2.0 is promising too much!!

[PRlNCE]

I have been reading the forums since 2.0 was announced and it seems 2.0 is a magic word the promises everything!!

Now this can't be true (but i hope it is)!!!

Is this realy going to bring all the content we want, races, classes etc??

now that there is this magic 2.0 word i feel its going to be a massive let down! in other words it will be exactly like launch.

Whats your thoughts?

[C56]

Meh the only thing I'm expecting is the ability to alt+tab at full screen, if they can give me that I'll be a happy man.

~Lower expectations give better results~

[Lurex]

Meh the only thing I'm expecting is the ability to alt+tab at full screen, if they can give me that I'll be a happy man.

~Lower expectations give better results~

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[Delsus]

I have been reading the forums since 2.0 was announced and it seems 2.0 is a magic word the promises everything!!

Now this can't be true (but i hope it is)!!!

Is this realy going to bring all the content we want, races, classes etc??

now that there is this magic 2.0 word i feel its going to be a massive let down! in other words it will be exactly like launch.

Whats your thoughts?

I really believe it will, mainly because SE knows 2.0 is FFXIV's last chance if 2.0 fails its the last nail in the coffin for FFXIV and the game will have failed. SE are pulling out all the stops to get everything they have promised in 2.0 because they do not want the game to fail.

[Fear]

I have been reading the forums since 2.0 was announced and it seems 2.0 is a magic word the promises everything!!

Now this can't be true (but i hope it is)!!!

Is this realy going to bring all the content we want, races, classes etc??

now that there is this magic 2.0 word i feel its going to be a massive let down! in other words it will be exactly like launch.

Whats your thoughts?

Will it bring all the content we want? No not strait away
Will it allow SE to actually add all the content into the game? Yes

2.0 is not going to be tons and tons of new content, but it will ALLOW them to actually kick into full-gear and pump out content properly which the game can handle.

[fredtma]

it takes at least 3 years to build a block buster MMO, I cannot see SE do it in one. even if it is an upgrade, all I foresee is one big path

[Starlord]

it takes at least 3 years to build a block buster MMO, I cannot see SE do it in one. even if it is an upgrade, all I foresee is one big path

Well they had/have 2 years to build this expansion like content, when expansion come out like once a year :P.

[Delsus]

it takes at least 3 years to build a block buster MMO, I cannot see SE do it in one. even if it is an upgrade, all I foresee is one big path

It depends on alot of things, SE have a large team working on 2.0, and the 2.0 client is supposed to be alot more dev friendly than the 1.xx client.

Also that 3 years is what it made to build the vanila FFXIV with all its flaws. and SE have been working on it for about 1.5 years now and alot of content will just be ported over which takes no time (they can just push the existing 1.xx code through an algorithm and make the changes automatically to make it compatible.)

[Rutelor]

[...] Also that 3 years is what it made to build the vanila FFXIV with all its flaws [...]

I believe it was at least twice that much time, probably more. It was widely known that SE was working on project Rapture as far back as early 2006. The first nameless Technical Demo Video, with a city eerily reminiscent of all three current ones, Gridania (the stained glass), Uldah (the architectural shapes), and Limsa (the multi-leveled cat-walk-over-harbor plan), was presented in May, 2005 at E3. (I also hope the dragons hovering over the lake are a promise of things to come, once Ishgard becomes accessible.)

So, from first video to launch, it took almost 7 years.

Taking into account that this sort of a project usually has a bit over a year under its wings when it's first aired, some experts have calculated 8 years, by mid-2012 (wish I could find the quotation for the latter. Apologies about that).

R

[Elexia]

I believe it was at least twice that much time, probably more. It was widely known that SE was working on project Rapture as far back as early 2006.

Actually, XIV didn't go into actual production till around 2007, when they pulled the XI crew to focus on it. This is why WoTG expansion took over 3 years for them to finish it. Zilart, CoP and ToAU didn't take 3 years for them to finish, even the conclusion mission between Zilart and CoP (Apocalypse Neigh) came out fairly quickly.

The technical demo was just that, a technical demo or we'd have a PS3 version of FFVII if we're using tech demos as a basis on when something goes into production.