Welcome me back! Campaign A.K.A. What's New?Follow

Hi guys!

I fully expected to find a bunch of "What's new?" threads when I got here but I see none ;; I want to try out FFXIV again with the Welcome Back campaign and I'm interested to know the Cliff's Notes on the changes. I tried to read old patch notes but..... they had lots of words in them..


I stopped playing just after Chocobos were added and I was fairly involved in Endgame Dungeon runs, though I didn't do much with materia and Ifrit.

^^ Thanks for the checklist!

I tried out the first iteration of defense missions, with the supply cart defense thing. I had lots of fun PRE-patch so I'm anticipating good things here.

when is the welcome back thingy?

Now I know it's written on the lodestone and what not...but do you not think they would of sent out mass e-mails by now? Maybe it ended up in my junk mail, but I typically receive things from SE...about 2 months AFTER the event has happened. If you've stopped following this game, you have NO idea this happening. Has anyone received anything at all?

I thought it came in the email that linked to the Legacy Campaign?

Last e-mail I got from them was about the server transfer. Are you currently an active player?

I only noticed because I was lurking here. I would have never known otherwise.

I don't think I will qualify for the return, since I only played the beta version... but I am going to join up now anyway. I have had a few friends playing since the launch and they have been talking about all the changes. While I know a lot of the major underlying issues won't get resolved until 2.0, I am going to join up and get my feet wet... the best way to appreciate a big change is to see what it was like before.

Hopefully SE will do well with this trial period and bring back a bit of a following. I think they are on the right track :)

So... it's the 9th and my account is still inactive. Are they doing this after the patch today or...?

I think we have another 12 hours to wait. They are doing it late tonight

Info here

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/campaign/campaign.html#welcome

Edited, May 9th 2012 11:24am by Kuwabara85

It's always good to see them e-mailing the people that are already paying...forget the people you want to bring back who can potentially pay.

Even worse, Minecraft was just released on Xbox 360... Daaaaamnn yoouuuuuuu

Just to throw something out there about this. It says on the lodestone page http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/campaign/campaign.html#welcome

"If you previously cancelled your FFXIV service account, then you’ll need to reactivate it (and no charges will apply). Once you reactivate your service account, you will not need to reactivate your characters to participate in this campaign."

I wonder if they will start charging you if you don't deactivate by the 20th. I know they have some funky payment options that you have to set up, but I'm not fully familiar with that. I suppose we'll know more in a few hours. I'm surprised they didn't send out an email or something announcing this. Maybe they don't want a flood of people coming in by only getting the people that have been paying attention to the games progress.

Just to clarify.

I didn't cancel my service account, just my character. Do I just need to wait for the time to roll around for the free time to start? Or do I need to reactivate my character.

Servers can't handle it?