Thank you for an MMO with deep lore

[SkyeWindbinder]

I think the lore in FFXIV is epic and very well done. Just my $0.02. The story as I was progressing had be chomping at the bit to find out what happens next. I only hope it gets even better in ARR.

[odintius]

The story was well written and can't wait to see more of it ^^

[Azurus]

I need to know what happened when the trailer faded to white!!! I must know moreeeeee!!!!

[Duuude007]

I have a feeling that the Sylph's attitude with their Primal, Ramuh, is not that of a benevolent Eikon, but of a wrathful god whom they fear. Their more cooperative attitude to the races of the Twelve seems to imply that sort of contrast versus the other Primal-Beastkin relationships.

Think Old Testament fear.

[Okipuit]

There's plenty of lore explanations in game. The most notable one was Professor Erik who explains more history as you proceed in the MNK questline. The biggest lore bomb when the Jobs came out was the reveal that the dragon in the Opening Cinematic was actually Midgardsormr.

We will be continuing that tradition in A Realm Reborn. As I'm sure you've seen Fernehalwes post about often, the dev. team will be working hard to include lots of juicy lore along with the quests that players tackle in A Realm Reborn.

In addition, the team will be implementing other aspects to help adventurers get a better feel of the world they inhabit, such as NPCs that offer up info on specific locales.

[Warlock]

We will be continuing that tradition in A Realm Reborn. As I'm sure you've seen Fernehalwes post about often, the dev. team will be working hard to include lots of juicy lore along with the quests that players tackle in A Realm Reborn.

In addition, the team will be implementing other aspects to help adventurers get a better feel of the world they inhabit, such as NPCs that offer up info on specific locales.

Awesome i love the lore in this game...the 1.0 intro had so so many mysteries behind it combined with the few main stories it's crazy very simple things told so much i can't wait to answer many questions through ARR quests

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

In addition, the team will be implementing other aspects to help adventurers get a better feel of the world they inhabit, such as NPCs that offer up info on specific locales.

I hope they create a variety of ways to introduce lore, besides just talking to NPCs. In classic FF games, you could run around the edges of the screen and spam X button everywhere you went. Often times clicking on objects in the game world would bring up a dialogue with some little piece of info on something.

I've played FF9 the most so I'll give a few examples from that:

-Clicking on statues in cities brought up a dialogue explaining who the person in the statue was.

-in a certain inn there was a little "fortune teller" box thing that when you clicked on it explained that it was a popular activity in some cities.

-there are several libraries in the game where you can click on books scattered around and read various things.

-there was a place called "the eidolon wall" that had carvings of all the summon monsters, and clicking on each one explained a little bit about the particular summon, or just summoning magic in general. There was even some "secret" info hidden there that you could only access by clicking on the carvings in the correct order.

-there was a mini game you had to do with the spirit of ramuh, where you had to speak with ramuh several times to hear bits and pieces of a story, and then you had to put the parts of the story in the correct order. The story was an old legend that was passed down in the game's lore. When you got the story finished correctly ramuh told you a little bit more about the legend that wasn't part of the written story.

- you could sometimes randomly encounter a monster in the world that would ask you questions about the game lore, and if you answer correctly you got a bit of gil. The gil amount increased depending on how hard the question was. If you encountered the monster enough times and answered enough questions correctly, you got an equipment reward.

[Kraggy]

We will be continuing that tradition in A Realm Reborn.

I hope you DON'T mean you plan to continue putting core story/lore content in job-specific quests which forces anyone wanting to see the whole story to level every job.

That's a totally sucky way to tell the story.

[Mjollnir]

I hope you DON'T mean you plan to continue putting core story/lore content in job-specific quests which forces anyone wanting to see the whole story to level every job.

That's a totally sucky way to tell the story.

Slightly off-topic, but why wouldn't you want to level all jobs? You can only truly master your job(s) if you're fully aware of the relationship with others. I'm not saying specialise in all jobs, unless you have a good deal of spare time, but levelling them up and completing their quests isn't a huge bother.

Personally though, the quest-lore is the main driver for me to level jobs, as I found trying to get a group for battles and dungeons very hard.

[Fusionx]

We're also looking at ways to include more lore in the GE Wiki, we already have the beginnings of what we hope will be a great resource for lore in addition to references that can be made on NPC pages and the like. We've also been covering posts from fern when we can on our blog.

I love all the posts from Fern thus far, it's really interesting to read more about the little bits and pieces that make up the world.