FFXIV story? Yoshi P what are you thoughts?

[MalayaDrake]

let us not forget that the 14 story is an epic tail. (if you think VII is better fine, but i'm not comparing the two, it would be like comparing a LOTR book to a Narnia book, both are great)

[Zyph]

books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it.. LOTR, Narnia

I'll let someone else handle this gem.

[MalayaDrake]

lets try to remain positive and not stray to far off topic (giving an example is one thing attacking a reply to the original post is a bit petty) IMO

[Darkhaund]

I really liked how the game was shaping up towards the end -version 1.0 that is- and I hope when they fix the lag and stress issues this turns out to be the FF game we want it to be and not just a wow clone with a nice FF skin,

[Duuude007]

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.

Go on...explain how your logic does not conflict with Yoshida-San's. Does this sound expedient for the sake of the imminent holiday season?

While we'd like to stay on schedule, we want to make sure we create a top-tier MMORPG that can compete against the rest of the MMORPGs in the market. Therefore, we wanted to spend as much as time as we need until we are satisfied with the product.

Quality > Quantity. 'Nuff said.

[Meow_Zedong]

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.

Confirmed for being 12 years old.

[Zyph]

Quality > Quantity. 'Nuff said.

All that says to me is "More profits and brand trust > some profits and perpetuated brand tarnish."

[MalayaDrake]

Confirmed for being 12 years old.

please explain what you meant

[auritribe]

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?"

I was not aware this game had a story.

[Vilhem]

As much as I would love a book form of the story...that's the whole purpose of playing the game (well the intent anyway lol).

They want you to personally interact with the story ingame instead of flipping through pages.

I could see them releasing a special edition hardcover book with concept art and basic storylines and npc backgrounds (they just put out a book like this for XI, Clicky)

If such a book ever does come out, it's gonna be for Japan. As far as I know, the XI Memorial Book (which my nerd self has an autographed copy <_<) has no plans of being translated into English or any other language at the moment.