Gameplay Video ( of the Presentation) is up!

[Jennestia]

Only thing I can guess is the fact the animations may not be completely smooth otherwise they're releasing screenshots -- what makes them think people won't judge the game by the screenshots? There's still very little reason not to release videos but we'll have to deal with the low quality leaked ones.

As said, they are definitely being overly cautious.

[Starlord]

Over 100,000 views within a day and I see alot of Positive Remarks coming from there and other News sites (of course there's your few average day trolls) BUT, its what we been asking for Gameplay of some sort! and we got it! and people seem impressed! Go all The way YOSHI-P!

[Hycinthus]

Maybe it was all part of their viral marketing strategy? Like Yoshida said, this version was not fully optimized, they didn't feel it was worthy of an official release by them.

Instead they are depending on leaked footage as a way to spread it to the masses. That way maybe expectations will be somewhat tempered (lol) since this leaked un-optimized early build was not officially released by SE and thus will not be confused as an almost complete build (which I'm sure many of the general mass can easily mistaken it for).

Of course I could be entirely wrong, I'm just trying to guess what is going through their minds.

Again, I've posted about this before, and I will post again.

We're so used to disappointment by SE that we're used to justifying bad things with random explanations like these. This is Gamescom OK. Depending on leaked cellphone footage for aggressive marketing...? If this were any other games, nobody would be close to coming up with excuses like this.

Step it up SE please. We've resorted to making excuses like "it's probably bad translation", "it's probably a poor choice of words", "it's probably because they want to show lore that they released subpar screenshots", "it's probably because they're depending on leaked footage", while in fact, it's probably just bad design and bad marketing strategy and incompetency.

[BiggLethal]

Again, I've posted about this before, and I will post again.

We're so used to disappointment by SE that we're used to justifying bad things with random explanations like these. This is Gamescom OK. Depending on leaked cellphone footage for aggressive marketing...? If this were any other games, nobody would be close to coming up with excuses like this.

Step it up SE please. We've resorted to making excuses like "it's probably bad translation", "it's probably a poor choice of words", "it's probably because they want to show lore that they released subpar screenshots", "it's probably because they're depending on leaked footage", while in fact, it's probably just bad design and bad marketing strategy and incompetency.

OK I didn't say it was a good strategy, or that I even agreed with it. As my last sentence stated "Of course I could be entirely wrong, I'm just trying to guess what is going through their minds."

Geez people are so touchy.

[Vingtdeux]

So many marketing geniuses in this thread !

[CaptainCook]

I am sorry but remade pretty graphics and jumping around doesn't even begin to address why the majority of people have turned away from this game. If these new zones and beautiful looking animations and spells mean I still have to do Aurum and Cutters 500 or so times to get a set of Darklight gear, count me out. Nevermind Hamlet is the same thing, lets do that event how many times for each member (dont forget you are not doing these events for yourself only) of your Linkshell. Ifrit was the same on a smaller scale.... Moogle was the same... Garuda.... Really? This is truely the future of MMO gaming.......

[GodseijuroHiko]

Skyrim is a single player RPG, FFXIV is a MMORPG so you can't compare the 2 graphic-FPS wise, I can run Skyrim on max. settings but can't run FFXIV on completely max since the lag/skipping is unbearable (Thank my 1GB 6950 for that)

It's bad for 3D too, makes my eyes hurt a lot.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

yoshida even said in an interview today that its not ready for a public release, what is so hard to understand about that?

If your damn muffin isn't done yet you wait and let it bake some more, you don't just grab it out of the oven and wolf it down while its still gooey and raw inside. Unless you're a 9 year old...

[Eclipse]

Any translation yet for the video? I did a search and came up with nada.

Thanks!

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Any translation yet for the video? I did a search and came up with nada.

Thanks!

i speak german, trust me youre better off without one^^
Hes basically stating the obvious, getting things wrong (said yoshida is setting his skills when he equipped his AF for example), or making horrible puns. the only interesting part were that shadows change during the ingame day and that the Limit Break system is the new name for the battle regiments