Thread: 2.5 Trailer?

Originally Posted by Ecks007

I mean, if you can tackle everything in a 'major update' within a few days (or 1 day if you have the time to spare), with exception to things that require grinding.. which is the only means of stretching content out this game has right now.

I enjoy the game, but I do worry if this is the trend they are going to keep up, eventually it's going to feel like there's just nothing to do until the next update.

You do know that if they did it your way and just dumped a bunch of stuff in 1 big update then released another update 7-8 months later .... players will find a way to burn through ALL that content within 2-4 weeks then be stuck waiting 7 months for new content (and more than likely unsub until the next patch).

No thanks... I'd rather them keep it how it is now and give us 3-4 months between content and have us excited and coming back on a regular basis rather than taking 5-6 months off because we burned through everything.

SE has some smart people running the business for FFXIV. Because of the staggered content, people are less frequently un-subscribing, especially casual players who are JUST finishing up content just as a new patch is approaching... they don't even have a chance to un-subscribe for a break. That's how SE wants it, and I don't blame them.

Originally Posted by lololink

I will come on the 19th, and the maint will last for 3 days so you'll have 3 days to watch the trailer again and again and again !

Don't forget to plant your onions right before maint.

Originally Posted by Ecks007

BIG WALL OF SNIP

to put a long sentence short, from my time within game design we were taught one thing if your going to create a game that has a subscription or online basis you need to find a way to keep your audience and to return your audience every time, going with the 3 month window fits this game due to the content being beaten within the first week but is farmed and just as the game starts to get old even to those dedicated to it suddenly more content is released (2.4 being really slow for some due to being stuck on SCoB and fast for those who can do all the content,


but this was one way, the other would be to take all content we have gained since 2.1, (except very VERY minor stuff) and to put it all into a mega patch as 3.0 (heavens ward having no number in this path due to it being a expansion), heavens ward in this case would be a side thing and would just be known as heavenward no 3.0, until the major 4.0 major patch, but the issue is if we do this (taking the 3 months per patch) and assume 3.0 is going to have the same length then each major patch would be released (and majorly untested on the servers) every 12 to 15 months. within this time unless the game has a MAJOR amount go grinding or content the fans would unsub and leave come back for the major patch be overwelmed and leave, this dose work for some games (GW2 WoW ultima online) but not for games of FFXIV's nature,

also to continue the trailers themselves are NOT just for the players subscribed as i said before this is to be shown to new players who were interested in the game and want to see a update, as for the big trailer of everything that came before 3.0 they did this with 1.0 before 1.23e where the tag line if i remember was "play before the end" and it show cased all the major features of 1.0,

feather more, content that can be completed in a week will happen regardless, lets look at another MMO styled game with Raiding bitt in Bungies Destiny, within this MMOFPS, the Vault of Glass raid was beaten 2 weeks after launch and its expansion's raid was cleared within a week, the difficulty of these are extremely high to one mess up and the WHOLE thing is wiped, and started again from scratch, no matter how hard you make content it -WILL- be cleared and relatively fast, some people put down everything until they solve a puzzle.

the reason they have split 2.5 into 2 parts using my best guess is 1) to stop people from skipping over it as you said 2) to give a real sense of time passing and finally 3) as a means to pre-pair us for the trails of 2.55 (or 2.5p2) which will presumably have the final boss (a powerful trail) of 2.x

also as a final point do not assume everyone reads the live letters or researches everything to do with the updates, to use a phrase i learnt in my game design corse in college and my time in university when it comes to researching "some will most won't" when it comes to watching "most will some won't", basically meaning that if you gave someone a long book to read to find every fact or a video SHOWING them the facts they will choose the video while only a few will read the books.

oh umm i mean *cough* 2.5 or roit (/ o∆o)/

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201501/13069388.html

Even though we still haven't have any news about the trailer, but Famitsu has confirmed that it still Jan 20th that patch 2.5 will release and new info will release around Jan 15th.