Now it's time to hear news of 2.0!

[Cascade]

I would rather they save it all and make a huge splash with 2.0 at E3 which really isn't that far away (June 5th-7th). After that, they can start steadily giving more details.

i wouldn't..... they have such limited time at E3 that they can't get everything in during it.... let them leak little bits here and there and just save the big stuff for E3

[Jinko]

i wouldn't..... they have such limited time at E3 that they can't get everything in during it.... let them leak little bits here and there and just save the big stuff for E3

Agree with this, from E3 I am expecting a trailer, a video of some of the new maps and zones, possibly a live demonstration on stage of the new engine and battle system.

But they aren't going to have a great deal of time to show it off during the conference and I very much doubt they will have a hands on demo on the show floor.

[Croy]

Agree with this, from E3 I am expecting a trailer, a video of some of the new maps and zones, possibly a live demonstration on stage of the new engine and battle system.

But they aren't going to have a great deal of time to show it off during the conference and I very much doubt they will have a hands on demo on the show floor.

My guess is a Live Producer Letter either shortly before or shortly after 1.22 comes out that will give us a small sneak peak at 2.0 (New information and concepts like a potential dungeon and maybe new pictures of mobs and world maps, enough to alleviate a part of our appetite, but not enough satisfy our hype going forward). Basically nothing too substantial, and then the week of and the week after E3 Yoshida goes on a new media blitz taking lots of interviews and we get first news of 2.0 PC beta (Closed but not NDA'ed) leading up to 2-3 months before the client release. There is also one other gaming convention that is pretty large that is happening before 2.0 is supposed to get released in August. Gamescon in Germany, SE has made that a fairly large part of their media presence in the past 5+ years and its also the first place back in 2009 that players were able to play the alpha version of the game. And then TGS they do an absolute blow out leading a month or two before the inevitable release. That is of course assuming there is no delays. So far it seems they 'might' be ahead of the original schedule but they are rewriting so much of the fundamental architecture of the game they will probably need more time then they would like to admit to port existing content over with minimal bugs when it releases.

[viion]

I think the live letter will come before 2.0, to possible talk about/show things they cant take to e3 like the game dev videos.

[Zumi]

E3 is in 2 months so they probably going to wait until then to show anything off.

[Firon]

I'd love to see some news, but that timeline is likely delayed by now, not because they suck or anything like that, just when you dont work on x stuff for x amount of days, everything after is pushed along.

Now I dont know for fact there is delays on 2.0 specific stuff but with delays on 1.x stuff this has likely pushed the timeline forward a lot.

Also as far as I remember, they will be giving us something at E3, we know Yoshi wants to make a big deal about it so it should be good, not to mention, some kings (Blizzard, ArenaNet) wont be at e3 so the MMO crowd will be small, thus those seeking MMO news would only find XIV or that FPS mmo.. so E3 2012 has come in SE's favor this year with nearly no competition.

I think the whole dev notices saying "x will be in 2.0" "look forward to it in 2.0" is enough news for them to give us for now.

It is likely so much is changing behind the scenes that they cant just spit things out again, remember all the stuff you saw in XIV trailers that didnt make it into the game? (Titan, Steal, etc) so it is likely they be cautious.

We would all love to hear something, but we're now in April, only got this month and May then its e3, can we wait 2 months when we've been waiting a year/half? I think so yes.

Pretty sure yoshi said they was ahead of scheduled in one post he made.

[Elexia]

really? can I have the post please?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post591582

[Colino]

You remember XIV at e3 in 2010? Was show cased in Sony's Conference, on the big screen, stating the big "COMING TO PS3!" was huge, hell even stairs into e3 had XIV stickers on them lol.

Yet the actual booth was a sad little tent with some PCs in it and only open to press... I should know because I was exhibiting there and wanted to play it but they didn't let me... ._.

[viion]

Pretty sure yoshi said they was ahead of scheduled in one post he made.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post591582

You're thinking of this, it does not state they are ahead but it does show they are on time! So fortunately no delays. This really shows that 1.x releases/development dont really relate to 2.0 release/development, good sign.

[Elexia]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post591582

You're thinking of this, it does not state they are ahead but it does show they are on time! So fortunately no delays. This really shows that 1.x releases/development dont really relate to 2.0 release/development, good sign.

Only cynical people thought 1.x would have an effect on 2.0's development despite being told its separate xD