Community Contest Discussion

[Mjollnir]

First give some news or the promised benchmark, or at least any info about this, then do contest. Also de FFXIV last upload was on september 5, a little old uh.

This discussion is taking place here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...of-information
and kinda here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-god-people%21

I for one am content with the amount of info that's come out so far for ARR. Have you been looking at the translations threads, both JP & DE? Reps have been dropping tidbits for weeks now. Short of completely describing how a system (be it housing, markets, combat) works, there's little else they can do. Other FF games never described how they worked before they became available to the public, so why should XIV be any different? Discovery and analysis is part of the experience!

If you consider the benchmark software to be more interesting than a community storytelling event, that's your preference but surely you can see that a decent number players of a Final Fantasy game might be interested in this?

I am, and not as a contestant, but because the wide variety of talent in the community will make the submissions interesting to read (more interesting than being able to check my projected, but ultimately subject-to-change framerate). I love the comics we've had over the years. And I'll be VERY surprised if Bastok_Iamtheone doesn't hands-down win this particular competition.

[Shura]

People are being rude but at this point can we really blame them, just goes to show how irritated and upset people are at this point. Exactly 2 weeks till the character data save date and we are still left in the dark about a lot of ARR features and info.

[WHS]

I agree this is lame. I don't see the comments as being rude so much as people just being frustrated because of the BS we are getting or run around w/e you want to call it. It's typical SE bs to evade the issue at hand. People want info and they really don't want to wait till Nov. 1 to get maybe a small tidbit once again. It's time to do the right by the MMO people and give the info.

[Lum]

I have to agree with the angry people above. Not only have we been left in the dark about ARR but our amazing end of the world content and changes have been a joke with no word on anything else 13 days before shutdown. When the biggest news we get in the past week or so is a screenshot contest then people tend to get frustrated.

[Babydoll]

I also agree with the frustrated people. With the game so close to going down and having little to no info about when it will be back up, the beta, etc it just makes me wonder what is going on. I haven't logged in in idk how long, no point in playing anymore with almost no information, meh I feel like I just lost interest entirely because of their lack of info. Maybe its for the better lol.

[Velhart]

The contest seems neat and a nice way of creating something neat since we can't have a Halloween event. However, the reward doesn't seem right for this contest. Don't even feel the need to try.

[Yahavage]

Once I get home from work I'm going to pen a little story- already had an idea. What a cute little idea ^^

[Velhart]

I also agree with the frustrated people. With the game so close to going down and having little to no info about when it will be back up, the beta, etc it just makes me wonder what is going on. I haven't logged in in idk how long, no point in playing anymore with almost no information, meh I feel like I just lost interest entirely because of their lack of info. Maybe its for the better lol.

Yes it is quite sad that SE's logic on communication is "If we don't have anything to say, don't say anything." when this is the most crucial time keeping us updated. While new players will be coming to 2.0, we are the true backbone in their customer base and we want to know what is going on.

But I apologize, we should be making a different thread regarding this.

[Baxter]

It's SEs evil plan to get everyone to gather around the Aetheryte camp fire so they can spawn Atomos and smite you.

[RoxyLalonde]

I... think I will participate in this....