Removal Of Anima

[Vanguard319]

Its very likely Anima will be removed in 2.0. No use to remove it right now since its not really doing anyone any harm.

Dalamud will be reacting with the Aetheryte Crystals and in many cases destroying them or making them unusable. (refer to concept artwork) (At least that seems to be the way things are going). Plus the world will be destroyed and current camps will be gone, I don't think we'll need Anima with smaller more interesting zones. So relax. It won't be around forever, right now its just to help us get across these giant/heavily repetitive boring maps.

What proof are you basing your statement on? Nothing you just said can be accepted with any grain of truth, especially since much of how 2.0 will be like can only be speculated at this time. Unless you have a direct psychic link into the minds of the devs, I call BS.

P.S. Keep the anima.

[Starlord]

What proof are you basing your statement on? Nothing you just said can be accepted with any grain of truth, especially since much of how 2.0 will be like can only be speculated at this time. Unless you have a direct psychic link into the minds of the devs, I call BS.

P.S. Keep the anima.

What do you see here? Aethers Floating away.... hmm... Are we going to tele to space? :O

[Vanguard319]

What do you see here? Aethers Floating away.... hmm... Are we going to tele to space? :O

ooh concept art, that's all it is: Concept, as in not final product and subject to change. I will concede, that it suggests that at least one aetherite in La Noscea may wind up a floating mountain a'la Avatar, but it doesn't mean that all of them are. (because then you people would be screaming over copy-pasted terrain.)

[Riaayo]

ooh concept art, that's all it is: Concept, as in not final product and subject to change. I will concede, that it suggests that at least one aetherite in La Noscea may wind up a floating mountain a'la Avatar, but it doesn't mean that all of them are. (because then you people would be screaming over copy-pasted terrain.)

Generally concept art shown to players is concept art that is to be used for something, and concept art is what everything modeled and visual about a game is based on. These guys don't just go into Z brush or Mudbox and start crapping out random monsters until something looks good, they model from the concept art down to the T. If it's in the concept artwork and was shown to us it's extremely valid, and from what I have been told the Japanese text on the picture states that the meteor interacts with and deactivates many of the crystals.

[Vanguard319]

Generally concept art shown to players is concept art that is to be used for something, and concept art is what everything modeled and visual about a game is based on. These guys don't just go into Z brush or Mudbox and start crapping out random monsters until something looks good, they model from the concept art down to the T. If it's in the concept artwork and was shown to us it's extremely valid, and from what I have been told the Japanese text on the picture states that the meteor interacts with and deactivates many of the crystals.

Sorry to contradict you, but I have seen my fair share of concept art where the design was not finalized. for example, the earliest character art for Lightning in FFXIII had red hair and a slightly different face. as for more recent examples in an upcoming game, I offer you this link:

http://mwomercs.com/media/artwork/1-battlemechs

So basically, the previous statment I made about concept art not necessarily being final product is not incorrect, you also have to remember that SE showed this art approximately a full year before 2.0 goes online. That is more than enough time for the concept to change as the developers learn what the new engine can and can't do. They may certainly use the concept, but it may wind up up being done differently in the final build.