Quote Originally Posted by Radacci View Post
Or because Yoshi is off to promotion tour 10th Feb, and will reveal more then?
Yoshi has had copious amounts of opportunities to reveal information about ARR 's core philosophy. Every time he has used these opportunities to say "a themepark game like World of Warcraft with more FF feel". After a while, I think you kind of have to take him at his word, rather than expect something more than what has been said.

Before doing anything else, many game developers will present their game-design philosophy (for example, Archeage's video presentations and Guild Wars 2's developers blogs did this) in order to show players what they can expect in a broad sense. I'm not saying Yoshi has not done this, because he has. He has said numerous times that they are taking inspiration from the "standard" MMOs (such as World of Warcraft), and this is because SE believe it's what players expect and want. And then they will be adding "more FF feel" to that for a winning combination, allegedly.

And because they just want to keep stuff a secret?
There's no point keeping things like the general game direction a secret, and they haven't kept it a secret. They've always said they are "standardizing" FFXIV and making it a themepark game.

If they didn't even believe in the project, there wouldn't have been a ARR
Anyone can believe anything, it doesn't necessarily mean they will be able to realise it or achieve something great. Many people fail because they believed in themselves when they should have doubted.

They'll obviously update Lodestone etc during Phase 3, when the game isn't under NDA anymore.
True. I just wonder if they have enough to make a good sales pitch. A FF reskin of a generic MMO may not be that enticing compared to what else is available.