Question for the Devs; will Heavensward include a new STARTER City-State?

[Terin]

people that seems to miss the point are wow (the one they take inspiration) exept pandarie that was a special case... wrath of the lich king: new continent, new city all high level. Burning crusade: new continent, new city, all was high level area..

Completely, 100% wrong; EVERY expansion for WoW, up until now, has included new low-level content, as well. In TBC, it was 1-20 starter-areas, in Wrath it was the new Death Knight starter-area, Cataclysm completely revamped the world and questing-experience, and Pandaria added a brand new starter-area, as well.

Everyone already gets the Main Scenario quest to visit all three cities, that could simply be the point that you're told that Ishgard is no longer safe for adventurers, or that the southern nations need aid. It wouldn't really affect much of anything, other than needing a zone or two dedicated to lower-level questing, before sending you back to the 2.0 content.

[Morningstar1337]

Completely, 100% wrong; EVERY expansion for WoW, up until now, has included new low-level content, as well. In TBC, it was 1-20 starter-areas, in Wrath it was the new Death Knight starter-area, Cataclysm completely revamped the world and questing-experience, and Pandaria added a brand new starter-area, as well.

Everyone already gets the Main Scenario quest to visit all three cities, that could simply be the point that you're told that Ishgard is no longer safe for adventurers, or that the southern nations need aid. It wouldn't really affect much of anything, other than needing a zone or two dedicated to lower-level questing, before sending you back to the 2.0 content.

I'm pretty sure that the new zones will have low, mid and High level mobs, somethign ain to Central Shroud and the areas where the beast tribes are

The lone exceptions will probably the the Coerthas central highlands, ironically

[Tiggy]

Completely, 100% wrong; EVERY expansion for WoW, up until now, has included new low-level content, as well. In TBC, it was 1-20 starter-areas, in Wrath it was the new Death Knight starter-area, Cataclysm completely revamped the world and questing-experience, and Pandaria added a brand new starter-area, as well.

FFXIV has a much tighter story line experience from level 1 to 50. Specifically Ishgard is blocked off and the main story for each town has to introduce you to the Scions. Even if they did add a new starting area they would somehow have to reconcile that it didn't exist during that story. This isn't WoW where story elements were practically plug and play. Square strives for good lore and continuity. That must be taken into account.

*edit* saw this on reddit and thought it was relevant. An interview with Yoshi-p by Massively. http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/11...rs-and-post-f/

In it they say...

Is there a reason why new players cannot start as a Rogue? Will this restriction be changed in the future as new classes and jobs become available?

Final Fantasy XIV places a heavy emphasis on the story, and with the addition of new elements such as this, we would've had to change a lot of the introduction sequences, so we decided that it would not be available right from the start.

So for the same reason I don't think a new starter city will happen.