Thread: Teaser sight 2.0

Originally Posted by Alerith

Also, for something such as this, a trailer CAN have spoilers.

Yea, like Dalmud crashing into Eorzea and a bright light engulfs everything.... and then it fast forwards to 2 years later.

Looking at the new finalfantasyxiv.com, I think what has been removed is more conspicuous than anything else.

That site exists primarily to provide a taste of FFXIV to people who are new to the game. Up until this point, it has been filled with information on 1.0. Not anymore.

To me, that says that the XIV team thinks that 1.0's remaining lifespan is now short enough that it doesn't make sense to sell a brand new player on it. Though 1.0 still has several months left before it goes offline, the devs may feel that there isn't enough time for the average casual player to make a purchasing decision, start the game, and progress to a point where they get a lot out of the current version. The seventh umbral era storyline is one of 1.0's big selling points, but we may be approaching the stage at which slower players (and people without much time to play) might run out of time before getting to experience it.

The flow of the game, including the means by which the average player levels and experiences the main storyline, will be changing with 2.0 as well. People who have not progressed very far in 1.0 may find it preferable to start anew when 2.0 hits, as they will be able to learn the new systems and experience the new story from the ground up. Throw in the fact that there will be a period of up to one month between 1.0 and 2.0 where our original characters will be inaccessible, and it makes sense that the dev team would want to stop advertising for 1.0 a good bit before the relaunch.

They may not be ready to open the floodgates of 2.0 information just yet, but at a certain point it becomes sensible to stop stop tempting new players to 1.0 and just have them wait for 2.0's open beta. That may be why 1.0's promo site is now history.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't most teaser sites, for anything, provide little to no info to begin with?
I can remember looking at a few upcoming game websites at the end of last year, with just a mailing list option and some artistic front page.

It's good to see they've put it up at the very least. I'll be watching it closely as it develops.

Originally Posted by heit

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't most teaser sites, for anything, provide little to no info to begin with?

Most teaser sites, yes. But this is clearly a teaser sight. That's the only reason I can think of why people have their jimmies so rustled.

I imagine the frustration is due to being promised a trailer at E3 only to be shot down last minute, then have a 2.0 web-page teased to find that (We mostly knew this but had hope extended) we would get SOMETHING from it when it launched.

I'm a bit peeved but I'll survive until the trailer launches and even then I doubt we will get alot of information just pretty lights. Then we will have to hold out until 2.0 or the 2.0 beta starts.

I don't think Yoshi fly to paris only to show old stuff..

Originally Posted by Gospel

Why are you swearing?

I'm sorry