More Ads that Miss the Mark

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Oh no! Anyway...

[SturmChurro]

just remember this is what he thinks is awesome:

Hey! I'd do an angel cosplay if we had some actual good looking pieces for it (also need to get me the wings)!

It'd make such a good whm glam.

[Midareyukki]

I stopped trying to engage a while ago. I just come chat with the peanut gallery on occasion.

Okay so... I tried googling something for you, which was a gif of someone giving their friend a bowl of popcorn...

But I couldn't find any decent ones, and all the stock photos just look awkward as hell.

Suddenly, I find this.



Americans have different flavours for popcorn? I thought butter, salt and sugar were the only options!

[SassyAssassin]

Hey! I'd do an angel cosplay if we had some actual good looking pieces for it (also need to get me the wings)!

It'd make such a good whm glam.

Yes but you’d look good

Okay so... I tried googling something for you, which was a gif of someone giving their friend a bowl of popcorn...

But I couldn't find any decent ones, and all the stock photos just look awkward as hell.

Suddenly, I find this.



Americans have different flavours for popcorn? I thought butter, salt and sugar were the only options!

Im intrigued…

[Deveryn]

Okay so... I tried googling something for you, which was a gif of someone giving their friend a bowl of popcorn...

But I couldn't find any decent ones, and all the stock photos just look awkward as hell.

Suddenly, I find this.



Americans have different flavours for popcorn? I thought butter, salt and sugar were the only options!

This is my go-to for these shows.




Is that a new hairstyle?

[hagare]

Hey! I'd do an angel cosplay if we had some actual good looking pieces for it (also need to get me the wings)!

It'd make such a good whm glam.

hey, I want jetpacks man

[Gemina]

Okay so... I tried googling something for you, which was a gif of someone giving their friend a bowl of popcorn...

But I couldn't find any decent ones, and all the stock photos just look awkward as hell.

Suddenly, I find this.



Americans have different flavours for popcorn? I thought butter, salt and sugar were the only options!

Dude, we even have popcorn flavors after breakfast cereals like cocoa puffs, lucky charms, cinnamon toast crunch, trix, etc. And if you've ever thought. "Ya know? I would love to buy a container of the milk that's leftover after eating a bowl of fruit loops." We won't disappoint you there either.

Here in the States, our theme is "Congestive Heart Failure".

[Duskane]

Okay so... I tried googling something for you, which was a gif of someone giving their friend a bowl of popcorn...

But I couldn't find any decent ones, and all the stock photos just look awkward as hell.

Suddenly, I find this.



Americans have different flavours for popcorn? I thought butter, salt and sugar were the only options!

have rainbow popcorn in Australia aswell as those

[AnnRam]

Imagine my shock when I was confronted by the latest marketing stunt for this game that once again makes me ask the question:

Who are you actually trying to appeal to?

Because a handful of teenagers in cosplay espousing...that is certainly not the sort of thing that would have gotten me to try the game back when I started around that age bracket.

It goes without saying that the resources that went into making this could have easily been spent elsewhere and that the marketing could have been easily more economical - a quick clip of something like a CE in Bozja, snippets of a cutscene from a job quest, all more easy to sit through than stuff like this.

FFXIV deserves better representation than ads like this one and the one that was rightfully dubbed the Cocomelon FFXIV crossover tutorial series. Ads like these make me feel embarrassed by association now and would have absolutely made me feel the same way when I was younger.

Please get it together. You're not building rapport with any audience with this or the other "video series."

"I can't believe we did that, you are cute btw wanna erp?"
"we actually made it to crystal DC, created our catgirl in balmung and visit QS"
"How cool was that?"
"There's no stopping us, we are joining the erp venues tonight"
"We got the ccards and /c/ back together in our profiles"
"We defeated those weirdos who actually play the game lmao with our mog store/casual glams"
"And then.. beat back those normies'
"The normies"
"Yeah o/"
"So what's next, another +18 venue event?"
"I'm ready to spam on all the cities for a whole week"
"This just keeps getting better".
"So ready to jump back in? the DJ on twitch its playing already"
"Yeah!"

[Midareyukki]

Is that a new hairstyle?

It's one of the ones I like in the game, even for other races ^^

And for once, it doesn't look too unflattering in the Forums XD

Dude, we even have popcorn flavors after breakfast cereals like cocoa puffs, lucky charms, cinnamon toast crunch, trix, etc. And if you've ever thought. "Ya know? I would love to buy a container of the milk that's leftover after eating a bowl of fruit loops." We won't disappoint you there either.

Here in the States, our theme is "Congestive Heart Failure".

'-' I can't tell if that's amazing or if I should be worried...

I mean. Yay for variety and choice? I guess? But also, are you guys okay? You do eat well, yes?