WARNING: Server Shutdown!

[Akujin]

"something in the story will happen and the servers will be shut down."

Ok, so following Living in a Prayer, Dalamud is looking to fall in the SE area of Mor Dhona, where a concentration of Darnus' legion is supposed to be also located, which is also a 'summoning' area being set up by the Circle of Knowledge, to draw the 12 into our dimension to deal with Meteor...so the battle we see in the trailer.

Thing is..the trailer they've been showing.. other than Odin and Behemoth's screencaps and I suppose the chocobos running through green areas, everything else that happens in the first trailer is the battle between us and the empire.

So, is SE using that trailer as a part of the main entrance movie for 2.0, to explain what happened before and what has become of the world now, bringing us to ARR?

Or are they planning to use that same video to show us the battle itself, as they shut the servers down.

This is the battle.. this is where you get taken away.. and that's it, until ARR comes back up.

Its a precarious thing really, its also what I've worried about with this entire idea. How are they planning to transition us, in the game world sense, from where we are now to where we're going? I remember how it happened in GW, so maybe similiar to that. You go to what is the final stage in GW pre-apoc, watch the CS as the world is destroyed and then return to post-apoc world, just as you were before.

Suppose the other idea is.. they could begin to systematically shut down areas and access points through our current game world, Atomos for instance killing the aether points, disabling teleportation between camps and nodes. Then disabling teleportation between ourselves and camps completely. The cities coming under attack by a mass Garlean seige at the same time, on a grand scale, some large 12 hour period on all servers at once and there at the end, forced into combat you hear Lousiox(sp?)'s voice in your head, telling you he tried..light surrounds us..and thats it, everything goes black, servers down.

Side idea.. they could also give us a final quest line following it all, the battle with the empire at mor dhona, give you the warning message prior to going into the instance 'This is the final segement for the Seventh Umbral Era, by entering this instance, you cannot return to the game world as you know it. Upon its end, for your character, the Seventh Umbral Era has concluded..and he/she will not return until ARR is opened. This is a one way path. Are you ready?" and thats it.. say yes.. join the mass battle against Alliance and Empire in a massive scale battle.. and wait until you return to ARR.

Because otherwise.. you're gonna go log off in your inn, servers gonna shut down and you're going to wake up to find a brand new war ridden world a few months later. Some folks would be rather pissed if they missed the chance to be part of that moment, I know I would lol I'll take a day or two of vacation for that.