Why is the game not OUT there in the media/mmo sites?? Devs/Yoshi gotta get on this!

[Krausus]

Its to early SE wants a large amount of information to be available before they go on the attack which I think will be during gamescom

[Sevro]

Its to early SE wants a large amount of information to be avaialbe before they go on the attack which I think will be during gamescon

that'll be good

[Starlord]

Its to early SE wants a large amount of information to be avaialbe before they go on the attack which I think will be during gamescon

Bombard the Doubters/haters with Information and Gameplay, New players will catch on with ease (if they are interested in that type of game) thats the best way they can handle it.. Overwhelm the Consumer with Information beyond compare, if they do that at Gamescom, they have their Second Chance Secured.

[Sevro]

Bombard the Doubters/haters with Information and Gameplay, New players will catch on with ease (if they are interested in that type of game) thats the best way they can handle it.. Overwhelm the Consumer with Information beyond compare, if they do that at Gamescom, they have their Second Chance Secured.

exactly agreed

[yukikaze_yanagi]

And we all should know now promotional campagn is in middle august, starting aroung in/before/after gamescom

[Sehro]

i think its a bit early , probably sites will start to write about 2.0 near open beta to release.

[Seif]

i think its a bit early , probably sites will start to write about 2.0 near open beta to release.

Fair enough but what about XIII-2?

That teaser did appear at e3 and wasn't pulled out at the last minute.
XIII-2 coverage lasted after that all the way to the release date.
We got feature trailers on pretty much everything in the game:
Moogle throwing, time travel, monster system, composer team interviews, main characters and unlinearity of the game was brought up in articles and trailers. All leading up to final CG trailer showing the intro and weeks of full market saturation pr.
You litrally could not watch a video on any gaming site for months without sittong through a XIII-2 trailer first. Also the game was seriously pushing for pre-orders to happen with several special editions that were announced over 6 months prior to release.

Ok XIV then? I get a feeling SE's faith in XIV is not that strong because even if they started right now the game still would not get the same amount of PR based on just the time they have lost.

Maybe there's a silver lining here that if the beta bombs then they can fix it because they haven't committed to a release date. They said in a gamasutra article that test players of XIII hated it but at that point it was too late to address any of the issues.

[Tonkra]

and maybe when we see the first ingame footage at Gamescom 2012 in mid of august. (youtube here we come) ;XD

[Punainen]

I don't think they should advertise before there's any real information to give, but I agree they need to advertise MUCH more. They never even advertised XI very well. Most FF fans I've talked to weren't even aware that XI existed (dunno where they thought that number went) or that FF had any MMOs. And still most people don't seem aware that XIV exists. SE needs to get XIV into into game magazines, and maybe have some TV spots.

[Felis]

Because gamescom have not started yet.