Did Sword Art Online help Final Fantasy XIV?

[Pseudopsia]

I am probably older than you <.< My generation of anime is Sailor Moon, Fushigi Yuugi, Saint Seiya etc. Mid 90s T.T

AstroBoy and Robotech(Macross). I win!

[Abriael]

True this shouldn't be a debate on which is better since they are both good...

Which is why I never talked about which was better. More popular != better.

[jwang]

Slam Dunk! That series got so many reruns in China...

[Kirito]

My first anime was evangelion and tenchi muyo... guess I'm the youngest >.>

[Zehira]

My first anime was...

[ispano]

My first anime was...

Beast King GoLion?
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...anime&aid=3507

[Zehira]

Beast King GoLion?
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...anime&aid=3507

Yes, that's when I was 2 years old with my older brother. hehe ^^

[Vilhem]

AstroBoy and Robotech(Macross). I win!

Oh ya those too xD forgot to mention em

[Soukyuu]

@OP: yes, it could have something to do with SAO. People tend to get influenced by things they liked, and even people who never played a MMO would want to try it to have a chance of building some memories with their friends in a different world. There are many people who use games to take a break from the real world, and a persistent world (= MMO) might appeal more to some. So it's not only FFXIV, rather it's MMOs in general. I'm seeing Kiritos and Asunas all over the place <_<

One major difference between SAO and .hack// is the fact that SAO uses a fulldive system, meaning you are disconnected from your body, while in .hack// you're just wearing a head mounted display. The industry has mostly given up on introducing HMDs to consumers because of high costs. The whole VR hype that started with the virtualboy was too early, so that might also have been the reason why .hack// wasn't that popular...

Now however, the prices for components have dropped and new enthusiasts popped up (see oculus rift, for example). Maybe we will see more progress towards VR getting done, and if you ask me, MMO is one of the genres that is fit for testing this type of technology out. I'd be the first to put a NerveGear on my head... though only if I knew that thing is safe.

Maybe everyone wants to be a Beater(Beta Cheater) now

A certain discussion reminded me of how a certain circle of people were given a certain (unfair) treatment by some vocal members of the community, so yeah. Who's going to pull a Lelouch/Kirito in that case, I wonder?

I dunno though, SAO is just, x-x...

Read the novels. The anime was mostly a catastrophe from a novel reader's perspective. It left out too many sweet pieces that fleshed out the story, it was as if they were doing it on purpose.

[Kirito]

@OP: yes, it could have something to do with SAO. People tend to get influenced by things they liked, and even people who never played a MMO would want to try it to have a chance of building some memories with their friends in a different world. There are many people who use games to take a break from the real world, and a persistent world (= MMO) might appeal more to some. So it's not only FFXIV, rather it's MMOs in general. I'm seeing Kiritos and Asunas all over the place <_<

One major difference between SAO and .hack// is the fact that SAO uses a fulldive system, meaning you are disconnected from your body, while in .hack// you're just wearing a head mounted display. The industry has mostly given up on introducing HMDs to consumers because of high costs. The whole VR hype that started with the virtualboy was too early, so that might also have been the reason why .hack// wasn't that popular...

Now however, the prices for components have dropped and new enthusiasts popped up (see oculus rift, for example). Maybe we will see more progress towards VR getting done, and if you ask me, MMO is one of the genres that is fit for testing this type of technology out. I'd be the first to put a NerveGear on my head... though only if I knew that thing is safe.

A certain discussion reminded me of how a certain circle of people were given a certain (unfair) treatment by some vocal members of the community, so yeah. Who's going to pull a Lelouch/Kirito in that case, I wonder?
Read the novels. The anime was mostly a catastrophe from a novel reader's perspective. It left out too many sweet pieces that fleshed out the story, it was as if they were doing it on purpose.

Actually sony has recently revealed a headset for future game play as an extension to there ps3 system... We may get a dot.hack kind of experience for ff14 in the coming years... I think it was show cased on tokyo game show...