SE - we took our fans for granted when we first made FFXIVFollow

The limitation on Grand Companies and your alegiences to them is temproary. I wanted to clear that up.

Only Free Companies need to decide what national banner they have to be under on a permanent basis, and you can always switch by breaking up and reforming.

I'm not sure it will effect that path you take in your national questline (if there is such a thing) as far as going back an experience those starter quests for each nation. But you can experience grand company quests from any nation by rotating around grand companies.

Just keep in mind that you can't pick and chose gear from different grand companies. Changing Grand Companies turns in your previous company's exclusive gear.

That was my understanding of it when it was spoken about in the live letter before this one. (Or was it a dev post, I don't remember. It was a lenghty one.)

Maybe you don't feel that it is, but it is actually different, which was my point. I also never claimed it was some revolutionary mechanic. I was arguing against the parallels you were making, which are not actually as straight nor as parallel as you make them sound. I'm sure given the option, everyone would rather have a speed boost and 1s of immunity over a one direction/distance "roll", and that's because they are different, and one is actually better than the other.

Probably the biggest obstacle Yoshi-P faces is convincing all the people who played, heard of, or read about FFXIV and the terrible state it was in when it launched, to actually come back and play ARR. People like to be told that they were right, and that's basically what the 1.0 bashing does, only this time its from the higher ups in SE, which I would suppose mean more to said players. Once he has their attention, then he can proceed to talk about all the changes.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2013 4:29pm by DevilFruit

I think you've jumped in late in the conversation and are missing my larger point: GW2 is not some revolutionary action-based combat. That's all I was saying. The dodging mechanic is the main action-mechanic, and it's nothing incredibly innovative. I haven't played either of them, but I would wager that Aion/Blade and Soul are at least equally action-oriented.



I agree with you on the business end of things, and maybe I'm just being oldschool about this, but to me the objective of an MMO is to create a living, lasting world. Therefor, even though GW2 was a financial success, it was not a success at living up to the ideals of the MMO.



I completely agree. That was one of my major criticisms of 1.0, and for that matter, GW2. They added so much fake choice to the game and ended up creating a lot of content that you could only experience if you made 9 different characters. Surprise, surprise, most people don't want to do that. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like they'll make that mistake twice.



I assume most people who took their Intro to Psych course in college have at least heard about Skinner, and I see blogs/posts drawing those parallels quite often. I don't always actively go out of my way to avoid using terms that other people won't know... they have the power of the internet at their fingertips.

Where do you meet all these people that play MMOs irl?

I saw him around Alpha time, but haven't talked with him sense unfortunately.

I'm going to do my best to keep things updated, but it sounds like SE is going to provide all the information you need on their site, so ours will really only be for wiki/discussions on items on our DB. That's why I'm looking at getting other things that can distinguish us from other sites (add-on database among other ideas).

Anime club.

Other things?
Arr Facebook
Youtube Hub(User uploaded video journals)
Cutscene and soundtrack browser
Status page(Simulate lynx, xbox live, psn. Only users need to update status here manually)
FATE tracker/Forecast
Web Comic ARR themed
Fan art section

I think it would be cool for a fansite to explore the social/fun side of things. Especially when you said SE is covering most of the info stuff.

Doesn't fit in with the mainstream MMO. That's all ARR is for after all.

This isn't really a strength of the mainstream MMO, though. In the best case scenario, your players only feel the need to create one character. That fosters high attachment. Otherwise your players reach a point where they decide that maybe it's time to start another character, like they're supposed to, and they never quite get around to it. Or they do, and only play the new character a few times before quitting.