Quote Originally Posted by Laerune View Post
But doesnt the spoiler image work the other way aswell? Newcomer sees Minfilia being stuck to a Crystal and with long hairs. He or she knows that this will happen to Minfilia, but they do not know why or when. This could also motivate them to want to do the questline.
Yes. I would call all of the examples in this thread "teasers" (or even "previews") rather than "spoilers", but that's just me. They need proper context to be a spoiler and all of those banners lack that context. They show you the "what", but you still have to progress through the game to learn the "how" and the "why". Just like a movie trailer or a book synopsis. It's good strategy to show someone just enough to get them hooked and wanting to find out what happens next.


Still I do agree that having Minfilia while its pretty to look at, it screams spoilers.
Even with the Minfillia example the only thing it showed us is that...

We finally found her again. To anyone who's gotten far enough in the story to know that she even disappeared it's obvious that we were going to find her eventually. The only remaining question would be why she looks the way she does and if anything is wrong with her, but the picture doesn't tell you that. For any new player who hasn't gotten far enough to even meet Minfillia they're only going to wonder who the hell that woman is on the banner and whether or not she's important. If someone has gotten far enough to know who Minfillia is, but not far enough to know she vanished they're still only going to be wondering what caused her to take on such a drastic appearance change and they still need to play to find out.


If you require context or hindsight to understand what you're looking at I wouldn't call it a spoiler.