Please stop showing boring videos

[Alerith]

There is nothing wrong with explaining what you have, as you have it.

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

[casker]

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

Yes, they show extremely boring kill 3 boar quests. This is what customers who haven't played the game think the questing is now like. They don't know about all the job quests and campaign quests. They just think "oh, the questing system in FFXIV is pretty much what we have seen before...LAME"

Even just calling them "sidequests" rather than "quests" would have helped. This is what I mean when I say SE needs to be more communicative and express what they have better. They aren't even doing justice to what they've got.

[Alerith]

You said:

There is nothing wrong with explaining what you have, as you have it. Everyone knows this is Alpha gameplay since there is that giant watermark.

Then I said:

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

Then you said:

Yes, they show extremely boring kill 3 boar quests. This is what customers who haven't played the game think the questing is now like. They don't know about all the job quests and campaign quests. They just think "oh, the questing system in FFXIV is pretty much what we have seen before...LAME"

Even just calling them "sidequests" rather than "quests" would have helped. This is what I mean when I say SE needs to be more communicative and express what they have better. They aren't even doing justice to what they've got.

So which is it? Is it acceptable to show:

what you have, as you have it.

Or is it only acceptable to show things you personally deem worthy? Please try and keep a proper argument together.

They are illustrating how the quest SYSTEM has changed from 1.0. This isn't some trailer to get people interested whom have never played before. And of course they aren't going to know about all the job quests. There are currently only, what, 2 jobs even available for play in the Alpha?

Plus, the ARR quest system really ISN'T innovative compared to other MMO's. It's near impossible to get away from this model, and no other game has really done it in recent memory. What has changed is the way the system has changed from 1.0.

You're asking too much of a test phase that is meant to simply stress the server and find preliminary bugs. You're asking for beta level videos now, when that phase of development may not even be complete.