Live 7th Umbral Era world changes of 1.23 (a surprise inside)

[Resheph]

This is amazing... You all have done a great job finding this stuff out!!

[Azeeza]

I knew the 12 were going have someone to do with this!

I'ma go hunting tonight

[Ozzie]

Excellent post, even had me searching in between Hamlets. Can't wait for the next sub patches and 2.0.

[Patrickzero]

I visited one of those stones (Azeyma) myself and tried every emote next to them but nothing happened.

(In case someone wanted to try)

[Sevokevo_Royuki]

ok Question... Where is that Aetheryte in the first Picture?

[Punainen]

ok Question... Where is that Aetheryte in the first Picture?

Its in a cave in Mor Dhona.

[Punainen]

On the contrary, this seems to confirm that it was. I have always assumed it was obvious to everybody that much of the storyline leading to the 7UE, and the advent of Dalamud, was planned from the beginning. Its details seems too consistent with early aspects of the narrative, and even the opening cinematic scene, at launch, had hints of the disaster to come. Tanaka himself mentioned some obscure references to the disaster, and scant hours after his assumption of Tanaka's Mantle, Yoshida released the prophecy verses, as a teaser to elicit our interest, so that we knew the game's best part was yet to come. I highly doubt he and his team came up with the entire fleshed out scenario in such a microscopically short time.

I think Tanaka's mistake was to assume the eternal timelines and the glacial pace he had tamed his audience in FFXI to begrudgingly accept as part of the deal, were going to be swallowed whole by a global audience well into the 4th generation of MMOs. I think he really, really thought that people were, once again, going to be satisfied with just the basics, and this would buy his time to slowly continue developing his large master plan. We were supposed to repeat his meager 4 levequests for two years, while he perfected his game.

McQuaid (Everquest & Vanguard), Garriott (Ultima Online & Tabula Rasa), and Tanaka (FFXI and FFXIV), they all had the same nemesis: Their own legendary status had them convinced that they could really controll the cycles of an industry which accelerates at almost gory pace and that, Saturn-like, sinks its hungry fangs on its own children. Hiriomichi Tanaka, I've always felt, was far too revered, especially by his own company, that he would've been surely granted 2 more development years if he had really pressed the case for them. On the contrary, I will continue to guess, he felt bound by his word and his own status to keep the timeline he had established, thinking the audience that adored him would give him the slack he needed to complete his game.

R

With the 7UE plot as its been I can see in retrospect that Tanaka had a really good idea. But he approached it completely wrong, and his mechanics etc were not good. I suppose the only way to get the public to accept "no, no, we've honestly got something worthwhile on the way just wait for it", was to get there under simultaneous radical mechanics/world changes and under new management with the promise of even better changes later. But Tanaka did need to go because even with this whole storyline, it would have been too frustrating with all the old mechanics, and the copy/paste world is getting frustrating too.

[elreed]

have you /prayed at the stone of your respective deity? im gonna look for it and see what happens

[elreed]

I visited one of those stones (Azeyma) myself and tried every emote next to them but nothing happened.

(In case someone wanted to try)

but, was it your deity?

[Punainen]

have you /prayed at the stone of your respective deity? im gonna look for it and see what happens

People already tried that, yes. I'm thinking it may do something during one of the letter patches, but right now it does nothing.