RPG-Gamer Interview

[Biggs]

Someone doesn't understand the concept of solo content:

"Solo players will also be matched together automatically for all instanced dungeon content, removing the need to form parties on their own. This can be thought of as an extension of solo play."

...and yes, I do understand that ONE aspect of an MMO is to play with others.

Anything that keeps me from standing in town shouting to get something done for six hours or asking my ls mates to help is considered solo content in my book, even if it does auto-match me with other players. So your right, clearly some people have different definitions of what the term "solo" is.

[KiriA500]

Tid..

Bits..


Starlord...


Its not a flood. :P

Hey! I got an idea! Let's all keep complaining about this! That'll make the flood happen!

[PSxpert2011]

Anything that keeps me from standing in town shouting to get something done for six hours or asking my ls mates to help is considered solo content in my book, even if it does auto-match me with other players. So your right, clearly some people have different definitions of what the term "solo" is.

Well, to that credit, maybe it's better to solo fighting with others than to solo /shouting with others. But then that's just me. :P

...casual content we have planned, such as the "bestiary."

...previous titles such as summoner, thief, ninja, samurai, and red mage. Rather than obsessing over originality, we want XIV's jobs to evoke a true Final Fantasy feel ...

After both these statements... Then where's my Beast Master!?? Q_Q

[Duelle]

I just really hope they start taking a vastly different approach to class design in ARR. Currently, the jobs are very samey; they all revolve around building TP and executing combo rotations, they all have the same amount of skills, they all have the same exact quest progression...it's all very dull. I'm hoping for classes that take differing approaches to both playstyle and development.

I don't think the devs would deviate from TP. Sure, all classes being built around the same resource system is what sounds boring and make balancing a bit difficult without class-specific rulesets, but that ship sailed when they showed us how combat was going to work out in 2.0.

Not to mention it would feel odd if the starting seven classes worked off TP and MP and then Fencer worked off combo points and Mystics got a balancing-act resource (Light/Dark Energy, Lunar/Solar Eclipse, etc).

[Shougun]

Hey! I got an idea! Let's all keep complaining about this! That'll make the flood happen!

I was being sarcastic :P - maybe you got that and being sarcastic on my sarcasm. I'm not very good at the game lol

I like poking Starlord ^_^;

But yeah we create our own floods anyways - 50 pages of speculation, I'm pretty sure if SE ever wants anything debated they secretly let out only a tiny bit of information so that we can evaluate it from every angle multiple times.

[Cynthis]

Anything that keeps me from standing in town shouting to get something done for six hours or asking my ls mates to help is considered solo content in my book, even if it does auto-match me with other players. So your right, clearly some people have different definitions of what the term "solo" is.

Then we have to disagree about the meaning of solo. Any content where I am limited in my progress by the availability or skill of other players (or they are limited by my lack of skill) is not solo content in my book.

[KiriA500]

I was being sarcastic :P - maybe you got that and being sarcastic on my sarcasm. I'm not very good at the game lol

I like poking Starlord ^_^;

But yeah we create our own floods anyways - 50 pages of speculation, I'm pretty sure if SE ever wants anything debated they secretly let out only a tiny bit of information so that we can evaluate it from every angle multiple times.

Yeah, I was joking around too, lol.

[Dragonheart]

Looking forward the bestiary funcion :sisi:

[Renala]

but don't worry--we won't be implementing anything that seems bizarre or out of place.

He says that, but they want to add Ahriman mounts.

[Biggs]

He says that, but they want to add Ahriman mounts.

I was more diconcerted by them talking about making Red XIII a mount. There is such thing as "too much", and my biggest fear about 2.0 becoming a fan service is that they blow right past where the line for it is.