Info on the Lodestone!

[Cairdeas]

If they can't connect the lore to the players, how about connecting players to the lore?

Make inclusion into the lore as a potential reward for participants. The next Buront could be you! : points at random group of folks not in the forum. :

Not Bragging or anything >.> Back in the day before the TP nerf. I had a Mithra named Nuala who was a Dragoon one of the first to 75 after ROTZ/US Release.

Nuala is one of the leaders of the Lancer group in Gridania :P

[Duelle]

The next Buront could be you!

Outside of small cameos in event artwork, a cameo appearance in the ending cutscene for A Crystalline Prophecy, and the April Fool's magazine cover of Buront and the Dirty Ninja, I don't think he's actually been worked into the lore. >.>

The majority is all been tossed in by the fans, including all those studio Ghibli parody songs themed around Buront, and that one parody of the Rurouni Kenshin OP song. The FFXI/Touhou crossover made using RPG-Maker notwithstanding, of course.

[LlenCoram]

<Playerbase made up of spoiled brats> Waaaaaah SE give us more info!!
<SE> Ok, here you go.
<Playerbase made up of spoiled brats> NOOOOOO not that info!! You're the worst developer ever! I hate you I hate you!
<SE> Sigh...

[Sephr]

"Put story in the game!"
"There are sidequests filled with lore"
"I have no incentive to do the sidequests! Give me some lootz"

Did that train of conversation really just happen?

If you don't care about lore, the side quests probably aren't there for you.

I've been something of a supporter of SE's methods till now (I do genuinely enjoy these articles though, as I said before, I'd really love a news rack to be put into the adventurer's guilds and an NPC to shout when new articles come out, immersion etc). However, I think as others have said, in this case I think we needed a bit more than a few black and white pictures. Ah well, only a month to go.

[Grundy]

"Put story in the game!"
"There are sidequests filled with lore"
"I have no incentive to do the sidequests! Give me some lootz"

Did that train of conversation really just happen?

If you don't care about lore, the side quests probably aren't there for you.

I've been something of a supporter of SE's methods till now (I do genuinely enjoy these articles though, as I said before, I'd really love a news rack to be put into the adventurer's guilds and an NPC to shout when new articles come out, immersion etc). However, I think as others have said, in this case I think we needed a bit more than a few black and white pictures. Ah well, only a month to go.

Carrot and stick. Lore is not a substantial enough carrot to make me do the side quests and I suspect a large percentage of the playing people. I enjoy the lore on the websites - I never complained about that - I merely stated there is no incentive to do a side quest. If I want to know the lore behind a side quest with no reward I can look up any one of the wiki's available to the community.

Sad maybe, but I'm just being honest.

[Eldaena]

Carrot and stick. Lore is not a substantial enough carrot to make me do the side quests and I suspect a large percentage of the playing people. I enjoy the lore on the websites - I never complained about that - I merely stated there is no incentive to do a side quest. If I want to know the lore behind a side quest with no reward I can look up any one of the wiki's available to the community.

Sad maybe, but I'm just being honest.

Well, it's true that you could look it up on wiki, but if you could do it in game, why wouldn't you? =p

[Grundy]

Well, it's true that you could look it up on wiki, but if you could do it in game, why wouldn't you? =p

Quite frankly, I would rather, grind / gather / camp an NM / do job quests or storyline .... basically anything I find fun in game rather than waste time running all over the place for a piece of lore (again, I'm just being brutally honest - not confrontational).

[Eldaena]

Quite frankly, I would rather, grind / gather / camp an NM / do job quests or storyline .... basically anything I find fun in game rather than waste time running all over the place for a piece of lore (again, I'm just being brutally honest - not confrontational).

I don't think you're being confrontational, and you are entitled to your opinion. ^-^ I basically do a lot of what you do, but some days I like to take on a few on the side-quests just to learn a little something about the world. They're not major or really all that important, you're right. However, they can help immersion a little and introduce new players to new ideas and information. Or just give an older player a little something different to do that day while waiting for leves to start or something. =p

It still can and is entertaining to some. At least I can say I enjoyed my time doing them and I knew what to expect from them, so it's not like I was disappointed.

[gifthorse]

I didn't know FFXIV stood for Fan Fiction XIV.

[Eldaena]

I didn't know FFXIV stood for Fan Fiction XIV.

What is so fan-fictiony about it? o.o