The Image of FFXIV

[MintnHoney]

Need to remember these guides are being released in multiple languages. They're going to develop them in a style that resonations with their JP audience (which may also resonate with international players who enjoy anime). It's the dialogue localization that differs.

IIRC, they released a completely different, more straight-to-the-point and actually more in-depth series of guide videos specifically for Japan that doesn't use this animation style at all.

....So....

[Jojoya]

After finally watching all 6 episodes (or 7 if you count the intro), I realized that the animation and to some degree the voice acting reminded me very much of Disney animated movies from the 1990s and 2000s. I wonder if they brought in some old (or even current) Disney employees as consultants.

It taught me only ninjas should use limit breaks and mentors like to spoil the story for new players. (yeah, those sections could have been done better)

It's decent for a first effort as a starter's guide but definitely could use some touch ups to better explain some things (like the limit break).

It's also targeted at free trial players. They should add an episode for paid players that talk about things like free companies, linkshells and retainers.

IIRC, they released a completely different, more straight-to-the-point and actually more in-depth series of guide videos specifically for Japan that doesn't use this animation style at all.

....So....

Have a link to it by any chance? I'd be curious to watch it even if I can't understand what's being said. I tried checking the first couple pages of the JP Lodestone topics but I couldn't find anything that seems to be related.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

IIRC, they released a completely different, more straight-to-the-point and actually more in-depth series of guide videos specifically for Japan that doesn't use this animation style at all.

....So....

Have a link to it by any chance? I'd be curious to watch it even if I can't understand what's being said. I tried checking the first couple pages of the JP Lodestone topics but I couldn't find anything that seems to be related.

By any chance, you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXdZckA0Qs
I only bothered to look up the healer’s part at the moment but they’ve clearly uploaded the other parts 3 days ago at the time I wrote this reply so it shouldn’t be too far to scroll down their video list.

EDIT: Nvm, finally got back to my laptop so I can easily edit my post to include the rest:

Generic AoE/Markers
Pt.1
Pt.2

DPS

Healers

Tanks

Buffs and Debuffs

Limit Breaks

[Jojoya]

By any chance, you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXdZckA0Qs
I only bothered to look up the healer’s part at the moment but they’ve clearly uploaded the other parts 3 days ago at the time I wrote this reply so it shouldn’t be too far to scroll down their video list.

From quickly watching through those videos and using Google translate on descriptions, they're not the same thing. They're more like a video Hall of the Novice going over topics related only to party content (coordinating attacks, dodging mechanics, buffs and debuffs, etc). They looked like tutorials intended for those who already started the game and are just getting into party content, not new players looking for general tips about the new player experience.

The starter guide in English, French and German definitely come across as more of a marketing tool than a detailed tutorial.

Going back through their video lists for the past several months, everything else seems to be the usual patch trailers, live letters, Primals videos, etc. I can't find other videos that seems to be related to new player guides.

Maybe there is some other starter guide for JP or maybe they haven't released the JP version of this starter guide yet?

If I were to guess what they're trying to do, they created the starters guide in the western languages as a marketing tool to try to draw in new players to help populate the new OCE and EU worlds, and what would have been new NA worlds this month if that hadn't ended up delayed until November.

The party guides released in JP may still end up released later for the other regions once localization is completed. There was no voice dialog - all information in those videos was captioned so it shouldn't be a difficult to change the captions to the correct localization by region. Certainly they seemed a good visual aid for players that would be useful if they did add localization.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

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I've also included other parts of the videos in my edited post, but you are right about one thing. It's more of a marketing tool than anything else. There wasn't any of similar videos (as far as I can see) uploaded in JP.

[Knot_D]

By any chance, you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXdZckA0Qs
I only bothered to look up the healer’s part at the moment but they’ve clearly uploaded the other parts 3 days ago at the time I wrote this reply so it shouldn’t be too far to scroll down their video list.

EDIT: Nvm, finally got back to my laptop so I can easily edit my post to include the rest:

Generic AoE/Markers
Pt.1
Pt.2

DPS

Healers

Tanks

Buffs and Debuffs

Limit Breaks

I love how the guide is way better than other language, especially that "refresh DoT when it's 3-5 seconds left"