Press and player reactions to the new XIV

[Seif]

Let's gather some links on how the trailer was featured in the gaming news.

Do people actually understand that it's more than a patch?
I think future trailers should highlight the diffrences between 1.0 and 2.0.

[Haledos]

Sadly, from comments i've seen on a few sites so far, there's an air of "Oh god, this is gonna be a train wreck".
People seem to be a bit reluctant about giving the game another chance, despite it being markedly improved.

[Chardrizard]

It doesnt really show the game has been fixed lol, hipster won't like it and will start posting in every game site on how SE never learns anything and FFXIII was terrible game and only FFXIII fabula nova will saves SE from bankrupcy.

[Seif]

http://m.ign.com/articles/2012/07/26...a-realm-reborn

The word map-system here sounds misleading. It makes me think the map ui was just tweaked instead of having completely new terrain.

Commenters seem to also not get what the update is about mostly.
I hope SE takes note and puts a lot of money to marketing to make people gove XIV a chance.

[Colino]

"Why is it in the numbered series this is so dumb derp a lerp"

[Churchill]

They released a CGI trailer that shows nothing of their new engine, new game. SE has to release gameplay, this game is DOA if they don't. Opening your new marketing campaign with nothing more than snippets of your new intro cutscene isn't going to bring people back to this game.

Considering the E3 screens had photoshopped GUIs, it's probably not even possible for them to show gameplay yet.

[Mug]

SE aren't doing themselves any favours by releasing a CGI video. Their CGI-skills have never been questioned, so it doesn't really give people any reason to think the game has gotten better.

[mikoto_qc]

I dont know for you guys, but for me the new trailer, if i wasnt a FFXIV players, wouldnot inspired me at all. In two words : It S"/$

The voice acting sounds like amateur.

The music background....hmm not so good.

And the video doesnt show much.

[Munba]

It needs 2.0 gameplay video to make breach in the players mind... a cg video, also if epic, doesn't produce hype so much.

[Anima]

Funniest/pointless comments I've read are ones like:

"Still same Olde shite"
"They don't even provide a Welcome back Campaign!" (lol)
"No Free Trial to see how the game's improved?" (lol)
"They should just make FFXI High-graphic"
"Re-make FF7 for PC instead of this shit"
"This game was crap and a copy of XI years ago"
"Not interested, try again, Square. One day you'll listen to us."
"Square should really focus on ... developing Versus XIII, instead of anouncing another FF."
"f*** buzz and this time don't waste my time on this"
"seriously, why waste money on a game that failed epically."
"hey wheres the ps3 version?"
"make it FREE!!!! with cash shop."
This would be the sequel to the worst Final Fantasy of all time"
"I'd rather just play FFXI :-]"
"This game is garbage, this is nothing like 11 atleast 11 was playable and people played it"
"Who plays this?"

That conlcudes the report ! Off to Hildibrand !