Au Ra Twitter Campaign vs Console players

[Ophie-Mio]

So yeah, I just saw that the community team has a cool new event up! I was excited for the benchmark video and looked at the Au Ra creation threads with envy and glee. I'm sure lots of other peeps looked at them too and just couldn't wait to create an Au Ra...

But then the community team decided that an event that was exclusively for PC players was a good idea. >_> Which, yeah, it's really not. Thanks for excluding a good portion of your player subscriptions.

[Atreides]

So yeah, I just saw that the community team has a cool new event up! I was excited for the benchmark video and looked at the Au Ra creation threads with envy and glee. I'm sure lots of other peeps looked at them too and just couldn't wait to create an Au Ra...

But then the community team decided that an event that was exclusively for PC players was a good idea. >_> Which, yeah, it's really not. Thanks for excluding a good portion of your player subscriptions.

Well EU is left out too, if it makes you feel any better. D:

[Vespar]

Yep, I got flack for writing about my displeasure of particulars relating to an event recently from the mods, so I gave up because it didn't seem like they cared really. But I do share your irritation and disappointment.

[kyuven]

It's not exclusive to PC players. You just need a PC to access it. Said PC just needs to be able to download and use the benchmark. You can literally enter this contest by downloading it to a computer at a net cafe and using it there.
It in no way requires the PC client to use.
Nowhere in the contest rules does it stipulate "PC users only"

[Canadane]

I should really get a twitter account...

[RiamRionheart]

SNIP

As a person who plays XIV on a console exclusively, and one who does not have access to a PC suitable to run the benchmark anywhere near him, I feel this event caters towards those who play on PC. Even if I had a net cafe located around me--which I don't--it's still a fact that it's much more convenient and accessible to those playing on PC.

Let's not forget that even if I did have a suitable PC around, I'd still have to create my Au Ra, take the screenshot, and tweet it all from a PC. All of this done on the PC and without any interaction at all being from my console. That is a PC event as far as I'm concerned.

I'm unable to participate in this event because I am a console player with no way to access the benchmark. An event utilizing it is unfair to me.

[tocsin]

#PCMasterRace.

But, seriously, if you use this form of thinking, console players lose out on a LOT of content. Voice chats (for everyone, ps4 chat doesn't even count slightly), The Forums in general, Website integrations, benchmark, *coughaddonscough*, even graphics settings tweaks aren't available to console players.

It does happen. The MMO market grew up on PC, so its natural that a lot of the technology that the MMO playerbase have developed to better their gameplay experiences would be PC only. Consoles are trying to catch up, but they aren't there yet.

Asking SE to not use any resources that aren't available on a console, severely limits what they can do. The game itself doesn't allow for a lot of interactions of that sort, and there isn't a built in UI for contests. Even if there would, players would mistake them as Ads anyways, and we would get complaints about that too.

[Skeith-Adeline]

The character creation thing is a part of the benchmark. A console doesn't need a benchmark as the final product will run the same way on every based Playstation 4.

[DracotheDragon]

The character creation thing is a part of the benchmark. A console doesn't need a benchmark as the final product will run the same way on every based Playstation 4.

why thank you, hear that everyone we don't need the benchmark or a contest connected to the benchmark or that in game item or the ability to play with au ra or even see or touch the thing that was hyped up for nearly 2 months solid at every live letter /sarcasam

leaving the ps4 players out of using a character creator is annoying, the ps4 may not need a benchmark but to leave them out of something they have hyped up for a while now is a low blow, then to pour salt into that wound they tie in a contest (for NA players only) to the character creator which leaves out any one who is unable to use the benchmark, some PS4 players may only have a tablet to go online etc, and not a computer there SoL people who cannot have easy access to a computer such as a family computer are SoL maybe 'benchmark' is a daft name on the PS4 but a downloadable character creator would of allowed those people to not be exempt from a contest :\

as for it being NA only that annoys me some more but that was there choice and there are a few threads on that already

[tocsin]

snip.

Hey, no reason to start being rude to people.

Technically, since console players don't have access to the forums natively, a large majority of the players without access to the benchmark will never even see the contest. and the portion of the players who have a device capable of accessing the forums, but do not have access to a device capable of running the benchmark, is decisively smaller.

Mac players also aren't being included here either. The forum contests have in general been pretty far based on PC capabilities (editing software for redubbed, imaging softwares).

I'm sorry you cannot access the contest. It sucks. However, like every other contest item, im sure it will be available in other ways at a later date.