New Jobs Gated Behind Completion of 2.0 Story?

[Dhex]

Oh the humanity - having to play the game to access other parts of the game! Say it ain't so!

[Kuurei]

This entire thread has happened before, and it will happen again.

And will keep on happening. Thus we have been taught by Blazblue and it's chronolooping bullshite.

[SQBoard]

So it took 2 weeks and 69 pages to find out it was a mistranslation?

PR statements are usually very crafted and deliberate in their word use and the editor using the words clarification and updated insstead of corrected (i know i used that word and i shouldn't have) gives me the vibe that it's not a mistranslation.

Especially since there's that statement that the quotes are from an onsite translator and edited for "brevity and clarity."

(Don't know how they did the Q&A but i assume they have transcript/recordings they can go back over for their editing for clarity.)


But what do i know. Perhaps someone who is fluent in japanese could chime in if it's actually possible to mistranslate the two seemingly very different statements.

I'm especially interested if it's possible with these:

OLD: "If a player had stopped playing around patch 2.2 or 2.3, I’d recommend choosing one of the new jobs and leveling that up while catching up on the story, then transitioning into Heavensward."

NEW: "If a player had stopped playing around Patch 2.2 or 2.3, it would be best to revisit the A Realm Reborn main story quests to get back into the groove as you head towards Heavensward!"

Or is this another personal housing type of "clarification"?

[MirielleLavandre]

Looking through tons of the pages, it seems almost every one of us commenting has a 50 or multiple 50s, and almost surely have finished 2.55. Unless we are trying to get friends to play, and therefore really concerned with the new player experience, maybe we should all agree to disagree on whether or not jobs will be gated. I'm sure we all want a vibrant and thriving community, but at this point until SE releases anything new - since it doesn't matter to we who are posting -- maybe we should let it the topic die an honorable death :P

Edit: As Y'kayah mentioned further up, I also forgot those who are re-rolling alt Au Ra -- they, too, would be heavily influenced by the newbie experience ^^

[Rhas]

That's honestly my question, though. Referring to Dragoon as another example, the main NPC you interact with is found out in Coerthas. Currently jobs don't really have "guilds" to begin with, but they decided to use those for the new jobs while also placing them behind the gates of Ishgard. They could have placed the job quest NPCs out in Coerthas like they did with Dragoon, but they chose not to and for reasons that haven't been explained.

for 2 of those answers you can find the relevant information here: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/heavensward/

[Zohar_Lahar]

When did they update the Heavensward site?

[Rhas]

When did they update the Heavensward site?

Not sure when, but they did.

[Duuude007]

When did they update the Heavensward site?

Earlier today or last night was the first time anyone mentioned it.

[Zohar_Lahar]

They didn't mention anything on Lodestone or the game launcher, odd....

[Omegakiyohime]

They didn't mention anything on Lodestone or the game launcher, odd....

This is SE so... baby steps. They did mentioned that they updated the website on the Heavensward website so the idea almost crossed the finish line.