A New-Players Perspective and some thoughts

[Sotaris]

I am aware there's an engine-rework in progress.

Is there? Care to point to any source on this?

[Jeeqbit]

You get a free Fantasia from the first level 50 main story quest. You can gain extra hair styles from grinds, loot and the market board and there is an aesthetician you can use to change it.

The price is not made cheaper in other currencies because they fear people from the US would just buy using those currencies to get a cheaper deal.

I have seen worse character creators but I have also seen better ones, so I would say it's in the middle and that it's good enough. The game supports PS4 which do not all have an SSD, so until support for that is dropped there is no chance of the game not taking into account people with a HDD.

You can already toggle the detail and lighting on a character. I don't think the detail on armor is a problem, but maybe you have only seen armor from ARR with lower resolutions than the latest ones.

Marketing
I did not hear about Final-Fantasy until the personality I mentioned, covered it.
SQEX is competent in games, but I feel is lackluster in spreading it to other people.

SQEX regularly advertises in YouTube and Twitch adverts, on major game channels like IGN and GameSpot and at shows like E3, Gamescom and PGW. There are regular interviews on many gaming websites.

IGN https://youtu.be/2XbxPsWFyU8
GameSpot https://youtu.be/b0lIlB7SVyg
E3 https://youtu.be/0k6QHeAmY58
Gamescom https://youtu.be/cCaCtmJZ9xE
PGW https://youtu.be/Dn42qwlQ0t4

Adverts
https://youtu.be/gBjOs4ZgMY4
https://youtu.be/d-lsLrRTCh0
https://youtu.be/j8aS43vOSUU
https://youtu.be/emVE9cTIyzQ

A larger advertising campaign was suspended during COVID-19 so that it didn't look like the misfortune of everyone being at home was being taken advantage of.

[KizuyaKatogami]

You get a free Fantasia from the first level 50 main story quest. You can gain extra hair styles from grinds, loot and the market board and there is an aesthetician you can use to change it.

The price is not made cheaper in other currencies because they fear people from the US would just buy using those currencies to get a cheaper deal.

I have seen worse character creators but I have also seen better ones, so I would say it's in the middle and that it's good enough. The game supports PS4 which do not all have an SSD, so until support for that is dropped there is no chance of the game not taking into account people with a HDD.

You can already toggle the detail and lighting on a character. I don't think the detail on armor is a problem, but maybe you have only seen armor from ARR with lower resolutions than the latest ones.



SQEX regularly advertises in YouTube and Twitch adverts, on major game channels like IGN and GameSpot and at shows like E3, Gamescom and PGW. There are regular interviews on many gaming websites.

IGN https://youtu.be/2XbxPsWFyU8
GameSpot https://youtu.be/b0lIlB7SVyg
E3 https://youtu.be/0k6QHeAmY58
Gamescom https://youtu.be/cCaCtmJZ9xE
PGW https://youtu.be/Dn42qwlQ0t4

Adverts
https://youtu.be/gBjOs4ZgMY4
https://youtu.be/d-lsLrRTCh0
https://youtu.be/j8aS43vOSUU
https://youtu.be/emVE9cTIyzQ

A larger advertising campaign was suspended during COVID-19 so that it didn't look like the misfortune of everyone being at home was being taken advantage of.

Dunno why people keep bringing up ps4. They’ve said over and over they’ve barely scratched the surface of what ps4 can do. It’s their engine holding them back not ps4 lmao

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They also advertise in movie theaters, especially around expansion launches.

[Lauront]

Is there? Care to point to any source on this?

It's not fully confirmed, but they're looking at it.

[Wilford111]

Unfortunately as far as beards and facial hair go, i don’t expect many changes. They’ve shown time and time again they really only favor the female characters and things of that nature. Masculine additions are rare few and far between.

They said they're working on derplander stubble right?

[Rhuled]

I weep, and only pray for more.
I apologize for the slow-posts, but I'm rate limited due to my ig level I think.

[Titania40]

I weep, and only pray for more.
I apologize for the slow-posts, but I'm rate limited due to my ig level I think.

Yeah, 5 posts per day (only one thread start per day) until you reach level 30 I believe. At which point it jumps up to 10 posts per day, and one thread start per day, I think. You don't get unlimited posting rights until you have a class or job at level 50, the original level cap. Seems kind of strange to me, I've never seen an MMO forum that did that before.

EDIT, was wrong about the level you can post a bit more often. Info is here.

[RitsukoSonoda]

FFXI had very little advertising in the west. FFXIV wasnt much better tbh. I think the west got 1 commercial on normal television channels back when 2.0 launched. I think there are some now that pop up on stuff like crunchyroll.

The character creator is a bit dated. IMO it was a bit dated even when the game was new in regards to customization options but it didnt bother alot of players back when the game was new because it was a large improvement from FFXI which was where as sizable if not majority of the initial player base came from with the FFXIV 1.0 launch. However I will say the dated character creator's limited options does have atleast 1 upside and that would be that this game has far less issues of player characters not being visible that I've seen on other titles that have a far more in depth character editor causing you to see a large amount of basic looking placeholders while the game locates all the specific elements needed to construct other player's characters on screen. Not really a issue in small amounts... can be problematic when there are alot of people present such as high traffic areas in a game.

[Kolsykol]

Tbh I wish that the barber just allowed you to fully customize your character again ( except race and gender, I understand Fantasia for that ).
But stuff like eye color etc should be customizable imo.

As far as marketing goes I don't think that Japanese games really get much marketing to begin with, but FFXIV have actually had some big commercials.
I can't even remember any marketing for games like DMC5 or the RE remakes tho for example.
Usually when I see ads for games it just ads for the same rehashed games ala Assassins Creed or the next CoD or EA games.
Word of mouth or just looking around myself is how I find most games.