I have great news for FFXIclopedia and FFXI players. Ganiman and I, along with the other premier website admins were invited to an FFXI Summit. The big announcement from this summit came from Sage Sundi himself:
FFXI Window Mode has been confirmed!
Sundi said that the window mode will be made available through an update. He made no comment as to the release date of the update, but they do plan to provide the information for the release at a future time.
The news came at the end of a daylong meeting. The Square-Enix Community Team laid down the groundwork for what will be a strong relationship between the community team and their premier web sites. If you haven’t guessed already, we were whole-heartedly added to that list of sites. Thanks to the hard work of everyone here, we will now join the rest of the premier sites on Playonline.
A good portion of the meeting was spent informing us of the Community Team’s role. We learned that part of their role is reading our forums. In fact, one employee spends the bulk of his day staying informed on community issues. So, to all those who say Square-Enix does not pay attention to the forums or player concerns, you can rest assured that they do in fact read these pages, and they consider our ideas for future releases.
With this is mind, we have decided to create a forum dedicated to reaching the Community Team. The forum will be used to make it easier for them to research community issues, hot topics, and questions. Keep in mind that Square-Enix staff will not be interacting in the forums, but they will definitely be reading our posts.
On to the cool stuff we got to do. Ganiman and I got to play in a special assault called The Gathering Storm. We were divided into 4 teams of 3. The mission: mass destruction. We had to kill as many mobs as possible in 5 minutes. The team consisted of a black mage, a blue mage, and a paladin. We were all given a very strong auto-refresh, auto-regen, and auto-tp. The mobs were significantly lower in level, but strong enough to kill me within the first minute. Ganiman faired much better in this fight. His team went on to beat the Square-Enix Community team at the end of the tournament, 33-24.
The final in-game event was called Heroine’s Combat. Several volunteers were picked to take on this 6-person bcnm. Ganiman and I were among the volunteers. We had four very powerful, and familiar NPC mobs. Only the original 6 job choices were allowed. We went in with a warrior, black mage, white mage, monk, thief, and red mage. It was a challenging fight, and we learned that they only had a 25% success rate at the Tokyo Game Show. Of course Ganiman and I, along with our friends from the other premier sites, proved our North American gaming skills by pulling off the win.
We gained some insight into future FFXI updates in the short question and answer session. We learned that there is currently no plan to update the drops from the Lord of Onzozo. However, there are plans to expand the linkshell community site. They are planning to update the linshell community site with ideas they have received online from sites like FFXIclopedia.org. We also found out that NPC’s cannot travel to Aht Urhgan zones because they don’t want these areas to become overrun with beastmaster and NPC parties.
They also confirmed that another expansion will be released at some point. No details as to the exact date or even the name of the release were announced. Finally, they alluded to having a solution in mind for the current Windows Vista problems.
The Community Team seemed especially excited to work with us on translating the FFXIclopedia into French and German. When we move to our new servers, we will make these additions to the site.
Więcej:
http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff ... etail.html
I tu:
Allakhazam:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/news/070303- ... ummit.html
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/news/exodus_ ... -2007.html
Wiki:
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=2591
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=2643
FFXIOnline:
http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/news-f ... eport.html
FFXI Vault:
http://ffvault.ign.com/fullstory.php?id=27096
http://ffvault.ign.com/fullstory.php?id=27116
http://ffvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Co ... lect_id=17
http://ffvault.ign.com/fullstory.php?id=27331