FFXIV story? Yoshi P what are you thoughts?

[MalayaDrake]

SE has done wonderful things with the stories of the final fantasy series. Their marking is pretty much spot on. They've come out with plushies and key rings and even the soundtracks to the games they have created over the years. They even have live performances of the music from the FF series. One thing I would LOVE to see is an official release of the original FFXIV story (from release to the end of era) written (book form, hard back cover, and about the size of the collectors edition box) with art work throughout the book to help depict what is happening. This is one thing that I would love to add to my collection, and to my knowledge has not been done before.

This also opens up the market for a second book in the future depicting the events between "End of an Era" and "A Realm Reborn" and then a third, forth (etc.) book later on in the future. The Pages in the book should look something like the pages in the little notebook that came with the FFXIV collectors edition. This also opens up SE to further introduce to us the characters from the original opening sequence. The story can be told from their perspective (not the perspective of the player base).

SE you have given us characters whom we have cheered and rooted for (besides our own avatars of course), ones we have come to love, sympathize and empathize with, Characters we can't wait to see fall, and ones we wish to see triumphant. There are other characters we found annoying, irritating and angered us until they ended up saving us from our impending doom. It was then we found a new love and respect for this (particular) character and realized we had passed judgement to early. These characters you have created are one of a kind and should be remembered forever.

Traditionally speaking when an MMORPG has finished its life cycle and the servers are shutdown forever, no one really remembers what happened years later, and in order to find out they have to search the internet tirelessly to find anything about the game and its story, only to be reading something that may or may not be accurate. The Story may be broken up so much that once read, you have to decipher the order and then reread to try to get a basic understanding of the story which has been left cloudy, and you wanting answers to questions that arise from reading some third party garbage.

I can only assume that Yoshi P or someone else on the dev team, will be able to work on this and hopefully one day produce and answer to the question... "Will you please release an official FFXIV (series) of book(s) so the legend will continue on forever, and so people of all times will know the epic story and fate of Hydaelyn and Eorzea?"

[Zyph]

Have they done this with any other of the numbered games (that weren't as over-the-top popular as FFVII)?

No.

Will they do it for this game especially since they're gambling on reviving a game that's considered dead by most everyone but the hardcore fans?

No.

For everything else, there's wiki sites and youtube.

[MalayaDrake]

if the fans can get a larger breast size why can't i get a book

[Zyph]

Because a book takes significantly more time/money/effort than increasing the radius variable for a 3D model.

[Duuude007]

...since they're gambling on reviving a game that's considered dead by most everyone but the hardcore fans...

This is why there needs to be a dislike button in the forum.

Regardless:

This was discussed last night, I'm not sure why it needs another thread, heh. This is the third topic on the subject I've seen created today alone:

Since we have a good bit of time till the release of ARR I want to suggest an idea. How about a Web Mini-Series to explain what has happened between the time we were teleported and the time we arrive. I understand that resources are slim and being thrown into the development of ARR. I also don't think it would be a bad idea releasing this anyway, even after you release ARR. Would give the players of 1.0 some closure on the events that happened since we have been gone.

Even if I saw this series air after we have begun 2.0 I would 100% support it. What a nice treat this would be! It would also give you a chance to explain Atomos, the leaders of GC's, Cid, and maybe even give us some more back story on Louis.

Just brainstorming, what is your opinion?

Im thinking it could be done in the form of a series of online graphic novels, much like the tv show "Heroes" did.

I had been thinking of how this could be done ever since the video was released last night, but it would be a daunting task to do alone.

Here was a simple screengrab I captioned as an example of how it "could" be done:

[Zyph]

This is why there needs to be a dislike button in the forum.

Or people could just ignore that SE is a business with profits in mind and that ARR is a profit/PR grab in the guise of a labor of love.

[MalayaDrake]

lol, as true as that may be that doesn't change the request, besides, this is something that could potentially bring in quite a bit of revenue to SE, as well as expanding their fan base (yes, there are people who don't play games and still read books for fun). I admit this is something that would take some time, and may possibly never happen, however, ultimately it is a good idea and as much as i would love to have this it is up to SE to determine if this is something that would profitable for them to do. In the end if they take this idea and look into it (or if they already have) and respond with an answer (whatever it may be) at least we would know their official stance on the subject.

[Raldo]

Would a FFXIV book get SE a reasonable amount of revenue? No.

The massive amount of fanwanking going on in this forum section may lead you to believe otherwise, but the number of people that would buy such a thing are not enough to turn much, if any, profit.

[Zyph]

It would have a slim chance of bringing in revenue, and only if they marketed it right. Perhaps they could include a small booklet containing 1.0's synopsis with some art as part of an ARR Collectors Edition packaging.

But with so many other Final Fantasy titles to work with, SE would likely devote their efforts into a title that wouldn't be as much of a profit gamble (like FFVII).

[MalayaDrake]

lets look bad on some books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it.. LOTR, Narnia, Jurassic Park, and the list can continue forever. my point with this reply is that once these particular books were made into movies the books sold like hot cakes all over again bringing in yet more and more revenue. I would be willing to bet that SE may actually increase their fan base if they did release a book that invoked the imagination, brought excitement to the readers mind and completely engulfed the reader in an adventure they may not have ever experienced before.