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Square Won’t Begin Charging For Final Fantasy XIV For A While Longer

By Ishaan . November 29, 2011 . 12:00pm

Square Wont Begin Charging For Final Fantasy XIV For A While Longer

Patch 1.20 for Final Fantasy XIV was supposed to be released toward the end of November, but producer, Naoki Yoshida, says that the inclusion of a few features is making the process take longer than anticipated. 1.20 is now planned for early December.

 

New features include a Dark Moogle quest/battle, new seasonal events, class reforms, achievements, PC search, and market tweaks. PC search and market tweaks in particular are rather demanding of resources, but the team’s programmers are hard at work on them.

 

Also planned are tweaks to the repair system. The repair animations will be shortened, as will the time taken to repair an item. You’ll also be able to have NPCs repair your items instead of doing it yourself or asking another player character for help.

 

You can read the full list of planned changes for patch 1.20 in this column from Yoshida. Additionally, Yoshida assures that while Square plan to begin charging a fee for playing Final Fantasy XIV again sometime in the future, this won’t happen until patch 1.20 has been out for a while.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Iris-Repliforce/100001201063895 Iris Repliforce

    Thank everything, I was prepared to actually stop playing.

    Yay for extensions.

    I am ready for this patch. I can’t wait until they fix this big mess.

    And fix the 3d support….

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000172099718 Dominic Hunter

      And fix the game…

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000301072427 Mark Shaver

        Obviously that’s what they’re doing. Someone clearly has a grudge.

  • TwinbladeAlkaid

    Whohoo thanks for the news, another patch that probably won’t change much. Patching things that are supposed to be in the game in the first place…

    I’m still trying to figure out why this game was such a absolute mess to begin with. Now let’s just hope it will be more bearable for those who are still playing. I myself stopped after the beta tests.
    I know the game wasn’t ready then but that doesn’t seem to be the case any time soon anyway.

    • Guest

      This project has been a mess because the game was released before being ready, with tons of things to be fixed. Square didn’t care one bit and rushed the whole thing, and the results are here. A complete disaster on every front.

      • TwinbladeAlkaid

        From what I’ve seen I can only agree to that. Let’s hope “Versus” will be different then since that one has been announced yeares ago (so that one isn’t rushed like XIV). If not it might be just another “Duke Nukem Forever”.
        Still curious about how FFXIV will turn out in the end. They seem to try really hard but … to be honest it would require a lot more than patching to bring those back who lost all hope and fun.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000172099718 Dominic Hunter

    So everyone get a good dose of mediocrity in before they make you start paying for it!

  • http://twitter.com/Ale598 Ale598

    Too late, you said you were charging in November so I already uninstalled. Weirdly enough after play the SW:TOR beta weekend I don’t think I have a problem paying a monthly fee for that instead.

    • Scrooge_McDuck

      Why so smug about it? It’s not like you stopping to play now makes a difference to them compared to a month later if you still do it before they start charging.

      • http://twitter.com/Ale598 Ale598

        You right, I wasn’t going to pay a monthly fee for that anyway.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Groce/100000039461956 Alexander Groce

           So you were being smug for what reason exactly?

          • http://twitter.com/Ale598 Ale598

            I blame my split personality.

  • http://twitter.com/Megawarrior345 Elle

    They shouldn’t have said anything tbh. I know many people who are already quit/gave up because of the announcement that they would have to pay.

  • PrinceHeir

    will wait for Version 2.0 to give them a chance :P

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