Interview of Naoki Yoshida during the Japan Expo

[Zezlar]

Good interview but there is one thing I find troubling and it's the 200 quests. I know it was a scenario but still. Please for the love of ODIN. Do NOT make this game like all the billion crappy MMOs out there where all I do is run to some place Kill XX mobs, Collect XX items. I don't like it. I would rather have 10 quality drawn out quests with voice acting then 200 pieces of crap.

[Elexia]

Good interview but there is one thing I find troubling and it's the 200 quests. I know it was a scenario but still. Please for the love of ODIN. Do NOT make this game like all the billion crappy MMOs out there.

You read this interview, yes? You should know it's too late. Hope you enjoyed XIV being something different even if it wasn't a success~

[bobbygunz]

They've lost their mind. There is this misperception out there that players like quest grinding, but if the quests are terrible, then players will enjoy it less than actual grinding-grinding.

[Elexia]

Lots of quests...and people expect them to be..quality and not copy/pasted? People expect them to be "balanced" and actually promote party play.

How naive~

[Gramul]

Good interview but there is one thing I find troubling and it's the 200 quests. I know it was a scenario but still. Please for the love of ODIN. Do NOT make this game like all the billion crappy MMOs out there where all I do is run to some place Kill XX mobs, Collect XX items. I don't like it. I would rather have 10 quality drawn out quests with voice acting then 200 pieces of crap.

Hopefully the quests will be a little less generic then the standard generic fanfare of generitude.
Maybe something clever like an escort mission but you can't let the guy see you, or a quest that involves taking an item solo through a zone with crazy high level monsters, relying on your skill to avoid them, or maybe getting a vague description of an item someone wants and you have to figure out what it is.
I don't give a rats ass about voice acting. Just make the quests original. Make it a party mix instead of stale chips.

(It won't happen. All MMO's are doomed to have kill XX for YY drops.)

[Risae]

Yoshida : We have completed the tests and research, and we did find out that the whole issue is based on the access route: there's some packet loss, and this is the cause for the lag European players face. We are going to make sure not only French players, but all European players can have a great experience for the 2.0 version so please wait for an announcement we will be making in the future, we can't address it at the moment but we're definitely taking steps to make sure this will be solved, please be reassured.

Regional server confirmed?

[Ganbachi]

I'm actually glad that they're making it like WoW. A dream come true in fact.
I've always wanted a WoW like MMO in a Final Fantasy world. Grinding monsters is a thing I hate but i loved it when they added the classes and grand companies quests.

[DarthTaru]

If you wanna blame anyone for instances blame griefers, it because of griefers that instances have to be created so that content can easily done without interference from other players. Do you think it would be fair for a group to claim a primal in the open-world then 10 free companies proceeding to run over to watch and lag them out so that they fail? That's why it has to be an instance, it's easy enough to screw people over by lagging them out and it was done with HNMs back in XI. It's also why a command known as "blockaid" was created because people would fight the Fafnir and other ls's would heal the tank and attempt to grab hate so that they could force fafnir to use spike flail and make said ls lose the fight.

You're missing the point! That's why we want open world <3
So much more replay value. You have to claim mobs in situations that aren't ideal (tank there, healers over there), deal with other linkshells, it's amazing. No two fights are the same (exaggeration but still!). Instances are all the same once you get them down. No opportunity for any differing memories.

After learning Cutters, AV, Garuda, (almost Ifrit Extreme) they all just become a blur, separated only by drops. In XI I can remembers tons of different Nidhogg fights, Tia fights, Cerb fights, Jailor fights, because they were all a little (sometimes a LOT) different.

Death to the carebears.

Long live open world.

[Gramul]

Regional server confirmed?

Don't mistake offhand speculation for confirmation.

I'm actually glad that they're making it like WoW. A dream come true in fact.

Why? So the people that play / have played WoW will ignore it because they've done it all before, and if they want to play WoW, they'll just play WoW, and the biggest complaint of MMO's on the market is that they're all WoW clones with different marketable skins?

[SuzakuCMX]

You read this interview, yes? You should know it's too late. Hope you enjoyed XIV being something different even if it wasn't a success~

Different....than....FFXI? Everquest?

What's so different about it o.O? That it failed so horribly and they publicly apologized and are trying to rebirth it with massive changes.