Scared about ARR

[ShinigamiKayla]

S-E is not waiting for E3 >.> its coming out in april/may if everything goes smoothly E3 is only a shadow of its former glory now a days...

[Zehira]

S-E is not waiting for E3 >.> its coming out in april/may if everything goes smoothly E3 is only a shadow of its former glory now a days...

http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Roadmap_EN.pdf

Nowhere it says April/May. We only can guess.

[ArkhamNative]

http://gdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Roadmap_EN.pdf
Nowhere it says April/May. We only can guess.

We can go by SE's estimates. They gave start date and then week estimates for each phase and interphase. I overlaid the shortest and longest estimates:

It starts mid-Feb and each box is one week. The start of the month name marks the start of its month. Of course all of this is subject to change. There is no launch target that will force them to release a game that's not ready.

[Zenaku]

S-E is not waiting for E3 >.> its coming out in april/may if everything goes smoothly E3 is only a shadow of its former glory now a days...

you crazy check out the beta roadmap it pretty much show it going to be in beta testing for about 5month which mean a nice july release shit they could even release it again at sep 31 just for kicks lol it's not comming out too yoshi-p think it ready.

[Dannythm]

I think most people is misinterpreting my original post, I'm not saying I'm worried about SE planning on making ARR F2P, I'm talking about the mindset of the US/EU consumer base, which is rejecting any P2P mmo's currently.

I played Tera and a lot of other mmo and I know why they are becoming free to play, but there have been so many lately, and with the initial fiasco of XIV it may be that the consumers won't eve bother anymore to purchase any new MMO's feeling their investment won' be worth it, not even letting he game a chance because they assume how it will become.

It's good for SE to provide an open beta so everybody ca try it as a marketing scheme, but thy should give a unlimited free trial till lvl 20 or so like WoW does to convince the reluctant customers to see that the game is actually great.

[Pseudopsia]

Before going to work I created my character in Tera. First thing I saw was trash talk in general chat mostly complaining about Elin race, this is a good sign of a healthy F2P game . So I created an Elin character and left it dancing in front of the first quest NPC.

[Zehira]

Before going to work I created my character in Tera. First thing I saw was trash talk in general chat mostly complaining about Elin race, this is a good sign of a healthy F2P game . So I created an Elin character and left it dancing in front of the first quest NPC.

So, I have to play with little catgirls? You are killing me... xD

[Pseudopsia]

I can always reroll and pick a Elf with giant boobs, or a cute panda.

[ShinMetsu]

It's no big surprise really imo that all those games go f2p...
What do you do? Level up, Raid till you get best gear, and then PvP until you hit boredom.

Imo, that is the reason ffxi has such longevity, because it's such a long way with so many things to complete.
Multiple Jobs, multiple gear sets per job.. You're never really done gearing up, there's always a goal to chase.

At least FFXIV got multiple jobs.
Can you guys imagine if you only could pick 1 class? We'd be done so quickly and left with no goals...
*reason i'm in favor of gear swaps*

[Kikosho]

It's no big surprise really imo that all those games go f2p...
What do you do? Level up, Raid till you get best gear, and then PvP until you hit boredom.

Imo, that is the reason ffxi has such longevity, because it's such a long way with so many things to complete.
Multiple Jobs, multiple gear sets per job.. You're never really done gearing up, there's always a goal to chase.

At least FFXIV got multiple jobs.
Can you guys imagine if you only could pick 1 class? We'd be done so quickly and left with no goals...
*reason i'm in favor of gear swaps*

You do know other MMOs give players plenty of alts right? Multiple jobs is still possible, not on the same character obviously as this is basically a FF MMO exclusive still, so you can still stretch out the longevity of content the same way. And to add to that, there is quite a lot of gear that gets bound to your account so you can still swap it between alts.

That makes me curious. I wonder how many people will actually use all their extra alt space in ARR considering there is no real need to make an alt. There is no big stat disparity between the races like in FFXI so the only 3 reasons would just be aesthetics, inventory space, and RP purposes. I personally have 3 accounts and I use 2 of them as alts since they are walking storage bins for me (and extra nuking/healing power for random "solo" things).