Discontinued Content in FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn

[Skies]

This is how I play all my games. I always enjoyed the thrill of unlocking secrets and killing special bosses but I've never understood this obsession with unlocking achievements. I've always put in excessive hours and work into killing secret bosses just for the experience of killing said boss.

Like killing that level 4000 Baal in the original Disgaea, avenging Laharl's father and becoming the Tyrant Overlord. Now THAT I feel, is an achievement. Not highlight a little sticker labeled "Secret Uber Boss Slayer!". I actually find those pop-up notices quite annoying. Whenever I see some ridiculously in-practical and no fun achievement like "Clear stage without getting hit or missing or touching the floor under 5 minutes" I just go "lol pass."

Did you play Kingdom Hearts: re:Coded?
Because that is seriously in that game. (well, not all three AT THE SAME TIME but one after the other) I mean, okay, it's not a useless Achivement, it's part of a 'score attack' portion of the game to unlock the most powerful weapon of the entire game, but still.

[Virtuso]

Did you play Kingdom Hearts: re:Coded?
Because that is seriously in that game. (well, not all three AT THE SAME TIME but one after the other) I mean, okay, it's not a useless Achivement, it's part of a 'score attack' portion of the game to unlock the most powerful weapon of the entire game, but still.

lol I didn't actually. I just made up the list from some generic absurd achievements.

[Zelas]

Is there a list of EQUIPMENT (such as weapons or armors) that won't be obtainable anymore in A Realm Reborn?

[Gramul]

They say that for a good reason. They want to ensure they have the rights to smack down whoever misuses their images, so they cannot tell anyone that they can use those videos.

What they can do, it's simply not to pursue people that aren't abusing the images for a reason or another. They're just slightly stuck in a small legal trap there, she said what she needed to say.

I understand. But it is a fools task to think things can continue this way as globalization and communication among the common man continues to grow.

[Jacien]

Welp, time to starting doing levequests for the first time in over a year.

[Colino]

In A Realm Reborn, you will be able to check the achievements that you completed in the current version and the amount of points you received will not be lost.

Fantastic. Thank you for the hasty update!

Now I can go back to burning leves without regret.

[Inzoum]

It will not be possible to re-watch the cutscenes from all of the 7th Umbral related quests and events that are not available in A Realm Reborn.

Would be nice if you could include precisely which quests will be discontinued in A Realm Reborn in the "Discontinued Content" list. We can imagine that cutscenes relevant to these quests won't exist anymore and won't be viewable

In addition, since we are changing the graphics engine, all quests will be revamped and won’t be exactly as they are in the current version.

When you say "revamped" and "not exactly as they are in the current version", I hope you only mean from a cinematics point of view (new models, lightings, camera angles and movements), and not the storyline and content. I couldn't care less if the cinematics are touched up (It's a new engine, it's probably not compatible with the old cinematics), but so far no one has been clear about whether the *content* of these cutscenes is unchanged or totally new in A Realm Reborn.

I think that if the quest storylines are different, the quests should be counted as new and not yet completed so that existing players can experience them fully (and not just the cutscenes). For example, if a player does the Carpenter 36 Class Quest in the current version, but A Realm Reborn's take on the CRP36 quest is totally different, it should not count as completed otherwise the player will not get to fully experience the new quest in A Realm Reborn with his current character.

I don't mind "re-doing" quests I've "already done" (well, if they're different, can't really say it's re-doing them), but I would seriously mind having to start over leveling a new character just to experience the new versions of quests because my character has "already done" them and is locked out.

With that said, feel free to record and save the current versions quests for your own pleasure but please don’t post them or upload them anywhere.

Might just do that for posterity and comparison's sake!

Cheers!

[Felis]

Welp, time to starting doing levequests for the first time in over a year.

See it positive. Maybe you get enough fraction points for the coliseum gear ^^

[Drazzan]

Is there a list of EQUIPMENT (such as weapons or armors) that won't be obtainable anymore in A Realm Reborn?

I would also like to enquire to if there is going to be a list of Equipment released.
I mean, from the list of Achievements we can "assume" what will be unobtainable, i.e:

All NM Gear and Stronghold NMs Gear
All Ifirt Weapons
All Moogle Weapons
All Garuda Weapons
All Toto-rak Gear
All Darkhold Gear
All Aurum Vale Gear
All Cutter's Cry Gear

But clarification from the developers would be nice.

Much Thanks.

[Jacien]

See it positive. Maybe you get enough fraction points for the coliseum gear ^^

Agreed.

I was really hoping on doing those achievements in 2.0 with new classes/jobs, but oh wells.

If I'm really diligent I can knock out all of them in time. Takes 5 hours straight to do a behest for a camp, and I knocked out 2.5 levequest achievements in the meantime.