Yoshi talks a lot about "bringing FFXIV up to standard"...

[Hanabira]

i wont say EVERYTHING needs voice acting, but when the game was announced, voice acting was was being promoted as a selling point, and at the time, only the 3 starter city intro's had it, since then, maybe 3 more. but imo these were the most epic scenes, and i was a little miffed the last GC cutscene wasnt voiced. important/deep/epic cutscenes absolutely need voicing, was the only thing ffxi was missing story-wise

that being said.. ffxiv has taken many steps in the right direction, and its funding has been put in better places during 2.0 dev.

[Fensfield]

Meh, I'll just chime in two things:

1 - Full voiced is an extremely controversial feature. It draws disproportionate amounts of funding that could be spent on more meaningful development at greater value, whilst simultaneously reducing the flexibility of the systems its built into by raising the cost of variation: all possible variations must be voiced. Not to mention arguments about imagination and all.

2 - Nice of the resident troll to mention Mabinogi but.. what's cutesy got to do with it? Mabinogi was years ahead of its time and just because it opted to use a particular art style (which, by the by, was for the time of its original release actually fairly high end) doesn't make a jot of difference. A far better point would be that Mabinogi is a very old MMO, and yet from day one had features like composable and performable music, a working restriction-less gear system, an active combat system, a well-balanced classless progression setup, and a compelling storyline to boot. Though goodness knows I think if Final Fantasy XIV pinched half the stuff Mabinogi did right for itself it'd be a damn sight better already.

[JackDaniels]

As crappy as Tera is, it did blow every other MMO out of the water with its battle system. This targeting system has officially made tab targeting a relic of the past. If the devs for Tera actually put a little substance in their plot and used a bit of originality in any other aspect of their game besides the fighting system, it probably would have been a WoW killer.

[Verytus]

Hello,

Thank you all for your posts. Unfortunately it seems this thread has run its course, so we are locking it. While we encourage using existing threads to discuss topics relevant to FFXIV, some topics which have become too old or are no longer relevant may be better left where they are, rather than bringing an old thread back to life.

-Verytus