Yoshi-P Interview: Limit Breaks, PvP, Future Classes, etc.

[Jimm]

http://jpgames-forum.de/jpgames-de-...asy-xiv-our-new-interview-with-naoki-yoshida/

What do you all think of the cross-server duty finder? Sounds useful, but it seems like it might take away from the community a bit by grouping you with randoms from other servers. Hopefully there is a "group by same server" option or something.

 

[Seront]

I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I can appreciate the assistance that this system gives to solo players and people who find themselves stuck on a particular quest/mission. On the other hand, however, I met some of the most awesome people that I shared my XI experience with through the sort of "forced cooperation" surrounding leveling and progressing with missions and quests.

I think that, like you suggest, allowing a player to accept a longer queue time in order to ask the system to group you with only players from your server might be a good middle ground, and a way to meet people that you can group with in the future and establish friendships with. If a player feels that they just want to get something done in a hurry, however, they could just queue up with an "all servers pool" option.

Edit: Also, the Party Limit Break system sounds really cool and reminds me of party cooperation on the level of something like Skill Chaining in XI.