Geomancer

[KumaAkuma]

Very true...theu could show a lot there...they could show anything...but they prefered not showing a thing. :/

I guess they think 2 artworks from Yoshitaka Amano are more appealing than gameplay... ; ;

Luckly we have more Vanafest tonight for the extra info the trailer never had! ^^

I always thought of a trailer as of something that is supposed to make you want to play the game. This trailer just had a few art drawings, a bunch of empty words and a person running through some empty zones. Zones that seemed so old, that even at start of FFXI, it would have seemed outdated.

If the new FFXIV trailer is like that too, it would be a poor start of FFXIV 2.0

[Lienn]

I always thought of a trailer as of something that is supposed to make you want to play the game. This trailer just had a few art drawings, a bunch of empty words and a person running through some empty zones. Zones that seemed so old, that even at start of FFXI, it would have seemed outdated.

If the new FFXIV trailer is like that too, it would be a poor start of FFXIV 2.0

Completely agree. IMO this trailer was meaningless. If was to release just it, they should leave only the VanaFest info.

Hopefully next one will actually show some actual gameplay! ^^ And hopefully next one will come out tonight lol

[Pofo]

I'm so excited for this and I plan on resubbing XI after my next paycheck to get myself caught up ! The timing at the very least gives me some time to see if 2.0 delivers everything they promised and whether or not I want to continue with XIV (which I'm sure it will be wonderful). What I can't quite figure out are all the raging people who seem to have the mind set that you can only pick 1 game to play and you have to hate the other by default. Financial reasons set aside for some people, I plan on keeping both games open and enjoying them both, but all over the place I'm seeing so much close-minded malice bashing one game or the other because it's not their "main mmo".

[Starlord]

I'm so excited for this and I plan on resubbing XI after my next paycheck to get myself caught up ! The timing at the very least gives me some time to see if 2.0 delivers everything they promised and whether or not I want to continue with XIV (which I'm sure it will be wonderful). What I can't quite figure out are all the raging people who seem to have the mind set that you can only pick 1 game to play and you have to hate the other by default. Financial reasons set aside for some people, I plan on keeping both games open and enjoying them both, but all over the place I'm seeing so much close-minded malice bashing one game or the other because it's not their "main mmo".

I couldn't agree more! I love both games.. and as such can't wait to play this new expansion AND FFXIV 2.0 ( of course 1 game will catch more of my time than the other) BUT I still love both games and I'll be playing both.. if FFXIV isn't so hot.. then I can just simply go to FFXI full time :P.

[Mirage]

I'm excited for this new expansion, and will probably reactivate my FF11 content ID a few months prior to its release.

No matter what you personally think about FF11, the game is most likely a huge cash cow for SE. According to SE themselves, the game reached a peak of 2 million active characters last year. I think it is fair to assume that the average amount of characters per player is less than 5, which means the game "probably" has around 300k subscribers. That's a total income of ~50 million dollars a year from FF11. Now I'm not a game developer, but I doubt FF11 costs even close to 50 million dollars a year in server maintenance and developer salaries.

Because of that, I think it is a smart move to try to keep the game alive, and it seems like SE is of the same opinion.

But what this post really makes me think about is how obscenely much money Blizzard must be making off of WoW...

[IStolzI]

I may reactivate my xi account depending on what the jobs are... Hesitant to play post abyssea though. my char is still at 75

[Mirage]

I may reactivate my xi account depending on what the jobs are... Hesitant to play post abyssea though. my char is still at 75

Well the good thing about Abyssea is that it lets you burn through 75-99 in a matter of days. The limit break quests are gonna be what's slowing you down, not the grinding. Not to mention, you make a decent amount of gil just by leveling there too.

Abyssea today is basically just a rocket launcher. Insert low level character, press fire, propel character to level cap.

[Cidel]

Wow, had been hoping for Geomancer since like when everybody was speculating the new jobs for ToAU...

That was, what- 5 years ago-ish?


Already moved on from FFXI. It's a little too late here.



Besides, sounding like it isn't as topography-based as I envisioned.

[Elexia]

Wow, had been hoping for Geomancer since like when everybody was speculating the new jobs for ToAU...

That was, what- 5 years ago-ish?


Already moved on from FFXI. It's a little too late here.



Besides, sounding like it isn't as topography-based as I envisioned.

It's more of a mix of Calculator and Geomancer, so it's still pretty topographical but not completely sadly due to the way XI itself works, but it does get exclusive elemental spells based on region, but realistically we only know that it's a technical class to play and positioning matters heavily.

[Elexia]

But what this post really makes me think about is how obscenely much money Blizzard must be making off of WoW...

Probably not as much when you count only active, because Blizzard counts trial/inactive/"life-time" in their stats, not purely active. So it's hard to get a definite without them stating.