Same communication & speculation mistakes?

[XxOstiaxX]

Oh my gods!!! Jennestia!!! I have found some sort of respect, even tho i know you will defend this game with your teeth <.<

[Kerwin]

Please cry some more. Yoshi is doing another LIVE letter soon. Plenty of info then. Speculate all you want.

[KaiserDrill]

Try having one of those ppl in your ls. You can blist them but their trolling still shows up in ls chat. Fml.

[Noir]

I understand the whole "secrecy" thing, but now that they can show gameplay and the game is near alpha stages, it really needs to stop.


SE has tried the whole "secrecy" thing before, and it has only brought them trouble.

When open beta was out, people thought that the game was only a quarter of what they would get on official release. If you go back and look at the old forum posts on zam you will see people claiming there will be new classes, twice or three times as many zones (there was a close zone near every atheryte crystal and people thought they would instantly be opened to actual zones, not instances), much cooler looking equipment, a reduction in lag because they were only using 'test servers', and various other things that never came true.

No surprise, when the game was released in the same state as open beta a ton of people quickly rage quit and gave the game incredibly low ratings.

Then the -exact- same thing happened with the first few patches, people speculated that ishgard would open up by christmas, lag would be fixed etc. Once again, disappointment and people quitting.

Then when Yoshi-P took over the -same- thing happened once again.

And now, for what is probably the 4th or 5th time, it is happening again.

By being vague, Yoshi-P is creating rumors and speculation
And when people speculate they generate expectations
And when expectations are not met, most people experience disappointment

Buddy, what's wrong with you? The game is good as it is. Wit 2.0 will get even better.

You can't even compare with what happened before. Chill out

[Rokien]

sooo where is that flood of info?

Guess all summer long is going to be the last day of summer.

[Punainen]

sooo where is that flood of info?

Guess all summer long is going to be the last day of summer.

:/ I wouldn't even feel disappointed if THEY hadn't claimed we'd have a FLOOD of information ALL SUMMER. Maybe if they said "SOME info at the END of summer" I'd be like 'chill out and wait like the rest of us', but they themselves claimed it would happen, and thus I am frowny faced at seeing it not happening. :C

[Inzoum]

sooo where is that flood of info?

Guess all summer long is going to be the last day of summer.

OH. MY. GOD.

Rokien said something I can agree with

[Laraul]

By being vague, Yoshi-P is creating rumors and speculation
And when people speculate they generate expectations
And when expectations are not met, most people experience disappointment

This is the exact same thought that went thru my head seeing all this stuff related to ARR. The game looks like a tech demo, with all the lighting and fancy shadows and what not. Where is the scalability? Why does the game look so much more graphically intense than the current game? And what about showing the game being played with a *large* number of people?

[Gramul]

I guess they're trying to not spoil the hype and release information slowly to keep the excitement alive.

But they are running the risk of being overly secretive.
Like you said:

Speculation > Expectation > Disappointment