A Realm Reborn Media Tour 2013

[Lucke]

I think those critters where there just to stress our rigs further, I highly doubt a moogle will be flying around the Shroud sprinkling pixie dust, or a giant turdle will be smooshing everything in that camp, or ochus and treats there, or cactuars in a forest, WTWark?

That stuff was probably added as extra animations for our GPUs to draw, nothing more.

[Shougun]

Pretty sure that entire scene is heavily scripted for effect! lol
It looks cool, but your never going to see the Mail Moogle flying through open environments to deliver you mail! lol
Although it would be kinda cool.
"Moogle Mail will never Fail!"

Well.. its there for something lol. I suppose they could have created the content just for the benchmark but.. :O.. but... lol


Another far stretch hope was that you can see the monsters flying around as if they actually "flew" rather then hover over the ground like we are used to.

That would be cool lol


@Lucke yeah I have no doubt that scene would NEVER happen normally in the shroud but seeing it there makes me wonder how much of it is planned content for other parts of the game just moved into that location for stress test and "wowment".

[Radacci]

I think those critters where there just to stress our rigs further, I highly doubt a moogle will be flying around the Shroud sprinkling pixie dust, or a giant turdle will be smooshing everything in that camp, or ochus and treats there, or cactuars in a forest, WTWark?

That stuff was probably added as extra animations for our GPUs to draw, nothing more.

There were cactuars in Shroud, in last few patches (1,22+ or such)
I think only that Tortoise won't appear

[Millerna]

*head explodes due to information overload*

[Kirito]

A minute till start of live video?

[Zumi]

IGN posted their article, focusing a lot on how its not free to play. A lot of the user comments on there show there is still a lot of hate for FF14. Whats even more funny is the IGN girl said in her video she wants beta testers to tweet her on if the game is cool or it sucks, that would be braking the NDA lol

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/...a-realm-reborn

[HiirNoivl]

IGN posted their article, focusing a lot on how its not free to play. A lot of the user comments on there show there is still a lot of hate for FF14. Whats even more funny is the IGN girl said in her video she wants beta testers to tweet her on if the game is cool or it sucks, that would be braking the NDA lol

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/...a-realm-reborn

Some people choke on logic.

I really hope PvP is good. As much as I love FFXIV and Yoshi P What's been released so far just isn't enough. I don't know what they want but the non-FF playing MMO public looks at FF and thinks... yeah but I already have THIS game I'm already playing. They may try it out of sheer curiosity, but something has to make them stay. ._.;;;;

The good news is, after forwarding like a billion links I managed to get two more people for PS3 beta. ^^

[Jacien]

Need help finding a certain excerpt. I thought I read something saying for 1.0 players your home nation will be tied to your Grand Company.

[Linkurrra]

IGN posted their article, focusing a lot on how its not free to play. A lot of the user comments on there show there is still a lot of hate for FF14. Whats even more funny is the IGN girl said in her video she wants beta testers to tweet her on if the game is cool or it sucks, that would be braking the NDA lol

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/...a-realm-reborn

I didn't really see IGN fault Square Enix for going with the subscription based model. Sure it is out of character for all MMO's, but that is only because there are 2 MMO's that are the Developer, Investor, and Publisher all in one! Blizzard and Square Enix. This is why all other games are going to F2P, not because they are failing, but because they are forced to repay their debt's quickly.

It's just how MMO's are made, Square Enix just so happens to own the IP and development. They have nobody to check in with, but themselves! This opens up huge amounts of freedom for an MMO to do whatever they want. They don't have to check with an investor and ask. "Is it okay if we spend our money on this?' or "We would like to do this, do you agree this is a good idea?". This slows down the development process to a crawl.

[Taika]

I'll post an updated list of media tour articles (hope you guys don't mind double posting). Please let me know if I missed something.

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Gamer Escape: FFXIV Media Tour - Gamer Escape Coverage
Gamespot UK: Starting From Scratch - Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
IGN: Relaunching Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
JPGames: Final Fantasy XIV: Our new interview with Naoki Yoshida
Massively: Massively's comprehensive preview of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
MMORPG: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Previews: Ready to Lift the Veil
Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIV media blowout signals the arrival of the game’s official benchmark
Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Interview with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida
Penny Arcade: Final Fantasy XIV’s director justifies subscriptions, and explains why he couldn’t fix a broken game
Penny Arcade: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn reintroduces the Square Enix MMO, but feels stuck in the past
RPGsite: Hands-On Impressions: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Zam: A Realm Reborn; A Look Ahead

Translated by Reinheart:

4Gamer: FFXIV interview 2/8/2013