Artwork, Screen, interview & infos FFXIV ARR

andriasang.com a écrit:The PS3 version is especially targeted to new players, so he believes they should start promotions from zero When they open a promotion site for the PS3 version, it will begin with the very basics, such as an introduction to the world of Eorza.
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On the area of graphics, Yoshida noted that the game's graphics engine, which he's had a hand in since concept creation, is built upon the idea of showing as many players as possible. Also, it's designed to be extremely customizable, allowing it to run on high spec PCs, low spec PCs and PlayStation 3.

All the screens we've seen thus far have been from the PC version, said Yoshida. The quality will go up by about 15% from what we're seeing now.
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Yoshida personally feels that FFXIV should be a fan service title. They're adding elements from past FF games, recreated with FFXIV-level graphics and in the FFXIV world style.
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Famitsu.com asked Yoshida what's certain to be a common question as Version 2.0's release approaches: how about an Xbox 360 version? Replied Yoshida: "It's an MMORPG, so I believe we should have as many players as possible playing it, and when thinking about it as a business, I believe it is my job to get as many accounts made as possible.

So I won't say that there is no possibility. However, until we deliver the promised PlayStation 3 version, no matter what we say, people will ask "Seriously?" and "Uhh, how about getting that Version 2.0 running first?", so we must first concentrate on getting Version 2.0 out.
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Version 2.0's roadmap is currently running on schedule. They plan on beginning full promotions around August and starting an alpha test in late September. The plan is to start a beta test without too much wait after that.

I saw FFXIV 2.0 running in real time. Mother of god.

FFXIV 2.0 looks really great. I think when they show more people will be really impressed.

Seriously. Give the game another chance. I've never seen such an amazing turn around.

Yoshida-san is probably the most competent director at Square currently.

erwald a écrit:Luminous system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU&feature=player_embedded

Here's the summary of the Dengeki interview. As always, no guarantees for translation correctness. Blue are my comments, rest was present in the interview. I left out some fluff, leaving only the bare points, maybe Rein will want to translate it fully. Yoshida-san talked a lot about their reasons for everything they are doing and he's being honest and straightforward about it, which I like.

• Alpha
  
  • Alpha -> Wipe -> Beta, to not risk dragging any data bugs from alpha to beta
    
  • alpha is currently the minimal niveau they want to have
    
  • Once again a reminder from YoshiP: "alpha" = "stress test", not "play the game"
    
  • Global alpha will start end of the month
    
  • Plans are to get a lot of people in, if login counts drop, more will be invited. Aiming for a login rate of 60% of invited players.
    
  • PR will be parallel to alpha, for example promoting characters not usable in alpha [I'm guessing he means new races?]
  
  
  
• Beta
  
  • Beta content packaging started
    
  • Beta will be next year
    
  • Controller UI will become available
    
  • Phase 1 will once again be a (closed) stress test
    
  • in Phase 2 they will increase the amount of participants
    
  • Phase 3 will make our saved data available
    
  • All races will be present in the beta version
    
  • Not all animations will be present for all races, so dummy animations will be used (for example, miqo'te ears not visible on a helm)
  
  
  
• story of ARR
  
  • something similar to 4 heroes of light of FFI
    
  • end of era trailer has a continuation -> opening of ARR
    
  • ARR is set 5 years after end of 1.0, why world has recovered so fast is related to what happened in the last moments between Louisiox and Bahamut. Will be the main of the 3 storylines in ARR until the first expansion and will explain about the Allag Empire, Dalamud, why Bahamut was sealed and what became of Louisiox.
    
  • 2 other storylines:
    
    • conflict with Garlemard
      
      • first goal of the empire is to stop the beast tribes
        
      • conquest is only secondary
    
    
    • fight against the primals
      
      • aether energy is same as FFVII lifestream: use (summoning) damages planet, needs to be stopped
    
    
  • story will be episodic
    
    • first ep: conclusion of the 7th umbral era catastrophe (cap still lv50)
      
    • "Ishgard", "Recovery of Ala Mhigo", and "The Garlean Empire" used as examples for new story episodes/expansions
    
    
  • old 1.0 story got scrapped, however the essence is still there.
  
  
  
• FATE
  
  • every participant gets a reward
    
  • start will be announced in the field
    
  • event flow:
    -> get close to the area
    -> party is autoformed + level synched
    -> fulfill objective
    -> reward based on damage and participation time
    
  • no timers to be able to participate again
  
  
  
• Housing
  
  • S-sized land = S-sized house
    
  • no expansions; if you want a bigger piece of land, you have to buy it (full price)
    
  • if you don't need land, you can sell it to the NPC
    
  • moving to another patch of land is also possible
    
  • a newly bought house comes without any furniture
    
  • apparently, in L-size houses you can distribute the space inside to make own rooms. [Not sure I got that correctly]
  
  
  
• Cities
  
  • LL & Ul'dah won't be shown a little longer. Both maps and the cities were changed.
    
  • "Universal design": all DoW Guilds are marked red, no matter the city
    
  • What was changed was mostly the ways between point of interest, making them shorter.
    
  • In case of LL, floor textures were changed to better distinguish between lower and upper floors.
    
  • Ul'dah's gate MIGHT be able to open now.
  
  
  
• PS3 Version
  
  • PS3 Beta after PC Beta enters phase 3
    
  • Aiming for about 40 players visible on screen
    
  • additional to that, 4 M-Sized or 1 L-sized monster
    
  • since there will be LOD, you won't get the impression there are only 40 models visible on screen.
    
  • PS3 version coming along nicely
    
  • More about the PS3 version at the beginning of 2013
  
  
• Misc
  
  
  
  • You won't be able to use macros from 1.0
    
  • Safe to delete the old client, but don't throw away you registration codes! [probably needed to DL ARR CE?]
    
  • Both PS3 preorder and collector's edition will have a bonus
    
  • All music in alpha is by SOKEN
    
  • Dev team size is currently 9 times the size of the original team
    
  • Bahamut design comes from Hiroyuki Nagamine, base by Akihiko Yoshida. Naoki Yoshida requested for Bahamut to be less mechanic and more leaned towards classic design, so that everyone seeing him would instantly recognize him.
    
  • He thought about voicing the NPCs too, but decided against it to favor faster update cycles. Voicing 4 languages takes too long, and should new languages be added, it would take even longer.
    
  
  

4gamer interview: This one had some common points with the Dengeki one, so I left them out. They fooled my with their "it's only 2 pages"-format... It was much longer than Dengeki's 5 page interview lol. Blue = my comments

• Story
  
  
  
  • Main story will introduce a character related to Louisiox
    
  • Why Bahamut was sealed is related to the Crystal Tower
    
  • There will be no need to know the 1.0 story, as everything will be explained in ARR
    
  • Concept art of items obtainable in the Great Labyrinth of Bahamut [click]
    
  
  
• Name changes
  
  
  
  • Changing char name is possible technically
    
  • This will mean your friend list [and probably LS membership] will be lost, though
    
  • They are worried about people mistyping their char name, since it's a one-time opportunity and there is no confirmation dialogue on char creation, so they are asking to be careful about it
    
  • HE NEVER SAID "YES" DIRECTLY! WAIT FOR AN OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION!
    
  
  
• Character customization
  
  
  
  • Bust sizes vary by races, for example Roegardyn will have bigger sizes than sunseeker, moonkeeper coming after it. [Hyur/Elezen not mentioned]
    
  • Bust physics will be kept as modest as possible
    
  • Other char model movements involve Miqo'te ears & tail, as well as Elezen/Lalafell ears.
    
  • For miqo'te tails, there will be 5 tail types, ranging from more lion-like movement to more cat-like movement [Yay~]
    
  • Barber NPC will make you do a quest that will allow you to change your hairstyle, it's color as well as facepaint. Not face/body proportions though.
  
  
• FATE
  
  
  
  • Definition of NM as "mosters that suddenly make the otherwise safe environment dangerous"
    
  • Rewards are decided based not on party, but individual performance
    
  • All players treated as "one large party" [so basically you just get flagged as "near enough to be evaluated for a reward, which also level-synchs you to the event level]
    
  • Level sync only works one-way: if you're above content level, you will be de-levelled, if you're below content level, nothing happens.
    
  • Other FATE types:
    
    
    
    • village/city invasion (example: bandits/thieves)
      
    • chocobo escort
      
    
    
  • No limit on how many people can participate in a FATE
    
  • They are thinking about a system that automatically creates an instance and moves the half of the people to a new one should the number of people reach a certain number
    
  • While this system is technologically possible, the cost is high, so they are planning to monitor the events in alpha&beta to decide if it's really needed.
    
  
  
• Housing
  
  
  
  • To be able to afford an M-Sized house, three players would have to level to 50 by clearing all quests and combine the gil theay earned from that. Apparently, that would take about 50 hours.
    
  • The housing system is comparable to Dragon Quest X
    
  • Land and House prices are separate
    
  • Land starts expensive, but if it's not bought, the price will start to drop
    
  • There are only 3 L-sized patches of land per instance
    
  • Apparently, once we will see the amount of gil needed to buy an L-sized patch of land, we will recoil in horror.
    
  • Since the price will be falling with time, he wants us to worry about when the right timing to buy it will be
    
  • Retainers will be placed in our homes
    
  • You can buy from them there, or alternatively from the board [probably our current marketplace system]
  
  
• Free Company
  
  
  
  • Free company ranking and "earning reputation from a GC" is just a setting they thought of for the roleplaying community. Non-RPing players won't really have to pay attention to that.
    
  • Example of perks for taking the top position in a GC ranking: That GC NPC will greet members of that FC with more respect, saluting once you approach them.
  
  
• Marriage System
  
  
  
  • For bonuses for getting married, they are only thinking of simple things like using the wedding ring to teleport to your partner. No bonuses in battle, else it will just lead to fake marriages
    
  • To be able to marry, you will have to clear a quest with your partner
  
  
• Mounts
  
  
  
  • Only chocobo will be fighting by your side, others are for riding only
    
  • When you level up, your chocobo levels up with you
    
  • There are plans to make the magitech armor customizable [think mecha parts]
    
  • Magitech armor will somehow be connected to the story, he said they prepared an episode that will make us sit there grinning
    
  • Using in in PvE/PvP is possible, but they currently have no plans for it
    
  
  
• PvE/PvP Balancing
  
  
  
  • They're carefully balancing damage and status effects between those two [seems like the rulesets are NOT separated after all.]
    
  • Some kind of "item level" will be introduced which describes the usefullness of your equip. Not only the DPS but also the status effects is taken in account, so that we can go away from "if you're not keeping up your DPS, you're useless"-mindset
    
  
  
• Items/Equip
  
  
  
  • Inventory limited, but banks will have larger capacity
    
  • Vanity items still class restricted (no heavy armor mages)
    
  • In PvP, vanity will be disabled, so you won't be able to trick people with it
    
  • FATE rewards will contain vanity items among others
    
  
  
• New Races
  
  
  
  • Reason why he is torn between Viera and something more brute-ish like a reptile is because Viera are too close to humans and he wanted to introduce something more beast-like. Also, Viera has only appeared as female so far... and he doesn't want to have a gender-locked race... [read: do you seriously want to see bunnyGUYS?!]
    
  • He is also worried about crossing a certain line after which it will become hard to distinguish between PCs and NPCs/Monsters
    
  
  
• Alpha
  
  
  
  • currently, zone servers can handle up to 700 players with about 300 battles taking place in one zone and all the AI running
    
  • servers start to lag extremely @800 players in one zone, with about 380 battles taking place
    
  • they plan to increase that to 1000 players per zone
    
  
  
• Beta
  
  
  
  • PvP will be available for testing
    
  • They are thinking of people with alpha invites to be brought to phase1 beta too, but it's not set in stone yet.
    
  • The dev team is practicing PvP matches already, meaning we get to fight them
    
  
  
• Game content
  
  
  
  • normal quests soloable
    
  • dungeons and raids require a party
    
  • normal mode clearable when forming one via content finder
    
  • hard mode is only clearable if you have people with experience working together [implying you CAN try to clear it by auto-matching, but you'll need a lot of luck]
    
  • content may be hard at first, but if for example a patch introduces some new content that gives you a nice item, it will raise your "item level", making clearing previous content easier.
    
  
  

Global Alpha Test Start Date

Greetings adventurers,

We're pleased to announce that the next phase of the A Realm Reborn Alpha Test is tentatively scheduled to start on Wednesday, November 28.
This phase will be adding in users from all regions (JP/NA/EU), and tester selection notifications will begin being sent out on November 26th.
Be sure to keep an eye on your email!

Just one more reminder... Don't forget about the confidentiality agreement regarding the Alpha Test

Début de la phase globale du test alpha

Chers aventuriers,

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que la prochaine phase du test alpha de A Realm Reborn est provisoirement fixée au mercredi 28 novembre. Cette phase inclura toutes les régions (JP/NA/EU) et les joueurs sélectionnés commenceront à recevoir des e-mails de confirmation à partir du 26 novembre. Soyez donc bien attentifs à vos e-mails !

Un petit rappel pour terminer, n’oubliez pas l’accord de confidentialité qui entoure le test alpha

This one was very long and surprisingly had a lot of unique info tidbits. Enjoy.
Source: [Part I | Part II ] [ my comments ]

• Story
  
  
  
  • Nael is dead. [Sounded pretty final, so no "coming back as omega weapon" etc]
    
  • Gaius was just observing which party is going to fall, so he and his troops are unharmed. He is going to be our opponent for the time being.
    
  • Garlean Empire's motivation is "Primals are killing the planet, so we have to stop them. Unite under our banner to bring on an era of peace! If you go against us, this means you are aiding the beast tribes to destroy the planet. This means, you are our enemy."
    
  • Crystal tower is related to the mystery behind the Allagan Empire, and is it's legacy.
    
  • All of the 3 storylines are interwined somehow.
    
  • Dalamud was a machine created by the Allagan Empire [so, it was not the same as the sealing ceremony Louisiox tried to perform!]
    
  • The emperor Xandes (sp?) of the Allagan Empire is not dead. He is actually in a cold sleep chamber. Yoshida-san wants us to speculate whether Nael was trying to bring Dalamud down to awaken the Emperor and whether the appearance of the Crystal Tower signifies the Emperor's awakening or not.
    
  • Main story will end at lvl50 with a tentative ending, what will follow are numbered patches, just like with the 7th Umbral Era storyline of 1.x. He emphasizes that he's not talking about expansions here. Those 3 storylines will come to a conclusion before the first expansion is released.
    
  • "The Grand Labyrith of Bahamut" is not meant figuratively, but literally. It's going to be huge.
    
  • It appears that Bahamut was not allowed to roam around freely, which is why there is a labyrinth and why the world has recovered. The whiteout at the end of the End of Era trailer takes place right before something happens. [Odin after all?]
    
  
  
  
• FATE
  
  
  
  • Rewards won't be useless (like, "here, have a potion"), but won't be anything rare/powerful either
    
  • Rewards will have something to do with the type of FATE cleared. For example, completing a chocobo escort will yield a reward related to chocobos.
    
  • The claiming system is disabled while in a FATE
    
  • Once a FATE starts, everyone on the zone will get that huge FATE message and the location will be marked on the map
    
  • When you get close to the FATE location, your normal objective list will be replaced with the FATE one. Once cleared, the normal objective list will become visible again.
    
  • Planning to have 5-10 different FATEs per zone
    
  
  
  
• Housing
  
  
  
  • After you build a house, you can't trade that patch of land. [He did not elaborate.]
    
  • Once you build a house, there won't be any upkeep cost.
    
  • Housing is planned to be implemented in the first big update after release. However, since debugging still needs to be done, we will get to test it somewhere at the end of Beta.
    
  
  
  
• Alpha
  
  
  
  • A lot of positive feedback on alpha ("Amazing" "Didn't expect so much from an alpha" "could have released this as beta"). He was very happy to hear that because he expected a lot more negative comments. [Do I sense a fellow perfectionist soul there?!]
    
  • Alpha was branched 2 months ago [I wonder how much they improved it in those 2 months]
    
  • Regional datacenters won't be ready for Alpha
    
  • First 2 days of global alpha will be limited time-wise, if everything runs well, it will be running 24/7 starting from the 3 day.
    
  • Alpha will end before the end of the year. [Yes. About 1-2 months of waiting time till beta]
    
  
  
  
• Beta
  
  
  
  • Goals of the beta include (among others) stress test, pc search and market system testing. These are sceduled for beta phase 1. They will put dummy items into the marketplace and will ask us to search for something all at once.
    
  • Basically, just as in Alpha, it comes down to squishing bugs and tweaking code to be more performant. Apparently, removing one loop from the battle code improved the performance allowing for 200 more battles in a zone - laglessly.
    
  • "Why was the Beta delayed?" "Because I told them to *wry smile*". Basically, he wants to polish it more because of the feedback he received. He's been telling the dev team that saying "it's just alpha" is not allowed and that thinking like that was what has lead 1.0 to be all over the place. [Hear hear! <3]
    
  • Beta length will depend on what kind of feedback they will receive. He wants the testers to say "it's enough already, just release it" before he does.
    
  • Still not clear if there is going to be an OBT and/or early access, this will depend on beta feedback, too.
    
  
  
• Animations
  
  
  
  • 3 animations for taking damage, different animation depending on damage taken
    
  • Final motion blending animations are not implemented in the alpha. [this should calm down a lot of people, including myself]
    
  • Beta will introduce some, but not all animation blending.
    
  
  
• Misc
  
  
  
  • They expected the servers to crash a lot on the last day
    
  • Reason why they went along with it anyway is, they wanted as many people as possible to watch the trailer at the same time
    
  • We definitely won't be able to experience the 7th Umbral Storyline/Content again, but not saying "no" to time-travel in general
    
  • Apparently, 1.0 servers were running on LUA scripts, and the biggest problems were instability and memory consumption.
    
  • Back when he decided to destroy the world [oooh, evil ] instead of just shutting down the servers, he was looking for a way to do that. That's when he asked what the dot near the moon was. Apparently, Dalamud was supposed to be used in a future scenario of the original story. Well, what he did was to ask "is it okay to make it fall?"
    
  • That's when he started to prepare the plot and thought "just dropping it is boring... what is typical for FF? Summons... speaking of summons... Bahamut! "
    
  • He admits his choice was inspired by WoW's Cataclysm to some degree. He felt this way there would be a surprise, while still staying FF-like
    
  • We didn't get the full roadmap, but a simplified one. For example, in the full roadmap, there was also a roadmap for DoL/DoH, so he did not neglect them as claimed by some players.
    
  • YoshiP "sucks at drawing" [his words, not mine xD], so he wrote the script describing the events in the End of an Era trailer instead.
    
  • ARR opening may feature a narration by Louisiox. [Don't jump to conclusions yet]
    
  • The opening will include the summary of the end of the 6th astral era (3 minutes) and will be around 8 minutes long in total.
    
  • He's thinking about including a "no cut" [end of era + opening] version of the movie on the ARR CE
    
  • Our character data is handled with utmost care and there are backups in place should something go wrong
    
  • He will be thinking about implementing other client languages depending on how many players speaking that language there will be. He knows there is a large demand for a Spanish version and he was also thinking about a Russian one. This is for something after ARR release though.
    
  • They plan to show off systems like FATE in future videos
    
  • NPC speech will only be visible in speech bubbles, not in chat log, apparently.
    
  
  

Celui-ci était très long, et étonnamment, révèle beaucoup d’infos croustillantes !
Source : [Partie I | Partie II ] [commentaires de l’auteur du message non traduits, restons-en à l’objectivité de l’information ! Dites-le si ça vous intéresse vraiment.]

• Histoire:
o Nael est mort.
o Gaius attendait juste de voir quel camp allait l’emporter, lui et ses troupes sont donc intacts. Il sera notre adversaire pour les temps à venir.
o Le crédo de l’Empire Garlemarldais est le suivant : « Les Primordiaux meurtrissent la planète, nous devons les arrêter. Unissez-vous sous notre bannière pour façonner une ère de paix ! Si vous vous mettez en travers de notre chemin, vous aidez donc les tribus barbares à détruire la planète. Ceci implique que vous êtes notre ennemi.
o La Tour de Cristal est liée au mystère de l’Empire Allagois, et à son héritage.
o Les 3 intrigues sont entrelacées d’une certaine manière.
o Dalamud était une machine créée par l’Empire Allagois.
o Xandes, l’Empereur allagois, n’est pas mort. Il est, en fait, dans une chambre cryogénique. Yoshida-san souhaite que nous spéculions, dans un premier temps, sur la motivation (ou non) de Nael à faire tomber Dalamud pour réveiller l’Empereur, et dans un second temps, sur le fait que l’apparition de la Tour de Cristal soit ou non une conséquence de son réveil.
o L’histoire se terminera au niveau 50 sur une fin provisoire, et se poursuivra au fil des patchs, de la même manière que pour la Septième Ere Ombrale, durant la 1.x. Il insiste sur le fait qu’il ne fait pas ici référence aux add-ons. Les trois intrigues toucheront à leur fin avant que la première expansion ne sorte.
o « Le Grand Labyrinthe de Bahamut »* n’est pas un nom « fantasyste » [ ], mais à prendre au sens propre. Il sera énorme.
o Quelque chose aurait empêché Bahamut de vaquer librement, et c’est pour la même raison que le labyrinthe est apparu, et que le monde a récupéré de ses blessures. Le fondu sur écran blanc, à la fin du trailer « La Fin d’une Ere », se situe juste avant que quelque chose n’arrive.

• FATE
o Les récompenses ne seront pas inutile (dans le genre, « tiens, une potion »), rien de rare/puissant non plus, cependant
o Les récompenses seront en lien avec le type de FATE accompli. Par exemple, une caravane couronnée de succès rapportera une récompense en rapport avec les chocobos.
o L’exclusivité des cibles (claim) est désactivée lors d’un FATE
o Lors du lancement d’un FATE, « FATE » s’affiche en gros sur l’écran de tous les joueurs de la zone, et la position est affichée sur la carte.
o A proximité du FATE, votre liste d’objectifs est remplacée par celle du FATE. Une fois mené à son terme, la liste normale réapparaît.
o On prévoit 5 à 10 FATEs simultanés par zone.

• Immobilier
o Après avoir construit une maison, impossible d’échanger le terrain.
o La maison construite, il n’y aura pas de frais d’entretien.
o Le système de housing sera implémenté dans la première grosse MàJ suivant le lancement. Cependant, ce dernier requérant encore une batterie de tests, il sera mis à l’épreuve en fin de phase Bêta.

• Alpha
o Beaucoup de retours positifs sur l’alpha (« Incroyable » « J’en attendais pas tant d’une alpha » « c’aurait pu être la bêta »). Il était très heureux d’entendre tout ça, car il attendait bien plus de commentaires négatifs.
o La version actuelle de l’alpha est vieille de deux mois.
o Les serveurs par régions ne seront pas prêts pour l’alpha.
o L’accès aux serveurs de l’alpha internationale sera limité dans le temps, les deux premiers jours. Si tout se passe bien, elle tournera non-stop dès le troisième jour.
o L’alpha sera arrêtée avant la fin de l’année.

• Beta
o Les objectifs de la bêta comprennent (parmi d’autres) du stress test, ainsi que le test des marchés et du système de recherche sur PC. Ces derniers sont prévus pour la première phase de test Bêta. Les devs mettront des objets bateaux sur le marché, et nous demanderont de lancer une recherche tous en même temps.
o Le principe est le même que pour l’alpha : traquer les bugs et tweaker le code pour le rendre plus performant. Apparemment, supprimer une boucle du code des combats a permis 200 combats de plus par zone, sans lag.
o « - Pourquoi la Bêta est-elle retardée ? - Parce que je l’ai demandé. *sourire sarcastique*» En fait, il veut la peaufiner un peu plus, suite aux retours qu’il a reçus. Il a interdit à l’équipe des devs de penser que « c’est juste une alpha », car c’est ce qui a mené au fouillis de la 1.0.
o La durée de la Bêta dépendra des commentaires reçus. Il veut le feu vert des testeurs pour lancer le jeu.
o On ne sait toujours pas s’il y aura une Bêta ouverte ou des accès anticipés à la version RC, tout ça dépendra également des retours sur la Bêta.

• Animations
o 3 animations pour les dégâts, différentes selon les dommages.
o Le rendu final des animations de déplacement n’est pas implémenté dans l’alpha.
o La Bêta ira un peu plus loin, mais le rendu ne sera toujours pas finalisé.

• Autres
o Ils s’attendaient à ce que les serveurs crashent à répétition, le dernier jour.
o La raison pour laquelle ils ont fait avec, c’est qu’ils voulaient qu’un maximum de personnes regardent le trailer au même moment.
o Revivre la 7ième ère Ombrale ne sera vraiment pas possible, mais on ne ferme pas la porte au voyage dans le temps en général.
o Les serveurs de la 1.0 tournaient sur des scripts LUA, et les plus gros problèmes étaient l’instabilité et la consommation de mémoire.
o Lorsqu’il décida de détruire le monde, plutôt que de simplement éteindre les serveurs, il chercha un moyen pour ce faire. C’est alors qu’il demanda ce qu’était le point rouge, près de la lune. Dalamud devait originellement être utilisé dans un futur scénario de l’histoire originale. Il demanda alors « est-ce que ça pose problème de le faire s’écraser ? »
o C’est au moment de préparer l’intrigue qu’il se dit qu’ « un simple crash, c’est ennuyant. Qu’est-ce qui est typique pour FF ? Les invocations… Tiens, en parlant d’invocations… Bahamut!”
o Il admet que ses choix ont été un peu inspires par World of Warcraft : Cataclysme. Il pensait qu’ainsi il y aurait une surprise, tout en gardant la patte FF.
o Nous n’avons pas eu le planning prévisionnel complet. Par exemple, dans la version complète, il y avait également un planning pour les récolteurs/artisans, il ne les a donc pas négligé, contrairement à ce qu’affirment certains joueurs.
o YoshiP est « une bille en dessin », il a donc écrit le script décrivant les évènements du trailer « La Fin d’une Ere », à la place.
o Il réfléchit à l’implémentation d’une version non-coupée de la vidéo « La fin d’une Ere » dans l’édition collector d’ARR.
o Les données de nos personnages sont traitées avec le plus grand soin, et des sauvegardes existent, dans le cas où quelque chose ne se passe pas comme prévu.
o Il envisagera l’implémentation d’autres langages, selon leur popularité. Il est au courant de la forte demande pour une version espagnole, et pense aussi à une version Russe. Tout cela est en tout cas prévu après le lancement d’ARR.
o Ils prévoient de montrer des systèmes tels que FATE dans des futures vidéos.
o Il semble que les paroles des NPC n’apparaîtront que dans les bulles de dialogue, et pas dans le chat log.

* (attention ici, je ne suis pas traducteur officiel, donc, évidemment, je n’ai aucune idée du nom que l’instance aura réellement dans la 2.0, je donne dans la traduction littérale, moua !)

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