Lore Question 1.23 to 2.0

[Elexia]

I'm guessing you'll get an auto-CS on login. . . I doubt they'd make it real-time since not all players can be on at the same time due to having a life haha

They'll just pull a Doki Doki Panic/Mario Bros 2 on us.

[Starlord]

Unless they tell you via Lodestone that on X day on X time, will have a Real-time event.. Since its a special occasion, people could request the day off work ( or if they have the day off already), to see this 1 time event. It can be worked around.

[Teakwood]

I'm personally hoping for a significant, multi-year timeskip- but that's just me.

[UmJammerSully]

No one knows till SE reveals it, considering they're not even saying what will actually happen with the satellite.

Regardless:


This is what we're going to wake up to in the end.

Hey, that looks exactly like my character...

[Elexia]

Hey, that looks exactly like my character...

You will be forever known as the first victim of Dalamund (in our time.)

[Jinrya-Geki]

You're paying to play FFXIV.

Elexia, I am drunk at the moment, but I also can't help that every post I make, you disagree with it. That and TheVedis as well. Don't you question SE's motives as well?

It's too easy to play a black mage/thaumaturge right now. Spam Thunder. Like your signature, are you really satisfied with what SE has given us right now, spam thunder line?

[Nel_Celestine]

Kind of makes it hard to play RP wise though. Hopefully one of the Devs can give /some/ insight on this

[KiriA500]

having a life haha

Bleh, enough of this... Not a single person who plays this game, or any game, is any more or less special because of what they do with their free time.

[Elexia]

Elexia, I am drunk at the moment, but I also can't help that every post I make, you disagree with it. That and TheVedis as well. Don't you question SE's motives as well?

It's too easy to play a black mage/thaumaturge right now. Spam Thunder. Like your signature, are you really satisfied with what SE has given us right now, spam thunder line?

It's not that I disgree, it's more the fact theres more to the game than that. I'm satisfied with a lot of stuff but there's still an underlying community problem which won't be solved with new classes/jobs as long as people feel the best course of action is to stack x class/job. The current way to play THM/BLM is indeed a thunder combo, but thats generally how mages go in MMOs, there's always that one aspect of it that gets used and abused either due to balance or due to it's usefulness.

I rarely question SE's motives on certain things because I can understand that a lot they do is for the long run, i.e the combo system, the only things I truly question is the spamming nature of content which is what creates an extreme RNG. For example in XI SCH was one of my mains, so I understand the want for more mage classes, but XIV has a whole different beast to work with: The community. Until that aspect changes whatever SE does is utterly useless as long as people still feel you don't need a varied setup for content. This is why in one of your examples that no one will want a debuffer because "it's useless given how fast mobs die or resistance", even if they lasted 90 seconds per battle like Yoshida wants or mobs don't all resistant x debuff, as long as the players feel x stack setup is best and refuse to deviate from that course...it's meaningless to add new classes.

Kind of makes it hard to play RP wise though. Hopefully one of the Devs can give /some/ insight on this

It's not likely to be a time shift at all considering the transformation can happen in a very quick succession, since given in-game text already not even a day has passed since we started our adventure, technically yet the Garleans threw up a stronghold just like that.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Maybe it will be "the next day" but set in a different dimension.

We're in our current dimension Eorzea, 7th umbral era event occurs, something catastophic happens, and shifts a time/space phase (Echo) to a new dimension where the world is different but the same.