FFXIV A Realm Reborn ( Brand New game)

[Starlord]

According to this interview from jpgames:

Yoshida: Uhm, a lot of the high profile members of the team changed and new people came to create a new core team but the remainder of the development team stays pretty much the same. It wasn’t like we had to start explain to everyone what they had to do. We had to explain the current team that we need to have updates for the current version of Final Fantasy XIV and at the same time create a new game, so we had to tell them that pretty much everything they are making over the year will be thrown away, so it will completely go to waste. To motivate the team telling them that all will be thrown away was very difficult to explain and hard on them. But when you look at the current version of the game and the changes we made that aren’t changes we made without motivation, but with a limited amount of resources.

Well, with this statement here, it completely confirms that this game is Not the Same FFXIV we once knew. I thought ( before this interview) that some things will be transferred over ( like Primals/Strongholds/Dungeons). But from what it seems like, the only thing thats the same will be the names of the places, everything else is being completely redone.

This isn't an Expansion nor "Patch" 2.0, Its far from a Patch at this point, it's a Brand spanking new game. with 90% of there assets completely new!

And they did all this a new MMORPG game in a 2 year span all from New assets? If they pull this off.. This has to go down as the MMO that Failed to the MMO that only turned itself around without using much of there old assets.

But a bit of bad News though at launch:

JPGames-Frederick: There was much talk about planned content for Final Fantasy XIV 2.0, which content will be there right from the start and which will be implemented later? I’m talking about content such as PvP, Crystal Tower, free companies, free companies housing, chocobo breeding system etc.

Yoshida: About the Crystal Tower and the chocobo-racing and the free companies, we cannot have this right at the launch, about PvP … we hope to have it at launch but because of all the balancing issues and with me being a hardcore PvP-player we want to make it perfect before releasing. We might have to keep adjusting and because of that we might not make it in time but if that is the case we hope to have it at the latest within a few months after launch and hopefully at the launch. The same thing goes for the housing system, but we hope to have that very soon after launch as well.

/sadpanda =(

but they will make it in before long, as long as they get the technical part down packed ( UI, Network servers) in top notch, the rest can build right on top of it and make this a wonderful foundation!

[KiriA500]

Eh, as long as it's close to launch, I'm fine. I plan on spending at least the first month of my time in A Realm Reborn exploring the world and taking in the sights!

[Starlord]

Eh, as long as it's close to launch, I'm fine. I plan on spending at least the first month of my time in A Realm Reborn exploring the world and taking in the sights!

Same here, I'm re-rolling so, by the time I hit 50 ( or whatever is the cap at that point), it will be 1-3 months down the road, which by then they should have that implemented =).

Edit: and besides most people left within 1 month of FFXIV original Launch, so it's a brand new game and practically most of the population is starting fresh ( not current players like now)

[Lum]

I just hope there is some kind of end game at launch to get people busy and not the end game we have now if you even wanna call it that.

[Jennestia]

I just hope there is some kind of end game at launch to get people busy and not the end game we have now if you even wanna call it that.

There will be -- the current end-game will exist and they said the balance and strategies won't be the same -- yes you would call it end-game because it's content you do at end-game (level cap) designed for said level cap, it's not level 20s doing DH and Garuda.

They're being very smart about it since when you think of it like this, who will benefit more from ARR (besides SE) -

A. The people who never played the game/played in 2010 and quit then joining anew in ARR and have tons of content to do.

or

B. The very small playerbase that completed everything 1.0 has to offer and would be the only ones benefiting from Crystal Tower's introduction?

They're targeting group A more so than group B -- It's good to make everyone happy but when you really think about it, you need new blood and more people wanting to stay in your game which means making it attractive enough to actually join the game. This goes right about around to the problem of MMOs of these days ignoring the journey of progressing, rather than skyrocketing players to end-game and ending up leaving them with nothing.

Tera and SWTOR are prime examples of that.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

We are going to need that month to learn the new mechanics, and to do all the new quests to unlock everything.
By the way it looks I will need to re-learn some aspects of the jobs I play