Hi everyone!

Thank you all for reading and thanks for the comments.

A very big thank you @ZizouX for reminding us of the Beta 4 carry-over and a similar thanks @Guin10 for providing a source and confirmation!

Also, thanks for the heads-up @DrivenDawn regarding Golden Saucer.  I was planning on working Caravan Defense with a few other elements in the next column.  I'm going to need to do some research on GS and its incarnation in FFXIV.

Originally posted by exile01
Wow my teachers would kill me if i would present them such a weak Projectplan. Very weak planned.

 

It's weak because it's flexible and has plenty of room for change?  It's pretty unprecedented for a game developer to devulge any amount of their development process to the community ahead of time.  A more detailed plan is not needed to give to the community because:

A: Not necessary because it would contain information that the majority of the community would not understand.

B: and the main reason! Would contain spoilers that would ruin the game experience for the players already interested in the game.

The schedule is loose because of a fairly famous business rule:  Underpromise and Overdeliver.

If you cut yourself short on time because you allot only the time it takes to get the job done you are setting yourself up to fail when things unexpected come along.  So I think this is a very forward thinking and flexible road map for Beta to Launch for FFXIV:ARR.

Originally posted by Smoey

Originally posted by exile01
Wow my teachers would kill me if i would present them such a weak Projectplan. Very weak planned.

Dumbed down for the masses

His teacher didnt teach him that in his high school class.

Originally posted by exile01
Wow my teachers would kill me if i would present them such a weak Projectplan. Very weak planned.

Those who cannot do teach, they say. Profitible, experienced corperations planning 9/10 times is > school's idea of how it actually works in the industry.

Still curious about this. Did not play 1.0.  I get the whole quest-hub thing and fine with it.  But what ELSE will we be able to do?  Can we fish? Can we craft *useable* weapons/gear?

Quest hubs only get boring when thats the only thing (system) in the game that progresses you.  We need options.

Even though I have no intentions of buying this game and wouldnt play it unless its free, I really really REALLY hope it does well and that the rebirth is GOOD.

Then I can point to this game every time I hear someone tell people to stop complaining about games in beta because its TOO LATE, or that the changes being asked for WONT come. Its time companies start to listen to beta testers again about game design flaws, and missing content like they used to...time to end the cycle of bad MMO releases, time for companies to get back in touch with the playerbase.

Here is to wishing for a good rebirth!

Originally posted by darkhalf357x

Still curious about this. Did not play 1.0.  I get the whole quest-hub thing and fine with it.  But what ELSE will we be able to do?  Can we fish? Can we craft *useable* weapons/gear?

Quest hubs only get boring when thats the only thing (system) in the game that progresses you.  We need options.

There's a lot of content planned.  Best thing to do is look at the PDFs on the Lodestone, even though some of it won't make it right at launch.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/teaser/index.html - the content PDFs are listed here

Crafting was never useless.  In fact, some of the best gear you could wear was crafted gear with multiple materia melded to it. Said gear outshined even most of the Job Specfic gear.