Currently at the FanFest right now.

DeviFoxx

DeviFoxx

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Contacting via my hotel room.

I was one of the earliest ones here.

Thank GOD they're using a new registration system now. No more waiting in a damn three hour line... My feet hurt so bad in 2007...

Instead they're having people as they arrive go in and pick up registration tickets with a specific number on it. Instead of being forced to wait in a long-ass line and having to worry about people cutting in front of you, they'll be calling people to come pick up their tickets in waves.

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I'm in group one to pick up a ticket. I got there at about 11am.

Oh yeah.

Guys? Guess what? I found out why the tickets sold out especially fast this year.

Well... In 2006, the Fanfest had about 1,500 people...

In 2007, the FanFest just had a little over 2,000+ people.

This year? The FanFest strictly sold out at a miniscule 500 people.

I'm supposed to be meeting Aniero from Limit Break Radio here (A popular, FFXI-themed Podcast if you haven't heard), and helping him conduct some interviews.

While I am disappointed that only two people from Quetz are confirmed to be here (Myself, and Darkruler), I'm glad that the FanFest is at an extremely familiar location for me. The intersection of Hollywood & Highland. Sharing the corner with famous locations like Ripley's Believe it or Not. The El Capitan theatre where Disney plays their latest movies. The Mann Chinese theatre. And the place where they host the Academy Awards.

Hopefully, I'll have my dorky Nomad Moogle Shield tonight. I'll be taking plenty of pics.

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See you all soon.
 
Cant wait to see whats new this year around and what the Moogle Shield actually does.

Dont forget to take pics of the lolCosplayers :biggrin:
 
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No more waiting in a damn three hour line... My feet hurt so bad in 2007...
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stay away from the military lol, i wish that was all i had to stand around for in a day
 
Looking forward to any early info you can provide and dont forget to take some and post pictures of the lolCosplayers.

Also want to see you in your Galka Costumn!!!

Have fun with the LBR thing also
 
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In addition to the "Group Registration Ticket" idea, Square-Enix decided to step up their efficiency by separating registration booths into six sections, divided Alphabetically by people's last names.

That way, the line gets processed much faster than it did in 07 and 08.

I have plenty of video footage, but I'll wait until later to compile it and upload it.

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The contents of the Gobbie Bag this year. Thank goodness they got rid of all the filler crap (I.E. advertisements and fliers from local businesses and sponsors of the event like Dell XPS Laptops and Alienware posters).

Scott Ramsoomair, the Canadian Author of VG Cats had his new webcomic Adventure Log printed up and bundled along with the introductory booklet for the FanFest. The comic strip itself has been up for a couple of weeks now, so this one that came with the FanFest is for more exposure, I suppose. AlienWare dropped something useful into the gobbie bag; a keychain with one of those red-light laser pointers on the end of it. It's kinda bright, so it helps out alot. Square-Enix also gave out tickets to sponsor a free lunch tomorrow in addition to the complementary dinner that was served tonight.

In addition to the Gobbie & Mandragora keychains and the FFXI Business Card holder that you guys already know about, apparently, tomorrow they'll also be selling a Shadow Lord Statue in the Merchandise store.

In a further attempt to "spoil" us, Square-Enix also gave us a card that gave hotel guests free Wi-Fi internet access for the duration of the FanFest.

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The Tarut Cards are back, with sweet new illustrations done by artist Fumio Minagawa. I read the FFXI FanFest Booklet from top to bottom, and they seem to serve no practical purpose other than collective functions. You're given a deck of one type of them in your gobbie bag--as you were in FFXI FanFest 2006. And like '06, and the Lower Jeuno quest in game, people were shouting over each other for card trades:

"HERMIT? DO YOU NEED IT?! THE FOOL! CAN I HAVE IT?!"

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A close up shot of the cards.

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The name tags this year.

I wish the server name wasn't so tiny.

Some random person from another server actually recognized my name:

"DeviFoxx... Where have I heard that name before?"

I'm the .DAT file guy.

"Yeah, that's probably why. *Randomly walks off*"

...lol

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As a further act of consideration on Square-Enix's part, we are also given a Notepad and Pen in the Gobbie Bag to jot down whatever we see fit.

... I took pictures of the contents of the booklet, by the way. I'll post them shortly. They're high-resolution pictures.
 
/wave Darkruler and Devi :) Tell him I said hi and to take a lot of pics!
 
Why did they only let 500 people come this year?
 
The 500 people thing sucks, glad you're having a good time so far!
 
Me and Darkruler went back home.

Rioko, I mentioned you said hi. He was laughing. We had an excellent time.

I split after the Dev Panel.

The batteries in my camera died about then. But I got alot of pics. And I got a writeup about the Dev Panel.

If Calintzpso is online and has an FTP ready for me, I can make a Media Dump of everything I recorded.

I'll make a summarization video of the compiled footage later, but I'll still upload the raw footage.
 
Scholar Tier 2 Merits:

These are Stratagems, I believe.

Altruism Uses 2 Charges. White-Magic oriented. Increases the accuracy of White Magic spells.

Focalization Uses 2 Charges. Black-Magic oriented. Increases the accuracy of Black Magic spells.

Tranquility Enmity rate that is gained from casting White Magic spells goes down.

Equanimity Enmity rate that is gained from casting Black Magic spells goes down.

Enlightenment Optimizes your White Magic & Black Magic, allowing you to toggle back and forth between White and Black magic quickly for a brief period.

Stormsurge Storm-spells are beefed up according to their proper elements.
 
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Dancer Tier 2 Merits

Sabre Dance The rate of Double Attack is increased for a brief period. However, Waltzes are temporarily disabled for the duration. (No Cure, Erase, etc.)

Fan Dance Reduces damage and increases enmity gained, ideal for tanking. However, Sambas are temporarily disabled.

No Foot Rise Instantly gives you upwards of FIVE finishing moves! Kind of like "Convert" for DNCs.

Closed Position When face-to-face with an enemy, you gain a bonus to Accuracy and Evasion.

... My camera's batteries died before I could take a pic of DNC AF2. You guys already know what SCH AF2 looks like.

But DNC AF2 is basically... Instead of a Red color scheme with a Black trim. It's a WHITE color scheme with a BLUE trim... Looks very classy.
 
The Special Task Force report:

33.9 Billion Gil has been frozen.

And a total of 82,000 accounts have been banned.

And the Dev team showed us that same Star-Wars style scrolling text with all the people and server's names who've been perma banned. I almost died laughing when I saw the name Fubio scroll by.
 
The Special Task Force plans to employ a kind of Psychological Warfare to discourage RMTs from ever coming back.

They're trying to combat people taking advantage of the 14-day free trial and get rid of fishing bots.

People below Lv. 20 will be fatigued by fishing ALOT more frequently now. They're even going to try messing with the Moat Carps for Lu Shang's Fishing Rod by messing with the fish somehow.

GM Activity will be increased. If you peform an illegal activity, you be teleported to Mordion Gaol and confronted with a GM NPC named Read Me in which you will have to /check and see why you're there.

They're also working harder to combat the Friend List message spamming to prevent it from ever coming back.
 
...that's why my entire ls was banned on Wednesday.

And Devi: Stop spending time here and enjoy what all of us don't have ; ;.

Edit: Any more details on stormsurge? SCH G2 Merit.
 
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So...any word on Smn Avatars? <_<
 
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