Massive Scale Battles

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Shadowhero says
We were told to give look at the Logo Artwork to have a hint at what the new battle system might be.

I noticed the colors, red and blue. I noticed the weapons for the red colored players. I noticed the weapons for the blue type players. I noticed the faces for them both.

They're different. The red still looks like players, just more evil. The blue look like players, just on the good side.

What i'm trying to say is, I think this game is going to be way more heavily PvP based. Square Enix were even talking about giant battles... What could be more fun than a giant battle of PvP?

Sort of "copying" war... but not directly, it's just the same idea.

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12th June 2009
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Ariska's Comment:
The thought of some spectacular, epic scale battles is really appealing. One of the main parts of Final Fantasy XI that I and many others enjoyed was the large battles, particularly those involved with events. For example, the Dynamis Lord fight, whereby up to 64 participants may engage a single opposition, is an epic battle that is always full of danger and excitement.

With much luck, this kind of epic theme will be repeated in Final Fantasy XIV, perhaps even larger in scale. Shadowhero's theory hints towards the large amount of characters in the Final Fantasy 14 Logo Artwork, which, when you consider the clues given, could really imply the large scale battles, or even the wars, that he's considering.

The thought of participating in an epic battle with potentially hundreds of characters, whether it's ten players and one hundred and seventy NPCs, is an exciting one to put it mildly.

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Malteron
Well, I've played a few MMO's and getting 64 people together for a single battle and having 1 or 2 drops has given those of us who have done it 100 times to know that it's a head-ache waiting to happen. 64 participants... 64 individual people saying things like, "my toes are cold", or "when are we starting?"... this is not hard-core gaming - it's babysitting 101.

What I do see from the logo is that formation is important and they could be little lame bonuses to fighting in formation like how FF11 has lame bonuses for doing SC with each other. Turns out... in FF11 it's better to just do SC alone since people have TP at different times and waiting for everyone to have enough is counter-productive.

9:40pm, Tuesday 23rd June, 2009
Shawn
Now this is something I would love to see.
1:19am, Friday 12th June, 2009