Lightning Returns : Final Fantasy XIII isn’t due to be released stateside until February of 2014. Unfortunately, it already has quite the stigma: it’s a part of the notorious Final Fantasy XIII series.
Despite the black cloud following the series, many fans have been eagerly awaiting this installment of the Fabula Nova Crystallis...
Today, during a pane at PAX East, Square Enix announced the release date of the next expansion Dawntrail, on top of the editions and more.
The MMORPG will arrive on Xbox consoles on 21st March following its open beta, with Square Enix releasing further details on the launch in a new Lodestone blog post.
Not only is Game Pass required to play the game in full, but FFXIV Coins will be required to make purchases - a new currency not used on PC or PlayStation.
What's even the point if they're doing everything possible to convince people NOT to play?
Bad idea. Kind of at the point its almost like a repeat of FFXI on the 360 with it requiring Gold to play.
Greed greed nothing but greed. Anyone who willingly plays 14 on Xbox is a bona fide sucker.
Kotaku writes: "That’s thanks to a series of announcements from Square Enix about exclusive features and play requirements, the latest being a new currency called FFXIV Coins."
Complete and utter overreaction, lined with irrationality.
The costume is completely optional. Don't like it? don't wear it. And if one thinks the Miqo'te costume is inappropriate to Lightning's image, he's been under a rock, as there are plenty more revealing ones in LR with way more outrageous poses, just a smuch as plenty chaste and stoic ones.
Also, if you're puzzled by how they'll make the crossover plausible, you didn't play either Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn's beta, because it's pretty evident, considering that dimension traveling is relevant to both lores. There's some serious homework to do here before writing opinion pieces.
And lol @ "insult". An "aspiring journalist" should learn to avoid using completely inappropriate and overblown terms.
It's a matter of *options* and as far as I remember, giving players many and varied options are a good thing, not a bad one.
what would be cool is if they went back to old school turn based combat, but add stuff like changing outfits like you do in skyrim, each different item changes that specific part of your body. Instead they just keep making this crap.
It's not so much the outfit itself that's the biggest problem. Variety is great; however, I think their reasoning for doing it is solely to appease their mmo/Japanese audience. It's like using models at a car show. Yeah, they're hot and all, but it seems like a cheap marketing tool to draw people in. I don't mind sexy Lightning at all, quite the contrary. I just don't like her being cheapened and used like an advertising prop.
BTW Yes, technically there are cross dimensional travel capabilities in both games. The problem is Lightning is already the protagonist for one series. It's hard to take a character with such a big role in a story and transplant them into another one, especially considering they're entirely different in storytelling methods. Those that don't play the MMOs are getting left out of a chunk of a crucial character's "history". So, yes, I stand behind my statement that this is catering to one crowd and leaving out the rest.
wow... if you don't want the costume, don't download it.
who's to say sometimes people might want to get out of their shell and have some fun. Kind of like many people do at Halloween.