Gold Saucer: What are your expectations / wishes?

[Duuude007]

We would like to reserve the name Gold Saucer for the casino, not a world.

This thread is meant to be dedicated to attraction ideas for the upcoming Gold Saucer (some time after launch of 2.0), and I will start of the discussion with a few thoughts:

I would like to see content like... actual gameplay tutorials cleverly disguised as entertaining games. With varying tiers of difficulty to allow personal growth.

Say, a stand that will test a player's reflexes, that actually improves their ability to practice combos. (ff7 gold saucer had a submarine and snowboarding challenge, based on minigames at other parts of ff7)

Or a series of puzzles which alone are a not too dangerous personal challenge to overtake, but are cleverly used in a more practical manner in an up and coming dungeon. (think solving how to earn Darkhold/Cutter's cry 5 chests by practicing toto-rak)

Or test a person solo against a series of enemies in a sort of "boss rush mode", where players can compete for top scores, and possibly even cash in for unique gear. (much like the arena in FF7)

Attractions for atmosphere. Many quirky things were at the other Gold Saucer. It was great.

Or simply mindless time wasters. (FF7 had a moogle mini-rpg, a claw prize machine and even its own version of Rock-em-Sock-Em)

Maybe... a mobile feature can be earned from the casino to allow playing cards (or parley) abroad...some sort of hand-held gambling feature could be added, so during downtime (ex:dungeon cooldown) a player could /sit and pull up a very simple blackjack or poker or parley interface, and compete (for virtual casino tokens) with people in the immediate party. Devs could even have a fun poker circle animation people can observe from outside the party, with someone cheering when they win a hand, etc etc.

Interested in more ideas.

Mini-RPGs sound fun... But mostly I would go for the classic casino games with an ffxiv feel.
Also Triple Triad, but that's a given.

I would love mini games with nice rewards (make it worth doing hehe) and the collisum in there was cool too. If possible, could it have the same BGM as the original FF7 one? Maybe little redone or something! Nostalgia

Expectation: An NPC that you talk to that generates a random number between 1-999. Its its over a certain value, say 750, you win money back, otherwise you get nothing.

Hope: A lot better than my expectation.

Let us bet on PvP

card game.

specifically, TETRA MASTER STYLE. Not chronobind style. thank you.
In addition to all the wonderfulness we've come up with, (and i'm probably going to get shot for saying this) they could FIX Pankration from XI into something actually acceptable. given eorzea's expansive beastiary, monster vs monster might be a little cool.

just as long as this does not interfere with tetra master of course

arena, chocobo races, a haunted fun house/inn, a tour ride around all of gold sauce, arcade complete with that game you feed a moogle to help him fly. A Staged area that DoL and DoH can help build and make plays.

I'd love to see chocobo racing D: . . .
I was addicted in 7, even more addicted in breeding/racing in 11 and I'd love to see it again in 14 >:3

1. A culture shock. Vegas. Bright lights, technology, an oasis of electricity and corruption and gil.

2. Remake a REAL and competitive card game into an FF version, like Texas Hold 'Em, for PvP gambling. Casual tables as well as tables for high rollers. I think PvP gambling using remade games that are actually coherent but transformed into FF versions would spark a lot of interest. It would bring into the game a whole new kind of player - the gambler. I can easily see people spending all their time in FFXIV at the tables. If SE makes gambling PvE and makes it based on some lame game they've concocted it'll be a failure compared to what it might have been. Take things like Black Jack, Texas Hold 'Em, Five Card Stud, etc, give them an FF make over, and make them PvP. Golden Saucer would be a huge success. Huge.

And no small time betting limits. If people can make more gil farming marmot squirrels than gambling against other players in a CASINO the place will be empty.

Edit: Oh, and add a PvP gladiator arena where people can place bets on the winners. Golden Saucer champions would emerge out of real players and it would be epic.

Chocobo Racing! Of course! ^^

Edit: Hmm since that's already been mentioned...how about An achievement board or something, to show off Primal run defeat times or something.

or

Have the prizes be something like mascot costumes! MAN! I want a moogle costume! Or Tonberry costume, or cactuar costume, or moomba costume or a Pupu costume!? Screw it...make'em all available! XD

Chocobo. Racing.

Triple Triad. Tetra Master. An original card game, too, once Dev Team thinks they've settled upon a good one. I see no reason that we can't have multiple card games. D: I personally would go on very long, tedious quests to obtain good cards for card games!

The rollercoaster shooter from VII. (>.>)

Snowboarding!

Aiming minigames a la horseback archery from Ocarina of Time. :X Too many ideas.

i just want the golden saucer to have many different types of games. i want somewhere to just go and relax when i'm bored. i spend countless hours in the one in vii and would do the same here. chocobo races, carnival type rides(shooter), a monster arena, card games, and tons of mini games. if they are going to put something in xiv and call it the golden saucer it needs to be absolutely awesome with tons of variety in the games it offers.

[Majidah]

the upcoming Gold Saucer ... ? source?

[viion]

I just hope it looks fantastic XD the FF13-2 one was not very nice

[Colino]

Mini-RPGs sound fun... But mostly I would go for the classic casino games with an ffxiv feel.

Also Triple Triad, but that's a given.

[Duuude007]

the upcoming Gold Saucer ... ? source?

Here you go:

We would like to reserve the name Gold Saucer for the casino, not a world.

[Babydoll]

He quoted the source in his op >.> although hard to tell if it's definite..you never know anymore with se as for what to expect...idk anymore. I would love mini games with nice rewards (make it worth doing hehe) and the collisum in there was cool too.

[Picoman]

Just so you don't get your hope up but the Golden Saucer is for post-2.0.
However things like the Crystal Tower, Frontlines and Coliseum are for 2.0.

[Kafeen]

Expectation: An NPC that you talk to that generates a random number between 1-999. Its its over a certain value, say 750, you win money back, otherwise you get nothing.

Hope: A lot better than my expectation.

[charlemagne]

Let us bet on PvP

[Doho]

card game.

specifically, TETRA MASTER STYLE. Not chronobind style. thank you.