Gameplay demo at Gamescom needs to be Super-Duper-Ahmazing

[Kagalli]

All. We need to see all.
The time for secrecy and holding back information is long gone. That was 2 years ago. This is now.

This is time to whip it all out, bare it all out, no more secrets no more withholding gameplay features.

SE is still hiding Versus from us -_- wish they would release some new info on that game, they've only been working on it for 6-7 years now.

[Tricksy]

All. We need to see all.


This is time to whip it all out, bare it all out, .

Please post pics?! *^.^*

[LittleBraver]

Dear FFXIV ARR,
Next week at Gamescom, please blow me away okay, please sweep me off my feet. Like literally sweep me, carry me, I want to fall in love with you, but I can't if you're mediocre. Slam me against the wall, leave me breathless, do NOT take it easy. Bring it on everything. I want to be smacked in the face, repeatedly, with a wall of new gameplay information. Do not show me mercy!

This is the final, final chance, I think many websites and magazines will cover this, so this is it. Go all out, don't hold anything back. The 2 CGI trailers have left people hanging and watering in their mouths, so this needs to be like feast that must be ravaged. Like literally, it needs to be sumptous and juicy and like when I see it, I want to be salivating all over my desk, it needs to be ravaged.

There should be no question after this Gamescom what FFXIV ARR will be, which is a realm reborn, not an expansion. Pull out all the stops, it's been a long 2 years since last time we've done it together, this is the moment we all have been waiting for okay? So fireworks, explosions, everything. Blow my mind away , like fry my brains. I want to be struck with a thunder of jitteryness and excitement. Like I want to be thunderbolted and fireblasted.

In the end, I want to fall in love, so do this for me, and I will be yours forever.

You already got me hot and heavy. Do it again.

[Griffster]

Some great comments. Trying to be realistic with my expectations. Totally new engine, revamped client and server architecture, And we are expecting it to be like they have had 5 more years instead of the 2 (if that) that they have had with Yoshi leading. I NEED a new interface, and terrific targeting. Without that, there is not a lot that I will believe from their mouths. I am hopeful as a returning player and I did prepay for 3 months for legacy. If they fail to fix the most egregious issues then, I will be disappointed and lose hope.

For now, I am optimistic.

[Sabaku_Usagi]

Some great comments. Trying to be realistic with my expectations. Totally new engine, revamped client and server architecture, And we are expecting it to be like they have had 5 more years instead of the 2 (if that) that they have had with Yoshi leading. I NEED a new interface, and terrific targeting. Without that, there is not a lot that I will believe from their mouths. I am hopeful as a returning player and I did prepay for 3 months for legacy. If they fail to fix the most egregious issues then, I will be disappointed and lose hope.

For now, I am optimistic.

You already lost out on legacy if you haven't started paying yet. If you have started paying they *may* loosen the restrictions but if you just started paying by today... you'd have a 99.9999999% chance of not getting legacy.

[KelenaeV]

I think its best to keep expectations low so when its good, its great. Its how i approach SE games.

[Doho]

I think it's best to keep expectations high! so when it's good it's AWESOME and you flail in enthusiasm
It's how I approach FFXIV. Other SE games, meh. lol

[Atoli]

Lol, and that's the reason why I think 2.0 will fail as well no matter how much hard work will be put in.
People need to stop hyping everything to death and start having realistic expectations.
I expect some decent gameplay, that's all.
Not even ONE extremely hyped game has ever delivered, because with all the hype even really good games just CAN'T live up to the skyrocketing expectations (FFXIV 1.0, SWTOR, Tera, Diablo III, etc.)
It's always "Hm, I enjoy it, sure..but I expected more, I think I might quit soon, it just doesn't live up to my expectations."
Yeah well how could it if people expect heaven on earth..?!

I just hope FFXIV ARR will have enough players with realistic expectations to keep this game going, because all the over-hyped people will surely leave if they aren't getting an orgasm the second they log in for the first time.

[Doho]

I agree, but I still think hype has its place too. a team might suck hardcore and have a terrible record and logically it doesn't look like they're going to win, but come game time you can bet their fans in the stadium are going to be hyped, regardless of the realistic expectation of loss. just saying lol

[Hycinthus]

I think its best to keep expectations low so when its good, its great. Its how i approach SE games.

But that is not healthy. Keeping low expectation for a game, you might be pleased with something that is mediocre. Remember what Zack FAir said, "Unattainable expectations are the best kind".

Anyway, I'm not saying we should have high expectation, but at least normal expectation for a game coming out in 2013.