lodestone, past the jp only interviews, and get over to America and do some interviews and demos. I'm also curious if they'll be showing us something new when Tokyo Game Show hits around September 15th. I would imagine so.