The Image of FFXIV

[Shougun]

Fresh blood is always good, and there is a huge part of the gaming community who are daunted by MMOs due to the toxic reputation of online play. While I am not much into the millenial-kiddy style of the videos they do have some solid information in them once you get past the #0 of them.



It's weird there is a UK version and USA version that are exactly the same. Are USA people that offended to click on a video with a UK flag?

I'm sorry did you say I have to click on the non-freedom version? Fwaaah.. Sickness must be purged!

I will pay my increased health care costs for lesser results thank you very much!!! FRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOMMMM YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!



The intro art was a bit.... different... Perhaps they thought all of us older folks don't need help getting into the game mechanics, even if the DF begs to differ lol. At least it looks like a lot of effort was put in, I don't feel they were cheaply made.

Could be what people are saying, but in the minds of marketing, a good thing- targeting an audience they feel they're not currently tapping.

I do appreciate such things even exist, though I hope they're trying to support best habits as they go too.. I did hear on reddit about the US healer guide not really talking about DPS lol. Haven't reached it myself yet, slap me if it's poor hearsay.

[Cach]

That video had a "Corporate Art Style" vibe that my designer friends meme often. Made me chuckle a bit.

[DrWho2010]

seems to be a lot of copium and hopium being sniffed around here....

[aveyond-dreams]

seems to be a lot of copium and hopium being sniffed around here....

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that marketing material/guides be more appropriate for FFXIV's demographics. However, as others have mentioned, that too seems to be changing.

[AwesomeJr44]

seems to be a lot of copium and hopium being sniffed around here....

Ah yes, I am on copium for wishing that SE created their marketing to target their audience instead of radically changing their marketing (and I'd argue the game) in an attempt to get 4 year olds to play the game.

How long before people start saying "FFXIV is a kids game, you can just leave if you don't like it"?

[NekoMataMata]

Ah yes, I am on copium for wishing that SE created their marketing to target their audience instead of radically changing their marketing (and I'd argue the game) in an attempt to get 4 year olds to play the game.

How long before people start saying "FFXIV is a kids game, you can just leave if you don't like it"?

But that's not going to happen. I mean there's some pretty mature topics being discussed in-game, they can't really go any lower than 16.

So it just makes me more curious as to who they're trying to target with this. I'm pretty sure I'm part of the youngest generation on FF14 and I don't feel like it's targeting me...

[Silverbane]

Ah yes, I am on copium for wishing that SE created their marketing to target their audience

Spending money marketing FFXIV to people who even just read this forum is a waste of money: those people already know more than enough about the game to decide whether to play it or not, and most of them already do. And that's especially true when the marketing is an intro tutorial.

TL;DR: SE's Marketing, as they should, mainly targets people who are not yet paying a subscription.

[Mimilu]

I don't dislike the animation style but I wondered why they didn't just use in-game assets/models to make the animated parts? ( ●´ω｀●)ゞ ~?
They could have just exported the character models out of the game and animated them during the out-of-game segments of the guides. There are quiet a few content creators who do that for things like shorts and MMDs.

I also dislike that they didn't upload/post them in order of episode and language. That's going to be confusing/annoying for any newbie to look through. o(*´д`*)o

[Shibi]

I don't dislike the animation style but I wondered why they didn't just use in-game assets/models to make the animated parts? ( ●´ω｀●)ゞ ~?
They could have just exported the character models out of the game and animated them during the out-of-game segments of the guides. There are quiet a few content creators who do that for things like shorts and MMDs.

I also dislike that they didn't upload/post them in order of episode and language. That's going to be confusing/annoying for any newbie to look through. o(*´д`*)o

Mm, episode 1 gets better

[Deveryn]

I don't dislike the animation style but I wondered why they didn't just use in-game assets/models to make the animated parts? ( ●´ω｀●)ゞ ~?
They could have just exported the character models out of the game and animated them during the out-of-game segments of the guides. There are quiet a few content creators who do that for things like shorts and MMDs.

I also dislike that they didn't upload/post them in order of episode and language. That's going to be confusing/annoying for any newbie to look through. o(*´д`*)o

It's just easier to just outsource some animated characters than go through the trouble of animating more scenes in house. There's a little more freedom to move them around.