Thread: 3.0 Launch Predictions

Whenever this gets discussed I feel like a lot of youse guys are disconnected from the emotion people would feel when they'd discover that they can't fool around with any of the expansion content they got by paying for a new expansion. You will completely deflate someone excited about the new stuff added when they realize they'll have to do a ton of stuff before they can even look at it, and if they come back or to this game because they wanna shoot guns or use a big sword they will balk at the idea of going through a ton of stuff to get there. "Yeah but it's not a metric ton, it's a short ton" is quibbling over a barrier's size when it's the presence of the barrier that's gonna kill momentum and be quite a rude surprise to new comers and lapsed olders.

Originally Posted by Verdan

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I think you are projecting yourself personally rather than simply assuming what a new player would feel or even understand what is happening and why. If a new player bought the expansion they also too bought the base game, because without it they cannot even play the expansion. Knowing this, they either have no knowledge of what an expansion means or they bought it knowing full well they would have to play the base-game first and level up into the expansion.

Originally Posted by Verdan

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Um, OK I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
See, a player who buys FFXIV as a NEW game...will have never done any of the content at all. It's ALL new to them.
Hell, with all the mixing of coerthas stuff from 2.4 onward, it might even be hard to tell where 2.0 ends and 3.0 begins without knowing about the 2.55 cutscene. It's all integrated with tons of foreshadowing.

Originally Posted by kyuven

Um, OK I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
See, a player who buys FFXIV as a NEW game...will have never done any of the content at all. It's ALL new to them.
Hell, with all the mixing of coerthas stuff from 2.4 onward, it might even be hard to tell where 2.0 ends and 3.0 begins without knowing about the 2.55 cutscene. It's all integrated with tons of foreshadowing.

i agree think its not gonna be as big as a problem as certain groups of people are making out.. heck if i hadnt played ff14 n brought the bundle id be excited to play a new game not go OH NO!!! cant access dark knight or heavensward right away?? not gonna bother playing this game then... really ARR is a beautiful game with tons to do majority of new players wont even care about stuff being locked behind HW expansion.. its not the 1st game to ever lock content behind somethin ._.