Nova Crystallis Interview at E3Follow

1. How could letting people try the game before buying it indicate uncertainty? The only way I can interpret that decision is that if people try the game, they WILL want to buy it.

2. I don't understand how demos or trials are a gimmick, so you'll have to explain. You typing it out in all caps doesn't make the idea itself ridiculous, but one month is way too long. I think a limited chat trial up to a certain level would be good. It doesn't even have to be as long as World of Warcraft's trial.

3. No clue if they'll have trouble getting people to blindly throw down money on a game which was universally hated and now reformed. I'm talking people who didn't get to try the beta and are unsure.

I guess in that case, they're relying on reviews to encourage people... hope they're good! The average person who hasn't been following all of the game's changes over time is of course going to look at Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and be skeptical.



I'll be getting a free month of the game, and I can certainly afford to pay for subscriptions. I pay for many (not gaming related, besides PS+). I was just speaking as a customer who likes to try games before I purchase them.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 10:36am by Killua125

I understand what they are saying, and I do think they should offer a click and download limited free trial option for a few levels of content/character creation.

I found your comment to be very disrespectful. I don't think a demo or trial for a video game is that bizarre of an idea. You could have disagreed and made your point without calling me a 'little kid that can't afford to pay'.

Also, I think the reason people like trials is because they are smart consumers, not because they don't have enough funds. If you're even downloading a trial of a P2P game, the possibility that you will pay is almost definitely there.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 10:50am by Killua125

Ok, seriously let's just end the trial debate. They aren't doing it, end of story. Do I think it would be a good idea to have trial after launch? Probably, and they even said in the interview that they would be doing that some time down the line. I don't think it needs to be instant. There's open beta for people to try out, and if they miss that, they can either read reviews and base their decision off that, just take a gamble and see if they like it, or wait until they do offer a free trial.

If you want to know why so many people on this forum dislike you Killua, it's because you complain about everything. I don't even necessarily disagree with you that a free trial would be good (eventually), but the manner in which you say it comes off so negative and presumptious, like you know more than the game company does about what's good for them. Most people are immediately going to jump on your case about pretty much anything you post because of this mentality. Also, yes I still have you blocked, but it doesn't block when you are quoted by someone else unfortunately, but thanks for completely derailing a thread that was supposed to be informative. Kudos.

I can enforce it, anything about free trials from this point on gets nuked

Nova Crystallis: Similar to Hamlet Defense, will there be endgame content for gathering and crafting classes?

Yoshida: We don’t have plans to have any type of content like that for those classes. We tried Hamlet Defense in 1.x and we found that there was a lot of limitations in designing the battles, and from that learned that it wasn’t the best thing to do. We want to redefine the gathering and crafting classes compared to 1.x. Crafters are there to craft weapons and armor to be used by battle classes to then clear content. Gatherers need to gather high quality materials for crafters to make high quality gear for battle content.

Crafting and Gathering will be used in other areas for example; housing, for furniture, and PvP, for ballistas and similar things. We do have things planned but we want to bring it back to the traditional type of gathering and crafting.

Yoshida: Most of our instanced dungeons require four people – all at the required level – but this doesn’t mean later on we won’t let high players go in to solo the dungeon. That is just natural progression, but for now it’s forced level sync for parties.

Yoshida: We haven’t announced anything official, but we hope to have other jobs branching off of classes that already have jobs before an expansion. Right we now we have too many attackers, so we’re trying to figure out what to do next. Personally, I want to have scout classes – something tricky, to do traps and those types of maneuvers.

Enforced brutally? What's brutal about it? Wint even allowed more responses on it. I didn't want this thread to spiral into a silly debate on a free trial that is definitively NOT in the launch plans.

As to forced level sync being like CoP. I hope so! This game needs some challenge to it. When they uncapped CoP, they took all the challenge out and just made it easy mode. That was even after they had already made it easier twice when they added in the trigger items you could use on most of the bosses, and decreased the overall difficulty of some of the encounters. So yeah, if it makes things more challenging, I'm all for it.

Was he saying that he wants a scout type JOB to come from a current class, or that he wants to add jobs in before the expansion, and then in a separate thought wants scout classes to also be added into the game?


edit: also, this thread spiraled way out of control apparently while I was reading lol. It's good to see so many people actually care about this game enough to have lively conversations about it though.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 11:18am by Anakte

I just felt like right from the start, Killua was being ridiculed to the point of almost bullying.

I loved FFXI's CoP storyline material. I loved doing Promys to help noobs get passed the very first hurdle of the content. I loved developing strategies for rag-tag groups getting passed the hard fight, especially that pot fight. (I was really good at getting the fight done successfully, without the recommended group setup. Very fun indeed!)

I do hope they will be challenging, but I do not want them to be ridiculous. For example: The airship fight with Ultima and Omega weapon in FFXI. That fight was really hard, and it wasn't even that meaningful! It was the biggest hurdle (to me anyway) for most players to pass as it required a specific setup. If a hard fight were to happen, I would like it during a critical situation, like the Alexander fight in ToAU. But I also want the party to be able to be different than a specific setup.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 11:24am by Stilivan

I just felt like right from the start, Killua was being ridiculed to the point of almost bullying.

I loved FFXI's CoP storyline material. I loved doing Promys to help noobs get passed the very first hurdle of the content. I loved developing strategies for rag-tag groups getting passed the hard fight, especially that pot fight. (I was really good at getting the fight done successfully, without the recommended group setup. Very fun indeed!)

I do hope they will be challenging, but I do not want them to be ridiculous. For example: The airship fight with Ultima and Omega weapon in FFXI. That fight was really hard, and it wasn't even that meaningful! It was the biggest hurdle (to me anyway) for most players to pass as it required a specific setup. If a hard fight were to happen, I would like it during a critical situation, like the Alexander fight in ToAU. But I also want the party to be able to be dynamic over a specific setup.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 11:24am by Stilivan

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 11:26am by Stilivan