Message from actual new player

[Vahzl]

This. This is probably the hardest obstacle SE will have to overcome. For almost everyone that doesn't already play it or camp the lodestone for news, the game is still that "one Final Fantasy so bad it got a 4.0 from Gamespot". Even a massive patch like 1.19 only had mentions like "Chocobos are finally coming" on pretty much everywhere that is not massively.com. Or this.

I have been considering doing a Youtube channel for a while, based around the first 60 minutes of games. Basically it's going to be for comparing new games of a select genre, to the current market leading games of the same genre, so in this case, I would place FFXIV side-by-side in real time with World of Warcraft, and compare the 2 as they progress through the first 60 minutes of gameplay (obviously cut down a little but I do have unlimited time on my Youtube vids as I created it on Youtubes launch, which means it still is under the original terms of having no limit on video length).

For example keeping tallies of what the game has told you to do, shown you, taught you, what you have seen, number of unique monsters encountered in this time, areas you have been ushered into, quest variance, and other bits of random stuff. So it would be "20 minutes in, and WoW has shown me 4 unique quest archetypes, Final Fantasy XIV has shown me 2, but I did get a more comprehensive tutorial to this point in FF than I have in WoW, and we have seen wolves, kobolds, spiders and zombies in WoW, and Marmots, Funguar, Opo-Opo's, Crabs, Spriggans, Moles etc in FFXIV.

Would also plan on scoring each element and giving them a total at the end, based on raw experience.

Think it would be interesting to see how the 2 compare within this key time period, as this is when a player would more than likely make a lot of decisions towards their like or disliking of a game.

Do you guys think this would be interesting or a total waste of time