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FFXIVCore Follow Up Questions With Hiromichi Tanaka

Webmaster — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:28:14 +0000

FFXIVCore have followed up their previous interview with more questions regarding Final Fantasy XIV. There may not be may questions here, but it’s worth a read.

FFXIVCore Follow Up Questions With Hiromichi Tanaka

GAME Watch Interview with Komoto & Tanaka

Webmaster — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:04:14 +0000

A new interview from the TGS has emerged, featuring Komoto and Tanaka answering questions from GAME Watch. This is an informative interview and features snippets of information about graphics, beta testing, the progress of the game so far and more. This is definitely worth a read.

GAME Watch Interview with Komoto & Tanaka

Minor FF14 informational updates

Webmaster — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:08:58 +0000

The Unconfirmed Rumours, Battle System and Classes pages have all received a minor update based on information gleaned from the new Dengeki Games magazine. There was not much new information here, merely reiterated versions of the content we are familiar with, but there were some small tidbits which were worth including, this consists of a new Disciple of War class, more information about the various gauges in the battle system and the possibility of a trading arena for players.

More Final Fantasy Interviews and a general update

Webmaster — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:59:49 +0000

The interviews just keep coming, we’ve added a couple more to our database, these were done during the GamesCom with the duo Tanaka and Sundi. There is some interesting information there but a lot of it is repeated. We also have updated our Classes page as well as our Battle System page with some more information that was gleaned from the interviews and other sources, so be sure to check them out.

Battle System

Job/Classes

Interviews

A couple more Final Fantasy 14 updates

Webmaster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:43:58 +0000

Just a couple of small updates this time round. To add to the screenshots we gave you the other day we have added some art work that became available during GamesCom 09. These images depict some jobs/classes that characters can be and also some monsters, some of which you will be very familiar with.

Secondly (and rather belatedly, sorry!) we have added the technical demo from 2005. For those of you that don’t know, Square Enix released a mysterious technical demo in 2005 under the ‘Rapture’ moniker, which we now know as Final Fantasy 14. This shows how long this game has been under development for (and I must say, they did a very good job keeping it secret).

Enjoy!

2005 Technical Demo

GamesCom 09 Screenshots / Artwork

For those of you waiting for Final Fantasy XBox 360 news…

Webmaster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:40:02 +0000

Here is a quote from the Square Enix Final Fantasy 14 development team:

“FFXI for 360; at that point PS2 didn’t have a hard disc [and] that was really difficult for us, but Xbox 360 had that from the beginning, so that really helped us. We managed to smoothly move onto 360 from the Windows version, so that was very good to us,”

“However, for FFXIV, because 360 has its own policy with Xbox Live that is different from [the] internet, that’s something we’re in discussions with Microsoft [about], to come to an agreement. That’s one of the reasons it’s not going to be launched at that point.”

More Final Fantasy 14 Updates

Webmaster — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:10:57 +0000

GamesCom keeps rolling and more information keeps being added. Yesterday saw more media being released, as well as another interview. Whilst it isn’t epic in the addition to our knowledge base, these new videos give us a good insight into the user interface, something which is very important for the game. With a cumbersome interface, the enjoyment from the game could be severely limited, no matter how good the game actually us.

So check it out and give us your opinions in our forums?

Below are the updated sections:

Final Fantasy 14 Screenshots

Final Fantasy 14 Interviews

Final Fantasy 14 GamesCom Videos

Final Fantasy 14 GamesCom 09 Update

Webmaster — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:54 +0000

So GamesCom is upon us. It opened its doors yesterday to the public and a day later there has been some considerable addition to the amount of knowledge that we know about Final Fantasy XIV. So far this is mainly in the form of videos but there has been some new interviews conducted with the development team and thus pages from our Confirmed Details, Jobs / Classes and Battle System pages have been updated accordingly.

Square Enix also gave us a (albeit very slight) little more information regarding beta testing. They aim to roll out their beta testing phase this year, so at it’s very worst, you only have 4 months to wait till this phase!

The main points that emerged seem to be the following:

Beta testing is being targeted to commence in 2009
No zoning – the world will be entirely seamless
You cannot change weapons in mid-battle
As of now there are no summons – but there may be in the future
Negotiations with Microsoft are taking place (but they have been for a while)
The game is roughly 50% complete
Square Enix are planning an open Beta

So please enjoy our updates whilst we await further information regarding the emerging news during the rest of the week.

Final Fantasy 14 Interviews

GamesCom 2009 Videos

P.S. If you have managed to be a part of GamesCom 2009 we would love to hear from you. Just drop us an email and we’l be in touch.

Massive Final Fantasy 14 Update!

Webmaster — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:30:25 +0000

Wow, it’s been a busy week for Final Fantasy 14 information. After a quiet period of over a month we suddenly get a deluge of information, very valuable information too.

I’ll give you a quick summary of what has been updated. Firstly the Confirmed Details page had to be revised to account for new information. The Battle System page contains a bit of new information (apparently battles will in fact be in real time), we learn more about Eorzea in the Introduction and Eorzea pages, giving a history of the world and the names and descriptions of cities within Eorzea respectively.

The best bit of content given to us by Square has to be the Job System information. Termed the ‘Armoury’ system, we have learnt that equipping different weapons instantly changes your class, meaning you will not be restricted to any one or two classes and can build a very flexible and unique character which knows a variety of skills from many classes. Read the jobs page for more.

The races have also been confirmed, at least the counterparts to the Final Fantasy 11 races anyway, there has been no mention of any new races that may be included in Final Fantasy 14.

Finally we have more media, with images of each city-state in Eorzea as well as more in-game screenshots pulled from the official website.

We’ve got a couple more bits coming (Guildleves in particular) that are currently being drafted but I hope you enjoy the content that has been updated for you this week.

I wont post links below as there are far too many sections that have been updated, but instead I shall wish you happy browsing!

Final Fantasy XIV Detailed Trailer Analysis

Webmaster — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:06 +0000

The guys over at Gametrailers have done a detailed analysis of the trailer that was shown at this years E3 Expo. They raise some interesting points and is definitely worth viewing. The video is available in both SD and HD formats.

Watch the SD version
Watch the HD version