THE TIME HAS COME!

[Elexia]

1.5 days till download time can't come fast enough! >.<

You poor boy you. I think you left out some days :3

[Starlord]

You poor boy you. I think you left out some days :3

Lol, 25th EST its coming if it happens at 2pm EST which it Normally does, at 2pm tomorrow it will be 1 day away.. and right now were about 14hrs from it being 1 day exactly till download time :P.

But I know you were just pulling my strings :3.

[Alerith]

[indira]

finally the end of version 1 !!!

[Amherst]

finally the end of version 1 !!!

Not quite yet, but it's getting close. What a strange, messed up ride this was.

[Elexia]

It's apparently in the 2.0 trailer so highly unlikely anything of the sort will happen. It's probably just the intro of XIV 2.0 where it happens.

[Krausus]

It's apparently in the 2.0 trailer so highly unlikely anything of the sort will happen. It's probably just the intro of XIV 2.0 where it happens.

2.0 trailer could be a recap of events leading up to the new era

[Alerith]

You know, I kinda wonder....

Will the new storylines and NPCs and such refer to the calamity of Dalamud's falling? Like, how the Crystal War was such a big piece of Vana'Diel's history that nobody got to touch until Wings of the Goddess, but was always present in storylines and such.

Will the new players who start FFXIV know the Lore of the 6th Astral Era that only us current players actually experienced?

Really thinking about it, that's cool as hell.

[NefarioCall]

I'm still wondering how they're going to manage to 'conclude'.
I mean... lets say you finish the 'final boss'. But the servers aren't going down for a few more days, so it can't really be 'the end'. Neither can the current system hold up to an epic all open world boss. really ... Nor could they say it's at this time during these hours because then everyone would log in and crash the servers.

I do think like the INN rooms, we'll be thrown into Cut-scenes when we log in...
But as far as 'concluding'. I don't know.
My best guess is that perhaps after the 'official' end of service they might say, log in any time during the next week to see the 'final scenes', (no playable content), then the game will kick you off and that's it?

[Elexia]

NPCs that survive/still exist will more than likely refer to the old world just like in XI people still referred to Tavnazia even though you can never visit it. The only issue is it's hard to have NPCs on the same timeline as the players...every NPC still refers to 17-24 years ago even though hundreds of years have past since then.

I'm still wondering how they're going to manage to 'conclude'.
I mean... lets say you finish the 'final boss'. But the servers aren't going down for a few more days, so it can't really be 'the end'.

I guarantee they're going to stretch the conclusion out to coincide with the introduction of 2.0 Alpha.