Fan Fest announcements will determine my future in this game..

[Maero]

If you had wanted the thread to be about discussing fanfest, 4.0, etc.. you may have wanted to choose a different thread title.....
Anyhow, i do not expect much info out of the NA fanfest as the Japan fanfest will be more detailed (jobs, new areas, well mainly new jobs)
I will be looking at it on youtube or something because the livestream is rather expensive, especially those of us outside of the US

[Altera]

I hardly think the If you dont do this for me, I will quit the game, ever works.
Past experience was myself in WOW. From 2005 - 2010 I truly enjoyed myself in Azeroth, even with the 1 year content gaps. But then Cataclysm happened, and MOP, and then WOD.
Many suggestions posts and I quit threats, none of them worked, so then when I actually quit, and asked Blizzard to totally terminate my WOW account, then they emailed me what they could do to win me back and offered me free MOP expansion, free 2 months game time in WOW and even Diablo 3. But then it was too late, but that seemed to have made a better impact on the devs than the vague I QUIT threads all over the forums

[ADVSS]

well being torn as rl discussions with fc mates, gamer friends i met from other games and we migrated, all sharing that same view, its a hard pill to swallow, in the past i may have said give it more time, etc. I know a lot will say this is just another thread of this, but even talking with several friends "its been 3 years etc etc" I have to say perhaps not a serious issue yet, but its starting to wear on vets. So many good points from both camps in the couple of todays popular i quit threads. I think a job announcement would be great for hype though i doubt we'll get that

[Talraen]

I think all of the pining for 1.23 or XI's tight-knit communities is unfortunately misguided. Those communities worked for a reason - because they were small. This game is trying to be big. The only way we're going to get communities like that is if the game is failing.

[Kohta]

If they release a Yuna outfit and don't make Summoner more of a summoner than it is now, I will be pretty disappointed.

[RethDaron]

I think all of the pining for 1.23 or XI's tight-knit communities is unfortunately misguided. Those communities worked for a reason - because they were small. This game is trying to be big. The only way we're going to get communities like that is if the game is failing.

XI had just as much people per server online at once as XIV does. XI and 1.0 - 1.23 were just built different.

[Chiramu]

If they release a Yuna outfit and don't make Summoner more of a summoner than it is now, I will be pretty disappointed.

Prepare to be disappointed lol. I think there is less than nil chance of SMN being like FFX Summoner XD.

[Iromi]

I think all of the pining for 1.23 or XI's tight-knit communities is unfortunately misguided. Those communities worked for a reason - because they were small. This game is trying to be big. The only way we're going to get communities like that is if the game is failing.

I don't think so...I mean yes this has some truth, but in a game that is big and encourages being social, it can still have a nice community. If you need to be a decent person to get something done...people are gonna be polite haha. Anyway that will never happen in this game...so its pointless to even ask anymore ;x

I've played plenty of games with lots of people that had great , close communities. This game just isn't very social. One..its very challenging to type and fight things at the same time and two with the duty finder..most folks think, why bother talking? You'll never see each other again lol

[Lufir]

This forum is infamous for being white knight central if you dare say you want things to improve or even bring up some aspects of this game kinda suck.

I agree. The amount of people who white knight this game and Yoshi-P at first sight of a well-thought-out post with some critique is amazing. Furthermore, there is a whole other form of stupidity from people who have nothing better to say than: "Okay bye" or "another one of these posts." (Just let the thread get buried by not posting in it)

Nevertheless, I've shared my opinion on the direction this game is going in too. As others have pointed out, it seems FFXIV will be going on the same route with very little changes. Even with the expansion coming out, I'm confident that they will be sticking to the same old formula. The selling point for 4.0 will just be the new jobs. Oh and maybe swimming. We might get that too so the people who play Sexy DressUP XIV can have all new, never before seen camera angles for their Lolita of Light!

Personally, I am hoping that the FFXIV team creates some new type of content that is exclusive to the Garlean controlled areas we might see in 4.0. Perhaps they could create open world content in which Garleans launch assaults on outposts around the new zones. Together, we must party up and defend/capture the outposts. On successful defenses or captures, new quests, merchants, or other timed events could happen. Just an example of something new that could be added instead of the same predictable stuff.

[Chiramu]

Personally, I am hoping that the FFXIV team creates some new type of content that is exclusive to the Garlean controlled areas we might see in 4.0.

I'm still hoping for a Warrior of Darkness faction. Cause chaos in the perfect world of Eorzea and split up the four big nations, cause them to fight each other. That would be actually pretty impressive, conflict is needed to keep this game going. Peace is boring.