FFXIV Live Letter VI General Discussion

[Rex]

I do not approve of the whole Airship debacle. Why can't we see Eorzea from the air? We have to ride the Ferry in real time...Why can't we ride the airship in real time?

[Req]

I do not approve of the whole Airship debacle. Why can't we see Eorzea from the air? We have to ride the Ferry in real time...Why can't we ride the airship in real time?

The "cost" is probably too high. Think about it, they would have to remake the entire world from a birds eye perspective and put it in a zone that you are only in for like 2-3 minutes. I think it is stupid that we will automatically be teleported on the airship considering we have anima to teleport wherever we want anyways.

[Pwnagraphic]

I do not approve of the whole Airship debacle. Why can't we see Eorzea from the air? We have to ride the Ferry in real time...Why can't we ride the airship in real time?

That's such a petty thing.. Out of all they showed today you guys gravitate to that little thing? I get the whole immersion factor, but some people want the game to be so immersible that it mimics real life TOO much, and too much so that most people whether they play casually or not would find too tedious. And in my opinion I find that, and I don't think this is the word I mean, pathetic. A game is supposed to be an escape and fun, not a second life where you live in a virtual world, and some of the things stress you just like the real world does. I don't really equate riding on a boat or an airship to that, but that was kind of regarding the mention of immersion being less focused on in ARR a few pages back.

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But anyway..
These live letters are just giant teases and it drives me nuts that I can't just hop on and play >:-O
Everything excites me about this game now and phase 3 we get to see the rest of the world and really get to see and experience what Naoki Yoshida is telling us to remain patient about.

[Reika]

That's such a petty thing.. Out of all they showed today you guys gravitate to that little thing? I get the whole immersion factor, but some people want the game to be so immersible that it mimics real life TOO much, and too much so that most people whether they play casually or not would find too tedious. And in my opinion I find that, and I don't think this is the word I mean, pathetic. A game is supposed to be an escape and fun, not a second life where you live in a virtual world, and some of the things stress you just like the real world does. I don't really equate riding on a boat or an airship to that, but that was kind of regarding the mention of immersion being less focused on in ARR a few pages back.

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But anyway..
These live letters are just giant teases and it drives me nuts that I can't just hop on and play >:-O
Everything excites me about this game now and phase 3 we get to see the rest of the world and really get to see and experience what Naoki Yoshida is telling us to remain patient about.

One mans petty is another mans not-so-petty...

The "cost" is probably too high. Think about it, they would have to remake the entire world from a birds eye perspective and put it in a zone that you are only in for like 2-3 minutes. I think it is stupid that we will automatically be teleported on the airship considering we have anima to teleport wherever we want anyways.

I don't think it would need to be done any differently than it was done in XI. All they did, like 1.0's boat, was put you in a zone where you are above a low quality rendition of the portion of 'vanadiel' you were traveling over. It wasn't the same zone as the people doing stuff on the ground. You actually didn't see people or monsters, just the landscape you would actually be traveling over. I don't think it would be hard at all to do this.

[Pwnagraphic]

One mans petty is another mans not-so-petty...

I don't care what you say.. it's petty lol

[Klefth]

I do not approve of the whole Airship debacle. Why can't we see Eorzea from the air? We have to ride the Ferry in real time...Why can't we ride the airship in real time?

Because they can't do with this new technology what they made like 12 years ago for the PS2. Owait...

[AlexNiculaie]

Because they can't do with this new technology what they made like 12 years ago for the PS2. Owait...

Or because there are more important things, like actual content for them to be devoting time and resources for at the moment. But, hey, recreating an aerial view of the entire world so that a handful of people can stand around doing absolutely nothing is pretty dang important to get into the game by release. Owait...

[Rex]

Or because there are more important things, like actual content for them to be devoting time and resources for at the moment. But, hey, recreating an aerial view of the entire world so that a handful of people can stand around doing absolutely nothing is pretty dang important to get into the game by release. Owait...

Your sig is hilarious.

[Ashaylin]

y: but say when we add FATE while riding airship; I think it's better to release that at that time, but I apologize in advance but in order to view this world from above costs a lot so we can't do it rigt away.

The only thing that is stopping them right now is cost, but the would like to add it down the road. They also want to add FATEs to those rides.