Staggering Alexander Unlocks After Launch

[carraway]

Will Alexander normal and hard be staggered out after release to allow players to level their current and new jobs, explore the new areas, and enjoy the storyline? Like one or two weeks for normal, then a week after that for hard?

edit: the answer is "yes"; thanks Reddit for the PAX interview question and Hadley for the link.

Looks like it will be gated per this interview:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/pax_2015_interview

Yoshida: We do plan to have a two week gap before we open up the content. You may already grasp why we’re doing this but I want to take the opportunity to explain the reasoning. The main reason why we want to wait to open up the new high end raid or the new Allagan Tomestone or any content that has a weekly restriction or lock is that if we open it up right away there’ll be people rushing to get to the content the week of June 20th and just there may be certain players who want to take their time and enjoy Heavensward as it is but we’ll be putting the pressure on them to skip through the cut-scenes and get through your leveling as we feel that we shouldn't make players feel forced to rush through everything or skip over any of the content and allow them to go through it actually enjoying it, especially if you wanted to take the time to enjoy it. So with this two week gap we’d like players to take the time to enjoy the story. We have a rich new story that is going to open up with Heavensward. We also have new jobs that are being introduced so we’d love for people to try them out as well and take a moment to raise your level and get to the new level cap and assess what skills you have in rotation in the case you need to rebuild because of the new skills you've learned. This could be a good time to prepare and strategize on if you want to keep your main job going into endgame content or do you want to switch over to one of the new jobs. There’s just so many things you want to consider ahead of time as well as just enjoy what’s available in Heavensward. It’s not that we’re trying to hold back information or hold back content, we just want to ensure that everyone gets to enjoy the Heavensward content we have available.

[desufin]

For what purpose? No one is forcing you to rush to the content just like no one forced you to rush to The Binding Coil of Bahamut on launch of 2.0. If there is someone forcing you and you don't want to, perhaps it's time to rethink your priorities.

[carraway]

For what purpose? No one is forcing you to rush to the content just like no one forced you to rush to The Binding Coil of Bahamut on launch of 2.0. If there is someone forcing you and you don't want to, perhaps it's time to rethink your priorities.

The purpose is to give everyone even grounds, otherwise people who can nolife to 60 on day one have advantage over everybody else.

Though fairness is a factor, I'm curious not because I feel like I'll personally be at an advantage or disadvantage. I'd just rather have the liberty to approach the new content at leisure without having to worry about Alexander immediately, and I'm sure there are others who feel similarly.

[Airget]

For what purpose? No one is forcing you to rush to the content just like no one forced you to rush to The Binding Coil of Bahamut on launch of 2.0. If there is someone forcing you and you don't want to, perhaps it's time to rethink your priorities.

Not true, people in statics would be forced to steamroll through content to be world first. By adding in a 2 week wait period everyone can enjoy the content at a steady pace and not feel forced to complete it as fast as possible to do endgame.

[SinisterJointss]

Not true, people in statics would be forced to steamroll through content to be world first. By adding in a 2 week wait period everyone can enjoy the content at a steady pace and not feel forced to complete it as fast as possible to do endgame.

How can you be forced to do what you dont want to do...in a game? If you dont want to steamroll the new content, then dont. The choice is yours

[Ulathskullsplitter]

How can you be forced to do what you dont want to do...in a game? If you dont want to steamroll the new content, then dont. The choice is yours

It's called peer pressure. If your the only one in your static that wants to enjoy all the content added and take your time watching all cut scenes and reading all dialogue then odds are you will be replaced in your static. Yoshi gave his resoning and everyones ignoring it to say its so nobody gets a head start. He did it to prevent peer pressure from making players skip as much as possible. They didnt work hard on this expansion so people can skip everything in a rush to get to Alexander. He wants people to actually watch the cut scenes and pay attention to the story. The outrage over waiting 2 weeks for Alexander seems a bit much considering everything else there will be to do in those 2 weeks.

[Karen_Cerfrumos]

The purpose is to give everyone even grounds, otherwise people who can nolife to 60 on day one have advantage over everybody else.

[Ryans]

The purpose is to give everyone even grounds, otherwise people who can nolife to 60 on day one have advantage over everybody else.

Um... everyone is on even ground already. Everyone starts at the same place and the people who devote more of their time to the game are going to get more completed. Do you want the servers to go down when you aren't logged on or something? I don't really see why that would matter though. So what if someone has better gear than you. There isn't a limited number of items per server that drop from a raid so someone having an item you want doesn't prevent you from getting it.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

Um... everyone is on even ground already. Everyone starts at the same place and the people who devote more of their time to the game are going to get more completed. Do you want the servers to go down when you aren't logged on or something? I don't really see why that would matter though. So what if someone has better gear than you. There isn't a limited number of items per server that drop from a raid so someone having an item you want doesn't prevent you from getting it.

F#@$ quoted for truth. This times one thousand.

[Vaer]

New capped currency has sort of the same problem. Early access has an extra week (half of one) to get to cap and cap tomes before it resets on launch day if they keep it as normal and start the new tomes on early access launch.