How pysched are you about ARR?

[Azurymber]

Personally I'm not.

SE had the opportunity to end 1.0 in a bang, and set up ARR to be an amazing game.
But instead we got very little specifics about 2.0, and 1.0 hasn't changed in months minus a few small things.

The last 2 months should have been an aggressive campaign to impress current players, and make them -really- want to come back. I say this because it will essentially be up to current players and word of mouth to make this game a success.

Marketing a "fixed" game will not work. No matter how many ads are posted online and on tv, there is too much negativity associated with xiv. And negativity on the internet doesn't disappear.

So I'm curious to see if other people are psyched about ARR. How impressed are you by the last 2 months? Is the info sufficient to make your mouth water? Do you honestly believe that ARR will be the best MMO out there?

[Hypnotic13371337]

*beta comes out with a badass trailer showing off the high points of the ingame gameplay and the beta test turns out to be better than people thought*

it could happen

[noxs]

ffxiv can't get worse so they have a new chance to do it right.. we just can wait and see what happen

[Elexia]

Not very. Used to be excited for it when I figured it was going to be 1.0 as it should have been, with a proper server architecture and client side interface that was very responsive like it's predecessor, but now it just seems like they're settling just to make it stand into the crowd, nothing particularly special.

ARR definitely won't be the best MMO out there, honestly there probably never will be a great MMO ever again as developers are content with trying to appeal to the "standard" and not tasking any more risks. As Daniel Erickson said as he was leaving Bioware, creating a game with the sole purpose of monetization in mind is not the same thing as creating a good game essentially.

That's all new MMOs are created for, they're not being created with risks or innovation in mind anymore. If SE does something to make ARR standout, maybe it'll do fine...however just slapping in FF locations and monsters that you don't even grind on..well, what does it have beyond basic MMO features? Why should you pick up ARR rather than any other existing MMO?

[Raldo]

SE has sub-par marketing. Sadly, nothing new on that front.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I am excited but also incredibly frustrated. I find myself saying if this game releases instead of when because it just doesn't feel like we are getting any closer. The alpha/beta test will be a huge step closer to making it happen and will make players more confident in the game. I am expecting them to delay the start of testing though.

[Ryans]

People who are still playing now will still play 2.0. I'm satisfied with the ending of 1.0 and looking forward to the rumored live event in November. They only thing that will make 2.0 successful is if the game is fun. The popularity will increase if people continue to enjoy the game past the first month.

[Nero]

That's all new MMOs are created for, they're not being created with risks or innovation in mind anymore.

You can blame the Playerbase. ( from any MMO in General ).

[Hiruke]

Personally I'm not.

SE had the opportunity to end 1.0 in a bang, [...] and 1.0 hasn't changed in months minus a few small things.

...what? Logistically, it doesn't make a lot of sense to waste a ton of resources trying to improve 1.x when you could instead divert that energy to making 2.0 better. I'm surprised they've fixed as much as they have. The only thing I find galling is the stubborn muleish insistence that terribad drop rates are a-ok, which will cause me not to play 2.0 at all if that doesn't COMPLETELY CHANGE.

The last 2 months should have been an aggressive campaign to impress current players, and make them -really- want to come back. I say this because it will essentially be up to current players and word of mouth to make this game a success.

Marketing a "fixed" game will not work. No matter how many ads are posted online and on tv, there is too much negativity associated with xiv. And negativity on the internet doesn't disappear.

So I'm curious to see if other people are psyched about ARR. How impressed are you by the last 2 months? Is the info sufficient to make your mouth water? Do you honestly believe that ARR will be the best MMO out there?

I don't know how other people feel, but I'm not going to try to get a bunch of people to play this game until I've actually played it. I don't care if they had a marketing blitz of videos that played original content of 2.0 on their YouTube page like 24 hours a day every day until launch... After getting like 40+ people to play at launch, having all but like 1 of them quit... I just can't be bothered until I'm really playing it and I really feel impressed enough to let another human being know that I think the game is good.

Also, pretty much anyone who has suffered through 1.x up until now will either undoubtedly come back to try out 2.0, or is absolutely crazy. Why punish yourself playing this "game" for any reason other than to set yourself up for 2.0? It's clearly subpar, and no rational person should subject themselves to such abject horror for no particular reason.

The sky isn't falling, yo. Just check out 2.0 when it launches. If it's good enough, play it. Maybe even tell someone about it. Done.

[Elexia]

Also, pretty much anyone who has suffered through 1.x up until now will either undoubtedly come back to try out 2.0, or is absolutely crazy. Why punish yourself playing this "game" for any reason other than to set yourself up for 2.0?

Or, here's a thought...maybe, just maybe people who were already playing just want to finish up loose ends?