Well, that was a first for me, I just saw a commercial on TV for FFXIV (free trial). Lots of snow, a bit of Dark Knight, Astrologian, a Paladin throwing up sheltron and assorted enemies being beaten. Arise brave heroes, embark on an epic journey, etc...
Nice to see some actual promotion of the game, it seems like it's making enough money to justify budgeting some marketing $$$, in addition to the on going investment with the new data center and continual development.
Excellent.
FFXIV online commercial
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10-03-2015, 02:15 AMKosmos992kFFXIV online commercial
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10-03-2015, 03:50 AMTokochan
Oh I saw them on t.v a while back before the expansion.. always got super excited when I saw it XD
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10-03-2015, 04:21 AMTremara
Can anyone link the new commercial please? :o
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10-03-2015, 04:22 AMColorful
I thought this thread was going to be about this wonderful commercial.
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10-03-2015, 04:24 AMGilraen
I saw that just the other night myself! Your Mogstation Cash Shop dollars at work!
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10-03-2015, 06:22 AMVespar
Pretty sure that commercial came out almost a year before the cash shop :P
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10-03-2015, 06:24 AMEsp
I saw that same commercial as well watching Adult Swim last night. I was playing at the same time so it caught me by surprise a bit when I saw a DRK and AST on my T.V screen.
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10-03-2015, 07:36 AMUltimateAoe2god no pleaseQuote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-03-2015, 08:26 AMPsychosammOh god that commercial made me cringe...Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-03-2015, 08:38 AMSakuraluna
It was a tv commercial that originally put it in my mind to start playing. Up until then I had no idea how the game was doing and hardly ever heard anything about it. So there's been tv ads for a while now, but I haven't seen one since.
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10-03-2015, 08:39 AMMwynn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDb4MDJI-EU
You mean this? -
10-03-2015, 08:52 AMLemuel81Yea that was horrible. When I first started watching it I had to check if this was an official trailer because it was THAT horrible imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosamm
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10-03-2015, 09:22 AMAveraxI almost forgot about that one, i'm laughing so hard it was so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-03-2015, 09:37 AMVespar
If you take out the narrator's voice the commercial would have been just fine. But her voice is terrible!
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10-03-2015, 09:39 AMKienkarajohahahaha I remember that commercial, so awful that I thought that the game most likely was the same, until I played the PS4 betaQuote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-03-2015, 10:00 AMKaedrianLiangthey emphasized the white bloom transitions too much, can barely tell whats going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mwynn
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10-03-2015, 05:43 PMhagareIs.... That someone cosplaying louisox? Or just a weirdly rendered louisox? O.oQuote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
Though it would've been better had the crater been a footprint of bahamut and they all got squished when he landed back there again :v -
10-03-2015, 11:39 PMSevenHeavenshttp://i.imgur.com/ZPnba1d.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-03-2015, 11:42 PMNiqoteIt's a cosplay, I stumbled on the website of the prosthetic's artist the other day (nose/ears/facial constructions of both him and the Roe).Quote:
Originally Posted by hagare
I think it would have been an alright commercial if not for the sub par voice acting ^^;; -
10-03-2015, 11:56 PMEvangela
"Escape reality, live the fantasy." what a terrible thing to say...
If my kids watching this commercial, I'll have a lot of things to teach them before letting them play any video game. -
10-04-2015, 12:03 AMKosmos992kEscapism is bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Evangela
Either way, your point of view is rather ironic for someone who plays ffxiv. -
10-05-2015, 05:19 AMLeowildeWhile most of us probably enjoy the escapism that is to be found in games, just like it is in books and movies, it doesn't work well as a slogan. Live the fantasy, perhaps, but escape reality really puts an emphasis on the stigma that videogames still suffer from. There is so much in the core of this game they could have used instead in that slogan. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Kosmos992k
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10-05-2015, 09:17 AMValkyrie-VeilThat is, by far, the worst commercial I have ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorful
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10-05-2015, 10:34 AMDragonSlayer45
Could have had a better narrator. She sounded bored out of her mind. Though it is at least better than the first cringe-worthy commercial they showed off for A Realm Reborn, they actually showed off the game here.
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10-05-2015, 11:08 AMAlmalexiaPlease. It's not that bad. It's intensely corny, as is any injection of real-world people into a video game environment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie-Veil
The commercial would have been better if the models were all in costume from the start, like they do in JP commercials. But that doesn't resonate with the west or something. You gotta have impeccably attractive models pretend to play your video games in order to move product.