Very limited content at ARR launch :( ?

[Synfrag]

Lets not also forget that there is a large crowd that considers PvP as endgame in the MMO community these days. If SE does pull of PvP at launch, it will be a good plus on their side.

I couldn't have put this any better.

[TheRac25]

bad news indeed, Wada strikes again. If you launch without a major feature (PVP or take your pick) you might as well forget about it, because 95% of people interested in that feature will have moved on by the time you finally put it in.

[Griss]

So does that mean its nearly done? Still in Alpha...idgi....

What it means is the skeleton and structure of the client and other back end support systems are done. They are in over drive as far as porting over 1.x content finishing maps and creating new 2.x related content.

after that's mostly done they pick a group of pro-bono crash test dummies and send them into the meat grinder to break things.

[Synfrag]

after that's mostly done they pick a group of pro-bono crash test dummies and send them into the meat grinder to break things.

/raiseshand to be crash test dummy. I wants to smash game nao! meat grinder <Too Weak!>

[Zezlar]

Just wanted to point this out from another thread since it seems to fit well here:

"I read the game watch impress article before bed last night. A couple of highlights until Rein finishes it up:

The water shaders and indoor lighting systems aren't finished yet. A few more reflective detail shaders need to be applied and they're just working out the appropriate layers to do it right. Indoor lighting system will include a kind of ambient lightning they call "all direction lighting". Yoshida is very critical on all of the lighting being top-tier, no matter where it is.

The rivers and oceans will have separate animations but they are not high-tech wave simulations. (ie: crytek engines and so on) due to scalability. They did this in order to lower the tax on low end systems. Waterfall animation/texture and lighting is already completed.

Oh and that previous interview (can't remember who posted it) when they said something about no Crystal Tower at launch is a misinterpretation. They're aiming for launch. It's a long instanced raid with special featured (undecided as of yet) but aiming for a length of around ~3 hours.

Ishgard being destroyed is incorrect too. That's Ishgard's fortress or something rather, the actual city is fine.

One more since I've got time: Yoshida wants to place the alpha test around Gridania. He thinks it's one of the more pretty zones and has changed the most dramatically. The alpha test is specifically to test the game and not so much a player experience. He expects people to enjoy (in a free play sense) themselves from beta."

[Aion]

Just wanted to point this out from another thread since it seems to fit well here:

"I read the game watch impress article before bed last night. A couple of highlights until Rein finishes it up:

The water shaders and indoor lighting systems aren't finished yet. A few more reflective detail shaders need to be applied and they're just working out the appropriate layers to do it right. Indoor lighting system will include a kind of ambient lightning they call "all direction lighting". Yoshida is very critical on all of the lighting being top-tier, no matter where it is.

The rivers and oceans will have separate animations but they are not high-tech wave simulations. (ie: crytek engines and so on) due to scalability. They did this in order to lower the tax on low end systems. Waterfall animation/texture and lighting is already completed.

Oh and that previous interview (can't remember who posted it) when they said something about no Crystal Tower at launch is a misinterpretation. They're aiming for launch. It's a long instanced raid with special featured (undecided as of yet) but aiming for a length of around ~3 hours.

Ishgard being destroyed is incorrect too. That's Ishgard's fortress or something rather, the actual city is fine.

One more since I've got time: Yoshida wants to place the alpha test around Gridania. He thinks it's one of the more pretty zones and has changed the most dramatically. The alpha test is specifically to test the game and not so much a player experience. He expects people to enjoy (in a free play sense) themselves from beta."

hey hey, you should link it to the original post..just to make it clear tho
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post795754

[elreed]

im not crying about something that hasnt been released, i just say, if we´ve been waiting 2 years for a new game whats the problem on waiting a few more months, wouldnt be better for this game if it had those 3 things already? just it seems dumb to me releasing the same game in its final chance to shine among new MMO´s without all the stuff possible, if it fails this time thats it, might be a low population MMO that will be F2P later on because of that or just shut down.

So yeah i want to play this new game as soon as possible but if i have to wait to get the best of it then ill wait.

[Felis]

More info about crystal tower

When saying Crystal Tower, the image is that it takes long. From my personal memory it was really long that I left my Famicom’s power on while I went to school (laugh). How much of that will be reproduced?
Y: Yes (laugh) you couldn’t warp out and stuff. We will have some parts we put in consideration but reason why we can talk about to “Decide to warp back by wiping” is because Final Fantasy was able to continue for 25 years. And there are generation of players who don’t know that, they will say “I can’t understand why you can’t save” but to those people old fans like myself can say “No it’s different” I think for an MMO that is the good part where any age, race, players from the world can pay.

Is it like please keep in mind that it’s going to take longer than 3 hours
Y: It’s not even 3 hours (laugh) I can’t talk about the details but there are phases and when looking at it entirely it will take a long time. It won’t be the end with just one and will be a content that will be updated to go higher and higher.

Sounds like another companies title “Druaga’s Tower”
Y: Yes (laugh) With updates it will go higher and higher so with this patch will be till here, next patch will be more... image is something like that.

I see, so the Crystal Tower itself is a large scale content. When will this be released?
Y: We are planning at the launch of FFXIV 2.0 There are many players at level 50 so for them I would like this to be the first goal.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post797557

[Deli]

More info about crystal tower

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post797557

I just read that and post here too XD
so it will go higher and higher, so ppl won't get bored for long time...
and
taruta!? it will be released at launch of 2.0!? I'm getting mixed signals :O

[Dawiichan]

Very nice to read. The mistranslation was probably towards the fact that the higher floors won't be in game at launch. I'm all up for this, and kind of curious towards when he said, "We will first pull it off with Crystal Tower and another content I can’t talk about yet."

Though to be honest, I'm probably more excited towards the fact that SE is ahead of their schedule. Gives me a lot more confidence towards the team.