Thread: 2.0 Trailer #2

Originally Posted by Neomarl

Once again, SE spends their whole budget on making trailers instead of improving what matters: the game's actual gameplay.

And funny they won't show that in the trailer, because they know it's bad.

Its just weird that they thought they needed to make a new trailer reusing old CGI, because people complained. What kind of pandering is that? If you do not have new CGI and possibly some gameplay, there is no reason to make another trailer. SE has some weird concept of "listening to their fanbase" and its probably going to cost them the success of this game.

The first trailer was fine. People complained about weird things like the voice over not being good enough. I thought it was pretty and the guy sounded pleasant. I liked his voice and he was british iirc, everyone loves a bristish accent...oh wait maybe not a lot of "muricans, they tend to be hateful for no reason, judging by the comments I saw about the UK after the Olympics. And these comments were not restricted to the Opening Ceremonies, which I also had a good time bashing(that was some weird shit). But 'muricans honestly just bashed and bashed the UK for reasons I cannot fathom.

Save up your gil SE until you have gameplay and new CGI, then hire Morgan Freeman to do your voice over (although there is nothing wrong in my eyes with the UK folk MF is just a sure thing if you want successful ads). Instant Winning!

OR

You can keep reusing the same CGI and content with different voice overs. I know that shit seems to impress the forum whiteknights, I'm sure it's a viable strategy to bring in new players. smh

Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

The twat here was the SE marketing exec who approved of the first voice over. The entire point of A Realm Reborn came out of our suggestions. Are you saying that we should have just given up on FFXIV 1.0 and let it die? Why are you here if not to talk about the game? You seem to contradict yourself. We speak, they listen... what could be better than that for any and all MMO's.

You need to rethink your position.

On a lighter note; I also enjoyed the female's voice and I love Annie Lennox.

A real reborn came out of a few peoples suggestions and more strongly a desire to emulate WoW. We will see how that turns out.

I don't understand why you ask "why are you here if you dont want to talk about the game?" As I am clearly talking about the game. I think what you meant to ask was "Why are you here if you don't want to say positive things about the game?"

Lastly, "we speak, they listen" is a really bad strategy for the devs to take. As they don't know who to listen to, since we all have varied opinions. How much to listen. When to listen. How to turn our varied, uneducated (in video game design) and silly comments into constructive ideas. etc etc etc

Im not saying SE should work in a bubble, they can see whats available out here. But simply pandering to the majority or lowest common denominator will not make their game a success. They need to be on the cutting edge. They need to define that edge with their own concepts and twists on game mechanics.

FF14 1.0 was not that bad; SP, Phy lvl/class level, optimal gear, complex crafting, mob ai, the concept of leves, etc. Some really cool ideas, but almost everything was broken, laggy and buggy. They listened to people who didn't want to see these systems fixed and instead wanted "mmo standards" and we got a watered down MMO. We will see what is left of FF14 in 2.0 as they try to make it an "easy transition for WoW players".

Originally Posted by Neomarl

Once again, SE spends their whole budget on making trailers instead of improving what matters: the game's actual gameplay.

And funny they won't show that in the trailer, because they know it's bad.

That gave me a hard laugh... you should check what SE is actually making money of. Final Fantasy Series is of course one of their Flagships, but hardly something they ever will put their whole budget into. Then they would have 4000 people working on it, instead of 200.

I prefered Trailer #1.

The first one was a lot more intence.
This new one was funny. The females voice was hilarious, i was laughing. And I felt like i was going to get a seizure watching this new one, it was all just 1 seconds scene cuts.

Odin looks like he's going to be pretty important to ARR. I wonder if he descends down from Dalamud in that big sword...

Old trailers for the original game were better.