Been away for a while, have a few ?'s about the "new FFXIV"Follow

I'm not the most knowledgeable about the details, but I think:

1: The game is not "completely" new, although massively overhauled. Same world, cities, classes, etc., set several years after the incidents in the first release. The actual physical world has changed tremendously (no more copypasta zones). It is a mostly new game, but with many of the basic features and art assets carrying over, and a continuation of the story from version 1.

2/3: If you actively played version 1 in its final months, you could apply for Legacy status, which would allow you to keep your character on certain approved servers. I think if you didn't apply for Legacy status, your character would be deleted. If you don't have a Legacy character, you'll have the choice to play on a fresh server or on a server with other players who are using their old characters.

4: I don't think so.

Hopefully not. SE currently allows FFXI subscriptions to be paid directly with a credit card, just like a real company. Hopefully they'll allow FFXIV subscriptions to be paid the same way (don't assume...this is SE...they have very good drugs).

I'll take a stab at this.

1) Although the game is based on the same world with a continuing story, characters, and other elements from the first game it's as close to being new as it can get without changing these universe related aspects. Everything has been overhauled, from the graphics, to the server infrastructure, to the design of the world, to class abilities, and a absolute massive amount of systems and content has been added.

The tl;dr is that this game is a real high production value version of XIV, with all the features and comforts that a modern MMO should have (and 1.0 lacked).

2+3) Go to YouTube and search End of an Era FFXIV. The story events at the end of 1.0 set up the overhaul/rebirth of the game in ARR.

In terms of characters, your character will carry over so your progress will not be lost. You can change your name and race at startup if you wish, though I suggest you re-roll anyway as so much is different.

4) No there are like 17 methods of payment now, including a direct credit card billing.

Welcome back to Eorzea.

In case you haven't seen it here is End of an Era video that kinda shows you what happend and what's to come for ARR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqL3-n2-3J4

Ah, I wasn't clear on that. I guess what confuses me is that I've heard the existing character servers described as Legacy servers. I assume you can't take your level 30 character that isn't "Legacy" and place it on a fresh server, so it would only be playable on a "legacy" server? If not that, then they'll either have 3 server types (legacy, fresh, and "not legacy but not fresh") or people with pre-existing characters CAN play on fresh servers. Make sense?

This. Not new = Legacy.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Legacy Status = You paid for the game when subs started. You get reduced fees, extra mounts, etc.
Legacy Character = Any character that was around in 1.0 times gets transferred over to ARR with a new storyline. Legacy characters are treated in the new world by in-game characters as "Hollow Beings".

Legacy Character doesn't necessarily mean you have Legacy Status, but no characters were deleted due to inactivity.

I wonder how much different the story would be? Like enough to make a new character to try do the other story as well.

More like ghosts, I expect. They thought that everyone who was in the final battle died at Bahamut's hands (flames? mouth?) - they had no idea that Lousoix managed to save many of them.

Does anyone know what the price of the orginal XIV CE was? 1.0 CE rather.. I was looking online but I couldnt find it because work computers blocking me lol.. Im curious how close the price of the original CE will compare with ARR CE as I plan to by the one ARR offers.

Kind of a random question, are level caps going to be raised on the legacy servers? In the previous version people would be doing endgame and such, but this is the beginning so no endgame? Are the new story line quests going to scale to high level characters? I know there's a lot of new activities like FATEs and such, just curious as it would seem there wouldn't be much to do for maxed out players.

Ah ok, thanks

Edit: The roaming Primal battles sound sick, I can see companies having a few scouts in every zone waiting for a pop...like old school NM camping

Edited, May 8th 2013 11:38am by SkinwalkerAsura