Will the grand finale be carried out as a live event?

[Vanguard319]

Doubt anything happens after nov 1st, it will be a complete ghost town then.

You just like shooting people down don't you?

[Denmo]

We would all log in to the Inn to a crazy dream, only to wake up and look out the window and see Dalamud even closer.

We'd then go outside to this music.

All the shops are closed. There are no wards. No Grand Company office. No quests.

A few NPCs are standing around, staring up at the impending doom.

We try to teleport to a camp. They're all Overaspected Orange and cost 0 Anima. Going to Black Brush, we see Atomos wreaking havoc freely.

We go to Mor Dhona. Dalamud takes up the entire sky.

Imperials are everywhere.

Someone spreads the word, they found Louisoix.



He's standing on a hill. We talk to him. Everyone's crowded around. He gives us a choice. To be sent to another era and escape this destruction, or to remain, and continue the pointless fighting against the Imperials.

If you choose to be sent onward, a cutscene occurs. Dalamud comes crashing down, but you get whisked away by Loiusoix. In its final moments, we see Louisoix making his last stand, trying to use the gods of old to keep the awesome destruction at bay.

You are then logged out permanently, with some message of hope for the future.




At least, that's what I hope happens. And everything I just described can be done pretty easily with the game's current technology.

Edit: You can also view it like this - This will be our last 1.0 chance to get linkshell group shots, scenery shots, and cutscene viewings in. Just because data isn't saved on the server past Nov. 1st doesn't mean you can't absorb all that you can locally before it's gone forever.

[Rosalie]

Live events already started happening! Other thread linky

[Alhanelem]

Whatever man, I tried to spell it out in Yoshi's own words. I'm not talking about a 2.0 client in November, that's ridiculous. I'm talking about a typical update to the client software so that the network/server load of the "Grand Finale"

There are no more patches/updates for 1.0. There wont be one now and there won't be one on the 1st.

There will be live events (as people have already observed) but not a patch.

[Ingolf]

The grand finale better put WoTG's climax to shame.

That's some low standards.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I'm not expecting anything to happen at all.

[Elexia]

That's some low standards.

Nah I actually completed the storyline even though they delayed it to make this game..but it is FFXI so..guess I understand your opinion.

[Ticks]

Its a shame to hear people saying they expect nothing in the end from SE as if the producers did nothing the entire time this game existed. Think of how epic it was for Yoshi to envelop a whole story line into Eorzea so it can metamorphose into a completely new world...for us. Epic. I know whatever happens in the end, when that little Lalafiel unplugs the lights in Uldah for the final time - I will shed a tear.

[Colino]

To those speculating that Version 1's ending will actually be told in a prologue when starting ARR rather than in V1 itself, I'd like to say that this doesn't make any sense.

It makes plenty sense because that way people who didn't play 1.0 can figure out what happened before ARR?

[Elexia]

It makes plenty sense because that way people who didn't play 1.0 can figure out what happened before ARR?

Well it does kind of contradict the whole reasoning for them wanting people to actually continuing to play 1.0. The Umbral Era story is that "one time story you can only experience if you play now" they went on about, so having our ending which is the new player's intro be told in a new game for example doesn't make sense in that manner.