Economy, Quest, and content complaints? PAX!

[ZakarnRosewood]

Even though PAX Prime is old news now considering the speed of information on the internet, I wanted to post a fun little Q&A I found.

Some things of interest that caught my attention at least were their plans for future content. So far they have completed the plot line for the next expansion (not sure if they mean payed expansion or something that might be included in a patch), and they have a roadmap full of content they are working on for patch 2.1 / 2.2 / and 2.3. Then they talked about a few things that are coming in Patch 2.1 which includes but is not limited to:

Patch 2.1

- Good King Moogle Mog will returning as a boss fight. More than likely he will be accessible through the duty finder. Please look forward to it.

- A new difficulty for Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan fights will be added in this patch as well. They haven’t quite decided if they’ll call them hard, super, ultra, extreme, or any other awesome intense name. I can see it now. “Ifrit, for real this time”.

- Two hard level dungeons and the Crystal Tower, a 24-man raid dungeon, will be added.

- Also new Hildibrand quests and FATEs are being added. If you didn’t know, Hildibrand was a comic relief NPC from version 1.0. He has his own… unique sense of humor.

- The Wolves Den, a 4v4 and 8v8 arena will be opening in this patch. You can travel to it by boat from Lower La Noscea, and to enter the arena you must use the Duty Finder.

- Daily quests will be introduced.

- And lastly, Mists, the La Noscea player housing region will be unlocked in 2.1. Houses are available to Free Companies and individual players for a monetary value.

Patch 2.2

- New Primal fights will be introduced. Yoshida stated that they will be “ones that new players haven’t even imagined.”

- Either Leviathan, Shiva or Ramuh will be in 2.2. It has yet to be revealed which one, but they all seem like fun fights and fun stories to flesh out!

- Gilgamesh might make an appearance as a boss fight in either 2.2 or 2.3.

- It is possible that Free Companies will have the ability to summon their own Primal (FATE?) battles in this patch. No concrete details have been announced though. If not 2.2 then possibly 2.3.

And Beyond!

- Patch 2.3 is the target release for the Golden Saucer! The reason they haven’t revealed much about it is because they are currently busy working on it. They are hoping to have at least 3 mini games available before they release it into the game. Yoshida says perhaps a card game, a mini game, or a snowboarding game. I’d love to snowboard down Coerthas with my Lalafell!

It has also been confirmed that the first draft of the first expansion has been submitted! Obviously there is a lot of work to be done, but at least they are planning for the future!

This is just a "teaser" of what we can expect, you can bet your bahukies there will be more coming. Anyway, the one link I have is below and its near the last 1/4 of the vid where they talked about the Patches. Hope you enjoy and are looking forward to more content coming as much as I am! Good luck and see you in game!

Source for the above information

PAX Video link

Please keep in mind that this is a game that is in its infancy. Things like economy and content will be adjusted as it grows while it is important and needs to balance out, it will come with time. It will be up to a year of major patches and hotfixes before the game is in the state Yoshi-P said he will be satisfied with. The only major problem I see are ones that players create for themselves and it almost always is, but that bit is just my opinion. Just tired of people complaining about stupid trivial things while legitimate issues get drowned out. The asses of our character models is a "serious concern"? ugh....

[KylePearlsand]

Hildebrand is coming back! Yay!