FFXIV major NA news release: Chocobo's and Airships (why?)

[Sephrick]

It's been "cool" for English-speaking media to hate on SE for a long time now.

MMORPG.com is a completely different animal though. They blatantly do these to trigger a response from a fanbase to drive site traffic.

For instance, a one-post account just happened to show up at ZAM forums and post a link to a "rereview" on there days before 1.18. Not only did they insinuate that absolutely nothing changed since release, but they also ignored to mention the upcoming series of updates that they quite obviously preempted.

Back in the day, G4 would go out of it's way to make it seem like XI had no players and that main cities were empty.

The truth is, English gaming media has taken to covering things in a popular way. They know more people will read a cheap shot at XIV than a well written update.

[Murugan]

It's been "cool" for English-speaking media to hate on SE for a long time now.

MMORPG.com is a completely different animal though. They blatantly do these to trigger a response from a fanbase to drive site traffic.

For instance, a one-post account just happened to show up at ZAM forums and post a link to a "rereview" on there days before 1.18. Not only did they insinuate that absolutely nothing changed since release, but they also ignored to mention the upcoming series of updates that they quite obviously preempted.

Back in the day, G4 would go out of it's way to make it seem like XI had no players and that main cities were empty.

The truth is, English gaming media has taken to covering things in a popular way. They know more people will read a cheap shot at XIV than a well written update.

Every time MMORPG.com reports on FFXIV it becomes one of the most visited games on the site.

Ign's review of FFXIV, and many stories about FFXIV were "popular stories" on ign for weeks after their release.

People pay attention to FFXIV because it has pretty pictures. IGN/MMORPG.com report on FFXIV because it has pretty pictures and people read it quickly scan the articles for particular keywords and pictures/videos. These are businesses, yes they have a slant against the game, but that doesn't mean Square Enix should ignore them at only their own peril.

That is an extremely childish reaction. Hopefully Square Enix is a little more professional than that, or at least not so stupid as it.