Lore book? Why not a Lore Database App for FFXIV?

[VargasVermillion]

they'll make more money with lore books.

[Mjollnir]

I think a lore app database would be great, but yeah - not from S-E for the reasons given above, but from an anonymoose third party...

[Anonymoose]

I think a lore app database would be great, but yeah - not from S-E for the reasons given above, but from an anonymoose third party...

Honestly, organizing and preparing all the raw info for presentation is my favorite part of the process. It's just if I stop finding and hoarding and learning the info, I dun haves no info. Hard to be the miner and the jeweler and everything in between (unless, ironically, you live in the game we're talking about). I usually settle for only working on one big project at a time, that way I have time to find the info and keep active here in the forums. ^^

[Rocl]

Where's that coil summary Moose!?

[Anonymoose]

Where's that coil summary Moose!?

You son of a...

<lifts giant bestiary tome, checks which loose papers are under it>
...each Ragnarok-class starship bears a unique designation beginning with I.C., which stands for...
<sets giant bestiary tome back down, flips through pages, estimates time until completion>

Ehhh... Factor in finishing this, and then the Pre-3.2 Story So Far updates... I mean definitely before this E3, surely...

There's so much beneath the surface of that one that it's really high on my "want to finish" list. Probably highest. It slowly shifted from the standard summary you'd expect from watching the raids to more or less Rise and Fall of the White Raven, Part II.

[Theodric]

Aren't there plans for some sort of in-game 'bestiary' at some point? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...but I can't recall where. I'll no doubt buy the lore book for my own use, though, since as a role-player it'll be great for adding further depth to my characters as well as learning more about Garlean affairs which I'm rather fond of. Hopefully it'll be relatively painless to get a copy shipped to Scotland...

At any rate a lore book will be incredibly useful if it expands on stuff that isn't really displayed in the game itself. I'd love to learn more about the Au Ra, for example, since I can count the number of Auri NPC's I've encountered on two hands.

[AeliaBlitz]

As someone who travels a lot and spends are ridiculous amount of time on airplanes, I still carry along actual books and I love the weight, the feel and just the way it interracts with my eyes when I flip through the pages. I can't stand tablet readers. I'm gonna be picking up the lore book and read it cover to cover and back again in my numerous flights.

[Anonymoose]

Aren't there plans for some sort of in-game 'bestiary' at some point? I could have sworn I read that somewhere...

It's come up a few times officially:

2011

Spoke to Yoshida himself about this idea and he said that he would like to implement a bestiary if they can make the appropriate parameter adjustments during the battle fixes.

1.0 Official Forums

2013

For those playing solo, there will be quests, guildleves, as well as some other casual content we have planned, such as the "bestiary."

RPGamer

2015

Regarding the bestiary, there is a lot of back-end saving data necessary because we need to flag which monsters hasn’t been killed so if we increase this to Level 60, we need more save data for that. However, we’re also suffering about inventory and armory. There are not much slots available so we want to focus more on inventory and armory slots rather than bestiary. However, we’re trying to work on some new contents, new brands contents instead of Bestiary.

FFDREAM

A while back, I also asked (as an aside, after an interview) if, hypothetically speaking, I were to spend a while working out the kinks of the bestiary, if I would suddenly find that time wasted, since SE was making their own. More or less I was told that there are lots of "databank" kind of things they'd like to add one day (sightseeing log, triad card flavor, minion flavor, gear compendium, bestiary, etc.), but, "Maybe probably please don't look forward to it too much anytime soonish." on the bestiary front.

Whether the year I've spent on it was "anytime soonish" and I'll totally regret this sometime soonish-er? Perhaps in the lore book itself?

... We'll see, I guess, lol. I would be my luck tho. ><

[Unittj]

Hell, if they made an lore database app sign me up to keep it updated. Nothing would be cooler to see on my phone in the morning than the notification saying "New Entry in the Raimdelle Codex!" (Cause having an app called by this book that apparently has everything in Eorzea documented would be cool)

[KaitlanKela]

The reason we don't have a lore book in english yet is because of the translation time required. They are making the resources for a lore book for us, but presumably those resources are minimal.

I would think an app would be even more cumbersome, since it could conceivably house more data.

However, I wouldn't be against a lore app, I just don't think it will happen first or soon.