Fishing in ARR

[LlenCoram]

That's just a piss poor attitude. The game is still in a testing state and a large portion of the game assets are getting dumped into the game in Phase 3. Just because the one thing you want to play most won't be available, the other 99.99% of the game needs to be bug checked.

I want to fish just as much as the next person, but there's obviously not much we can do about it at this point. There's many other things I like about the game besides fishing, so I'm going to do my utmost to try to break those to ensure they get fixed and the game at launch is as polished as it can be.

You're right, and it makes me a bad tester. The truth is though that I find other aspects of the game boring. As it is, the game won't miss one tester who has their tail in a knot because fishing isn't available.

EDIT: My willpower isn't that strong anyway, so there's actually a good chance I log on regardless. I already took the weekend off. Though that was to fish.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

For what it's worth Fishu, you'll get your 1.0 character back in phase 3 along with all your stuff.

So you can look at your luminary rod in your inventory and maybe equip some of your old fishing gears. Also you can count your fish hoard to make sure everything is still intact. :P

[Robobandit]

For what it's worth Fishu, you'll get your 1.0 character back in phase 3 along with all your stuff.

So you can look at your luminary rod in your inventory and maybe equip some of your old fishing gears. Also you can count your fish hoard to make sure everything is still intact. :P

I hate to think what those fish would look like after being in storage for 6-8 months

[LlenCoram]

As far as I remember, I had around 25 or 30 stacks of young herring. I'm curious if they'll have a use if Hamlet is changing.

[Punainen]

I'm still dreading the thought that fisher might have been turned into a class for people who don't feel like playing the game. Crafting was already a perfectly good way to spend time while waiting for a pt to gather or some such...

[Mamakat]

A friend of mine suggested that maybe they're holding off on fishing so people don't have extra time to get a bot ready for launch? Who knows. I was bummed that it wasn't going to be included. My fishing wasn't very high in 1.0, but I was looking forward to trying out the new system.

The impression that I get, is that they are making it more for the people who want to fish because they like fishing and want it to be "realistic". *shrug*

[lvicious]

My attitude has been up and down in regards to fishing but there is no way I am going to let (not being in phase 3) that ruin the experience. I can understand if people just want to wait for opening day and not have any spoilers though.

I have to get on though because I am having FF withdrawal that only 14 can fix anymore plus just the fact I can get out of Gridania finally is welcome.

Patience.. and if fishing turns out to be utter sh*t then I'll be the one leading the angry mob for Yoshi's head lol.

[ArkhamNative]

In case you haven't seen this yet, GamerEscape (fan site/wiki/forum) will be interviewing Yoshi-P at E3. They are asking for suggestions for interview questions. A very popular request is to ask about fishing. People may want to go "up-vote" that question, or suggest any other question for the interview.

More info: Question for Yoshida? Coming Soon: Gamer Escape's E3 Interview of Yoshida-san

[Punainen]

In case you haven't seen this yet, GamerEscape (fan site/wiki/forum) will be interviewing Yoshi-P at E3. They are asking for suggestions for interview questions. A very popular request is to ask about fishing. People may want to go "up-vote" that question, or suggest any other question for the interview.

More info: Question for Yoshida? Coming Soon: Gamer Escape's E3 Interview of Yoshida-san

Upvoted all the fishing questions I could find, lol.

[jesseleewelch]

I am glad to see these threads are still active and LlenCoram's passion about fishing still hot. I too have begun to feel like my lore questions were being ignored while devs seem to be actively answering questions in other threads less than a few day after they were created. It is possible that the devs who monitor these forums simply don't know the answers to these questions? Although, if that is the case... a simple "I don't know but I'll find out for you" would be nice... but I know they're busy as hell right about now.

I hope we all get the answers we seek! And I too have been watching Gamer Escapes E3 with great interest. I upvoted all the fishing questions and got loreseekers on other forums to upvote mine. Let's hope for straight answers!!!