Thread: What exactly is in 1.2

Originally Posted by Airget

But see when you see the above changes, why is an AH still necessary? in XI an AH could only hold 7 items if I"m not mistaken but with retainers we can hold I think 10-12. With the changes coming to the MW to make it easier to manage what would an AH offer that the MW doesn't? I just can't understand the stigma of still wanting an AH I have yet to have an issue finding items when using the MW, you can just think of it as an AH that's swarmed with people lol. But ya unless you can offer other benefits of an AH that the MW doesn't offer I"m still confused on why people are still looking forward to it.

An auction house is an exponentially better market system than the wards. The ward system is fine for the bare minimum of buying and selling items between players, but it lacks the advanced features to make it function the way an MMO market should function. There is no way to differentiate between NQ and HQ items using the ward system. There is no price history to compare sales (getting this in 1.20, last 20 sales.) You have to zone every time you want to buy an item, making it take at least twice as long as buying from a list (another thing we are getting in 1.20.) You have to know the category of the item you want to buy, and even then there is little organization in the way the items are listed. Lastly, off the top of my head, there is no way to search for items by name. Ex: If you want a full set of Steel gear, you have to find each piece manually and track each item separately.

Q: In regards to starting to charge a subscription fee, could you tell us about the reasoning behind starting now?
A: As I mentioned in the previous LIVE, our stance about being 50% complete has not changed. Though we have been able to gradually implement FF-related content, I still think that there is a lot that has not yet been completed, such as a lack of player search and an auction house. With patch 1.20, we will be introducing the player search and auction house, so I made the call as a producer to start billing at this time.

Originally Posted by Airget

AH to my best understanding can't be made with this current enginge. But from what I understand they have plans to do the following.
-Make the MW easier to search, which to me sounds like the ability to filter out items easier
-At one point they wanna make it where you can buy items right off the list rather then go into the ward

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But see when you see the above changes, why is an AH still necessary? in XI an AH could only hold 7 items if I"m not mistaken but with retainers we can hold I think 10-12. With the changes coming to the MW to make it easier to manage what would an AH offer that the MW doesn't? I just can't understand the stigma of still wanting an AH I have yet to have an issue finding items when using the MW, you can just think of it as an AH that's swarmed with people lol. But ya unless you can offer other benefits of an AH that the MW doesn't offer I"m still confused on why people are still looking forward to it.

Things that we know are coming in 1.20

Class reforms.
Self combo system.
Player search (Welcome back Mr kotter)
"Auction House" elements added to the market wards
Stat allocation coming back in some form
Moogle primal battle
Revision to the primal battle loot system.
Revisions to the way we dye armor.

Originally Posted by Tempestmoon

Looking at the following road map is a little unclear as some seems to cross the patch deadline. It looks like the following items are going to be inlcuded, Please approve or decline if I am missing something or it is not going to be in this patch. just want to get better idea of what I am expecting


-Targeting system
-Friends list
-black list
-linkshell system
-PC Search
-Char motion
-AI
-scenario and quest
-Delivery service
-item search feature
-delivery & mail system
-parley
-And then the content like moogle fight and what not.


Any other items that I missed? any on this list that are not going to be 1.2 ready?

There are items in this list that are taken from the list of items being implemented in the 2.0 engine at the current time. For instance, we already have Parley.

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Roadmap_EN.pdf

Previous producer letters have already outlined the major items of interest in 1.20, and although they might not seem as extensive as 1.19, they do include so really quite large changes to the market wards and class abilities (which I'm sure you don't need me to tell you about). Oh, and the continued ending of the Sixth Astral Era.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...809-01-2011%29

Edit: I realise I sounded a bit condescending there. Sorry about that, it wasn't intentional. I just wanted to make sure the topic didn't give a false impression of what is coming in the immediate future.

Originally Posted by Answa

This reminds me of a thread...

We already have a friend and black list. They're pretty functional.

Class reforms
PC search
MW/AH hybrid
Moogle fight
/shutdown
Dyeing reforms
Additional recipes+revamp for Culinarian, Goldsmith, and Alchemist
Combo system
Toggle on/off for action queueing
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/assist is coming, too
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post435418