Will ARR have a strategy guide planned?

[mbncd]

I love guide books, even if I don't need them. FFXIV: ARR seems as though it will be a pretty easy game to figure out and sites like Mooglebox will always be my first call for looking up recipes/drops/gear/etc. The guides are just great for generally reading about the game though.

I can easily see myself finishing playing of a night and then taking the guide to bed with me to read a while before sleeping. I'd read about the area I'd play in the next day, or the area I was just in, and learn some of the local lore or tidbits of characters' history/personality or some behind the scenes info I never could have guessed. Then I could just browse the appendices, seeing items and monsters that I never would have looked up for any particular reason but just randomly came across there. Eventually, my eyelids would grow heavy, and I would dream of morbols and private housing and a lost lalafell sized chocobo in the woods. The next day, I would go seek out the things I had just read about the night before, or I'd try to find the things that the guide had missed or gotten wrong. I'd be immersed in the lore, history, future, personality of the game, both while playing it and while reading about it.

I want a guide for ARR! Heck, I'd even get one for 1.0 too, just to learn more about the old world and what had been planned!

[Ticks]

I love guide books, even if I don't need them. FFXIV: ARR seems as though it will be a pretty easy game to figure out and sites like Mooglebox will always be my first call for looking up recipes/drops/gear/etc. The guides are just great for generally reading about the game though.

I can easily see myself finishing playing of a night and then taking the guide to bed with me to read a while before sleeping. I'd read about the area I'd play in the next day, or the area I was just in, and learn some of the local lore or tidbits of characters' history/personality or some behind the scenes info I never could have guessed. Then I could just browse the appendices, seeing items and monsters that I never would have looked up for any particular reason but just randomly came across there. Eventually, my eyelids would grow heavy, and I would dream of morbols and private housing and a lost lalafell sized chocobo in the woods. The next day, I would go seek out the things I had just read about the night before, or I'd try to find the things that the guide had missed or gotten wrong. I'd be immersed in the lore, history, future, personality of the game, both while playing it and while reading about it.

I want a guide for ARR! Heck, I'd even get one for 1.0 too, just to learn more about the old world and what had been planned!

Sounds like crystal dreams ^^

[mbncd]

Sounds like crystal dreams ^^

Yep, dreams of beautiful fantasy is where I got my name. Crystals epitomise that, which is why they're such big things in the FF series too I guess ^_^ It still tickles me when I see the line in the ARR advertisements about the how the "crystal dreams" XD But reading a beautiful and fascinating strategy guide as you're falling asleep makes for some really awesome crystal dreams!

[Alkimi]

"Mithras make great White Mages. Their high agility means they can dodge opponents attacks for more survivability"
- Bradyguide, 2003

Although it would make a nice novelty item it really doesn't work for MMOs as a strategy guide. An alternative guide to eorzea and the histroy etc. would be a better idea.