No trailer at E3 LOL @ SE

[Andrien]

why is he going to E3 without showing some footage? he might have something to say.

[Agoven]

I think this is fine...I'm glad they are getting wiser. The community will bash whether or not SE gives them anything...as we have seen on these forums complaints when they are given something and complaints when they aren't.

The original OPs post clearly shows the mentality of peeps.

So kudos for SE...to do what they've done best. Be in secrecy until they are ready to blow your minds. Keep up the great work Yoshida and team!

[Alerith]

why is he going to E3 without showing some footage? he might have something to say.

They aren't showing a trailer.

It doesn't mean they aren't presenting anything. It's a 'wait and see' thing right now.

[Starlord]

They aren't showing a trailer.

It doesn't mean they aren't presenting anything. It's a 'wait and see' thing right now.

Which people are having a hard time doing.... like a dog chasing it's tail

[Ingolf]

GW2 ( not a game I particularly like) but alot of people do and its not at E3. I wonder if People are raging over that game not being at E3... :/.

Nah not really, there's been speculation that it'll be released just after E3 anyway. As well as the fact that there was already an open(ish) beta, there isn't really much to show at E3.

[Platinumstorm]

GW2 isn't at E3 this year.

K, thanks for the info.

[Agoven]

I kept telling pple SE will disappoint at E3 this year but everyone was so pumped up thinking SE would blow the world away with their 2.0 trailer.... but no.


SE missed their biggest chance at saving XIV. Exactly when all of the gaming industry has their eyes set on E3 for the biggest news on the year... SE decided to skip by saying "the most effective way to introduce version 2.0 to the world would be with a flood of new material rather than just a trickle."

How giving to world less = a flood, is beyond me. I can bet anything that their trailer was pure old stuff mixed with 2.0 CGI and since they saw that almost everyone was expecting something big, they choked.

Anyone else disappointed by this? Most pple that were turned off by XIV because of it's poor launch, will not be looking up by themselves for 2.0 news, nor will they give a crap about a website. E3 and a new gameplay trailer would have been the best chance of showing these pple that XIV will change. Pple that never played, know by now the bad reputation the industry has given XIV and they missed their chance to bring in these pple too.

Good Job SE! They should get an award at E3 for management of the year.


EDIT: Does anyone here speak japanese? I would like to see how they took the bad E3 news.

E3 while big isn't the same E3 it used to be...have you been or seen the E3 of the last several years? It's not for the gaming community anymore...it's for a bunch of game companies and "press" light on the "press" to hobnob.

The press never really even cared about Final Fantasy 14 anyways...it got very little coverage and promotion before and after it's launch.

As far as getting the player base um...they are here and they are coming...you forgot the huge majority of player base will be PS3...as Final Fantasy has always been CONSOLE.

As far as bad reputation. I don't think SE is hurting there...record profits last year even with FFXIV issues. SE is a power house and if they wanted to go full force and advertise and get their product noticed they would.

[Colino]

http://kotaku.com/5913737/so-no-new-...ler-at-e3-yeah

And their plan was to hold back the trailer to get this sort of PR?

Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike Kotaku, but nonetheless it's one of the biggest websites in the industry and is visited by LOADS of people. This is the kind of impression they're giving.

[Onidemon]

http://kotaku.com/5913737/so-no-new-...ler-at-e3-yeah

And their plan was to hold back the trailer to get this sort of PR?

Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike Kotaku, but nonetheless it's one of the biggest websites in the industry and is visited by LOADS of people. This is the kind of impression they're giving.

damn you, you beat me to it by a few seconds. lol

[Antipika]

http://kotaku.com/5913737/so-no-new-...ler-at-e3-yeah

And their plan was to hold back the trailer to get this sort of PR?

Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike Kotaku, but nonetheless it's one of the biggest websites in the industry and is visited by LOADS of people. This is the kind of impression they're giving.

And what would have been the impression if the trailer wouldn't have met expectation of medias? Even worse. SE only have one shot now. They cannot allow themselves to release anything related to XIV that's not perfect.