Dawntrail Launch Trailer

I have no problem with Solution 9 because I have turned off any footage of it since the first screenshot they showed of it. I barely watched the last live letter because it seemed expansion Ruining. I want it to all feel fresh when I play it.

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Originally Posted by Ryvick

The descendants from Neo Los Angeles in Xenoblade Chronicles X have decided to invade Eorzea.

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I'm glad I'm not the only person who got XCX vibes from that bit of the trailer! (Here's hoping for a remake on the Switch 2!).

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Originally Posted by Rekh

Problem with xiv's msq the last few expansions is that it turns too anime at random spots, as well as the stagnant cast. For an ongoing game using the same cast is getting old and stale.
Seeing alphinaud and the rest "struggle" in those cutscenes and whatever did nothing to me. Anyone else have this reaction? Like, eh, saturday morning cartoon.

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It's not necessarily the cast themselves. It's that SE uses them to explain everything, they tell us where to go, when and why. We don't get to learn anything on our own, from the locals or by seeing it for ourselves. When it comes to the Scions, SE uses them to repeatedly make the cardinal sin of writing by constantly telling us instead of showing us. The Leveilleur and Co. guided tour will squeak all the excitement out of what we could have had.

And the scion plot armor being so thick showing them as being in danger is just boring. We know they are all going to come out the other side in a better place then when we started. Unless they add real stakes by offing a couple of them, those things are never to be believed, something they wouldn't have to do if there wouldn't have been so many fake outs with no consequences. But they have gone so far with it that they need to do something drastic, hance offing a couple scions. So why even include the obligatory, "omg the scions are in trouble" scenes anymore. In fact I bet dollars to donuts that they will not only come out better than when they started, but they will bring everyone together with the power of friendship and maybe instead of electing a leader, they will instead form a council to rule Tural or some other malarkey.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

but they will bring everyone together with the power of friendship and maybe instead of electing a leader, they will instead form a council to rule Tural or some other malarkey.

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At least then one of them might actually stay behind, like the last time we overthrew a government to instate a council.

I‘ll be honest.
It took a few watches but I kinda like the trailer. It’s not on the level of Shb or EW but they did a good job with no former quests that lead into it much.
It was nice not seeing the scions in every scene and even solution 9 looks interesting here.

That said what I didn‘t like was Wuk Lamat going on and on about being dawnservant and to be quit honest it all felt a bit too distanced from our WoL.

Just my personal opinion about it.

The music was also nice.

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Originally Posted by Voidmage

I‘ll be honest.
It took a few watches but I kinda like the trailer. It’s not on the level of Shb or EW but they did a good job with no former quests that lead into it much.
It was nice not seeing the scions in every scene and even solution 9 looks interesting here.

That said what I didn‘t like was Wuk Lamat going on and on about being dawnservant and to be quit honest it all felt a bit too distanced from our WoL.

Just my personal opinion about it.

The music was also nice.

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Worth noting that we didn't really see the likes of Y'shtola, the twins, or G'raha at all - at least not outside of brief glimpses.

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Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe

I have no problem with Solution 9 because I have turned off any footage of it since the first screenshot they showed of it. I barely watched the last live letter because it seemed expansion Ruining. I want it to all feel fresh when I play it.

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I wish they kept it a secret the same way they did to Elpis

I rewatched the Endwalker launch trailer and yeah, they did show some stuff in that one too. Even played the music for the final zone. However, without context it's not really spoilers. I really only see it as a tease of what is to come in the expansion. Like they did show Zodiark, but never showed the context of how we got there and what happened. You hear the main antagonist's voice in the trailer even but you don't know who they are.

Without context of what we see in these trailers, we know absolutely nothing. We won't know until we play it.

To be honest, my opinion of all of this is influenced by the fact that I didn't starting playing until very shortly after Endwalker launched. I was therefore not exposed to pre-release material of any previous expansion and hadn't experienced how it must feel to wait for one whilst being exposed to all the promotional build up to it.
I'll also note that I came to FFXIV from a game which was rubbish at promoting new content - they didn't reveal much at all until at least a week before launch due to paranoia around angry players.

However, the cinematic and pre-release trailer have impressed me and, for me, did the job they should - it left me curious to find out where the story is going to take us.

I will admit, though, that this trailer presented itself better from the 'second half' than the first. I'm more intrigued about the 'technologically advanced civilization coming in guns blazing' aspect than anything else and I'd assume that element of the story will occur quite late into the expansion. Which isn't a problem per-se, but I feel it will leave me anticipating that part of the story and it may sometimes feel a bit difficult to avoid the temptation to 'rush' content in the hopes of getting to that part. And that's something I resolved to NOT do, since I'm keen to digest the story and enjoy it and have little interest in sprinting to the endgame.

Aside from that, I definitely enjoyed the music (particularly from 2:38) which will no doubt feature in the game at some point.

It's almost impressive how unhyped I am. Oh gosh oh golly gee I sure can't wait for the wall boss with the hitbox half the size of the arena!!!!1!!

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Originally Posted by Loggos

Even as an older player I didn't feel very captivated tbh and I don't say this to be negative. I wanted to get excited but I was just not feeling it. I don't know why.

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Yeah, I got the same sentiments from it also, I'm more excited for The War Within atm but my husband loves this game so much more than WoW so that's why im here but I can't help but feel not excited for this expansion so far.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I stand by the notion that I would've found Solution Nine more interesting if they hadn't been showing it off so aggressively pre-release to force intrigue.

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I wonder if this has something to do with PR, because the reveal of Solution 9 suddenly spiked many people's interests that were otherwise dulled by a 'vacation episode expansion'.

Maybe it could have been toned down immensely while keeping the same effect, but then they wouldn't have a lot to show in the LL/Keynotes.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

I wonder if this has something to do with PR, because the reveal of Solution 9 suddenly spiked many people's interests that were otherwise dulled by a 'vacation episode expansion'.

Maybe it could have been toned down immensely while keeping the same effect, but then they wouldn't have a lot to show in the LL/Keynotes.

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To be fair, I feel they sorta HAD to provide a 'hook' of some description since it doesn't benefit from being a continuation of a long-running storyline.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

I wonder if this has something to do with PR, because the reveal of Solution 9 suddenly spiked many people's interests that were otherwise dulled by a 'vacation episode expansion'.

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It's absolutely the case. They needed to reassure people that an actual story was to be found beyond the initial "vacation" premise.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Maybe it could have been toned down immensely while keeping the same effect, but then they wouldn't have a lot to show in the LL/Keynotes.

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Honestly, we don't need that many Live letters and streams for a single expansion. Most other MMOs just announce their upcoming expansion in a single or a maximum of two events. Meanwhile, FFXIV team split the announcement into 5 or 6, with lots of repetitive information. For example: "Level cap up to 100!" like tell me something I don't know. Not the same tidbit of information you said in every single previous event.

It's a personal opinion nonetheless, but this feels more like a desperate attempt at PR & Marketing that you need to do the expansion announcement multiple time, each time with the same information but added with a very little more information.

Second half of the trailer would have been soo much better, if we didnt know about Solution 9.

Still Endwalker suprised us with Elpis and the characters there.

I am hyped and cant wait for launch.

I am standing by my predication that the whole succession plot line is not the main story arc and will get wrapped up mid-way. The Golden City and Solution 9 are going to be a mid-expansion or third act switch, where the true story and villain rear up and set the stage for the 7.X patch series and the main arc that will take us through 8.0-10.0

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Originally Posted by Laerune

Second half of the trailer would have been soo much better, if we didnt know about Solution 9.

Still Endwalker suprised us with Elpis and the characters there.

I am hyped and cant wait for launch.

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In a way, I wish they'd kept that element of the story under wraps, though I do understand why they didn't.

Eitherway, I'm anticipating the invasion (or what appears to be one) from the technologically advanced civilization element of the story moreso than the 'succession'.

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Originally Posted by Taliriah

It's absolutely the case. They needed to reassure people that an actual story was to be found beyond the initial "vacation" premise.

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I feel like they could've done this more subtly by having a cryptic aside with the mysterious girl (Who I really get the impression is the actual villain of DT) at the end of 6.55 that suggests there's something brewing under the outwardly shallow premise of DT.

They've had similar moments at the end of all the prior expansions and I don't think the story "starting fresh" was any reason to exclude such.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I feel like they could've done this more subtly by having a cryptic aside with the mysterious girl (Who I really get the impression is the actual villain of DT) at the end of 6.55 that suggests there's something brewing under the outwardly shallow premise of DT.

They've had similar moments at the end of all the prior expansions and I don't think the story "starting fresh" was any reason to exclude such.

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I got that impression too, and glad I wasn't alone! Eitherway, it's clear she's going to a key element to the story.