Gameplay Video ( of the Presentation) is up!

[Sephrick]

I like how the stuff we just got isn't good enough. Oh sure, we got a leaked gameplay video, WHO CARES? New screenshots? GET OUT OF MY FACE, NERD!

Both E3 and Gamescom have given us new media on the game, with new information. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Tokyo Game Show is going to disappoint you, simply because whatever it is they bring, it won't meet your ridiculously high standards.

I'm sorry, it was my understanding that A Realm Reborn was meant to compete in today's gaming market.

Most people who even know XIV exists have no clue it's being remade from the ground up. They still think of it as that game from Oct. 2010.

I don't need any videos. I'll be playing 2.0 no matter how the game is marketed. But I do want a lot of other people to play so that this game stays online for a long time.

But to the mass populace, this game has two strikes against it already: the v1 launch and the fact that it's staying pay-to-play.

Plus I can't help but see the contradiction in saying "we're not releasing the video because we feel it's not ready but we want it to be released by the media."

Why allow it to be released at all if it's not ready? Because then all we get out there are stories like Kotaku's where the headline is "shaky cam video released."

And while we here in our little bubble may write off sites like Kotaku or IGN, there are plenty of potential players out there who shape their opinion around what they read there.

So get an attitude with me all you want, but I'm thinking of the greater good. SE needs to be in people's faces non-stop till release. Getting into the ARR betas needs to be the next big thing, so that way people can tell all their friends how great it is and how they NEED to play it.

But as it stands now, the game is still at the base of a very tall marketing mountain. They need to compete with all games, not just a handful of other MMOs like XI did ten years ago.

[Hycinthus]

I have a question.

So basically, if someone did not sneakily videotaped that gameplay footage and sneakily posted on youtube, we wouldn't get any official gameplay footage from Gamescom?

[Sephrick]

I have a question.

So basically, if someone did not sneakily videotaped that gameplay footage and sneakily posted on youtube, we wouldn't get any official gameplay footage from Gamescom?

As far as we have been told, no. It seems the press was free to record it, they just didn't.

[Babydoll]

I'm wondering the same thing >.> Also anyone know when the "flood" is starting? Today or tomorrow maybe? I hope they announce new jobs.

[Hycinthus]

I'm wondering the same thing >.> Also anyone know when the "flood" is starting? Today or tomorrow maybe? I hope they announce new jobs.

[Nightpanda2810]

Oh god, its Crawlers Nest.

[Jennestia]

Oh god, its Crawlers Nest.

The good ole days with a pulsating ballsack above you exping on crawlers and the occasional 12 lizard rape from a RDM's Diaga.

[Hulan]

The good ole days with a pulsating ballsack above you exping on crawlers and the occasional 12 lizard rape from a RDM's Diaga.

"Gah, haven't you learned by now: AoE = BAD"

[Kallera]

But as it stands now, the game is still at the base of a very tall marketing mountain. They need to compete with all games, not just a handful of other MMOs like XI did ten years ago.

I think I remember someone else making this argument. Claiming that Mortal Kombat would be the game that would destroy the market, including FFXIV.

Turns out it came and went, with the MMO genre still intact.

[BiggLethal]

I have a question.

So basically, if someone did not sneakily videotaped that gameplay footage and sneakily posted on youtube, we wouldn't get any official gameplay footage from Gamescom?

Maybe it was all part of their viral marketing strategy? Like Yoshida said, this version was not fully optimized, they didn't feel it was worthy of an official release by them.

Instead they are depending on leaked footage as a way to spread it to the masses. That way maybe expectations will be somewhat tempered (lol) since this leaked un-optimized early build was not officially released by SE and thus will not be confused as an almost complete build (which I'm sure many of the general mass can easily mistaken it for).

Of course I could be entirely wrong, I'm just trying to guess what is going through their minds.