Player Run Companies: a Rallying Cry

[Alixandir]

Haven't read through the whole thread but will summarize my thoughts on this:

Player-run companies was more than alluded to, we were explicitly told we would get them in the lodestone post mapping out the first 2011 update of the old team.

It is often said that Yoshida told we would get player-run companies, referenced to the ZAM interview. In fact all he said was:

"In some aspect, the Company system will have aspects that are similar to and can link with that Linkshell community. But it's also going to be something larger. It's going to be more of a global type of community on a larger scale. I can't really say much more than that. I can tell you that toward the end of March there will be revealing stuff coming up on the Lodestone.

Before I became producer/director, in the old 1.2 patch notes it mentioned that we will be releasing player Companies. The thing is, we realized that we could bring out player Companies, but then if there's nothing for the Companies to do there wouldn't be any reason to bring it out. We decided to reverse that and first make sure that there's going to be content and stuff for the Companies to do before releasing the Companies. The whole coming danger that's approaching Eorzea is going to play a big part in something for the Companies to do."

Nowhere in this is he making a distinction between player companies, and what was then called public companies (later Grand Companies).

The fact is we have heard nothing about companies being player run since after the post made by the old dev team. And when they talked about it it seemed to be a very sweet idea, with player owned buildings and ships etc.

We have heard nothing of this since then - and like the OP I want to implore the dev team to shed some light on this. Will they go forward with the idea, or was it scrapped altogether?

(Please everyone "Like" this thread and make many posts in it, as to grab the devs attention)

[Renshi]

When I saw that live stream while I was working on my diploma project, I was really amazed when I heard about these Companies. The chance to build something that's my Linkshell's own, that we can use at our will or to help other players, or simply to screw around unifying every Disciples at work to gather items and synthesize them in order to make awesome stuff.

That was the most heavy point of the live stream that I liked and I'm still excited about it coming.
This is the first time I request something of this heavy value to Square Enix: Can you dev team please update us about all this awesome thing? Will it become real? Will it just be some public Companies where we get jobs from them?
Anything I want, and I guess everyone here does, is a good kick-in of this really interesting feature!

[Alixandir]

Indeed - the group crafting had me very excited as well. Not sure it was planned to go into the companys, but it's highly plausible.

Rocket Launcher? Yes Please!

[Mack]

I'm just gonna agree by saying I want player run companies like Tanaka envisioned them.

[gifthorse]

They'd probably be implemented stupidly anyway. The new dev team would put everything in an instance or something.

[Girlie]

I would also like to know whether player-run companies are coming eventually. Doesn't matter when or what priority, but it would be nice to have confirmation that the feature either is or is not planned to happen.

[Amsai]

I definately agree with the OP. Company housing/bank/storage/airship/etc. All good things. And I'd also like group content and ranking specifically for Companies. This really would give more depth than the glorified chatrooms we have now.

[Nuru]

you never know how the Companies will work.

Remember when you first start and was given a Link Pearl? At first, you are like "WTF is this?"

This could be a system that introduces the actual Player-run companies. However, I don't even know how the Grand Companies work yet, so I'm really not even going to bother going further.

By the way, wasn't there a picture posted on lalafells working on making a cake?

[Mack]

you never know how the Companies will work.

Remember when you first start and was given a Link Pearl? At first, you are like "WTF is this?"

This could be a system that introduces the actual Player-run companies. However, I don't even know how the Grand Companies work yet, so I'm really not even going to bother going further.

By the way, wasn't there a picture posted on lalafells working on making a cake?

And people building a cannon and a ship iirc.

[Nuru]

And people building a cannon and a ship iirc.

Yeah, i can see the Grand companies being a storyline for entire linkshells to quest on all at once. Later on, we "could" be getting our own player-run companies.