Thread: Final Fantasy V2.0 - Discussion Thread

The plan is so thorough, it can't fail! I look forward to 2.0.

I am very pleased with what I have seen so far.

Also, to all the people who are saying this is a WoW clone, shut up. Final Fantasy HAS been influenced by WoW and WoW has been influenced by Final Fantasy. The guys over at Blizzard have even said before how much they love Final Fantasy.

Just look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOA4xVA6g0A
That is all I have to say. -_-

I have to admit that i did cream my pants with excitment while reading the PDF's, roll on next year

The list of changes and all of the concept art are very, very impressive. All of it pretty much sounds interesting and fun, and the level and UI designs look like they will be as drastic as has always been necessary. I've always held onto some fears that those revisions would be too slight to fix the game, but this has beaten those fears down.

The timeframe, however, is still very disappointing. I'd have preferred they just shut the game down last year, and then maybe we'd be close to these changes already. Instead they've had to keep the game going and make weird band-aid fixes to everything while designing the new version. I can't help but assume things would have been smoother and much faster if they weren't maintaining the game publicly at the same time.

Also, I'm not sure the tiny amount of story we get every 2-3 months is enough to keep me paying a subscription fee knowing the game is going to be completely overhauled in a year. I want to play the new game, but why should I pay for what we have in the meantime?

I like the V2.0, the concept arts are just gorgeous! But I don't really want to pay for "kinda-unfinished-product" and that ruined my day after I read it T_T

Something I found interesting is that the 7th Umbral Era story will not be replayable. To me this sounds like it means that the current story will only be available until 2.0 hits and then it'll be gone.

My thinking is that whatever transpires by the end of the 7th Umbral Era story leads to the dramatic area destruction that we've seen in the concept art. It's likely being used to explain why the entire game will look different after 2.0. It's kind of interesting that those playing up until that point get the "Prologue" as it were.

Originally Posted by Arcell

Something I found interesting is that the 7th Umbral Era story will not be replayable. To me this sounds like it means that the current story will only be available until 2.0 hits and then it'll be gone.

My thinking is that whatever transpires by the end of the 7th Umbral Era story leads to the dramatic area destruction that we've seen in the concept art. It's likely being used to explain why the entire game will look different after 2.0. It's kind of interesting that those playing up until that point get the "Prologue" as it were.

This is one of the reasons I'm thinking about staying. If I go the "I'll come back at 2.0" I get the feeling that once 2.0 I'm going to be thinking of how all the changes affected the game, how the game evolved. I don't know about you guys, but at least saying that I was part of the evolution of FFXIV (if it does end up being a good game in the eyes of the industry) is kinda exciting.

Originally Posted by Zenaku

Look like it becoming a wow-clone great job yoshi-p at making a final fantasy game into wow.

Not WoW you moron. He is adding many streamlined features but it will save this game. There is always people like you who I knew would be on the forums who would complain to complain. Just to be the complete opposite of everyone else and enjoy it and say something stupid like " WAAAAH they are making it like WoW." Please go drink a cup of bleach