Board 8 > today is FFXIV's 1 year anniversary and it got a huge update

(+) Yeah! (+)

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=d4986128a7ff000ce85d048a02baf5de2a876b43

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/24818-Changes-Planned-for-Patch-1.19

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/24910

-chocobos
-chocobo raising
-new areas
-implementation of Materia
-expanded storylines
-battle system reworked
-crafting system reworked
-preparations for future updates
-Ifrit fights -- A hard mode for eight rank 50 characters and an easy mode for four rank 30 characters.
-new dungeons
-removal of physical levels
-enhanced tutorials
-new control options

Also in the next few updates they will begin transferring over to the concept of traditional final fantasy jobs -- so far they have announced paladin, white mage, black mage, dragoon, bard, and warrior, but there are still classes they have not announced yet.

the game still sounds absolutely terrible but the fact that they are learning from and fixing their mistakes is exciting. I'm pretty stoked to see how the game will turnout in a year or two from now. Supposedly FFXI was absolutely horrible when it was released but it has become incredibly content-heavy and many of its problems were fixed (I know someone is going to make a crack about how XI is terrible because they hate MMOs).


Also, to celebrate today being the first year anniversary of FFXIV, the director had a live question and answer session with such hard-hitting questions like "Do you really like spicy food?"

http://twitter.com/#!/FF_XIV_EN


unfortunately no one will ever play it because of 4.0

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Huh, maybe I'll give it another shot.

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I heard that he said FFXIV is only 50% done or something like that

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How about next time they release a game that is actually finished.

UltimaterializerX posted...
No one will ever play it

Ainoxi posted...
Huh, maybe I'll give it another shot.

I love that these are posts #2 and #3 in this topic.

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Haha, yeah.

I think I was one of the few people who actually enjoyed it quite a bit when it first released. Just didn't have the time to play it after a while.

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From: UltimaterializerX | #002
14 is just 11 HD Remix 0.5

If this were true I'd have been much more interested in it. Sadly they failed to follow up on everything that made XI fantastic. Except the soundtrack, apparently.

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By the way, I know only one person who's actually played the game and he absolutely loves it.

Just curious, how many people on Board 8 have played it? Want some people's first hand opinion on it.

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Never encountered any b8ers that played it really.
Played with a group of friends though. Most of us loved it and a few liked it but got annoyed by some of the leveling aspects.


Agh, need to finish Chester PC so I can waste time playing this and Dark Souls. D:

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Maybe I can help!

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Oh?

the game still sounds absolutely terrible

Oh. Well, let me know when it's not terrible, I guess.

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It doesn't matter. MMOs need strong starts to survive and FFXIV had one of the weakest starts ever.

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I really liked FFXI.

If this is just FFXI HD then it's probably not that bad.
If it's plain worse than XI then that's another story.

Chester PC

for Steam or what?

Anyway I guess this is good. I figured they had given up on the game and thought it was funny that Fred Meyer was still selling copies at full price. Seems kinda late to start addressing such large amounts off issues though.

From: WazzupGenius00 | #004
I heard that he said FFXIV is only 50% done or something like that

I think that explains in one sentence why FFXIV is bad.

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everyone wanted FFXI so if it truly was FFXI-2 HD then it would have done far better


but it wasnt so it did terrible

people just want more FFXI!

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