Public Companies?

[Evenstar]

I think there are other more important issues to fix. Player housing and that kind of stuff can wait a few more months at least. We need content and gameplay fixes first.

Grand Companies will at least add some new content I think, so thats a good start.

[Peregrine]

Hope they're not just a different spin on factions; those groups seem to be little more than text adventures. I have no clue who the Brotherhood of Broken Blade is or what they really stand for. Shady if you ask me. Now with Grand Companies...I might be working for the KKK and not even know it.

[Nabiri]

I thought there were to be public companies, and LS based companies. Sounded to me like it'd be mostly LS, but the people without a LS would still be able to participate in something.
I could be totally wrong. Can't wait to hear more about them.

I pictured LS based companies player run, and public companies perhaps NPC run or something.

After only hearing about Public/Grand companies for a while now, I do wonder if there will only be one type of company.

[Coombah]

I have no idea what companys are going to be, honestly every time they are mentioned I am getting a worse and worse feeling about them. I fear Yoshi trashed Tanaka's idea on companys which is probally the worst possible thing he could of done as I thought that was probally going to be best update outside content the game was going to have.

Tanaka made it sounds like they where going to be player controlled with housing, ships, and are used for large scale battles basically a guild in other mmos while linkshells where for more of a social thing.

Yoshi is making it sound like it is just a npc pearl where everyone in the city will join together to fight off some threat. /epic fail if this is right.

The whole talk about a focus on small group and public group makes me question if the devs feel they can fix this game, almost like the mentality of Abysea and ffxi... well the game will be low population so make it so everything is public based or low manable to let the players who will remain be able to play the game without the requirement of alot of people.

Honestly I want Tanaka's version of it if my interpretation is true. The linkshell system fails hardcore, it would need to be redone almost 100% and making linkshells lowman only is the opposite of what SE needs to do. If Companys a. re not going to be player controlled and being used as more of an endgame/event element I think the devs are wasting a massive amount of time on something that will not be accepted well to begin with.

I agree, I will be upset if its not player ran

[Evenstar]

Funny thing is that you guys make up your own dream world (and expectations) and then already start getting ready to rant about something they never promised in the first place ....

I think we will have 2 different kind of companies.

1) Grand Companies. NPC based.
2) PC Companies. Players based. This one will be added later. I remember Yoshi saying something about not willing to add those before there is more content and mre stuff to do in Eorzea.

[Shura]

This is something i wrote in another thread but seems a lot more fitting in this one. As far as public/grand companies go we can only make interpretations based on what very little info we have and so far based on interviews what we know is: global communities, global impact, endgame event, sense of danger for eorzea, large & small scale events and he said he would focus on gameplay with 4 and 8ppl parties.

i'm thinking of a mix of conquest, besieged and campaign from ffxi. What you do will have a global impact, guessing some kind of point system for the company u join, more ppl that complete events will raise the rating of said company. Planned campaign type attacks on aetheryte camps by beastman tribes or the empire. Destroy flag in beastman hideout or rescue npc prisoner similar to besieged. all events gives points which you can then trade in for gear, along with instanced quests to take place at said new locations or quests to accomplish when said attacks happen, such as kill enemy leader or collect certain amount of item that drops from said tripe but can get it during the raid only. If they do add new beastman locations then we know there will be a overlord type leader for each tribe, which can be HNMs.

These are the type of events that come to mind for ME when i read interviews about companies. I think the company itself is not an event but an organization or a group players join before undergoing events, because in a recent interview Yoshi-P said and i quote "The thing is, we realized that we could bring out player Companies, but then if there's nothing for the Companies to do there wouldn't be any reason to bring it out. We decided to reverse that and first make sure that there's going to be content and stuff for the Companies to do before releasing the Companies." but its all assumption till we get official news.

[Raim]

I must be one of the only ones who want this kind of content before instanced dungeons/raids. I would love to see a Company being a link between say 8 linkshells able to communicate on one channel. Having their own guildhall, ship, etc. The social aspect of FFXIV is what keeps me playing, and this would make it absolutely ideal.

[Jibe]

Don't get your hopes up too far. Se loves to let players hype stuff up then underdeliver on it.

[Nephera]

Don't get your hopes up too far. Se loves to let players hype stuff up then underdeliver on it.

Yeah, I get that they want to surprise us with this sparkling new feature but right now we'd really like a little transparency. We dont need to know every little bit about the system but dangling a little carrot that we have to look forward to wouldnt hurt.

[Jibe]

It's actually a detriment to SE to release minimal information and then let players speculate on it for a long time. Sure, it builds up anticipation, but on the other hand it encourages all this rampant theorizing that almost always turns out to be way over-the-top.

SE should release information about new features in complete form and players would be much more satisfied when it does come out. Letting players speculate with minimal information is a sure recipe for underwhelming then when the material is finally released.