This one was exclusive to GT, most of the stuff we’ve already know but they also took this chance to clarify a few things. Here are the videos and a summary if you cannot play the video.
Video 1
- PvP and PvE servers will be there, but they believe PvP is only a minority. (Well judging from how PvP in FFXI turned out, I’ll pick PvE)
- S-E wants to focus on PvE, then come back to PvP at a later date.
- They talked about their target market. First being FFXI players, 2nd being FF Fans, and 3rd being people who never played FF series or MMO series.
- Although they are targeting FFXI players as well, they won’t stop supporting as long as the players keep playing, and did say will leave the option open to the players.
- Voice Chat will not be integrated like WoW. Although no one really uses the WoW version. However, they just said if people have equipment, they can just talk to each other hence. Use Ventrilo.
- They realize cultural barriers, and offer bilingual GM’s. =_=; How about different servers.
- They will be more open in terms of regulations to the players. No more ninja-bannings.
Video 2
- Unlike Leveling Characters, this time is leveling your own weapons.
- You are leveling your skills – hence skill cap / skill ups.
- Guildleve are still the main confirmed quest system. You get quest from Aetheryte.
- Aetheryte is still the main transportation system.
- They clearly said solo and party play is possible. In fact, party size seems to be flexible too. They mention “requirements”. These can either be players, or skill-based requirements, hence “level”.
- Switch jobs on the fly just by switching the weapon.
- There’s going to be a deep storyline, with High Quality CG’s, with voice.
- They also mentioned Chocobos, but they will play a different role in FFXIV.
We’ll keep you posted as we find more interesting FFXIV news!
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The announcement that they are not having integrated voice chat is a big disappointment. How will PS3 users use Ventrilo? I think they also should have separate servers for world regions. In FFXI I never communicated with Japanese folk because it was so damn hard…
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I think integrating JP’s with NA’s was really just a Business strategy, not really to integrate cultures. I think its safe to say more than half of the people never or didn’t play with JP’s. It was really to keep server utilized, highest usage =P without adding a ton of servers. Since people all login at different times
and they are all nicely 8hr spaced out apart.
I doubt they would spaced out servers for world region, but we’ll see.
im glad to see a pvp server option
pvp is only the minority cuzz SE never balanced the classes and lost millions of player cuzz they never cared about it
i must say i will be glad to see multi regional servers, the autotranslate function helps communicating with JP players and I loved the JP groups, they were always pro. without exception. it also meant that if i was up till the early hours (UK) then the americans would be coming on for primetime playing and plenty of people for groups. pvp isnt the most important thing in the world, infact i dont really care about it at all tbh. id still be playing wow if it was but wow lasted me a couple of months before i was bored. ffxi? years, and even now i want to go back cos wow or aion just dont satisfy the urge!
Pleased with everything i heard in the video
o.o *drools*
im goin be honest i loved having u.s. and euro on the same sever but jp never help english ppl out tryed there best too stick to themselves, and would not even have 1 english person in there partys ,i so no reason too share a sever with and hope i dont have too this time around,i played the game for 8 years and im so sick of seeing jp only lol ,gl^^