Foundation Day

[yukikaze_yanagi]

hmmm no ? Maybe will be true, but isn't really so oblius

[Betelgeuzah]

The very fact that this post exists gives us a 1.19 date. Why the hell would they station recruitment officers around town to "pick our GC" if we can't actually pick our GC?

(Just FYI, "picking" a GC is a feature that comes with 1.19, so you just have to put 2 + 2 together)

They can put preliminary NPC's related to the recruitment ahead of time. There is nothing in this event that requires a patch to happen before or during it.

They can release the patch before the event, during the event, or after the event. You have nothing to go on.

[Starlord]

They can put preliminary NPC's related to the recruitment ahead of time. There is nothing in this event that requires a patch to happen before or during it.

They can release the patch before the event, during the event, or after the event. You have nothing to go on.

Use your head will ya, Putting Recruitment NPCs up without a purpose of the "Event" Would make the event as Shallow as this games Launch ~.~. The Event ONLY states about those NPCs being stationed for a Reason right? not to sit around and look pretty? and what of the Event what are these Recruitment NPCs, have in ties with the event?

Why in the heck would they call it " Recruitment NPC" for this " Event" If the Recruitment NPC isn't going to do anything. But I did say 99% chance that it will likely happen, but there's always that chance it won't, but when you put 2+2 together as Archadius said you get 1.19 Patch but will see

Edit: Also, 1.19 is when were getting into Companies not in this event, so if they were to put NPC Recruiters just to tell us all about the company and that's it that's a pretty lame event

[Archadius]

They can put preliminary NPC's related to the recruitment ahead of time. There is nothing in this event that requires a patch to happen before or during it.

They can release the patch before the event, during the event, or after the event. You have nothing to go on.

Sure, they "can". However, they have no reason to do so. You're being defiant just for the sake of being defiant.

[Betelgeuzah]

No, you are making up "facts" that don't exist. They can have a small quest related to the recruitment that doesn't actually enlist you. "Trials" or whatever.

Why in the heck would they call it " Recruitment NPC" for this " Event" If the Recruitment NPC isn't going to do anything.

The recruitment NPC can do anything and it doesn't have to require 1.19 in any shape or form.

[Starlord]

No, you are making up "facts" that don't exist. They can have a small quest related to the recruitment that doesn't actually enlist you. "Trials" or whatever.



The recruitment NPC can do anything and it doesn't have to require 1.19 in any shape or form.

Facts your not clearly reading nor seeing

Then tell me then What in the world would Recruiting in this situation be other than Company Joining?

[MeowyWowie]

I'm kind of skeptical about this and view it from 2 different perspectives.

On one hand, like many others have pointed out, this seems to be the "official" recruitment for Grand Companies. With the dates they have mentioned, it's easy to assume that patch 1.19 will release between the 21st and 22nd. This would mean patch 1.19 meets their end of summer deadline, something they seemed pretty strict about for this patch.

On the other hand, the only info we really got about the event itself was that recruitment NPCs would be stationed in the three city states. This doesn't necessarily mean that they will actually recruit us now. For all we know, they might just give us a little sneak preview of each company before we make our permanent decision in which company we join. It seems strange that Grand Company recruitment would be done through an event that has an end date (10/11/11). What happens when the event is over, no more recruitment?

I don't know what to think. I'm definitely not going to set myself up for disappointment by assuming that 1.19 will definitely be released together with this event. I will however remain optimistic about it, and hope that this is the case.

[Picoman]

Remembering that events don't need patches, even still i am hopeful.

[Betelgeuzah]

Then tell me then What in the world would Recruiting in this situation be other than Company Joining?

Something temporary. The NPC's will be around for like two weeks. Hey cool, you got two weeks to join the company of your choice and then you're outta luck until next year! Of course!

This doesn't. Mean. A damn. Thing.

[Exni]

Seems more likely to me that 1.19 won't come till Oct. 12 (hence the enddate of this mini event). It's almost as if SE is releasing a small quest line, starting on Foundation Day, that may lead up to 1.19's release. Also, being that 1.19 is going to be so huge, I think they'd want to give slighty better notice this time around than just 4-5 days. SE may just have wanted to release something for the anniversary and decided to drop some quests that will pre-game the all the other Grand Company stuff that comes with 1.19 (caravan escorts, chocobos, etc..).