Looking through people's reactions to this is amazing. The amount of assumptions and projections from people on what this implies for the state of the game and more is stunning. Not on here, but other sites like NeoGAF and the Polygon comments. A car of all things is signaling red alerts in people's minds.
I see people mention magic too, as if if it was originally supposed to be in the demo or something... It was already stated a WHILE back that the magic system is in place for the most part, but the effects aren't created. It was being put off in development as it was easy to implement. Therefore, it's not going to be in the demo, it never was supposed to be in the demo.
I really wish that the full interview was posted instead of this random piece of information we could have done without, because without the rest of the context of this interview, people will be bitching and doomsaying until something gets cleared up next week.
Tabata isn't even quoted for saying the car was removed to begin with.
Originally we were planning on making the car be available to drive throughout the world and throughout the demo
But we didn’t want people to mistake it and think ‘When did Final Fantasy become a driving game?'
You’ll be able to experience the starting point of what an open-world Final Fantasy would potentially feel like,” Tabata said. “You’ll really be able to experience that seamless Final Fantasy world within the demo itself, but then if you play it, you’ll still really get a sense that it’s a Final Fantasy game. You’ll get that balance within the demo.
So, we will be able to explore the open world and the seamless experience with it... but how? The seamlessness comes from being able to go from town to town without a disconnect from the world map or to feel like you jump from town to town or in a linear pathway. So, how do you experience this in the demo?
If people think back to how the automatic driving for the car worked, you bring up your map and pick a place for you to get driven towards. THAT is assumingly still in the demo, because the car is still an integral part of transportation across an OPEN WORLD that is supposed to be SEAMLESS.
So, the extent of the car usage in the demo is you cannot manually drive, but instead you will just select where you want to go and Ignis will drive there for you. This is what I'm imagining from this explanation. I want to see the rest of the interview, I think it was stupid for Polygon to release only this piece of information about the demo. It's clear that there is more to learn about the demo from the full interview, and they picked this one piece knowing people would pick it apart and complain and start calling for the end of the world.
Someone on NeoGAF even said:
I wasn't planning on getting the demo anyway but now it just seems even more pointless to buy.I'll just wait for the final game.
As if driving the car was the most important part of this game, and not the BATTLE SYSTEM and the GAME SYSTEM. Exploring dungeons and the world map and fighting enemies including a SUMMON and then SUMMONING that summon is somehow LESS important than MANUALLY DRIVING A CAR IN A LIMITED SPACE FOR A DEMO.
What is wrong with people?!
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