Patience! For the love of god, people!

[Valmonte]

And a lot more of thing...

When a new game is announced you'll know his basics example, GW2 announced:

You know from the beggining that it will be action based, dynamics event, no more class trident (tank healer dps) , massive world vs world vs world pvp, explorable dungeons with 4 way to follow, you know that it will be skill based and not gear based, you know that the AH will be WORLD WIDE with all the servers etc.

We know NOTHING specific about the basics system at least. This why me and a lot more of ppl are annoyed.

the basic system is subject to change. when beta rolls around then you'll get your rundown of basic systems information. they've touched and pretty much explained all the major changes. granted the information could be a bit easier to locate if it was compiled in one area, but its not so go look for it. try checking the dev tracker and live letters.

[Starlord]

It would seem that "information" goes out one ear and out the other, and people say we got little information. That's how I see it. We have a lot of information that we got from Gamescom/PAX/Live Letters/Dev Responses etc etc A bomb of information could hit you and still say we didn't get a lot of information.

/shrug

The only place we didn't get much info was TGS 2012 which was a bummer, However we did get a lot of information. People won't be satisfied till they know the game inside and out and were still months away from release.

[Elexia]

People won't be satisfied till they know the game inside and out and were still months away from release.

I'm sorry, but in the real world people actually like knowing about the game they're going to be jumping into. SE is trying to attract NEW PLAYERS as well as BRINGING PEOPLE BACK WHO WERE JADED ABOUT XIV 1.0..how can they if you know next to nothing about the game? Even games a year+ off from release you learn a lot about it. It can lead to something getting overhyped but at the same time it lets you determine if you want to play the game.

What can you tell me about ARR that will excite me to play it?

PvP? Common system in MMOs.
Housing? Common system in MMOs.
Free Company summons? Everyone and their mother has a pet of some kind in MMOs nowadays.
"It's Final Fantasy"! Well, what is Fnal Fantasy about it besides art designs found in previous titles?
Chocobo Buddy? Once again typical mechanic in MMOs.

This is why SE needs to go into detail about basic systems since all we have to go on is that ABCD systems are being implemented and that ARR is a relaunch of a failed MMO, which is the biggest hurdle and why being tight lipped about certain things will work against SE's overall plan. People shouldn't have to wait till an MMO is released to then get information about it.

Especially with ARR "so close."

[RoxyLalonde]

I'm sorry, but in the real world people actually like knowing about the game they're going to be jumping into. SE is trying to attract NEW PLAYERS as well as BRINGING PEOPLE BACK WHO WERE JADED ABOUT XIV 1.0..how can they if you know next to nothing about the game? Even games a year+ off from release you learn a lot about it. It can lead to something getting overhyped but at the same time it lets you determine if you want to play the game.

What can you tell me about ARR that will excite me to play it?

PvP? Common system in MMOs.
Housing? Common system in MMOs.
Free Company summons? Everyone and their mother has a pet of some kind in MMOs nowadays.
"It's Final Fantasy"! Well, what is Fnal Fantasy about it besides art designs found in previous titles?
Chocobo Buddy? Once again typical mechanic in MMOs.

This is why SE needs to go into detail about basic systems since all we have to go on is that ABCD systems are being implemented and that ARR is a relaunch of a failed MMO, which is the biggest hurdle and why being tight lipped about certain things will work against SE's overall plan. People shouldn't have to wait till an MMO is released to then get information about it.

Especially with ARR "so close."

what MMOs have housing?

[Dragonheart]

I'm sorry, but in the real world people actually like knowing about the game they're going to be jumping into. SE is trying to attract NEW PLAYERS as well as BRINGING PEOPLE BACK WHO WERE JADED ABOUT XIV 1.0..how can they if you know next to nothing about the game? Even games a year+ off from release you learn a lot about it. It can lead to something getting overhyped but at the same time it lets you determine if you want to play the game.

What can you tell me about ARR that will excite me to play it?

PvP? Common system in MMOs.
Housing? Common system in MMOs.
Free Company summons? Everyone and their mother has a pet of some kind in MMOs nowadays.
"It's Final Fantasy"! Well, what is Fnal Fantasy about it besides art designs found in previous titles?
Chocobo Buddy? Once again typical mechanic in MMOs.

This is why SE needs to go into detail about basic systems since all we have to go on is that ABCD systems are being implemented and that ARR is a relaunch of a failed MMO, which is the biggest hurdle and why being tight lipped about certain things will work against SE's overall plan. People shouldn't have to wait till an MMO is released to then get information about it.

Especially with ARR "so close."

This is what i mean too... We know we are going to have standards features from other MMO,
but in specific we know nothing. We know that we are going to get revampled market.. but how it will work?
It will be again in a terrible istanced area? Or it will be an ah? it will be server wide? etc...

[syntaxlies]

when your biggest challenge is simply revamping maps and importing assets from one engine to another, a short time frame is expected.

yea, lucky they had an extra engine laying around so they wouldnt have to design a new one from scratch...

[Starlord]

What can you tell me about ARR that will excite me to play it?

Plenty:

- Primals
- 3 Story Arc
- Chocobos/Airships/Moogles (from the get go this time)
- Summoner/Arcanist
- PvP
- We saw the Combat/Magic in Action ( see Gameplay Video)
- We saw the Movements/Graphics of Pre-Alpha in action
- Limit Break
- Cities apparently getting some changes
- Maps getting Remodeled from the ground up ( can't wait to see this =))
- Free Companies Explained
- Crystal Tower/Golden Saucer

So much more that I don't feel like repeating myself like a parrot, Look the rest up yourself.

Point is the information is their and a lot at that, just people "seem" to brush it off like it's barely any information and claim they didn't get any.

People have different views on how much information is a lot or not, and that's fine I respect that. However, I feel that we got a lot of information, even though we didn't get any information "lately" if that's your reason for not getting alot of information, then your not looking at the picture as a whole.

I can agree we haven't got Information "lately" but I don't agree that we haven't got a lot of information as a whole, because I feel like we have.

Here are some links to refresh yourself with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwenut2xit8 <---- Gamescom gameplay video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFLSH2jkjw <- Live Letter Part III ( Gameplay, Artwork, and information)

Interviews:

http://www.rpgsite.net/interviews/39...oper-interview

http://jpgames.de/2012/08/gamescom-2...naoki-yoshida/

[Mjollnir]

what MMOs have housing?

Lord of the Rings Online for one!

[RoxyLalonde]

Lord of the Rings Online for one!

she made it sound common... none of the larger mainstream ones at the moment offer housing though
WoW GW GW2 Tera SWTOR the list goes on. It's not common.

[Alhanelem]

I totally agrre with Avraym. I got patience, i waited more than 1,5 year for ARR, I can wait the game to get delayed till 2015 but at least give some news and THEN do contest or w/e.

Honestly: How does doing a contest in any way interfere with getting news? How does it prevent any of the community reps (especially those other than the one that made the post) from giving us news? Answer: It doesn't. Once the legalities are out of the way and the contest thread is posted, the reps have literally nothing else to do other than do their usual job.

Thanks for the contest SE- do be sure to fill us in on anything you can about ARR when you get the chance!

Chocobo Buddy? Once again typical mechanic in MMOs.

Actually, I don't know one other game where mounts can fight for you. Mounts in WoW and any other game I know of that has them don't fight.