Care for more filler, sir?

[Nushidorei]

This "all summer long information flood" has been underwhelming at best.

A few trailers, most of which have had good parts but overall have been not had any real wow factor. A few game play videos of the same area where a single Dragoon kills some critters and runs around a bit. A couple of presentations which although gave quite a lot of information, most of it was already known to most players with only a few confirmations of speculation and even less surprises.

The most impressive part of this has been the Lodestone and the official website. Square Enix are trying to push this game but how do you push a game when you lack regular content news updates? Worse still, they load up the lodestone with filler. Come on, contest after contest post? Are you kidding me? Grand Companies, Rings and now Foodstuffs?

To add insult to injury, we actually require Japanese translation threads. Don't get me wrong, I understand it is a real pain to translate especially when people may interpret what you say as a business due to a bad translation. However, it was said over a year ago been said that the companies' main language will be English for pushing the game's community, yet we see constant lengthy waits between official translation and many community answers in Japanese only which are then fan-translated in a thread where people post opinion in which dilutes factual news with opinion.

What would be really nice is to see small snippets of information on a day to day basis just to keep players and newcomers checking the site and learning about the game. A great example of this was Super Smash Brothers Brawl, from the 22nd of May 2007 to its release on 10 Feb 2008, every single working day, they released a small snippet of news. A part of a zone, a part of the story, a spell, a snippet of sound or some of the game's functionality was detailed on the main page every single working day.

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/list/index10.html

Now granted, this is not without it's flaws, Brawl was very well received with a lot of people actively visiting the site and debating the game but with this came high expectation, the game sold extremely well but many considered it over-hyped due to former games in the series being great.

Still, a middle ground would be nice.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

Daily / weekly snippets of information however small would be fantabulous. I'm guessing when alpha starts they'll be given out more info. Anyway it's gotten happen eventually. I'm looking forward to seeing some new zones.

[KiriA500]

I personally thought the flood was too much...water levels have never been higher!



So many tears...

I'm happy with the information we got. Too much info leaves nothing to be surprised about when the game actually comes out.

[Elexia]

I personally thought the flood was too much...water levels have never been higher!



So many tears...

I'm happy with the information we got. Too much info leaves nothing to be surprised about when the game actually comes out.

Too much info indeed leaves nothing to be surprised about. We have no worries though as we're not even 1/100th of a way to reaching that point. I don't want to be surprised by the basics for example.

[KiriA500]

Too much info indeed leaves nothing to be surprised about. We have no worries though as we're not even 1/100th of a way to reaching that point. I don't want to be surprised by the basics for example.

Damn, we're getting at least 100 times what we've already seen? Square-Enix really outdid themselves with the reboot!

[Jacien]

I personally thought the flood was too much...water levels have never been higher!



So many tears...

I'm happy with the information we got. Too much info leaves nothing to be surprised about when the game actually comes out.

The water levels may be high in this thread, but the autism levels are off the charts with this post.

[KiriA500]

autism

...what...?

[Theplatter]

Inb4 "but SE knows marketing way better than you do" replies.



For the most part I agree, but in regards to the JP translations, they likely have more frequent dev responses because there's a helluvah lot less filler threads in the JP forums than the daily crap we get.

[Arkine]

I honestly would be more than satisfied if they put up like a daily picture of new equipment, areas, mobs or dungeons. maybe talk about some features that they didn't elaborate on like gear dyeing, we didn't get any info on that.

[Cynthis]

The slow flow of information only makes sense to me in one context. If they know the game is a long way from release then it makes sense to hold back to not try to hype it too early. In addition, if that is the case a lot of design decisions probably have not been make yet which the interviews seems to imply. Either way, that's why I think the release will be around Easter at the earliest.