announcement showcase!

[Lauront]

SE already has 3 mmos that are on going (FF11,14, and DQX) Making another mmo would make little sense since you'd be competing against yourself and i dont think they will be killing off one of the mmos yet.

Depends on how you position it. Based on their comments in the past (here and here), the way they envision their next MMO is rather drastically different to this current generation of MMOs. So perhaps they wouldn't see it as a direct competitor to this.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Details for 5.5 are pretty much a guarantee. Maybe a trailer. Hopefully some info about the YoRHa raid finale. It's the third act, this is when Yoko Taro usually remembers that he has to actually tell a story through all the piles of foreshadowing.

Probably some early info for 6.0. Maybe the 5.5 info will include a new major NPC that hints at upcoming jobs, like Yugiri and Gosetsu. It's probably too soon for a full trailer, but at the very least, I'm sure Yoshi-P will do his usual trick of hinting with his shirts.

[Gojin]

they will of course annouce male viera and female hrothgar.

[Jin-]

they will of course annouce male viera and female hrothgar.

Off topic but are you aiming for Gyaru theme with your character?

[Raikai]

Despite all the hype about xpac, job reveal, etc... One thing that I'm curious about is if they are going to announce any kind of change in the game's structure... Which is something I really could read between the lines through previous statements.

I'm no programmer, and I really don't know what would take to make changes to the game's codes, but I assume that the so meme'd "spaghetti code" having some sort of upgrade, would affect positively many aspects of the game, from simple things like the cumbersome menus (e.g. having to close a menu to perform another action) to even new ways of combat design, allowing the game to lean off its very scripted nature a little bit, which would also affect the way healers are designed.

[Recon1o6]

Despite all the hype about xpac, job reveal, etc... One thing that I'm curious about is if they are going to announce any kind of change in the game's structure... Which is something I really could read between the lines through previous statements.

I'm no programmer, and I really don't know what would take to make changes to the game's codes, but I assume that the so meme'd "spaghetti code" having some sort of upgrade, would affect positively many aspects of the game, from simple things like the cumbersome menus (e.g. having to close a menu to perform another action) to even new ways of combat design, allowing the game to lean off its very scripted nature a little bit, which would also affect the way healers are designed.

Difficult to call honestly. There's no doubt that some of it would be under the hood changes they usually don't announce (as we seen with the animators)
There's a lot of things the devs said they COULD do...but don't want to for one reason or another because its difficult or apparently impossible. they don't have a very good track record of being honest here and they also sometimes pick things up then drop them later quietly.

Magic damage vs physical damage for example. Asked about since the launch of the game. Claimed to be difficult to implement and they were looking at it. Then suddenly recent live letter states its impossible. Yet they could fit in direct hit vs critical hit with no issues whatsoever and there's 3rd party tools that read this single flag and display it should the pc user desire it.

At the very least there's four things we can guess at with the new expansion


1. Further cuts to the 2.0-2.5 msq. Yoshi mentioned that this needs to be trimmed but they only done ARR so far
2. Rings adjustment. Yoshi-p has mentioned off hand something interesting about them he's looking forward to
3. Little to no job discussion. Given the devs are continuously hiding more and more from us on jobs, this seems a given
4. Adjustments etc to servers or plans to. world market board or server capacity things. Something they done a lot of work on is breaking down the barriers between the servers.

[zeylos]

seems we will be getting an annoucement showcase early feb.


what's everyone think will be announced?

any chances it will have expansion/job details since by now we should have had at least 1 fan fest and are behind on details only 1 patch left for the expansion and we have had no details on 6.0 at all.

anything anyone specifically wants to hear about?

Hopes:
-New Healer
-SMN Derplander trailer
-Male viera (possibly in the trailer in some form) and female hrotgar
-We get beast master as a limited job (maybe in 5.5?)
-Housing upgrades (Im betting Ishgard housing)
-Female viera get more hairstyles and male hrotgar get face changing at asthethician
-Both genders of both new races get (at least the artifact gear) hats

Fears:
-Not even the slightest mention of viera and hrotgar (missing genders or updates)
-Zenos.
-No new healer but new DPS job
-Healers get dumbed down even more
-Did I mention Zenos?

[FrightfulNight]

Hopes:
-New Healer
-SMN Derplander trailer
-Male viera (possibly in the trailer in some form) and female hrotgar
-We get beast master as a limited job (maybe in 5.5?)
-Housing upgrades (Im betting Ishgard housing)
-Female viera get more hairstyles and male hrotgar get face changing at asthethician
-Both genders of both new races get (at least the artifact gear) hats

Fears:
-Not even the slightest mention of viera and hrotgar (missing genders or updates)
-Zenos.
-No new healer but new DPS job
-Healers get dumbed down even more
-Did I mention Zenos?

Well that about covers a lot of my hopes and fears as well. Seriously if there is no new healer And healer gets dumbed down even more then I will seriously be annoyed. It has been 6 years now since we got a new healer, at the very least maybe AST can go back to how it played in SB, as well. I at the very least hope Viera receive some cosmetic updates such as more hairstyles and more hat pieces, both old and new. All in all I am expecting the expansion teaser with a cinematic trailer, they may reveal more then usual and who knows 5.5 might release all of the MQS in one instead of part 1 and part 2 in a later patch so they can do a full cinematic reveal a couple of weeks after it launches. I am expecting we might possibly see the hub city, hopefully Sharlayan, and maybe a confirmation the exploration zones will be in Islabard because if this is the season 1 finale I feel it has to mark both those boxes to feel like it. Sadly the way Zenos broke his weapon and is looking for a new ones seems to imply that they were setting it up for him to be in the cinematic trailer wielding it, sigh.

[Hausti]

Im not so much against Zenos, but can someone please kill Alphinaud already?
Thats my only hope.