2.5 Trailer?

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Originally Posted by Chewy2nd

The 2.4 website launched around 10 days before 2.4 itself, though 2.3's launched a few weeks before, so there's not any real schedule for when they launch. So it'll likely come tommorow.

Did we ever get solid confirmation that Yoshi did indeed say 20th Jan at the Nico Nico event?

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in english it is said as LATE jan, however there is a warning to those with the eternal bonding to not book during the 19th (assumed maintenance for 2.5) the 20th (2.5 day 1) and the 21st (2.5's emergency hot fix's) but according to a japanese newsletter thing it was specifically said as the 20th.

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

2.5 nothing so far

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That’s not entirely true Draco. During the 19th Live Letter (which was being held at the Tokyo Fan Fest), they showed us preview trailers of the new World of Darkness, the Keeper of the Lake, Amdapor Keep HM and Wanderer’s Palace HM.

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Originally Posted by Aldora

That’s not entirely true Draco. During the 19th Live Letter (which was being held at the Tokyo Fan Fest), they showed us preview trailers of the new World of Darkness, the Keeper of the Lake, Amdapor Keep HM and Wanderer’s Palace HM.

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ah my apologies, i have corrected this. i don't know how that had slipped my mind, when i can recall the heavenward videos maybe my hype overhyped me past it D:

At this point - I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed it to January 27th? Yeah - there was that JP stream, but the New Year's post was made after the JP stream and provided a "window" of mid to late January. The fact that a window was provided after the January 20th mention on the JP stream would seem to indicate that nothing is set in stone.

I would say there's a stronger chance at this point (maybe 60/40) that the patch won't be out by January 20th.

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Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford

At this point - I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed it to January 27th? Yeah - there was that JP stream, but the New Year's post was made after the JP stream and provided a "window" of mid to late January. The fact that a window was provided after the January 20th mention on the JP stream would seem to indicate that nothing is set in stone.

I would say there's a stronger chance at this point (maybe 60/40) that the patch won't be out by January 20th.

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That post was only hours after the stream though, and the letter would have had to have been translated to all the different languages a while before hand, so it could have just been that they were queued to be posted before the stream.

Incoming rage from all those who scheduled weddings around the 27th. They wI'll be losing it if they push the patch back.

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

ah my apologies, i have corrected this. i don't know how that had slipped my mind, when i can recall the heavenward videos maybe my hype overhyped me past it D:

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No worries. (^_^ ) We're all pretty excited about the upcoming expansion. It'll be Spring before you know it! (^_~ )

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Originally Posted by Ecks007

Does each update really need a trailer? I mean for real.. it's just an update.

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It's a MAJOR UPDATE, and yes, it needs a trailer, after all it's an MMORPG and it's common to release trailers for major updates. You're assuming that everyone has already researched what's coming up, but the truth is that a lot of people don't even know that there's a patch scheduled for this month. Trailers are good for marketing, it allows people that aren't currently subscribed to the game to see everything that's coming up soon, rather than just reading it up somewhere. I resubbed after watching the 2.4 trailer and I know I wasn't the only one.

Trailers are good, yes yes.

I still say updates, even ones that introduce a good bit of new content, don't necessarily need a trailer just to promote them.

But that aside, it's already been decided by SE to treat FFXIV's game updates as if they were expansions. Giving them titles, huge fanfare and promotion when they're just going to have another one 3 months later. Personally I would hope that there's enough content in the game that it wouldn't require so much more new content so quickly. Not that I don't appreciate having more content, because I do. It just feels like some of it is a bit rushed. I mean, if you can tackle everything in a 'major update' within a few days (or 1 day if you have the time to spare), with exception to things that require grinding.. which is the only means of stretching content out this game has right now.

I enjoy the game, but I do worry if this is the trend they are going to keep up, eventually it's going to feel like there's just nothing to do until the next update. I know a lot of players are currently or have already felt this kind of feeling. I'm starting to feel it too now. I finished my Zodiac relic on New Year's Eve and ever since it's like I don't have something to do in the game aside from just logging in to do dailies. Primal battles aren't really that fun, I still have a few EX that I haven't beat but I just don't really see a reason to since it doesn't effect me in any sort of way. There's no real reason to complete them other than for completion's sake. Dailies get me tomes to gear up easily enough. I don't need the drops from the EXs. I don't need coil, not even interested in it aside from the story aspect, which is viewable via youtube.

Basically I'm waiting for 2.5 because I want more main story... and I want to play around with the next stage in the Crystal Tower; WoD and see how that story concludes since it's content I can actually do without needing a static group of players to meet with at specific weekly times in order to complete. Also looking forward to the Golden Saucer, at least as a side thing, I'll definitely run around it at first and explore it, giving all the games a try and seeing what is actually fun in there (hopefully everything). I do want to do the new dungeons as well.

But all these new things already have videos out there you can look up. Why do I need to see the same things again, only this time with perhaps different music and snippets of story cutscenes from the new content interposed at random times while showing things out of order.

I dunno, I don't need spoilers on what's going to happen on the story. What they have revealed so far in videos is more than enough to interest me in the new content and it doesn't spoil anything other than what particular areas look like from a panoramic view.

they are probably breaking up 2.5 into two parts just so people can't go through it in a day or two because it won't all be there. So now we have to wait another month for the rest of the update's content anyway.

Personally I am looking forward to 3.0 probably more than anything. 2.5 is just a minor prelude to the end of this initial part of the story, though I don't think it's really going to have any kind of finale to it. Not like any other MMORPG storyline. Which is fine I guess, but I kinda wish they had it all there from the start.

If they were to do a trailer to promote the game itself, while including things from all of the 2.0-2.5 it would be better than just using only 2.5 content to promote the game to new players. And then it wouldn't be a 2.5 trailer, but just a new trailer for FFXIV featuring 2.x content before 3.0.

At this point, with the expansion on the horizon that would make more sense to me as far as interesting new players to try the game. People who already play the game should already know what to expect by now, and should be able to keep themselves informed. It's not like SE hides it's plans for XIV until the very last second. Information about 2.5 has been trickling in for a while now, as well as information about 3.0.

What I hope for with 3.0 + is that they are able to slow down a bit with updates, while making sure that each new update truly adds a good wealth of content to a variety of the game's aspects. Meaning there will already be enough content to last a good several months before needing to introduce another update.

...Well, I'm tired. Gonna end here. Wanting 3.0, but will settle for more story from 2.5 and World of Darkness.

Still no trailer! I think it's time to riot folks..