Quote Originally Posted by Larirawiel View Post
I mean, the SQEX's marketing department should notice this, that many people thought, that FF14 is a weeb game. In this case, they should have start some countermeasures against it. But they did nothing. Maybe they did not notice it or they did not care or they thought, that the game trailers are enough. But in all those cases it was a fault. I bet, Asmongold alone brought more new players to the game than SQEX's marketing department.


And the game is not very different. I came the first time in contact with the game in the ARR beta. And i did not like it because it was way too similar to WoW WotLK, which i also did not like. And i hated the long GCD. So i thought, that SQEX has created another WotLK clone (and there were maaaany WoW clones at the time) and i was not interested anymore.

I came back with Shadowbringers because the game reviews were very good.


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Oh I see what you mean now.
Yeah I honestly dunno what they can do about it, I think big Streamers playing the game and loving it was the best advertisement they could've gotten in that regard.
Especially when big WoW Streamers with very negative opinions on it went in and tried it and ended up loving it.
There's quite a lot of people who only play military FPS games and think that anything fantasy is '' cringe '', FFXIV being Japanese and not a gritty European medieval simulator is an even further step.

Everyone I know irl is kinda like that honestly, I think most who play games and the average joe so to speak.
The showrunners for Game of Thrones get memed on a lot because they said that they diminished and cut a lot of the magic in the show because they wanted to appeal to '' football players and moms '', but they're not entirely wrong I think most ppl at least in the West are quite close-minded to fantasy.
If Game of Thrones had been more book accurate then in all honesty I think it wouldn't have become as big, a lot of people would've just tuned out before it truly got going.
And then when you add a foreign element to it too it only adds to that.

The GCD is actually something I see referenced a lot too and I honestly dunno what they could do about that either, it's a bit like the story '' it gets good later ''.
It's hard to prove that to people.