Letter from the Producer, XXVIII (05/28/2012)

[Hycinthus]

Maybe someone at SE pointed out that 30 seconds of already existing cgi doesnt = a new trailer....

I hope when they say they are going to 'wow' us they really do cos most of the time player expectations are up here --- while se's are down here ____

I agree that a 30 second CGI is also a waste. CGI is not content, is not gameplay, is not user interface, is nothing but an eyecandy.

BUT, at least some form of trailer, even CGI, would put the word of FFXIV 2.0 into laypeople out there and the media. No MMO has ever tried what SE is trying to do. Everyone thinks FFXIV is dead and is never coming back.

[Delsus]

I knew this was gonna happen, I called it first!

Anyway, even though I understand the part about releasing "a flood instead of a trickle", I think they should still show the trailer at E3 since it's done anyway. If marketing is all they're after, E3 is the place to do it. And then in August they can show more new things on top of that trailer.

Or they can show the relevent gameplay that everyone wants to see, they can see how the UI will work, see how things look, then release the CGI trailer showing abilities we do not have (Fire Arrow) and things we will never see ingame (or anything like it) at a later date.

The 1.0 trailer/opening movie has very little to do with the game, there are the races, classes, leves and a flashback in Mor Dhona, who thought we would get the Magic arrows we saw in the trailer.

It shows nothing of how the game will play, its not even represetative of the graphics, just CGI and useless, this will be what the new trailer will be like, not showing the game, but other movies like gameplay have some use, they are just getting thier priorities straight, the first thing they need is to do something to pull players in and preorder 2.0, and ONLY gameplay will do that, a CGI trailer will do nothing.

[bobbygunz]

lrn2market se

I give up lol just one disappointment after the next..meh

What, no more bikini self-pics then?

[Colino]

Or they can show the relevent gameplay that everyone wants to see, they can see how the UI will work, see how things look, then release the CGI trailer showing abilities we do not have (Fire Arrow) and things we will never see ingame (or anything like it) at a later date.

The 1.0 trailer/opening movie has very little to do with the game, there are the races, classes, leves and a flashback in Mor Dhona, who thought we would get the Magic arrows we saw in the trailer.

It shows nothing of how the game will play, its not even represetative of the graphics, just CGI and useless, this will be what the new trailer will be like, not showing the game, but other movies like gameplay have some use, they are just getting thier priorities straight, the first thing they need is to do something to pull players in and preorder 2.0, and ONLY gameplay will do that, a CGI trailer will do nothing.

You are basing all of this off of the assumption that they will show gameplay footage at E3, but looking at the letter that's far from being certain.

[Griss]

The strangest thing about this decision is that August is too late for E3 and too early for TGS. The two biggest media events for video games and they want to release a trailer right in the middle of them, but not AT them? OK SE, I'm sure you know what you're doing but it seems an odd choice to me.

true but its right in time for the lead up for the 2.0 beta and roll out to start.

I see what there playing at here. There going to put every thing they have into one strike and hope for a knockout.

It is one hell of a gamble, one i hope pays off for them.

[Delsus]

I agree that a 30 second CGI is also a waste. CGI is not content, is not gameplay, is not user interface, is nothing but an eyecandy.

BUT, at least some form of trailer, even CGI, would put the word of FFXIV 2.0 into laypeople out there and the media. No MMO has ever tried what SE is trying to do. Everyone thinks FFXIV is dead and is never coming back.

This is why I can guarentee they will show some gameplay, they know a CGI trailer is useless its called prioritisation, relese gameplay before the trailer (perhaps even 1.xx content what will get ported to 2.0 like dungeons.

[ydp002]

I wonder how many pages this topic will get before the next letter? So let say the next letter come out next Monday at same time for E3 and New Website.

Its a big surprise at the end of Sony Press Conference (new trailer Final Fantasy XV for the PS4) They can not have 2 FF. ^_^ also they need to push FFXIII versus so i forgive then for that and focus all 2.0 stuff for later. They can only have so much time to present.

[Delsus]

You are basing all of this off of the assumption that they will show gameplay footage at E3, but looking at the letter that's far from being certain.

And everyone else basing thier views on FFXIV WILL NOT BE AT E3 dispite this quote:

Well, the public release of version 2.0 is set to kickoff with this year’s E3 in Los Angeles. We also plan to unveil a brand new promotion site for version 2.0 soon after E3 ends.

Which means they will market the game at E3, ie they WILL be showing something.

[Heavell]

The enjoyment of our players is extremely important to us, and once 2.0 begins, we’ll be merging the current version and version 2.0 dev teams into one consolidated powerhouse that will continue bringing you as much new content as we can in the shortest span of time possible!

Since i joined up XIV from Oct, 2011... and i think what i thought is true... SE team doesn't have enough people to finish the project. Not means they are bad, they are good indeed.. But they need more human resources to work for each content

hmmm... maybe they need to gain trust about how XIV will be succeed in future then they might hire some of new people to work. As far as i can tell is the modeling about the character, stuff like gears, new item, monsters and the world itself takes time most

well, i surprised as well about : Q3/Q4. Do you think the pace of leveling up Disciplines of War and Magic classes is appropriate? (When not power leveling, mind you.). For me the leveling system went too fast and can get all battle jobs to 50 in no time, well as new player i don't get PL too much i wait for shout at Ul'dah everyday. Compare to XI, 4 jobs to 75 in a year at 2008~2009 (i almost play everyday more than 6 hours) lol *BUT FUN AND CHALLENGING*
So, for people who likes to fight monsters than craft there will be nothing to do to level after got all battle jobs capped. This is one of XIV biggest weakness

ps : sorry for my bad English, feel free to share your thoughts

[Req]

Maybe they are just waiting until TGS. They do seem to care more about the japanese players than other regions as it is considering all our rep responses are just translated versions of response to japanese threads, so it wouldn't surprise me.