Everything to know about 4.0 from the Fan Fest

[ADVSS]

you mean the famed "scuba diver ventures" right?

Submarines were a big part of some earlier titles and id be ok with that being a part of later game travel, agreed.
I disliked GW2 and "swimming mode weapons and attacks" dont really want to see that crap added in place of more jobs, better job identity, more than 6 zones, one getting minimally implemented as an ex primals hub only(but oddly fantastically designed. sort of), among other things.

[Aamalthea]

Please, not swimming.
Had enough of that slow motion, muffled sound rubbish with WoW Cataclysm, GW2, Rift etc.

HW was bad enough with it's aether site hunting - when most people just went on google to find out the locations.
Much rather they focus on new classes/races - and the number one priority for me, return to an awe inspiring msq after the dip in Soul Surrender.

I can see it now. In order to have a rowboat you have to literally swim to all the corners and halfway places on the map, diving incredibly slowly to the underwater aether current. Or Training your dolphin-like creature (chocobo with a scuba helmet) how to swim in such hard to swim in locations by picking up these water-aether currents across the zones.

[Reynhart]

In order to have a rowboat you have to literally swim to all the corners and halfway places on the map, diving incredibly slowly to the underwater aether current. Or Training your dolphin-like creature (chocobo with a scuba helmet) how to swim in such hard to swim in locations by picking up these water-aether currents across the zones.

No, each small isle is controlled by a pirate gang, and unless you're friends with them, they'll shoot and sink you on sight

[ADVSS]

I can see it now. In order to have a rowboat you have to literally swim to all the corners and halfway places on the map, diving incredibly slowly to the underwater aether current. Or Training your dolphin-like creature (chocobo with a scuba helmet) how to swim in such hard to swim in locations by picking up these water-aether currents across the zones.

Bwahahahaha you made my day with this post!

[Alberel]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n%21-4.0/page6

It's here. Even I only saw it today.

This is a pretty big deal. The game's budget has been tripled. Given the apparent problems due to a lack of funding for Yoshi's team this may mark a huge change of direction for the game.

I'm assuming that money is also intended to cover the patch cycle? I wonder what they're planning to spend it on.

[Clover_Blake]

Oh, that's very interesting! To me, HW was already a perfect expansion; I wonder what they'll do with a much bigger budget! (And then people will still complain about the game having a cash shop /facepalm)

[Balipu]

This is a pretty big deal. The game's budget has been tripled. Given the apparent problems due to a lack of funding for Yoshi's team this may mark a huge change of direction for the game.

I'm assuming that money is also intended to cover the patch cycle? I wonder what they're planning to spend it on.

Considering how Yoshie-P looked in some of the live letters during HW's development, the extra 20 million will probably be spent on coffee

Yoshie-P did say in an interview that he has some kind of feature in mind that no MMO had before, but I doubt that alone requires this much. Hopefully we will know more in 3 hours.

[aesteval]

This is a pretty big deal. The game's budget has been tripled. Given the apparent problems due to a lack of funding for Yoshi's team this may mark a huge change of direction for the game.

I'm assuming that money is also intended to cover the patch cycle? I wonder what they're planning to spend it on.

Budget increase should include server / hardware investment as well.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Budget increase should include server / hardware investment as well.

Xbox one release maybe?

[MPNZ]

Please, not swimming.
Had enough of that slow motion, muffled sound rubbish with WoW Cataclysm, GW2, Rift etc.

It might be gated behind a mount, swim suits, jobs, and a school. Also, they could just make it so that players will be able to swim as fast as the walking, jogging, and sprinting animations. We're supposed to get Blitzball you know.