Players: "We need more content!" Square: Releases aerobics video

[Vandso]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FAo2t2eU4

[Stormpeaks]

what the actual hell did i just watch

[Kaurhz]

Looking at the developer's blog, I can see why, and I guess it's a... unique direction or thing to go with.

But some of these hardly constitute an exercise or a good stretch for that matter.

[Theodric]

I really miss the ARR/HW/StB period when the game was marketed as an actual game.

[Koros]

I really miss the ARR/HW/StB period when the game was marketed as an actual game.

https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/n...esident_2.html

As prescient as ever:

I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute,” by which I mean to help make the game more exciting. Traditional gaming has offered no explicit incentive to this latter group of people, who were motivated strictly by such inconsistent personal feelings as goodwill and volunteer spirit. This fact is not unrelated to the limitations of existing UGC (user-generated content). UGC has been brought into being solely because of individuals’ desire for self-expression and not because any explicit incentive existed to reward them for their creative efforts. I see this as one reason that there haven’t been as many major game-changing content that were user generated as one would expect.

The only thing missing is blockchain.

[HeyMcFly]

Is SE doing the thing where they show their side of being out of touch with most of the playerbase again?

[CStrife912]

While the video isnt aimed at me it doesn't harm anyone existing, I saw S-E were advertising for someone in the UK to handle digital marketing and making up new videos and promo stuff to appeal to lots of demographics and this is by far tame compared to what the japs can do. I think I would rather watch that then the US live action fire place ads lol

[Saraide]

Hell yea lets get mad about completely irrelevant stuff again!

[Carin-Eri]

Looking at the developer's blog, I can see why, and I guess it's a... unique direction or thing to go with.

But some of these hardly constitute an exercise or a good stretch for that matter.

True - but can't really say I blame them for trying to encourage gamers to get their arses off their seats every once in a while!

[CStrife912]

Hell yea lets get mad about completely irrelevant stuff again!

Shock horror how marketing teams or digital teams are different from the dev team lol