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

[Starlord]

I'm not going to lie, waking up this morning to see the 28th letter had arrived, this was me:




After reading about a lack of a 2.0 trailer in a few more days, this was me:



Lol but in all honesty, I got over it in a few hours and would much rather see what kind of "flood" they got in store instead of a single trailer.

The flood isn't occuring @ E3 Were getting something at E3 not sure what that entails besides the website we know about. The Flood, will be coming in August, at Gamescom, when they Launch their New Marketing Campaign.

[Stiffmeister]

The flood isn't occuring @ E3 Were getting something at E3 not sure what that entails besides the website we know about. The Flood, will be coming in August, at Gamescom, when they Launch their New Marketing Campaign.

Oh I know, I'm just saying I'd rather have that down the line than a single trailer at E3. But, I wouldn't have minded the trailer at E3 and THEN the "flood"!

[Starlord]

Oh I know, I'm just saying I'd rather have that than a single trailer. But, I wouldn't have minded the trailer at E3 and THEN the "flood"!

hehe, Well will have to see what happens, you never know.. maybe this is all a trick to Surprise us with the Trailer.. who knows, but the facts are the facts right now, that Trailer will not be at E3 :P.

[Galaxia]

why there is people is complaning about this? yoshi p wants everything to be carefully done instead rushing/hype content like tanaka did when the game released first time on september. please understand.

[Starlord]

why there is people is complaning about this? yoshi p wants everything to be carefully done instead rushing/hype content like tanaka did when the game released first time on september. please understand.

Indeed, I agree! =)

[Ryuko]

If they aren't ready to show it yet, I'm okay with waiting.

Releasing ANYTHING 'too early' will only be PR suicide. The FFXIV team has been spending the past two years trying to make up for the OBVIOUSLY 'too soon' release of FFXIV 1.0. Releasing content too early for the overhaul that is supposed to 'make up' for every mistake in the past would only make it seem as though they have learned nothing from their past blunders.

Yeah, I'm disappointed. I wanted a trailer.... but I'd rather they iron out the details first. I don't want to see something sloppy and rushed. If this 'new' teaser site for 2.0 is anything to write home about, the complaints in this thread will be irrelevant... everyone will move on and finally have a 'taste' of what they have been waiting anxiously to see. I sort of understand where Yoshi is coming from when he says he wants to release a lot of content at once rather than letting it 'trickle' out.

[VoltaAsura]

After reading a few rage posts about this, I've come to the conclusion and question:

Does them coming out with a trailer even matter for E3? I mean this in the sense that the FFXIV 1.0 trailer was flashy and looked nice, but it did the actual game and gameplay no justice at all. Most of the spells/actions/weaponskills used in the trailer STILL haven't been avaialble to players, and thats 2 years later! Another thing about the trailer too, I still haven't been able to fight a Marlboro through a Levequest, regardless of which city....just saying. Also from the wording Yoshi chose for explaining why the trailer won't be there, would it be wrong to think that there's a possibility that an alpha version of the game could be shown?

I also wonder if potentially one of the main reasons why they chose not to show trailer at E3 is cuz the trailer is going to be the benchmark? /shrug

[Asiaine]

I always thought that there would not be much big stuff at E3 for SE because:

E3 is a news/publicity thing.
News/Publicity will be focused first on the big players.
Then on 'new' announcements.
Then on 'updates' announcements.

2.0 falls under 'updates'. It therefore suffers the risk of being squashed in the media blitz by bigger announcements. (Let's be honest, 2.0 of FFXIV is not going to be as big news as any other major company or game comming out).

So why go out during that time, when they can go out later and secure more media attention. Put otherway:
Show trailer at E3 = Little link/blurb at the bottom of the day's reports.
Show trailer next month (during media dry spell) = Big link/blurb on the top of day's reports.

Then this can of course play into a controlled media release schedule up to launch (which is what is really important).

Meanwhile.... back at home... they will keep us happy with patch and 1.23 ^.^b

[bobbygunz]

Really? Because this is a strong left turn AWAY from the events leading up to 1.0. Heck, the fact that Yoshi was so open about the whole of it to begin with is pretty much the exact opposite of what we had in 1.0. I mean, not to dispel your sinking feeling or anything but I have to wonder what you are expecting to be so afraid of it not being met.

Perhaps you should check your expectations some?

How exactly is he "more open"?

Besides these forums, S.E. is just as secretive as ever. We didn't even know Hamlet Defence was instanced content until the day of patch notes. S.E. still really don't give much away at all, despite pretending they do.

The fact that we don't know much about 2.0 at all 3 months before its supposed release is almost exactly the kind of stunt S.E. pulled pre 1.0.

Remember when people thought there would be like 50% more zones on release, with sidequests and voiceovers and boss fights just waiting for us on release, and we were all wrong? Well, history repeats itself, because we are promised the exact same thing now, only with much less proof of its existence.

[Alerith]

How exactly is he "more open"?

Besides these forums, S.E. is just as secretive as ever. We didn't even know Hamlet Defence was instanced content until the day of patch notes. S.E. still really don't give much away at all, despite pretending they do.

The fact that we don't know much about 2.0 at all 3 months before its supposed release is almost exactly the kind of stunt S.E. pulled pre 1.0.

They don't have to tell us every single detail about the game's development. They don't HAVE to tell us anything at all, like most other games, but they do.

Remember when people thought there would be like 50% more zones on release, with sidequests and voiceovers and boss fights just waiting for us on release, and we were all wrong? Well, history repeats itself, because we are promised the exact same thing now, only with much less proof of its existence.

The poor release of the game was SE's fault. The "don't worry about it, we're getting more stuff!" was the players fault. False hope, sincere optimism, call it what you want. But the fact was that the last stage of beta was crap, and the playerbase basically lied to themselves that all this stuff would be added.