No matter how you think about this news, don’t forget to buy FFXIV Gils just in our site. Andriasang, a Japanese gaming blog, is reporting that the next Famitsu will feature an interview with the Final Fantasy XIV team. Their bullet point summary, which came from another gaming blog, Game Jouhou, is as follows:
The alpha test had bad tempo with insufficient explanations. They’ve made some revisions to the beta, resulting in a completely different system. It will be easier to save up Gil. You remember that amazing comparison shot showing how much better the beta looks compared to the alpha? It seems that the beta uses a different technique for its shadows. The alpha version used something called “Project Shadows” while the beta version uses “Depth Buffer Shadows.” The city of Limsa Lominsa will have two levels, and so on.
Three final notes worth mentioning, a quick look at the original Game Jouhou page (google translation), also shows otherwise unreported lines – first loosely translated from Japanese into broken English by Google, and then from broken English into the below by yours truly. Even considering the source, these are still noteworthy:
They are considering allowing player bazaars to run even while players are logged out.Players can participate in the the fighting arena and gambling halls in Ul’dah. Items can be inscribed like in FFXI.
We’ll be on the lookout for the actual Famitsu article, so we can verify these (and other?) bits of information.