Why is the game not OUT there in the media/mmo sites?? Devs/Yoshi gotta get on this!

the only people i know that didn't mention 2.0 is Gamespot, and really they wont give the game attention till near the PS3 beta or square tosses a bunch of advertising money at them.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

the only people i know that didn't mention 2.0 is Gamespot, and really they wont give the game attention till near the PS3 beta or square tosses a bunch of advertising money at them.

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Gamespot sucks anyways, so that ain't much of a loss.

There are interviews all over the place and tons of coverage. Just google "Realm Reborn" and you'll see.

The mass(er) media coverage needs to come out AFTER 2.0. It is imperative that this happens.

Didn't they come out and say they wanted to save the media push for once it was near 2.0 launch? What would advertising several months before 2.0 accomplish?

advertise with pepsi co it might cost money but its a great way to annouce the game microsoft and others uses them for game publisity

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Originally Posted by Sehro

i think its a bit early , probably sites will start to write about 2.0 near open beta to release.

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Fair enough but what about XIII-2?

That teaser did appear at e3 and wasn't pulled out at the last minute.
XIII-2 coverage lasted after that all the way to the release date.
We got feature trailers on pretty much everything in the game:
Moogle throwing, time travel, monster system, composer team interviews, main characters and unlinearity of the game was brought up in articles and trailers. All leading up to final CG trailer showing the intro and weeks of full market saturation pr.
You litrally could not watch a video on any gaming site for months without sittong through a XIII-2 trailer first. Also the game was seriously pushing for pre-orders to happen with several special editions that were announced over 6 months prior to release.

Ok XIV then? I get a feeling SE's faith in XIV is not that strong because even if they started right now the game still would not get the same amount of PR based on just the time they have lost.

Maybe there's a silver lining here that if the beta bombs then they can fix it because they haven't committed to a release date. They said in a gamasutra article that test players of XIII hated it but at that point it was too late to address any of the issues.

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Originally Posted by Sevro

So I go to the website today to see what's up and I happily see the brand new website, new trailer, it all looks so awesome. I am so happy this has happened and 2.0 is looking to be just awesome but where is the coverage? i don't see mention of 2.0 anywhere outside of SE! Nobody other than all of us and the people we preach ffxiv to know about it! Yoshi and devs.. cmon get on it! get your hard work out there and show the mmo community whats up because as of right now not a lot of the gamers really know the magnitude of 2.0, it is indeed a new game and needs to be marketed as such.

I see other threads similar to this, we realize it, Yoshi you gotta realize it too! it really deserves the attention, we need NEW REVIEWS by IGN, new PREVIEWS by mmorpg.com, coverage in the official playstation magazine and the PS3 magazine, we need coverage by PC Gamer.

Devs/forum moderators/yoshi check this out and get whoever needs to be ontop of it ontop of it.. fast! so that everyone knows what we know and that is how awesome the new ffxiv is gonna be :cool:

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They're showing the new version at gamescom. The only thing worth publicizing is 2.0. You wouldn't want to advertise the current version. Once we hit 2.0 alpha/beta, you can expect the media circulation to drastically increase.

They are playing their cards cautiously, and understandably so.

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Originally Posted by Neomarl

Because this game is dead and will stay dead even after 2.0.

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Fail prophet is fail.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

They're showing the new version at gamescom. The only thing worth publicizing is 2.0. You wouldn't want to advertise the current version. Once we hit 2.0 alpha/beta, you can expect the media circulation to drastically increase.

They are playing their cards cautiously, and understandably so.

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I hadn't thought of it that way but it makes sense.
If they had started earlier then there would be the danger of new players only seeing the bad version before 2.0 comes.

Then the ads would do more harm than good.
1.0 can't close fast enough.

sites like IGn and destructoid can only do so much. SE provided a trailer, and the sites talked about it and showed it. Until there is more info they cant do much more, seeing as its hard to hype a game you have seen literally no actual gameplay of.