It looks like there is also a summon being cast on the hydra... I would say Ifrit... except this is clearly not the ifrit model... fenrir maybe?

The problem i have is that this looks like its way too much work for SE to pull off. On top of that they have about a 2 year time line on this project. The PS3 Beta and V2.0 Free Trial period are currently slated for December 2013. Thats over 2 years away. Yet some how I still feel like SE is going to botch things up at some point and delay it past that.

Im feeling good about this, but given SE's past I wont "set hopes to high"

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Version 2.0 Release: October 2012 (Includes PS3 beta)
PS3 Retail Release: January 2013.

Thats one year, not two.

I read that timeline wrong.

Still, Im going to have to assume the reason patches and updates have been slow for the last year is due to all this work going on in the background. I just dont like to assume.

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Ok thanks ket, I didn't see it sorry.

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That's what I'm guessing. It said they started work on the new server in May, and there's been 2.0 planning since April. Which is kind of around the time I think I started to complain that the updates were good but too slow, lol.

It makes you wonder if they'd have got it done faster if they just shut down the game while they did it. Right now any content they add that isn't to do with the "cataclysm" (ie: will be gone after 2.0) basically has to be done twice.

perhaps its a log of hits & misses? or hits and hits taken?

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the first 7 jobs are coming before pets, the notes say that additional jobs will come to coincide with the release of the pet system. I'm assuming at that point they'll slap a wyvern onto DRG, add a BST type class (they said tamable pets) and i'm still confused on if they will make a SMN job or not, though primal summoning is confirmed

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I don't feel like trying to shoe horn content for a completely new system into the old one is a total waste of time though. It gives SE a chance to gauge feedback directly from the players without having an official alpha test out. It also lets players build on top of an idea the dev team was working on.

It's just sad and a tad bit frustrating that because the game is continuing to run and have to be retro fitted for everything, it probably severely has slowed down the rate of production the real game could have had.

I'm having a hard time deciding if the value of player feedback is above the value of purely devoted dev time if they had just shut down 14 and started on a new game. I'm a little miffed that some really stupid concepts like the armoury system we're now going to be stuck with in a game that would have probably benefitted without being associated with 14.

This reminds me of how NCSoft hyped up Aion with a "3.0" video which, I believe, never came to fruition.

Hopefully SE can pull it off, but it does seem like a mega pipe-dream right now.

Actually Kayne i'm pretty sure Aion is about to release version 3.0, they are on like version 2.8 atm or something? And pretty much everything in the vision trailer has been already or will be released in 3.0

This SE announcement reminded me alot of aion's vision trailer too, except in PDF form instead of a video. Basically just showing us the plans for the next few years

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Well, hopefully the game is successful. I think Kitty and I have officially decided not to have our accounts charged for the game, however, so as soon as they fire up the pay-to-play model, I think we'll exit stage left.

Parts of it have been fun, parts of it haven't, but I'm just not sure if I want to tread water for a year, while paying for it, just to see where this game ends up. Maybe I'm just more of a casual care-bear guy now, but I'm not wanting to be a 31-year-old grinding hardcore on MMO games. haha.

Good luck, S-E!

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