No Streaming: A bad decision by SQE

Am I the only one that thinks the whole "no streaming during early access / open beta" is actually doing more harm than good to the game? I feel like streaming is a huge way of advertising for your game, and this decision to constantly keep streamers out of FFXIV is illustrating Square Enix's lack of understanding in this area.

Considering the almost complete lack of advertising in North America, I'd at least hope something like streaming would be allowed to get word out for the game. I'd understand if the game was awful, but it isn't. I guarantee it would be building a lot of hype on streamer channels if it was allowed, so it's really sad to see that it won't even have the chance. Just my two cents.

You can stream on release day and from where Im standing this game is doing pretty damn good in North America its on almost every retailer top selling list and hottest selling list.

They really should allow streaming for the sake of advertising.

lol it will be stream on 27th why cant you wait for 3 days.. im also itchy to stream but i can wait for another 3 days. :)

I don't see any particular advertising value in random streams. Their only purpose seems to be for vanity.

Most streamers tend to be game jumpers or mmo tourists who bounce around from game to game to game.

Streaming would add publicity but I can see why SE isn't allowing it yet.

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Originally Posted by Scarletyoshi

I don't see any particular advertising value in random streams. Their only purpose seems to be for vanity.

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Excatly.

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Originally Posted by Soda

Am I the only one that thinks the whole "no streaming during early access / open beta" is actually doing more harm than good to the game? I feel like streaming is a huge way of advertising for your game, and this decision to constantly keep streamers out of FFXIV is illustrating Square Enix's lack of understanding in this area.

Considering the almost complete lack of advertising in North America, I'd at least hope something like streaming would be allowed to get word out for the game..

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It will be allowed. On Tuesday.

I can't imagine there are people out there who are not going to buy the game just because it wasn't streamed Saturday and Sunday.

I agree more advertising would be nice, but my feeling is that the game is going to be extremely successful - more than anticipated.

I think it was a wise decision and I would not worry about popularity from the results i have seen...150,000 for the live Beta is hardly an indication of low notice.

If there are going to be queues and closed servers during EA, we don't need more people until SE expands their server capacities and opens new servers.

From what I read on other forums, my understanding is that you can record still. However, you cannot post the videos until release date.

It's really quite simple.

They don't want people streaming a game that other's can't access yet. It would just cause more confusion.
"Oh hey, look at this cool game I'm gonna go buy it right now! Wait, I can't play it till the 27th???"

Not allowing streams for the whopping 3 days of EA, is NOT a big deal at all.

You can stream after launch. People can still buy the game after launch. Not seeing the problem here.

Guess sometimes EA just isn't good enough. (Shrugs)

Collectors Editions sold out instantly in Japan - they'll do just fine. The period that should concern you is post launch to see if they retain players, not the fact they don't allow streaming in a beta or early access, that hurts nothing as there were 1.x million interested in the beta and even if a fraction of that stays they'll be able to retain it like they did with XI for numerous years.

Well, in beta, it makes sense. When you beta test any game, you're usually not allowed to record anything, or even release screenshots. So the fact that SE let people post screenshots is actually pretty generous. As for the advertising, I just watched a video yesterday of a guy that was giving a run down of what ARR is, to try to get more people to play it, and he was using screenshots he took while testing, so I don't think that videos would help any more than screenshots and a little narrative.

But, aside from all the drama of 3102, and error 3, the game seems to be selling itself pretty well.