Playing after 11 Nov Poll is up

[Magnesium02]

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The grand finale for the Seventh Umbral Era is scheduled to hit the current version of FINAL FANTASY XIV on November 11, 2012—an event that coincides with the servers being taken down. As well as serving story purposes, these measures are necessary for locking down save data and transferring your character data over to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

The character data preserved during the final save maintenance for the current version (scheduled for November 1, 2012) is the data that will be transferred to the new version. (Logistically speaking, it will require more than a month to convert the data for our players’ several hundred thousand characters.)

This schedule is the basis for our 4th Players’ Poll. Before you answer, however, please read and be aware of the conditions below:

1. Any play data after November 1, 2012, will not be transferred to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.
2. Certain story elements will contradict events from the Seventh Umbral Era finale.
3. There will be no further patches or bug fixes (although GM calls will be available).
4. Players with an active subscription as of September 30, 2012 can play for free.

Game data will be saved as you play, but will not be transferred to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. Any character data will be rolled back to the data saved on November 1, 2012.

With those conditions in mind:


Would you still want to continue playing the current version of FINAL FANTASY XIV after November 11, 2012, even if none of the character data accumulated beyond that date was carried over to your FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn account?

¤ Yes
¤ No

Just a one question poll. Have to be logged in, so limited to active accounts. From the response in the other thread discussing this, 'No' appears to be the general opinion. I am interested to know if they will post the results with the breakdown between regions.

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Heh. I have ZEAL!

[Zahak]

Vote no no no!

If I don't want to play after Nov 1st no one can! haha

[Nox]

nope.
/10char

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I vote "no". I willing not to play FFXIV 1.0 for the sake of full development and concentration of "A Realm Reborn" than they maintain FFXIV 1.0 up

[Seif]

I vote "no". I willing not to play FFXIV 1.0 for the sake of full development and concentration of "A Realm Reborn" than they maintain FFXIV 1.0 up

This is common sense people. Don't let this version become a burden on the team.

[Delsus]

This is common sense people. Don't let this version become a burden on the team.

It won't be because its not being supported, possibly one server guy around to recover from crashes but that's all they will need, and if it does become a burden they can shut the servers off and people won't mind too much.

[Raubahn]

1. Any play data after November 1, 2012, will not be transferred to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.
2. Certain story elements will contradict events from the Seventh Umbral Era finale.
3. There will be no further patches or bug fixes (although GM calls will be available).
4. Players with an active subscription as of September 30, 2012 can play for free.

so no because of number 1 i dont wanna get something and then dont find it in arr :P

[Delsus]

I said yes, primarily to talk to friends while the game is offline if they would choose to play, and it wouldn't affect ARR because there will be no patches, just the servers running.

[Duelle]

I said yes, primarily to talk to friends while the game is offline if they would choose to play, and it wouldn't affect ARR because there will be no patches, just the servers running.

Isn't that sort of thing better-done on facebook or mIRC or even things like skype/teamspeak/mumble?

I voted no, as unrecorded progression is no progression at all.

[Delsus]

Isn't that sort of thing better-done on facebook or mIRC or even things like skype/teamspeak/mumble?

I voted no, as unrecorded progression is no progression at all.

Its a lot easier to talk ingame than to get instant messaging ids from all LS members/friends. While my LS does use mumble there can still be issues, we for example don't want none members spamming mumble etc etc.

Keeping the game online will not influence the development of ARR, there is absolutely no downside to keeping the servers running, all they need is one of Yoshi-P's coffee makers to occasionally shut them down and restart them. They will not need any large scale maintenance.

Anyone that thinks it will affect ARR know nothing of how servers work, think of your PC, if you change nothing unless some hardware blows up you don't need to maintain the PC it will run the same all the time.