Roadmap question ~ What does "radical changes to the in game world" mean

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Ready, Steady, GO!!! FFXIV will turn into a Greatness!

Love Fullmetal Alchemist!

with the world forever altered and the empire still at our gates most likely i think Yui's "Again" would be a good song for the 2.0 launch ^~^

[Zahak]

THIS
From the 2.0 pdfs herself "One day, a massive geological anomaly suddenly appears from deep within the ground. Current players will have the opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding this strange, new landmark in the coming months"

When it says the coming months, I assume it means before 2.0.

For those who still need to read about 2.0... Link

[Jinko]

THIS
From the 2.0 pdfs herself "One day, a massive geological anomaly suddenly appears from deep within the ground. Current players will have the opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding this strange, new landmark in the coming months"

When it says the coming months, I assume it means before 2.0.

For those who still need to read about 2.0... Link

This looks fairly localised, not really a massive change in the environment more like an addition.

Does look cool though, hope it has a good quest line based around it

[Starlord]

with the world forever altered and the empire still at our gates most likely i think Yui's "Again" would be a good song for the 2.0 launch ^~^

Hehe your right, but the song was about rising to the top, nothing will stop them. Nothing about game itself ^^

[Alhanelem]

I'm still very foggy on this...
Looking at the roadmap the title 'Radical changes to in game world' is tagged for August.
Then client distribution in October and 2.0 Beta in November.
This radical changes phase begins right after patch 1.23 goes live and three months prior to the official start of the Beta Phase.

So the part i'm still very foggy on is, 'what does Radical changes' mean in context of we will still be playing on the 1.0 client during this time.

o_O

It means exactly what it says. the world itself will change a lot. What did you think it meant?

[Yelta_Sumasu]

I'm hoping they wont show us everything and spoil the surprise... I want to play out the story, not watch it before hand.

[Elexia]

It's unlikely the 2.0 maps are compatible with the current game, mainly because the 2.0 maps are using small zones and the current world is using massive open world maps. (and a completely different server structure also)

Game design doesn't work that way. Geometry works in all engines as it's a basic function lol, they simply rather wait for 2.0 to make it better than incorporating it with 1.x.

I'm not convinced they will spend a great deal of money on 1.xx so I can't see massive changes in the world map it would seem like a waste.

2005-2012 is a shitton of money spent on 1.x.

[Jinko]

Geometry may very well be transferable between game engine but we aren't talking about a handful of small objects we are talking about a whole zone... lolz

The way zones work in 2.0 is very different than the way they do in 1.xx, which I already said.

Go and try and be clever and condescending somewhere else.

[Elexia]

Geometry may very well be transferable between game engine but we aren't talking about a handful of small objects we are talking about a whole zone... lolz

Go and try and be clever and condescending somewhere else.

"Condescending", do you even know what level design is? It's objects (compatible with every client, as you know, it's just mere objects), geometry and textures. If 1.x supports this, it's very likely "2.0 maps" are compatible with it as the simple design of areas isn't specific to any engine.

They can incorporate every FFXI zone itself into XIV if they wanted to, the only thing that wouldn't transfer over is monster/npc data. This is the first time I've heard any one state level design is engine specific.

[Jinko]

No elexia just no.