The Super-Official-Unofficial Gold Saucer Discussion!

[Man-Sam]

UHHH UH A DATE WITH BARRET PLZ!

And snowboarding! OH PLEASE SNOWBOARDING!

[Jonth]

Battle Square

They NEED to add this. This is what me and my friends have been speculating on, and it is about the only thing that would get one of my friends on board the Gold Saucer hype train with me lol.

[-DMR-]

Seems interesting, I presume Gold Saucer entry is level regardless of any character.

Where would it be located? Ul'dah or an independent location?

[Lucke]

Seems interesting, I presume Gold Saucer entry is level regardless of any character.

Where would it be located? Ul'dah or an independent location?

There are some buildings on the bottom that are the same architecture style as UD, so I'm guessing somewhere in the Sagolii Desert. Godbert built the thing, so I'd imagine somewhere in Southern Thanalan.

[Felis]

All rewards will be Dalamud Popotos and a popoto minion bought with popotos

I hope they don't put common dungeon drop into the gold saucer prizes list ^^

[Eltaire]

I hope they don't put common dungeon drop into the gold saucer prizes list ^^

That's what Tissues are for (or maybe an Orthopedic Bra). XD

More useless than common dungeon drops.

[MageBlack]

I'm really curious about a few details involving the Chocobo Racing and the Triple Triad.

Chocobo Racing: We know it will eventually be linked to the Chocobo Breeding for stat enhancements and the like as per previous details but the Chocobo Breeding isnt released until 3.0 comes out and those areas are finally available. So, Will chocobo racing part of the Golden Saucer be withheld until 3.0? In the trailer it looks like people were racing their GC chocobo so will that be the basic races with more competitive races in 3.0 and Breeding? Is the chocobo breeding going to be linked to the Housing systems just like the stables are currently (I seriously hope not!!)?

Triple Triad: They have said it is also going to be available on mobile devices and cross playable. I would love more details on how this works and will the mobile devices include a PS Vita downloaded application (separate from the cross play function of the FFXIV client). Will the mobile device app be live at the same time Triple Triad goes live or will it be later down the road? How will the two tie together, IE ow can you battle people in game while on the mobile, it is mobile to mobile, do you need to have a FFXIV service account to play or is that just need to link to the in game stuff, etc.

I'm am NOT being negative with all my questions. They are out of excitement for these features being added and I cant wait to dive head first into them! Late February cannot come soon enough!

[Sho86]

I thought they already mentioned that our personal chocobos have no relation to chocobo racing. If I had to guess going on the fact we don't have breeding in 2.51 then they'll hand us a basic racing chocobo and probably have food that increase its stats by small amounts, maybe won by racing or whatnot.

[Recaldy]

It needs a stage. It could have zero official things use it but my god we need a stage for player-ran events.

[NefarioCall]

Battle Square

I'm still hoping for the ability for players to watch PvP matches in an arena. I know that prior to 2.0 Yoshi DID say they were considering this, but would not be something we would see at launch. Player betting or just general audience participation in small PvP matches would be way cool.