What can SE do to make FFXIV "Noticed"?

[Churchill]

Yet people are still paying more money that we will for 14, which is my point.

It'll happen to 14, which is why it should be free, like every other MMO.

[Fear]

Yet people are still paying more money that we will for 14, which is my point.

It'll happen to 14, which is why it should be free, like every other MMO.

Not every other MMO is free, and I perfer P2P model over Pay-to-win/F2P


of course it will happen as the game ages but it won't happen for years

[Hyrist]

FFXIV will get noticed once they make good on their promise to restore the game to the quality we've come to expect from them after so may blockbuster titles under their belt.

That means they also need to surpass the common opinion of FFXIII and it's successor.

After that, they need to advertise, showing game-play. And not just any gameplay. In game cutscenes, large-scale events, combat, character development, and side-entertainment like the Golden Saucer.

They display all these things in their advertising, coupled with word of mouth form us, they'll get the attention they need, and they'll deserve it form their efforts.

They also need to impress the critics - the very ones that told the world that this thing was a steaming pile of crap. Get them to publicly say 'apology accepted, this is the game it should have been' and people will leap on it in droves.

[Sav]

Alpha/Beta should be good depending on whether or not an NDA is involved. Either way, Open Beta is where most of the opportunity to change the public's opinion is, as far as I see it.

[Dragon]

SE just needs to go underground and viralize it. End of story.

[Churchill]

I'm playing on a buddy copy :P

[Griss]

Honestly the only thing that is going to swing the popular opinion around is not fancy trailers or game play videos. It will be positive reviews from the people who rightfully gave the negative ones to start with and general good word of mouth.

It is the court of popular opinion that judges if a game is "good" or not. And as kick ass as a producer and director yoishida has been the outside knows nothing of it.

[Amherst]

Advertising aside, making it widely accessible will go a long way toward helping the game. Mainly getting it up on Steam and as a downloadable purchase off of PSN as soon as possible.

[Rannie]

Then let us advertise for them aka links to face book and such if anyone owns websites start posting on there about it we as a community can help advertise and it won't cost them a dime though if they give us free stuff in game *hint hint* that would be nice =P

[indira]

make it free, like every other game

that also is another reason some people wont bother. free = pay to win.