Letter from the Producer, XXVIII (05/28/2012)

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

I really think it's a terrible waste to not show the trailer at a huge public event like E3, especially since so many people are either unaware of 2.0's existence or simply gave up on the game a year or two ago. For fans like us who actually play it, it'll be great to have a massive wad of information handed to us [CANNOT WAIT! ], and it won't matter if we get it a few days later than planned. As for being able to attract new players though.. well.. what a missed opportunity that is.

[Esk]

Tbh I think info at E3 will be a better idea, it'll actually get some attention from ex players that a shiny new trailer won't, and might, just might drag them back before 2.0 or at least keep them thinking about 2.0.

An while the last trailer was OK, I'm almost tempted to say EvE trailers are closer to the game play then it was. An Ex players know this, an most will be far more intrested in know the game has content then some funky new trailer and graphics.

The trailer can be used in the advertising closer to the launch keeping it fresh to try and attract PS3 and new players, giving them the wow factor that just wont work on players, or Ex players.

So It does in some ways make sense though I am a little disappointed as i was hoping to see the direction of the new story.. (An actually that could be another reason to hold it back till after 1.23)
But well Forums are Forums, and for of logic is useless on them these days.

So BAHH!! BAD SE YOU FAIL!!!! (better?)

[Dawiichan]

Personally don't see anything wrong with it. They're still going to E3. The road map now says that in August there will be a "2.0 Marketing Campaign (including Trailer Release)". I'd be disappointed if they just said trailer release, but they added that as an extra. It seems like they plan on actually marketing the game during august, which is also a month before TGS. TGS we will probably see a playable version and/or a new trailer.

[KaiserDrill]

Kinda feel mixed emotions about this. On one hand, of course im happy that they are taking their time to make a decent game thats ready to be promoted. HOWEVER, we did have a lack of info on the Lodestone for the longest time (Patch 1.22anotes on the ninth which im not counting). I read the letter this morning and was like "OK dude you're either telling us things we already know or things we dont care about". Everyone knows there isnt going to be much story development until 2.0 and for the most part no one really cares about how fast or slow it takes to level up b/c most of us have all jobs to 50 or just our main couple. Notice how he left out everything ppl do care about? New races, classes etc. Im not raging its just c'mon man we havent heard squat for so long other than "its gonna be in 2.0" and then youwait till the last minute to tell everyone "oh yeah heres answers to things the general community doesnt care about and btw the info you thought you were getting, you arent.....but please wait a lil longer kthnxbye". I have faith 2.0 is gonna be a good game but they could at least let us know SOMETHING to tide us over instead of abunch of vauge information. Would it really kill them to let usknow what jobs they are going to implement at launch? New players will have never played before them so y would it matter to leak them to us now? Same thing with races. My point is they knew they werent going to have their stuff together longer than aweek or two so why wait till the last minute to tell the current player base? I wouldnt be nearly as upset if they had been upfront about it earlier and gave us some SOLID info that wouldnt impact new players. Andaugust of all times to promote the game? I hope they know what they're doing cuz last time i looked Guild wars2comes out the end of June and if they cant give the current player base real info before they're gonna lose more people. And by august those ppl will be too engrained into GW2 to come back to XIV, no matter how good it is. Idk about other Servers/LS but ive noticed alot of players quitting to go play TERA. Solutions to keep the current player base interested is just SOLID information,whether its pictures, interviews etc. we understand if its not in game footage but give us something to chew on guys. Rant over sorry in advance thread.

http://gifsoup.com/view/379807/best-cry-ever.html in advance to the haters. Love ya mean it!

[Alerith]

Kaiser, I am sure you have a very solid post, but PLEASE break it up into paragraphs.

[Starlord]

Kinda feel mixed emotions about this. On one hand, of course im happy that they are taking their time to make a decent game thats ready to be promoted. HOWEVER, we did have a lack of info on the Lodestone for the longest time (Patch 1.22anotes on the ninth which im not counting). I read the letter this morning and was like "OK dude you're either telling us things we already know or things we dont care about". Everyone knows there isnt going to be much story development until 2.0 and for the most part no one really cares about how fast or slow it takes to level up b/c most of us have all jobs to 50 or just our main couple. Notice how he left out everything ppl do care about? New races, classes etc. Im not raging its just c'mon man we havent heard squat for so long other than "its gonna be in 2.0" and then youwait till the last minute to tell everyone "oh yeah heres answers to things the general community doesnt care about and btw the info you thought you were getting, you arent.....but please wait a lil longer kthnxbye". I have faith 2.0 is gonna be a good game but they could at least let us know SOMETHING to tide us over instead of abunch of vauge information. Would it really kill them to let usknow what jobs they are going to implement at launch? New players will have never played before them so y would it matter to leak them to us now? Same thing with races. My point is they knew they werent going to have their stuff together longer than aweek or two so why wait till the last minute to tell the current player base? I wouldnt be nearly as upset if they had been upfront about it earlier and gave us some SOLID info that wouldnt impact new players. Andaugust of all times to promote the game? I hope they know what they're doing cuz last time i looked Guild wars2comes out the end of June and if they cant give the current player base real info before they're gonna lose more people. And by august those ppl will be too engrained into GW2 to come back to XIV, no matter how good it is. Idk about other Servers/LS but ive noticed alot of players quitting to go play TERA. Solutions to keep the current player base interested is just SOLID information,whether its pictures, interviews etc. we understand if its not in game footage but give us something to chew on guys. Rant over sorry in advance thread.

http://gifsoup.com/view/379807/best-cry-ever.html in advance to the haters. Love ya mean it!

I stopped reading after " Ready to be Promoted" All I saw was "Wall-o-text" after that. @.@

[Vaer]

Not sure I understand why people use other MMOs as a "if you don't do this, they gonna leave for x."

The player base for this genre is fickle. A couple blocks of text with new info is not gonna stop people from trying the newest thing. People flock to the newest thing. Happens every time. They'll just be like "Well, all this cool stuff is coming, but it's not in the game yet, so I'm gonna go play something else until it comes out."

They need a 4th poll that asks things about the current state of the game. Like drop systems, opinions on the new jobs, instancing, cookie cutter setups, stat algorithms, random number generator, lockout timers, etc that can be taken into consideration for the 2.0 transition and potentially changed.

They need to actively collect feedback on all this stuff, instead of us posting in forum threads and hoping it gets forwarded and read. At least we'll know they'll have some of this data if the feedback collection is from a poll.

[Gentaro]

Has anyone ever wondered why they have to ask us about our online times? They should be able to check themselves. o.O

[Wevlum]

Has anyone ever wondered why they have to ask us about our online times? They should be able to check themselves. o.O

I dunno, server limitations maybe? That room full of linked up SNESs they call a server prolly can't handle that. x.x

[KoujiGeki]

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

This. was the fucking funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire life. My day with all the bad stuff happening was just made. Thank You Yuki =D