Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[Yeol]

Let anyone that bought a jump option have absolutely nothing from the previous expansions. No trial roulette, no leveling roulette, no access at all to anything from Heavenward or ARR((except arr jobs obviously)), not even emotes. That's all I want.

Won't this kill ARR and Heavesward content?

On another note, they mentioned that the battle system will change. From what I understood, we will be clicking less buttons. New battle system should be easier and I assume it will be easy for new players to catch up to it. Still need to wait and see how things go.

[Amariel34]

This sucks cause I've been waiting for some mog station sales to get the moogle mount, zu mount, and the two new outfits. But if they add this potion, I might no longer be playing. *sighs* This really stinks...

[Nezerius]

Jump potion doesnt even matter anymore nobody does old content it seems. Are they run it unsyc so its basically the samething as a jump potion.

Nobody does old content? That's odd, I can't say I've had issues getting into any of the roulettes, which also consist of 2.x content.

Unless you mean content that isn't related to the MSQ or any of the roulettes, but that content would stay the same, regardless of a jump potion being added.

[Kyuuen]

Won't this kill ARR and Heavesward content?

On another note, they mentioned that the battle system will change. From what I understood, we will be clicking less buttons. New battle system should be easier and I assume it will be easy for new players to catch up to it. Still need to wait and see how things go.

Not necessarily, seeing as roulette's are still there. If the roulette's weren't there, then I'd be a bit more concerned. On top of that we don't know what these will cost yet. If they're anything like WoW's character boost ($60) then that could also be an offset as well.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Won't this kill ARR and Heavesward content?

Not particularly. Alot of it has been dead already since 3.x released, so it would hardly make much of a difference. More than anything though, if they're skipping to a point in the timeline where they already passed said content, they shouldn't be allowed to access said content. It makes no sense to do it IMHO.

[Ghastly]

Is it so hard to just give realm reborn dungeons more exp? That's better than jump potion..

[KrenianKandos]

Is it so hard to just give realm reborn dungeons more exp? That's better than jump potion..

Not...really.

In a way, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. They are forcing you to do ARR content storyline either way. Experience can do oh so much but you're still going to be gated behind having to do all the content.

This alleviates the idea of forcing the player to jump the leveling grind and just blow through the ARR content unsynchronized, if they so choose.

It'll be a balance: Pay 60$ (going on a random number from another game that has the same system; I've no clue what their purchase point will be) and allow a user to play as fast as possible and plow through quest, or spend a fairly big amount of resources trimming down the fat.

And it comes down to that: There is a load of content for users having to go through to access the latest content. Period. And that is a bigger block than the experience is. Really, it's not my leveling that was an issue when I leveled my alt. It's the gating of content behind the MSQ.

(Also be noted that I have no issue with that. At all. While I wish we could skip content after having one character do it all, I'm fine with doing it with an alt.)

[Yeol]

Is it so hard to just give realm reborn dungeons more exp? That's better than jump potion..

This have been suggested many times. Also, the MSQ is a geat way to get EXP. It is the amount of quests that people have to go through and certain features/content being locked behind quests is what worries people most.

[Rubieus]

Sorry if I missed it but what picture are they referring to when they say
Zenos yae Galvus and gunblade?

[Kosmos992k]

Won't this kill ARR and Heavesward content?

On another note, they mentioned that the battle system will change. From what I understood, we will be clicking less buttons. New battle system should be easier and I assume it will be easy for new players to catch up to it. Still need to wait and see how things go.

For players interested in that content, perhaps this would shepherd them towards FCs that are not so end-game minded, and have members who enjoy ARR content still?