More information please

[Speeral]

This is actually exciting to see the forums being updated with a section for us to discuss. This must mean it is close at hand, and I for one an watering at the mouth to see how The Grand Companies of Eorzea are introduced. With Six months since any really meaty content has been added I am hoping this is a big update and the beginning of the real reformation of XIV for the player base.

[Ilethius]

I just hope there more than just building cakes!

[Alixandir]

I'm actually a bit worried about how they will turn out. They were pretty specific in that post that was linked to in an earliers post, telling us that they were a special type of LS etc, they have also earlier been referred to as "player-run guilds".

However since the new dev team took over they've been very silent about this aspect of the game, which leads me to believe they have changed the direction of them. Also, what little info we have gotten points more to the companies being NPC run.

So what I'm worried about is that they have changed one of the old dev temas ideas that seemed really good and replaced it with something more generic. Hope I'm proved wrong though.

[Speeral]

From my reading and understanding of the Company system it will be introduced as an NPC run system at time of release. But at this point we can only speculate on this until Yoshi posts a letter detailing company features and its place within eorzea.

[Picoman]

Here is one:
Is it Company as in military company?
or
Is it Company as in a business?
or
Both?

[Coombah]

I assumed it was gear toward to being more of a military company.. Give us some info Yoshi-P!

[Xeno]

Greetings everyone!

We know you're all anxious to learn just what this whole "Companies" thing is all about, and I know the dev. team is just as excited to tell you!

In "Letter from the Producer, VI" Yoshida stated:


With that in mind, we appreciate your patience leading up to the release of info! We can't wait to hear what you all have to say about Companies once we announce all the juicy details!

That's where a lot of us are confused. By "shortly" does he mean right before 1.17 or sometime in the next few days?

[Yazoo]

I think Grand Companies will be NPC run. Maybe later we'll get player run Companies.

[Shikyo]

I agree with others that I would like information released sooner, like atm it is apparent the devs know what company are going to be if they are going to be released soon. Why not tell the playerbase, give us something to look for, prevent over hype which has outraged parts of the community almost every update. That and the devs can get player feedback before it is even released.

I do not see any real positive of not releasing information to the community as soon as possible at this point, the letter are great but seeing something like "Side Quest", "Grand Company", or "4-8 man dungeons" does not really tell us anything about the content except a very very broad sense of what it will be. Player do not know what to expect so them make stuff up which ends up becoming the expectation of what it will really be or it leads to pointless fear of it being something they think will ruin the game, and then it turns into a real negative.

I agree why hold back info from the community, it does make alot of ppl to start assuming, rumoring and over hyping the content due to a simple lack of info then when it comes out it ppl are dissapointed because its not as omg cool! as it was thought to be.. =/

[Akumu]

Even if it's implemented later I wonder if our large PvE content will be added to the Grand Companies Of Eorzea.