Keep Us Informed

[Aion]

yeah..they should show fight with those adamantoise, iron giant, mindf...oops,

[Reika]

They said there would be weekly alpha videos, but nothing this week. I don't believe anything they say anymore.

Well, they didn't do an alpha this week. They were fixing all the bugs they found in last weeks alpha.

[hrdndv]

The Letters fro the Producer Live amounts to what I would call a flood of information. The screenshots and playing footage is pretty complete. I do not know of a single subject that has not been covered. The ARR site has lots of info. It has not been a week since the Live Letter and people are complaining they want more? Give them a break. The DEV team is on a one week break. They deserve a break. Alpha-3 should start Monday. You may not hear much about it but some footage is likely. They DEV team is really busy.... let them get their work done.

[Zenaku]

You are comparing XIV to XI, both SE games and both examples of terrible communication. Both games terrible examples of marketing. And than you throw in this forum to the mix in which 80% of devs reply has been: we're working on it, we're looking into it, we cant discuss this at the moment, etc. They promised us weekly updates back in August and that failed. Servers went down with "we're working on it" yet again as a reply to comfort the customers.

SE doesn't know how to keep a momentum. The end of an era trailer was amazing but I bet you in couple of weeks most people will cool off and yet again we will go back to a dry spell. Look at all the previous instances. The game show videos, etc. It's always one step forward two steps back with SE.

Now don't get me wrong. XIV is the only MMO I've been playing since XI and only one I plan on playing. However, Tera, GW2, Rift, SWTORetc all had very transparent campaigns. GW2 turned out to be a disappointment from what I hear and the other two leaked subscribers very quickly. Does not change the fact that all of them sold a very large amount of copies and they are widely recognized titles. Ultimately, that's what XIV needs to do. It needs to sell millions of copies and they need to sell them to new customer because guess what. We already own a copy.

Facts are that XIV is still viewed as a failure. It still remains in the shadows. We know alpha will start on the 26th but that's it. The new timeline should been released with the new trailer. They have plenty of concept art, lore bits, screenshots, and other stuff they could be releasing weekly to keep people buzzing about the game. The latest producer letter was very disappointing as it rehashed most of the stuff we already knew.

It's a tough market out there and if SE wants to sell the game that charges monthly fee they need to amaze the average player. So far they been doing poor job with it.

SE is changing one step at a time we wont even be talking right now if this was 2years ago SE lol so clam down and enjoy what they give us and wait for more information if that all you want.

Remember SE selling point would always be JP so get over it they never going to waste a big amount of money like they do in JP. JP had awesome tv ad for FFXIV lol maybe we get one here and people wont care why? becuase no one really see TV anymore but i hope they spam the shit out of it on Youtube that would get more western players.

Also i did not read half your post because i'm not going to read a wall of text you could have really said all that in a very short comment keep it simple please. Sure when people cool off we hit other dry spell who cares ffxiv no where near release so information not going to come out that fast when we closer to release i bet they do much better at release.

yoshi-p know what he doing so don't worry and remember NA is not the main selling point for FFXIV sure yoshi-p keep saying he want to get more players but sadly wow players jump to ffxiv 2.0 and leave in a few month so people who never played a final fantasy mmo is the sell point or someone who never play a mmo to start with.

[Ricky]

You guys are so optimistic, weekly updates are highly unlikely if the past is any indication but I won't hold it against them, they are hard at work on the game

However they should stop saying "weekly updates", "flood of information" etc so people don't rage on them

[Elexia]

You guys are so optimistic, weekly updates are highly unlikely if the past is any indication but I won't hold it against them, they are hard at work on the game

However they should stop saying "weekly updates", "flood of information" etc so people don't rage on them

That or hire Sakurai to do it.

yeah..they should show fight with those adamantoise, iron giant, mindf...oops,

Mindflayer. Also known as Soulflayer also known as the physical transformation of a Blue Mage per FFXI.

[Cichy]

SE is changing one step at a time we wont even be talking right now if this was 2years ago SE lol so clam down and enjoy what they give us and wait for more information if that all you want.

Remember SE selling point would always be JP so get over it they never going to waste a big amount of money like they do in JP. JP had awesome tv ad for FFXIV lol maybe we get one here and people wont care why? becuase no one really see TV anymore but i hope they spam the shit out of it on Youtube that would get more western players.

Also i did not read half your post because i'm not going to read a wall of text you could have really said all that in a very short comment keep it simple please. Sure when people cool off we hit other dry spell who cares ffxiv no where near release so information not going to come out that fast when we closer to release i bet they do much better at release.

yoshi-p know what he doing so don't worry and remember NA is not the main selling point for FFXIV sure yoshi-p keep saying he want to get more players but sadly wow players jump to ffxiv 2.0 and leave in a few month so people who never played a final fantasy mmo is the sell point or someone who never play a mmo to start with.

You're completely delusional. XIV sold more copies outside of Japan for your information and not only XIV is in trouble. Entire Final Fantasy brand is in trouble. Wada publicly apologized if you don't remember. You're basically saying they should keep doing same thing and ignore western market. A completely idiotic idea all together. If SE plans on making money they need a strong foot in western market. If XIV doesn't make enough money they will abandon any plans of making expansions or supporting it. There is not going to be 3.0.

You tell me to keep it short and simple and you go on white knighting for two more paragraphs. Come on buddy, who made you a GM here?

[indira]

until they show some release date i'll be on planetside 2

dont care much for the ARR videos anymore just want to play it when it gos live. im guessing march 2013 at earliest now.

[Zenaku]

You're completely delusional. XIV sold more copies outside of Japan for your information and not only XIV is in trouble. Entire Final Fantasy brand is in trouble. Wada publicly apologized if you don't remember. You're basically saying they should keep doing same thing and ignore western market. A completely idiotic idea all together. If SE plans on making money they need a strong foot in western market. If XIV doesn't make enough money they will abandon any plans of making expansions or supporting it. There is not going to be 3.0.

You tell me to keep it short and simple and you go on white knighting for two more paragraphs. Come on buddy, who made you a GM here?

I never said ignore western market but the new western players just don't enjoy final fantasy like how people use too. Really people need to stop using that dumb **** white knighting how am i defending SE at all here? I'm just saying they never made a big market plan for there MMO in NA and i hope they do but i don't see it happening.

You get your videos/information when there ready to show it to us they can't fail like they did so they have to make sure it good enough to show. + we talking about a JP company that 2years ago would not even care two **** what we have to say to them and today we talking on a SE forums. The company that have ignore most of there player base is not going to change overnight they have done good so far. Yes they need a strong western market but at the end that western market would end up going to the next wow-clone or wow new update or even blizzard new mmo whenever that come out. It's better just to take what we get and not have so much high hope you just going to be disappointed if you do anything else that something i learn about SE and there not going to change anytime soon so it best to just get use to it.

@Ricky: When they said a new flood of information was coming out they did just that. They give us load of information on UI,Housing,free company and many other part of the game. It's just never enough for some people. Or more like it never the right information they looking for / amount.

and the weekly updates they give us a 2+hour video in the live letter lol i think that more then enough for the rest of the week don't you think? once alpha goes back live they make more videos.

[Warlock]

Lol - Because we get a free try at ARR it safe to say we would come back.

It is still however in their best interest to keep us pysched as we can be their word of mouth.

Who then would get others (non-previous players) involved and start watching, and those people dont get a free try so SE needs to then maintain the hype. Otherwise they may try another comparable (mmorpg) and not want to come over because they are already 100 hours into it.

Threatening of leaving got old FAST GTFO my game hundreds of new players will have your spot