sandpark wrote:
View F.A.T.E as a lens through which certain content is accessed. Think about active time events in previous Final Fantasies. They were events that happened in the past or were happening at the same time as you were doing other things. Just like real life you know? When you play baseball outside, the rest of the world doesn't pause until you interact with it.
F.A.T.E doesn't rob you of your will or depend on you to progress. It happens regardless of you and only allows you the opportunity to affect it's course. Your mission should you choose to accept that mission will be off the record. If you get caught, you will be disavowed.
What is your interpretation of an NM? To me an NM is a notorious monster. Whether I encounter that randomly or through a lens does not change the fact that it is a "Notorious Monster". Instanced doesn't neccesarily have to mean outside interlopers cannot compete for it. Maybe there will be an instanced zone with 100 members from different guilds fighting over that NM. If you read the comment amount no NM literally. All it says is that an NM as you know it from XI are not here with the vague words used.
Yoshi said there would be treasure map stuff. PvP will not be open world. To be so would go against the very foundation of what FInal Fantasy is. There will areas for this just as Guild Wars has mists.
Last thing on instances. Instance doesn't have to mean no random traveler cannot help you or raise you upon seeing you for the first time. I get raised all the time when soloing dynamis currently or even the old days in XI. I enter the zone alone as in only one in the zone. Some nice traveller passes by and on occasion they raise me.
You don't know what is instanced. You don't know whether you prefer instance or open or not. Until you experience how SE implements it and how you experience the content.
Edited, Apr 7th 2013 12:59pm by sandpark
So youre telling me in FFXI you can enter dynamis and someone outside your group/alliance can randomly walk in as well and see you laying on the ground? thats news to me.
Also in most games instances when you enter a dungeon the only ppl that are in and can enter than dungeon with you are those that were in your group.. or no one at all if you go solo.. so if you enter a dungeon solo then you will NEVER see another player inside with you... guild wars 1 for example.
As for open world PVP FFXI can have open world PVP but make it optional.. for example brenner and ballista took place in the open world.. ppl not participating in it could walk up and watch.. or join in IF they choose.. that what i mean by PVP being in the open world... i dont mean it as in "anyone can walk around and kill anyone anytime they choose" I just mean ppl in the open world should be able to talk up and watch the PVP action if they want without having to actually be in it.
As for NMs to me an NM is a creature that spawns in certain areas, only spawns rarely (like once every 2 hours or once a day etc etc) and or you have to meet certain conditions before it spawns.. what i mean by no NMs in FFXIis i wont go to an area a seen brown lizards in EVERYDAY and then one day be surprised by this green lizards Ive never seen before.. etc etc (i remember the first time i seen leaping lizzy as a newb in FFXI... i want that feeling again in FFXIV)
Man, some of those aetherytes in La Noscea and The Black Shroud pissed me off in 1.0. Level 70 mobs guarding them! 
Man, some of those aetherytes in La Noscea and The Black Shroud pissed me off in 1.0. Level 70 mobs guarding them! 
