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

[Atoli]

Ehm...am I missing something or why does everyone think they are skipping E3?
They aren't, they said there will be a shitload of NEW information on FFXIV 2.0 on E3 as well as a website afterwards.
NEW as in "stuff we haven't seen yet in the PDFs".

The ONLY thing they aren't showing is a trailer, and seriously, I'm kind of happy about that.
Trailers never really show anything about what has changed, they always look cool even if the game is crap.
If they only showed a trailer, everyone would have been like "Meeh. They are just hyping their broken game with an awesome-looking trailer while the game is actually shit."
By NOT doing that but rather showing information on what has changed and will continue to change with the release of 2.0, they can show way better that FFXIV 2.0 is NOT the same old broken game with only a new wrapping.

[Airget]

Ehm...am I missing something or why does everyone think they are skipping E3?
They aren't, they said there will be a shitload of NEW information on FFXIV 2.0 on E3 as well as a website afterwards.
NEW as in "stuff we haven't seen yet in the PDFs".

The ONLY thing they aren't showing is a trailer, and seriously, I'm kind of happy about that.
Trailers never really show anything about what has changed, they always look cool even if the game is crap.
If they only showed a trailer, everyone would have been like "Meeh. They are just hyping their broken game with an awesome-looking trailer while the game is actually shit."
By NOT doing that but rather showing information on what has changed and will continue to change with the release of 2.0, they can show way better that FFXIV 2.0 is NOT the same old broken game with only a new wrapping.

People just enjoy complaining at every chance they can just because of a change in how things are being presented.

[Fated]

lol @ marketing for 2.0 beginning in August according to the new roadmap

[Colino]

lol @ marketing for 2.0 beginning in August according to the new roadmap

Yup, and there's still people in this thread that are convinced somehow that marketing will start at E3 and not in August as they specifically stated.

I mean they even bothered updating the roadmap this time!

[Delsus]

Yup, and there's still people in this thread that are convinced somehow that marketing will start at E3 and not in August as they specifically stated.

I mean they even bothered updating the roadmap this time!

They ARE releasing the game to the public at E3, what this means is SHOWING the public what it will be like.

[Sagagemini]

Omg! SE won't show the 2.0 video! It's the end of the world! My entire life spins around FFXIV!
Jesus, just chill! People take video games too damn serious.

[Hycinthus]

/wakes up, beautiful holiday morning, checks lodestone
/delighted to see new letter
/RAGERAGERAGERAGE
GRAAAA RAAAARGH
/goes back to sleep

[Delsus]

Here is the 1.xx trailer from 2009, appart from leves and the opening LL cs tell me what else it has to do with the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAFyFCqCEW0

Also tell me what else a similar type of trailer would actually do for the game if released before the world knows of the changes and proof they are making said changes.

[Colino]

Here is the 1.xx trailer from 2009, appart from leves and the opening LL cs tell me what else it has to do with the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAFyFCqCEW0

Also tell me what else a similar type of trailer would actually do for the game if released before the world knows of the changes and proof they are making said changes.

Yet its a hype as shit trailer and eventually sold me on trying out the beta... So obviously it worked.

[Delsus]

Yet its a hype as shit trailer and eventually sold me on trying out the beta... So obviously it worked.

Yes it did then, before it got all the bad press, everyone knew it had failed, right now mentioning FFXIV gives the reply "I can't believe you are playing that failure" what SE need to do is turn that bad press around and a trailer will NOT do that, all it would do is make games sites say "SE released a trailer for FFXIV at E3 today, while the trailer looked very good, I do not think it will do anything to recover the game". However if they show gameplay sites will say "Some FFXIV 2.0 gameplay videos were released at E3 today, we found them to look very good, this may just rescue FFXIV, we will keep you all posted."

The formor is not hype, it is a "oh look those failtards are trying to relaunch thier epic fail again" the latter is hype, its saying "Wow it looks like they could turn this around, we need to keep up to date on it."