2.0 fears.

[Zezlar]

The biggest thing i'm worried about still (and even now) is the lack of content. If 2.0 launches with a graphics overhaul and no new content (or limited new content) it will fall flat. There's only two patches left from now until the tentative beta 2.0 launch. That's a long stretch of time for content. Why would I want to get on 2.0 with hardly any new content?

I also want too see more variety of zones that have imagination. I'm tired of the basics used time and time again in all of these MMORPGs. I want to see fantasy. I would like to fear my surroundings, and that of my enemy. Neither of these exist in 1.0. The floating lakes of Sian Sian sound amazing, and I would really love to explore that place.

Lastly and probably the biggest of all my concerns is the main scenario. Simply put: It sucks. This is not a Final Fantasy storyline, and I really want to see them scrap it and start over. They had really good quality story-lines with CoP, ToAU, and WoTG (especially). The normal quests don't have enough cut-scenes, and the rewards are beyond lackluster. Experience points? Woot, oh wait i'm 50 already. I would like to be rewarded with recipes, new quests, key items. I don't care really.

It's really hard to not get extremely excited for 2.0 because it is the second chance to make this MMO into the amazing game that it should have been. However I also know that I got my hopes up once, and I got kicked in the groin with the original FFXIV launch.

[Atoli]

I fear the game might lose a lot of players who were dumb enough to expect everything implemented "in 2.0" will be there at the very moment 2.0 starts instead of the months and years after..

I already like the game as it is, so unless they actually destroy it to a state worse than now, I'm pretty happy
But I know others aren't and expect 2.0 to be the magical unicorn golden egg fix which it isn't, and they'll leave and never come back
Most people seem to never think about the time and effort it takes to make something good.
It was the same with those who voted for Obama's "change" and started complaining after less than 2 weeks how their lives haven't changed for the better yet..
I fear people will act the same about 2.0.

[AlaulaTheGreat]

Ah yes, these fears sustain me.

I fear stepping into 2.0, leveling still won't be fun, there is no mid-to-low level content, and they increase the cap to 75 or something and drown all the "end-game" content we have now. So in order to fix this, SE releases new end game stuff, and publicly condones PLing en-mass to make their game fun.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate PLing, but I choose not to participate in it. But after leveling my CNJ to 50 by hand... I can say I didn't learn a goddam thing about how to play my job. Which makes me just wanna PL my MRD to 35 just so I can use my leveled crafts. xD

[AlaulaTheGreat]

I just saw it...
Now I know my greatest fear... "PS3 Limitations..."

[AlaulaTheGreat]

I fear of the jobs/classes they introduce, that the vision SE has for it is not the vision the players had for it.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

I fear the game might lose a lot of players who were dumb enough to expect everything implemented "in 2.0" will be there at the very moment 2.0 starts instead of the months and years after..

I already like the game as it is, so unless they actually destroy it to a state worse than now, I'm pretty happy
But I know others aren't and expect 2.0 to be the magical unicorn golden egg fix which it isn't, and they'll leave and never come back
Most people seem to never think about the time and effort it takes to make something good.
It was the same with those who voted for Obama's "change" and started complaining after less than 2 weeks how their lives haven't changed for the better yet..
I fear people will act the same about 2.0.

pretty much this, my only fear is that stupid self entitled people will keep nagging and bashing it until it has every damn thing they personally want (read: forever)

[AlaulaTheGreat]

I can't wait to see how PVP is coming along...
I have a feeling... and this is from experience, that it'll be nice and novel at first, and then it'll just get bad.

But as long as I get an in-game card game... that's the only pvp I need.

[Arcell]

You're a very scared person Alaula, it's not healthy. Let the devs do their thing and it'll be okay, we have to trust them. Really there's nothing else we CAN do anyway.

There probably won't be a huge surge of new content with 2.0, however our entire world as we know it is changing completely. We will have entirely new maps to explore, especially since they'll have a kind of "fog of war" on them until you physically explore them.

There is new stuff coming with 2.0 but it won't fix everything. Hell even some of the stuff that has been announced already is for 2.0 or shortly after.

The good thing though is that once 2.0 hits, they're no longer rebuilding the game while trying to add content to it simultaneously. They will have more resources to allocate to building new content, balancing things, etc...

[Jinko]

and they increase the cap to 75 or something and drown all the "end-game" content we have now.

Hopefully they don't go to 75 and hopefully dont' raise cap until an expansion.

[AlaulaTheGreat]

If only I could trust again. ; ;
But without fear, everything will be sugar and rainbows.
I need this thread to set us up for any disappointment now, so we won't rage so hard later, and maybe, some of our fears are dis-proven. That is a welcomed outcome as well.