new yoshi interview

[Andrien]

thanks for sharing this interview. I like the answers yoshi gave.

[Hulan]

Having the game be down for that long sucks quite a bit. But on the flip side of the coin, 4-8 month beta? Sounds about right. That's equal to about 2-2.5 major patch releases at the current schedule, so just enough time to fix any really glaringly bad issues, see how people respond, then patch up anything that people complain about.

[Elexia]

Are all legacy characters guaranteed beta slots??

No, last rounds of interviews he said beta won't be tied to legacy status, so there's no guarantees.

[Holland]

You guys should reffer to the timeline of events in the pdf files. FFXIV will go down for quite a few month and once they shut it down the first time it will not be turned on again.

Why? Because 2.0 is played on new servers and even though we will be in a completely new world, our characters will retain all the progress we've made so far.

This translates to the following: if they transfer character data once, but then turn 1.0 back on and we update that data with new adventures and items then the data transfer process will need to repeated yet again, simple as that, SE will not do more than one data transfer.

It's safe to assume that once 1.0 goes offline, it will be for good.

[Antanias]

Won't existing players get the 2.0 client download later this fall? I thought I read that in the PDF files for 2.0

[Maiandra]

Are they going to add an auto run to the "activity" next?

Why not? They've already added an auto battle to swing my weapon for me.

[TheVedis]

Won't existing players get the 2.0 client download later this fall? I thought I read that in the PDF files for 2.0

downloading the client doesnt give you access to the beta though

[Jynx]

They may run 2.0 beta and 1.0 simultaniously and only shut down 1.0 servers near the end of 2.0 beta to start porting data for the final launch.

Seems like the logical course of action if you ask me.

[Sehro]

They may run 2.0 beta and 1.0 simultaniously and only shut down 1.0 servers near the end of 2.0 beta to start porting data for the final launch.

Seems like the logical course of action if you ask me.

this is probably what's going to happen, playing beta with our 1.0 characters not gonna happen O.O .

[Lurex]

They would probably want to keep subscriptions open as long as they possibly can.