February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Savagelf]

bst limit job next expansion

[Liale]

Despite all the criticism I give SE I do love the game, however I refuse to have high expectations for anything in the game until it's implemented. They like to be vague and hope we don't notice problems far too often. And they are kinda bad at public relations, like leaving speculation about viera being female only till the second fanfest. Also lots of "please look forward to it"s that never happen such as more egi glamours. So I'm going to watch it but I don't expect anything mind blowing. And I seriously hope beast master being teased in bozja so much is a full job and not another play it the day of patch and don't touch it again till the next one job like blue.

[Hank_Hotspur]

The last financial earnings report from Square said that FFXIV's numbers are still growing to the point that a new MMO could only cannibalize personnel, development time, and playerbase from XIV, so it be a negative value added. My guess is if we do see another online Final Fantasy project, it will be distinct from the MMO structure.

[wereotter]

Would not be shocked, would not be shocked if the playerbase cheers it like they did the end of the PS3 support.

Two differences here, PS5 is still a pretty recent system, so likely it will continue to support both PS4 and PS5 similar to how they launched with Heavesnward. Also the myth of "PlayStation limitations" has been debunked by the developers themselves. While the PS3 did hold back certain options for the game, PS4 does not. In an attempt to keep the game accessible to more people, now, as explicitly stated by the developers, it's lower end PC players holding back what they can do with the game.

As for the original question:
I expect we'll get the name of the expansion and the short version of the trailer.
We might get an announcement of one job and some other kind of teaser to look forward to

I think we're operating on a reduced timeline here when it comes to announcements so we'll probably see something in between what we could normally expect in the 1st and 2nd fanfest. They're going to leave themselves a lot more to announce and hype up, but still maybe give us a little more than we'd otherwise initially get.

[Hank_Hotspur]

The "PS3 limitation" came more from the fact that it used completely different architecture compared to most PCs and consoles.

[Videra]

"Due to cutbacks we can no longer do 3 tiers of raids or alliance raids per expansion, please understand"

[Gameovers]

I commissioned it from someone called ADPong, who does FFXIV commissions on DeviantArt.

For this info I grant you some jazzy music. Electric Vibes - by Down to the Bone. Listen to it while running dungeons. Miqos run to the beat and when you get into some high pitch jams in groove i nthe dungeons with you killing foes and slicing to the beat it so fits.

[van_arn]

The last financial earnings report from Square said that FFXIV's numbers are still growing to the point that a new MMO could only cannibalize personnel, development time, and playerbase from XIV, so it be a negative value added. My guess is if we do see another online Final Fantasy project, it will be distinct from the MMO structure.

Or they include ffxi reborn in your ffxiv subscription, for example.

[Dogempire]

Removing all nuke damage buttons from healers and putting all their damage into their DoT spell

[van_arn]

Removing all nuke damage buttons from healers and putting all their damage into their DoT spell

And they’ll still not push that button.