Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Paganb]

One of my magor issues with the planned updates is the extention of the party search to what seems to be a cross server model. In my experiance while this may help people find parties quickly, it also leads to a fealing of disconnection from the comunity.

Some people, like me, will still endevore to be polite and do our best but alot of people tend to stop careing how they treat other people in parties if they have no reason to expect to ever see or hear from those people again.


I do agree that converting all the in game dungeons to Instinces isn't an apealing idea to me either. Haveing a large world that at least feels somewhat seamless is something that alot of the plays I've talked to think is one of the better parts of this game. Shrinking it into a series of smaller zones and instinces would seem like a let-down.

[LlenCoram]

Icehunter, it's been stated already that we won't have to buy the game again.

[Chezen]

First off, overall the changes sound good. I'm especially interested in the treasure maps found by gatherers. Those sound like a lot of fun. But I do have a couple of questions/comments.

Like a previous poster pointed out, there is a line that says all dungeons will be converted into instanced raids. Does this mean all non-instanced dungeons will be taken out and converted? I would be sad to see this happen. Hopefully you just mean making raid versions of instanced dungeons?

The picture you showed doesn't really give a firm look at the new graphics. Just how much of a hit (if any) will the graphics take with this new engine? I understand that this change is necessary to make the game better and more efficient, but the graphics is something I really, really love, so I'm just wondering.

I'm one of the few that loved the maps as they are, seemless and vast, and didn't mind the "copy and paste" at all. Will all of the new maps be small with loadscreens now? I'm sure they will still be beautiful, I'm just wondering how much of a hit they will take compared to now.

Would you perhaps give us options to play whatever language we want for the voiceovers, or even maybe an option to turn the voiceover off please? I'm one who likes to watch anime in Japanese and I have been dissapointed in the past when spoken SE games have not included language options. In the case of gaming, I think I might even like the option to turn it off and read like the older games.

Thank you for your hard work.

[Travesty]

My question:

In the concept screenshot, how much of that is concept, and how much of it is actual screenshot? How much of that is just conceptual artwork, and how much, if any, is actually rendered models and in-game graphics?

[LlenCoram]

Big question that's been niggling at me all day.

Q: Can we get a look at what the character models might look like with the new engine?

I'm worried that my character that I've grown so attached to over this year will change for the worse. I like how cute she is.

[Zyph]

Great move SE, let's hope the hype of impending change will make people want to give you a years worth of subscription fees to play an incomplete game while they wait.

Seriously, who thought of THAT stupid idea? Every single person I've talked to said they won't be paying until 2.0 is released, so have fun with three people online come December.

[leomike35]

Great move SE, let's hope the hype of impending change will make people want to give you a years worth of subscription fees to play an incomplete game while they wait.

Seriously, who thought of THAT stupid idea? Every single person I've talked to said they won't be paying until 2.0 is released, so have fun with three people online come December.

It will be more than 3. Seems like it will be around 3 that keep recycling this whole incomplete game crap. Its a game its just not what you wanted. They said the content is 50% complete which could mean any number of things but one person misunderstanding and then posting doesnt make it the truth.

[stoned]

It will be more than 3. Seems like it will be around 3 that keep recycling this whole incomplete game crap. Its a game its just not what you wanted. They said the content is 50% complete which could mean any number of things but one person misunderstanding and then posting doesnt make it the truth.

typical fanboy responce u better believe the game will lose alot of its low pop it has atm once they try to charge for crap.

[leomike35]

typical fanboy responce u better believe the game will lose alot of its low pop it has atm once they try to charge for crap.

Your response is typical doom and gloom. Just because you and the 3 other free loaders you claim to talk to are leaving doesnt mean everyone will leave. As it stands now you aint paying crap so if you leave does that hurt SE? Not at all. They will get your money eventually so why not get used to paying now so that you can budget it in cheap skate.

[stoned]

Your response is typical doom and gloom. Just because you and the 3 other free loaders you claim to talk to are leaving doesnt mean everyone will leave. As it stands now you aint paying crap so if you leave does that hurt SE? Not at all. They will get your money eventually so why not get used to paying now so that you can budget it in cheap skate.

yea ima free loader i will piss on 15 bucks and burn it b4 i give SE more than the 80 buck i spent on this crap. u argu all u want and rest the fanboys can troll all u want.