Thread: Infos 3.0 via famitsu (en anglais)

New year interview.
Quick summary

• 3.0 series will be shorter than 2.0. 4.0 to be released sooner in comparison.
• 3 month interval between patches schedule to be continued. 1 major patch followed by 2 minor updates as has been done the past 2 years.
• No fan fests this year but hoping to have a big event after 3.0 launches.
• Airships are heavily customisable. Looks or specs, choice is yours.
• Airships can be bought at an extravagant price, or your Fc can build it bit by bit everyday.
• Expansion volume is more similar to WoW and other western MMOs than XI. Basically almost an entire new game. But 2 years per expansion is probably not realistic anymore so they're shifting to an annual release schedule.
• expansions and content releases will be more like blockbuster movies, Big, dramatic changes in short spans of time.
• story and content has already been planned up til 3.5
• you can guess when 4.0 will release based on our current pacing, probably.
• blood and splatter is hard to do because of regulations and laws in each region.
• Example, a new miqote npc that gets injured and loses part of his ear. Something serious and with consequences. But we aren't allowed to do that because our said regulations.
• some places will not even allow npcs shot by arrows to be shown.

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201502/06070272.html