Anyone Else Excited For New Expansions?

[Delsus]

No it wouldn't. It would be disastrous because it means players would have another hurdle to buy in the face of buying a game that was terrible at launch. There is not enough consumer confidence to do something like this with the title.

Square has to reestablish their competency and player trust before anything like this would happen.

Which is why the PS3 version should be released bundled with the expansion, didnt mention that because I didnt think i needed to because I mentioned people thinking they were being cheated.

If they do this it will show people how much has been done, and that it is ready for re-release because it has another expansion, the only people who will be paying are the people who have been playing for months before and know what the game is like.

Bundling an expansion with the ps3 version will show that they have already lost alot of money but they are willing to loose more from the loss of most of the expansion sales.

[Nuru]

No it wouldn't. It would be disastrous because it means players would have another hurdle to buy in the face of buying a game that was terrible at launch. There is not enough consumer confidence to do something like this with the title.

Square has to reestablish their competency and player trust before anything like this would happen.

I see where you are going with this. It would be better to release an expansion a little after PS3 release. PS3 release itself would be the second/last chance SE has to make a good impression of the game. Console Release = New Reviews.

[Defmetal]

I want them to release Chains of Promathia for FFXIV.
Likely the new expansion, when it comes out, will simply add the new regions on the map that we can see but not visit yet.

[Synfrag]

They need to get some serious content into the base game before they even consider charging for an expansion. There are a ton of places already shown on the Eorzea map or that have connections to existing areas with NPCs standing around saying you can't enter. They can get to those before anything on another continent is added.

Actually, iirc Yoshida already commented in the Famitsu article that another continent will be added before access to even Ishgard is opened up. I could be wrong though.

[Synfrag]

Which is why the PS3 version should be released bundled with the expansion, didnt mention that because I didnt think i needed to because I mentioned people thinking they were being cheated.

If they do this it will show people how much has been done, and that it is ready for re-release because it has another expansion, the only people who will be paying are the people who have been playing for months before and know what the game is like.

Bundling an expansion with the ps3 version will show that they have already lost alot of money but they are willing to loose more from the loss of most of the expansion sales.

I'm tempted to believe they might actually release an expansion with the PS3 and at the same time provide it for free to the PC as the final freebie.

[Delsus]

I'm tempted to believe they might actually release an expansion with the PS3 and at the same time provide it for free to the PC as the final freebie.

Hmmm possible, but I dont know if they will, and if they do they might only give it to people who have had an active account for say 4 months which would require a bit of work, but lets see how it goes.

[Chain]

Consider an expansion date measured in years.

In the famitsu article he claimed it took them 6 months minimum to create one set of gear. Mind boggling, I know, but it should reassure you that this game is slooooooooooooooooooooooooow development.

[Xikari]

I mostly just want a pretty tropical area ; ; all the other ideas sound like fun though. I just like seeing green areas with lots of flowers. A tropical area with huge flowers and a jungle with some ruins and villages would be fun. (Although I'm afraid I mostly just described Kazham.)

[vax]

The only thing that i want to see now is another way to go from La noscea to Thanalan. (airship doesn't count). I mean, a bridge but i think this will seem a little long and boring, so i was thinking on something down the water, like a tunnel with mobs and some nms, like Maze of shakarami (w/e it's called).

[Teknoman]

I mostly just want a pretty tropical area ; ; all the other ideas sound like fun though. I just like seeing green areas with lots of flowers. A tropical area with huge flowers and a jungle with some ruins and villages would be fun. (Although I'm afraid I mostly just described Kazham.)

I'd take that...just less maze-ish and with more ruins.