New Blog post "Interview with Director/Producer"

[Forgo]

I think everyone can agree that we all want the USB's.

[Jynx]

Less info about the press whining about PVP, more info on that benchmark!

[IronSoup]

PvP was in FFXI. It was called Ballista. It didn't have a lot of success BUT it was PvP.

As for PvP in ARR, I don't really care if it is present or not. If the equipements are PvP-exclusive with PvP-only boosts on them and it doesn't interfere with the PvE and PvE content... I don't mind. Let the people wanting to kill each other do so while I clear Behemoth's Maze, the Crystal Tower and do some multi-party big event against amazing foes (something like Dynamis, Besieged or Campaigns in FFXI).

[Arkine]

They should add those cards to the new Collectors edition.

[Kirito]

They should add those cards to the new Collectors edition.

Personally I would buy the CE again if I the upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 CE doesn't include physical items just for the Card.

[Corleone]

I'm not too big on the PvP either. I don't mind dabbling in it from time to time, but I sure as heck don't want it to be a major part of the game. I would much rather see their time and resources spent on more PvE content. The Coliseum (or whatever it was called) where players can watch battles take place is about as far as my PvP interests take me. Just my 2 cents.

[Altanas]

I thought that was a snes controller in the blog pic, so obviously the hidden message of the blog post is as follows:

"The game engine has been so friggin' heavily optimised you will enjoy extremely high performance even if you run FF14 on a SNES :-)"

[Xatsh]

pvp is a good addition to the game, but it should not be a focus to the game. PvE is vastly more important for this game, it sorta depresses me that media was not focused on PvE more. Final Fantasy is all about team work and coming together to save the world more or less not fighting one another.

There are many PvP focused games out there, and many of those games FFXIV:ARR stands 0 chance of competing against simply due to the battle system design. Action mmos are much better for pvp then the old school system which XIV adopted (Which is a good thing in my opinion).

[Fadedhost]

What kind of Notebook was he running that benchmark on?

[Laraul]

The benchmark for the prior two games was not a good predictor of how the game would actually run.