TGS Trailer ahoy!

[Rane]

I was under the impression 1st phase Alpha starts while 1.0 is still up. Don't get me wrong I can't see how this will be out before march even if the beta goes smoothly, but for those saying 1-2 years you need to put the crack pipe down: this isn't vs 13 yet.

I seem to remember this being the plan as well. In addition, recent posts by Soken (on his Twitter account) and Yoshida (see the quote below) indicate that the team has hit crunch time finishing the alpha client.

Yoshida responded to a fan asking if he would be at Tokyo Game Show with the following post. (Translation in blue, my notes in green.)

すみません、昨日の午前中のみ会場へ行き、その後、会社に戻って今も仕事しています。
この週末もαクライアントの調整に全力疾走なので、吉田にとって今年のTGSはこれにて終了ですｗ

I'm sorry, I was at the show yesterday (Thursday) morning, but afterwards I went back to the office and am still working now (Friday morning at 1:30 AM Japan time). We'll be in full sprint mode making adjustments to the alpha client this weekend as well, so TGS is already over for me lol

My guess is that the alpha will launch for a few lucky people in Japan in October. But hey, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

[Starlord]

how long did he say it took him to create one set of armor? 6 months? That's HALF of a year for one set of armor. They could seriously take their time, CHANGE the cities and do a ton of other stuff. To me, it looks like an incomplete game once again. 2 years is not farfetched

Considering at the other mmos that are going to be coming out... they really need to take their time and do it right the first time(second time ) lol.

Well it took 6 months because of the Graphics and the amount of detail they had to put into it, and of course make it for a High powering Game, that you need a really awesome graphics card to see.

[Rukkirii]

Another update from Yoshida about the TGS trailer!

Hello. Producer/Director Yoshida here.

We’ve re-uploaded the TGS trailer to the web. 4Gamer, even though it was late at night, fixed the link for us. Many thanks. (Apologies that it may be an inconvenience, but I’ll avoid directly linking to it.)
Tomorrow we’ll be giving the links to each media outlet in turn; however, the official site will be updated after another round of QA checks early next week.

For the in-game battle portions, it seems that the bit-rate was lagging due to using a full HD uncompressed AVI taken directly from the PC. At the TGS venue the video was played right from the digital tape, so there were no problems; however, for the web version that was compressed automatically during upload, there was severe stuttering due to a reliance on computer specs and a high amount of lag. I deeply apologize to all of you who were looking forward to this video. (At the TGS venue there were no problems and it can be seen on the big screen.)

Also, for all of our current players concerned about differences between hair, facial expressions, neck movement, and other aspects, we are still in the midst of increasing the quality of everything, so please check out the game videos starting with the alpha version and later.

[Ceravic]

There is nothing wrong with the game taking longer to come out. Them rushing the original out way too fast and not taking time to fix things that testers told them to fix was one of the reasons this game flopped so hard. That, and the aforementioned boring copypasta world.

[Starlord]

we are still in the midst of increase the quality of everything

So will the people that cried out about the quality of the game calm down now? ( Wishful thinking) I knew that the Alpha Version is no where near the final version. :P.

[Shougun]

So will the people that cried out about the quality of the game calm down now? ( Wishful thinking) I knew that the Alpha Version is no where near the final version. :P.

I think most people have calmed down knowing that the characters are from older alpha (characters were where most had an issue).

I'm hoping the same can be said about La Noseca and Thanalan.


People are however worried SE releasing this kind of stuff is bad press (we arent the only ones who have eyes, I know there is a thread on ign (not posted by ign - started by users) saying the characters looked silly). - Also we have other previous issues that influence these matters like taking out sexy animations.

[Kerwin]

I think most people have calmed down knowing that the characters are from older alpha (characters were where most had an issue).

I'm hoping the same can be said about La Noseca and Thanalan.


People are however worried SE releasing this kind of stuff is bad press (we arent the only ones who have eyes, I know there is a thread on ign (not posted by ign - started by users) saying the characters looked silly). - Also we have other previous issues that influence these matters like taking out sexy animations.

Have to agree. Why they used older footage is beyond me.

[Starlord]

It is what it is, can't change what has been done. In the end if the game is really as good as they are saying it is, then word of mouth/ Gameplay Videos etc will get around, and eventually with time ( if there isn't a large player base at Launch) it will grow into a more large playerbase.

[SirOleas]

Have to agree. Why they used older footage is beyond me.

This is the only thing left that has me annoyed with the footage.
Why use outdated builds to do trailer work when you have already shown trailers with a more current game build? They are just confusing people and making it look like the quality of their product is lacking. It's stupid.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

Yeah, I have calmed down but like above posters I am left scratching my head why they would release older and worse looking footage.

Please, please release a gameplay trailer recorded in a pc using decent settings so we can see what it looks like. And yes, its pre-alpha so I'm willing to accept there will be graphics tweaking before the game actually comes out.