Sanctuary Island - Housing Hope or Doman Enclave 2.0?

[hydralus]

The real kicker is gonna be when it turns out the 'gardening' isn't even something that will allow crossbreeding and instead is just for doing daily/weekly quests with special seeds. I'm calling it now.

[ForteNightshade]

I think part of our problem is that I very much got the impression this is being added as a result of specific suggestions made by the JP player base, which can have some content tastes different from the average NA/EU player.

We're trying to apply our NA/EU expectations to content that may have been designed with the JP audience in mind, and it's throwing us into confusion. It's not helping that we're not getting the specifics that would help give us a better idea of what's coming.

It would be more accurate to say that the NA/EU community may likely end up disappointed. I suspect the JP community will end up very happy for the most part.

While YoshiP has done much to westernize what would normally be a JP game experience, there's always going to be those parts that just don't quite click for us.

I still fear the next Live Letter isn't going to have enough information to satisfy our curiosity. That probably won't happen until the August Live Letter.

They really needed to be specific from the onset what Island Sanctuary was. At this point, any player disappointment is entirely of the devs' own making sense they literally left the community to wildly speculate, which is often dangerous as many players will overhype content. Granted, I suspect their hesitation to be forthcoming isn't simply wanting to surprise us but some amount of reservation due to the horrendous reception of Blue Mage when it first released. Either way, they've now backed themselves into a corner. If Island Sanctuary doesn't land. There will be a LOT of backlash.

[VelKallor]

Likely a glorified retainer venture that you check once a day for crops and whatnot. Hopefully I'm wrong and it's more substantial than that.

This could be a copy or variant of WOWs Halfhill farm, which i found was VERY enjoyable.

[Alleo]

YoshI p said to chill and not get hopes up. People who dont listen will have only themselves to blame in the end. Of course they wont blame themselves but blame the devs

Maybe the devs should have given us more information on this content instead of just saying that we should not get our hopes up. They maybe also shouldnt have put a house in that one picture of it. Instead of being strangely silent about it they could have simply confirmed that it has nothing to do with housing at all.

@OP: I think it will be something between it. I doubt its simply Doman Enclave 2.0. It takes too long for that. But I also really doubt that we get instanced housing with it. I would really love it but I dont see it happening. Right now I just want it to be an instanced place where minions run free and where we can plant some stuff. Maybe we might even design the landscape a bit. Being able to interact and maybe train our chocobos would be great too.

Hopefully its relaxing but also gives us good amount of content to do.

[anhaato]

Whatever it ends up being, it better slap, because this has been in development for 3+ years. It's the reason we lost a deep dungeon for 5.x. If it turns out that resources were diverted and content was sacrificed for something that flops on release... oh it will be incredible. Unfortunately this is looking more and more like an inevitability, from the lack of information since the beginning to Yoshida now trying to soften the blow preemptively. Looks like I'll need some fireproof gear!

[NanaWiloh]

Maybe the devs should have given us more information on this content instead of just saying that we should not get our hopes up. They maybe also shouldnt have put a house in that one picture of it. Instead of being strangely silent about it they could have simply confirmed that it has nothing to do with housing at all.

@OP: I think it will be something between it. I doubt its simply Doman Enclave 2.0. It takes too long for that. But I also really doubt that we get instanced housing with it. I would really love it but I dont see it happening. Right now I just want it to be an instanced place where minions run free and where we can plant some stuff. Maybe we might even design the landscape a bit. Being able to interact and maybe train our chocobos would be great too.

Hopefully its relaxing but also gives us good amount of content to do.

Maybe players should be adults and stop jumping to conclusions, be patient instead of guessing like childern what their presents are at xmas.

[anhaato]

Maybe players should be adults and stop jumping to conclusions, be patient instead of guessing like childern what their presents are at xmas.

I'm sorry but "be patient" shouldn't be something that has to be said about basic knowledge over a major feature of this expansion. Don't be obtuse, you know that this is exactly what they were intending. They built hype by announcing it as one of the major features of the expansion that would drop at 6.0, and then went on to say nothing substantial about it. Instead they let us, knowing that it's been in development for so long, create our own hype around it because we had faith in them to deliver something crazy cool after 3 years of development. Now they're backtracking on how major it's going to be because the expectations were becoming too high and they know if they disappoint we won't take it lightly anymore. And people will be upset over the content being disappointing regardless of instanced housing pipe dreams.

[LaylaTsarra]

Not instanced housing they're stated that. Those expecting it will be disappointed. Many of us are happy to wait for the reveal. Perhaps we'll get some news in the upcoming live letter.

[NanaWiloh]

I'm sorry but "be patient" shouldn't be something that has to be said about basic knowledge over a major feature of this expansion. Don't be obtuse, you know that this is exactly what they were intending. They built hype by announcing it as one of the major features of the expansion that would drop at 6.0, and then went on to say nothing substantial about it. Instead they let us, knowing that it's been in development for so long, create our own hype around it because we had faith in them to deliver something crazy cool after 3 years of development. Now they're backtracking on how major it's going to be because the expectations were becoming too high and they know if they disappoint we won't take it lightly anymore. And people will be upset over the content being disappointing regardless of instanced housing pipe dreams.

Not being obtuse just pointing out how you should take things with grain of salt instead of a mountain of sugar. If you over Hype something you know nothing about then you deserve a platter full of disppointment!! Guess there are still gamers who have to learn that hardway.

[anhaato]

Not being obtuse just pointing out how you should take things with grain of salt instead of a mountain of sugar. If you over Hype something you know nothing about then you the deserve a platter full of disppointment!! Guess there are still gamers who have to learn the hardway.

Oh you better believe I no longer have faith in these devs to meet the hype. 6.0 had my faith hanging by a thread, and 6.1 took a sword to that thread. I can still recognize when they're trying to build expectations higher than they should be. This isn't about me, this is about the fact that their portrayal of the content and the reactions were fully intentional. I won't blame anyone for being disappointed, people have every right to be disappointed if this content that's been marketed as a major feature of the expansion ends up being a total flop. The expectations that have been built are that the content will be good, not that it'll be any specific kind of content, except for perhaps the particularly delusional crowd who swore up and down they KNEW it was instanced housing.