When are we going to get some expansion news?

[MrThinker]

I heard that was officially denied by the devs, though.

At this point, if 6.0 is indeed being announced in Feb, they SHOULD have already filed the trademark for the expansion's name so that Amano can do his artwork for the logo and the VisualWorks studio to incorporate said logo into their trailer. Though Yoshi may have denied the trademark in question, it is still the only one that "fits the bill" in it's naming convention as far as I'm aware.

Remember that Heavensward, Stormblood and Shadowbringers were trademarked over 4 months before they were officially announced in the NA fanfests, so even with the 2-month delay, we are still beyond where the trademark should have been made.

If it's the trademark that was denied, what can I say except: Yoshi lied.
If it isn't: The Team did a stellar job of hiding the actual title from those trademark hunters.

[Iscah]

If it isn't: The Team did a stellar job of hiding the actual title from those trademark hunters.

Yeah, I've been wondering that. Are they able to officially have the trademark kept secret until they are ready to announce it, or is it 100% going to be public as soon as they apply?

[Gemina]

Patience my friend. You have acknowledged that we are in the middle of a pandemic, and it has caused difficulty and delays for the dev team. No need to pull a Cartman, and cryoprison yourself or anything. Though I will admit, the covidpocolypse is making such alternatives very attractive.

[Gameovers]

Patience my friend. You have acknowledged that we are in the middle of a pandemic, and it has caused difficulty and delays for the dev team. No need to pull a Cartman, and cryoprison yourself or anything. Though I will admit, the covidpocolypse is making such alternatives very attractive.

I see you're a lady of nicknames. Tho Covidpocolypse while good... Tom clancey's The Division is still a fav of mine.

[Crushnight]

Yeah, I've been wondering that. Are they able to officially have the trademark kept secret until they are ready to announce it, or is it 100% going to be public as soon as they apply?

That'll entirely depend on how out there the name could be, if it is bonkers enough that no one would reasonably come up with it and trademark it themselves, it could be safe to just not trademark until just before announcement. Else trademark the moment you decided on name. Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, all have commonly used words meshed together so reasonable to assume others may come up with such names, but say Larboardhollow would be something you could leave untrademarked for longer because likelihood someone else would trademark that is exceptionally low.

[MrThinker]

...if it is bonkers enough that no one would reasonably come up with it and trademark it themselves, it could be safe to just not trademark until just before announcement. Else trademark the moment you decided on name.

This is the scenario I thought of, but dismissed because I really don't know if they'd be able to make an "out there" title work.

[Shougun]

Be right back, making a trademark for Larboardhollow.




:3


In other news, news of the expansion would be cool. I want to see what they decided to do from here, especially given their fairly successful launch of the last expansion. Also kind of hope they sneak in some of their new FF. Although given cyberpunk I'd prefer a better release than more hype, both being most preferable lol.

[Hycinthus]

That'll entirely depend on how out there the name could be, if it is bonkers enough that no one would reasonably come up with it and trademark it themselves, it could be safe to just not trademark until just before announcement. Else trademark the moment you decided on name. Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, all have commonly used words meshed together so reasonable to assume others may come up with such names, but say Larboardhollow would be something you could leave untrademarked for longer because likelihood someone else would trademark that is exceptionally low.

But isn’t it one of the marketing rule not to use names that have no meaning like that, “Larboardhollow”? , and lean towards commonly used inspiring names?

[MistakeNot]

But isn’t it one of the marketing rule not to use names that have no meaning like that, “Larboardhollow”? , and lean towards commonly used inspiring names?

That must have been before the Internet and search engines.
Nowadays using a common word just means people get lots of hits for different things when searching for that word, while using a made up word results in people easily finding your product.

[Yeol]

People say February. I personally hope they don't delay it much longer. The more they delay the higher the expectations people are going to have.