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[Elexia]

Go make your own video of the raid then. Trailers aren't supposed to be frame by frame analysis.

[Keftenk]

Go make your own video of the raid then. Trailers aren't supposed to be frame by frame analysis.

This is essentially marketing, how is this even supposed to get current players excited, let alone people who might see this video, but not play? I sure as hell wasn't excited after seeing this video...again though, maybe it's just me. /shrug

[Akumu]

This is essentially marketing, how is this even supposed to get current players excited, let alone people who might see this video, but not play? I sure as hell wasn't excited after seeing this video...again though, maybe it's just me. /shrug

Having so much on their shoulders just to get this game 2.0 ready is probably why the videos don't have much of the WOW effect you are looking for. A lot of these videos seem to be someone just recording during testing phases. Not actually recording/editing for the sake of a marketing video.

[Elexia]

This is essentially marketing, how is this even supposed to get current players excited, let alone people who might see this video, but not play? I sure as hell wasn't excited after seeing this video...again though, maybe it's just me. /shrug

That's the thing...you can't really make a MMO raid "look exciting" without either:

1. Showing what doesn't exist (common)
2. Showing "BIG SCARY MONSTER" that you'll fight for all of 7 seconds in a lot of MMOs cuz they tend to be zerged down lol
3. Playing music that doesn't even play in the game, but gives it the epic feel.

Stuff like that. It leads to good marketing but it also leads to a concept called bait & switch (happens a lot with WoW's raids >.>), which is the last thing you want to do. All a trailer is supposed to do is show something off, excitement is subjective since some people like flashy trailers that shows off nothing but fighting while others like trailers that shows off the location or story elements of a raid.

It's hard to excite everyone, which is why a lot of game trailers are essentially the same thing as of late lol, just overly flashy. Hell it excited me to finally fight yet another classic FF enemy, especially because they tend to always be the ruiner of your world (especially early on in FFV.)