Please make a better Commercial for North America!

[WiseWolfHolo]

eww so ugly, plz make a new commercial

[Saraphim]

While this commercial does look like something that crawled up out of the 90s, it did not give me any feelings of nostalgia. Being a 90s kid myself, I mostly found it just embarrassing to watch. :/ Who, exactly, were they trying to appeal to here? If I try to gather together some real life friends to play this game with me, I will definitely not be showing them this commercial. I don't think that 10 year old kids with nerf guns was the audience they were trying to captivate, but that's what they got.

[FlowerPower]

I think that SE got ripped off by the company that did this commercial.

Like others have already said, anyone that doesn't know about the game won't understand what did they just watch. If the targeted audience was new players, then this commercial doesn't accomplished this goal.

I doubt that weather or not SE being ripped off is a get out of jail free card. Outsourced or not they had the choice to air it or not after development.

[RumiP]

All these real life intertwining with FFXIV game life commercials are kind of blech. Just make a good commercial detailing some gameplay, music, and maybe some soundbytes from NPCs about the crisis in the world. Then put in the standard, "Will you be the one to save them?" or whatever.

These commercials remind me of the weird ass PS2 commercials in the early 2000s. You would have some dudes head all segmented and there'd be a PS2 logo inside somewhere. Not that the FFXIV commercials are equally weird, but they leave the viewer equally not knowing why they should care about it or what they are being asked to buy. It's just not good advertising imo.

[FlowerPower]

My biggest qualm with this commercial is it literally puts us all down as a player base. TL/DR it suggests that our RL is garbage and we play this game to escape from our problems. It's quiet disrespectful honestly.

[Eldarion18]

Yes, please! Just use the JP commercials and dub it in English. It's that simple. The Live Action commercial is soooo awful it makes people laugh in ridicule rather than want to play the game.

[Blazer]

How can you hate on the live action commercial? I know when I watched it I imagined myself with a bunch of people out in the middle of nowhere standing in a crater listening to a old dude with a staff, while people around me turned into cats and steroid users before my eyes.

[Zholi]

It was fine for me, and it kinda made sense. I'm really not sure why people think it was so terrible. It's not a bad idea to show that there's someone behind the characters you see. It seems like they're trying to make people realize that if you play this game you're going to be part of something bigger than just yourself.

No only that but, if you think about the first thing you see in the game is a giant war, with some mysterious old guy. The commercial will give them something to relate to as soon as they start playing.

Besides one of the best PS3 commercials ever was live action.

The problem isn't that it's live action. The problem is that it's bad. PS3's live action commercials have been very good on the whole, whether they are going for humor or epicness. This one goes for epic, but comes off as cheesy. The "Greatness Awaits" ad for PS3 is a masterful piece of advertising.

[Waltz7976]

The problem isn't that it's live action. The problem is that it's bad. PS3's live action commercials have been very good on the whole, whether they are going for humor or epicness. This one goes for epic, but comes off as cheesy. The "Greatness Awaits" ad for PS3 is a masterful piece of advertising.

Ah, this could of been a better response if you had started with these three little words.

In my opinion.

For me, it wasn't bad. I personally think it was made to catch peoples attention, and be like...what the fuck was that, which it seems to be doing an excellent job of.

[Rhyz_Xerione]

Don't worry.
Just remember that this is a thing, and it'll make everything better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfIFgxf2sw