did we ever get a flood of information?

[Arcell]

Really? Are we still picking that statement apart? I really wish they'd never have used the word "flood" because apparently it must literally be an actual flood of information to make this forum happy. You must drown all of the users in the amount of information, they must all literally die. If it's not an actual flood it's not good enough. I really hate this place...

I took it to mean "a lot" of info. Did we get "a lot" of info? Entirely subjective and I say yes. I'd say we know "a lot" more about A Realm Reborn than we did before the Summer. We knew very little about the game previously, we had never even seen footage of it. Now we've got a handful of trailers, a good amount of footage from a few different showings, we know far more about the extent of the changes, we even have some decent details on some of the changes.

[wind]

Really? Are we still picking that statement apart? I really wish they'd never have used the word "flood" because apparently it must literally be an actual flood of information to make this forum happy. You must drown all of the users in the amount of information, they must all literally die. If it's not an actual flood it's not good enough. I really hate this place...

I took it to mean "a lot" of info. Did we get "a lot" of info? Entirely subjective and I say yes. I'd say we know "a lot" more about A Realm Reborn than we did before the Summer. We knew very little about the game previously, we had never even seen footage of it. Now we've got a handful of trailers, a good amount of footage from a few different showings, we know far more about the extent of the changes, we even have some decent details on some of the changes.

dudes dropping knowledge bombs right there (not sarcastic)


we learned about fan service stuff:
crystal tower, golden saucer, magitek armor(which was already kinda known but now its definite), Amun fight

learned about general changes:
saw in-game footage of how amazing stuff is, limit break system, gathering/crafting system, tp management centered battle system, monks can chain past 3 ws's unlike other classes, will have plenty of quests to sustain multiple classes from leveling 1-50, will have open world events that also help you level, new dungeons designed for leveling/gearing lowbies, level sync as well as level caps to content, chocobo fighting allies (tank, healer, caster w/ respective gear fits), introducing multiple types of mounts

learned about a new DoM:
arcanist having 2 diff types of carbys
summoner having 4 primal infused pets (not primals themselves)

learned they're adding ninja,musketeer, samuari
just no clear date or which will come first

learned some stuff about music changes which to some is important myself not included but to each their own
learned stuff about the architecture of the engine, another thing that is only important to some

learned that you need 4 people to create a grand company (doesnt matter if you're from diff GC's)
also that you can change your GC multiple times but there is a delay between changing to frequently
was shown where they plan on putting player housing and some actions that can be done to houses

I could keep going but I listed alot already

[Warlock]

Ugh not this thread again....anyways i think Yoshi-P would like to show us a lot more but the ppl around him does not like that ..live letters he gets scolded for showing too much..how can you expect a super flood of info besides whats good in knowing everything about the game at this point? months before it comes out? its like showing all the movie on it's trailer...its ridiculous lol and those come out 1 or 2 years before movie is released. I assume we will get info more often when game shuts down then w/o the game to entertain us they will release info to keep us hooked

[Coombah]

dudes dropping knowledge bombs right there (not sarcastic)


we learned about fan service stuff:
crystal tower, golden saucer, magitek armor(which was already kinda known but now its definite), Amun fight

learned about general changes:
saw in-game footage of how amazing stuff is, limit break system, gathering/crafting system, tp management centered battle system, monks can chain past 3 ws's unlike other classes, will have plenty of quests to sustain multiple classes from leveling 1-50, will have open world events that also help you level, new dungeons designed for leveling/gearing lowbies, level sync as well as level caps to content, chocobo fighting allies (tank, healer, caster w/ respective gear fits), introducing multiple types of mounts

learned about a new DoM:
arcanist having 2 diff types of carbys
summoner having 4 primal infused pets (not primals themselves)

learned they're adding ninja,musketeer, samuari
just no clear date or which will come first

learned some stuff about music changes which to some is important myself not included but to each their own
learned stuff about the architecture of the engine, another thing that is only important to some

learned that you need 4 people to create a grand company (doesnt matter if you're from diff GC's)
also that you can change your GC multiple times but there is a delay between changing to frequently
was shown where they plan on putting player housing and some actions that can be done to houses

I could keep going but I listed alot already

what was the time frame on which all the above information was given, How many days, weeks ,months in between said information? Flood or Trickle?

[Crevox]

We did not get flood. Black mages only got Burst/Flare/Freeze.

[Reinheart]

just hope YoshiP got some surprise for 11/11 P.Letter Live
Also we got alpha test for those that make it in, and Japan going in first starting end of October so hopefully NA players get in as well but like YoshiP said don't expect too much alpha test is mainly for stress test for the server.

[Cynthis]

3 updates on the website in 2 months and and 2 of those were mediocre trailers. Hardly even a trickle of information there.

My main gripe is that as part of the "flood", I expected we would get a firm-ish roadmap for all the major features like we did for 1.17-1.23. I was hoping that would include all the new features, including at least the following in no particular order (I am sure I forgot some things):

Free Companies
Chocobo raising
Housing
PvP
Golden Saucer
Crystal Tower
New endgame
Level cap raise
New classes/jobs

Right now it seems only very little of this will be available on release, something I personally think is a mistake if SE want to entice players who have left to come back. I would think waiting for all or most of these things to be in decent shape before release would make a much bigger splash.

Either way, since for most questions regarding features in the release of 2.0 the answer is "We are working hard" or "We have yet to decide on the exact implementation" I think they are struggling simply to port/modify current content. An example is that they apparently only a few weeks ago decided what to do about fishing.

[KoujiGeki]

3 updates on the website in 2 months and and 2 of those were mediocre trailers. Hardly even a trickle of information there.

My main gripe is that as part of the "flood", I expected we would get a firm-ish roadmap for all the major features like we did for 1.17-1.23. I was hoping that would include all the new features, including at least the following in no particular order (I am sure I forgot some things):

Free Companies
Chocobo raising
Housing
PvP
Golden Saucer
Crystal Tower
New endgame
Level cap raise
New classes/jobs

Right now it seems only very little of this will be available on release, something I personally think is a mistake if SE want to entice players who have left to come back. I would think waiting for all or most of these things to be in decent shape before release would make a much bigger splash.

Either way, since for most questions regarding features in the release of 2.0 the answer is "We are working hard" or "We have yet to decide on the exact implementation" I think they are struggling simply to port/modify current content. An example is that they apparently only a few weeks ago decided what to do about fishing.

what are they doing about fishing?

[darkstarpoet1]

what are they doing about fishing?

removing spearfishing completely, but no clue of what they plan to add back to replace it. they are also removing all fishing lures and adding in new ones, but no information on how he new fishing system will work. they gave information, but left more questions than we had before about it.

edit: also all spearfishing achievements will no longer be available in arr. there will be new ones for the new offhand gathering for fishing.

[KoujiGeki]

oh ok. was gonna flip out if it was really a bad change cause i decided to finish Fishing before 2.0 im at 48 now.