How pysched are you about ARR?

[Dargoth_Draconia]

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?

I am more pumped than I was for FFXIV 1.0 launch. If you was to ask how excited I was on a scale of 1 to 10, I would say 1500.

[Starlord]

I am more pumped than I was for FFXIV 1.0 launch. If you was to ask how excited I was on a scale of 1 to 10, I would say 1500.

OVER 9,000!!!!!!! :O That's how much I'm pumped!

[LlenCoram]

I am more pumped than I was for FFXIV 1.0 launch. If you was to ask how excited I was on a scale of 1 to 10, I would say 1500.

How excited am I?

On a scale of 1 to 10?

[fusional]

I could care less about the info, the fact that they said they will be releasing a lot of info, is what I care about. Also, I'm more excited about EQnext, and that just got announced.

when you effectively sign the ULA by agreeing to terms, there's a really important little blurb they tend to emphasize: "game experience may change during online play"

why? because it's an MMO, and things change. timelines are incredibly hard to rigorously stick to. not everything goes according to plan. you have to adjust on the fly. you change your mind about things. you get the idea.

did they say they'd release a flood of info? yep. did it come? depends on your definition of flood. apparently it's INCREDIBLY subjective. but they made the judgment call to withhold a lot of it until later, as to make a stronger marketing push closer to ARR's release.

as far as business decisions go, that's the wisest.

this makes you more excited for EQnext? cool story. go flail around on those forums for even less info than you're getting about ARR. but in the meantime square is trying to make the best possible decisions it can to ensure the success of their reimagined and relaunched MMO franchise. your feelings on the issue are your feelings, but this is business. nothing personal.

[Thunderz]

when you effectively sign the ULA by agreeing to terms, there's a really important little blurb they tend to emphasize: "game experience may change during online play"

why? because it's an MMO, and things change. timelines are incredibly hard to rigorously stick to. not everything goes according to plan. you have to adjust on the fly. you change your mind about things. you get the idea.

did they say they'd release a flood of info? yep. did it come? depends on your definition of flood. apparently it's INCREDIBLY subjective. but they made the judgment call to withhold a lot of it until later, as to make a stronger marketing push closer to ARR's release.

as far as business decisions go, that's the wisest.

this makes you more excited for EQnext? cool story. go flail around on those forums for even less info than you're getting about ARR. but in the meantime square is trying to make the best possible decisions it can to ensure the success of their reimagined and relaunched MMO franchise. your feelings on the issue are your feelings, but this is business. nothing personal.

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[Gramul]

when you effectively sign the ULA by agreeing to terms, there's a really important little blurb they tend to emphasize: "game experience may change during online play"

why? because it's an MMO, and things change. timelines are incredibly hard to rigorously stick to. not everything goes according to plan. you have to adjust on the fly. you change your mind about things. you get the idea.

did they say they'd release a flood of info? yep. did it come? depends on your definition of flood. apparently it's INCREDIBLY subjective. but they made the judgment call to withhold a lot of it until later, as to make a stronger marketing push closer to ARR's release.

as far as business decisions go, that's the wisest.

this makes you more excited for EQnext? cool story. go flail around on those forums for even less info than you're getting about ARR. but in the meantime square is trying to make the best possible decisions it can to ensure the success of their reimagined and relaunched MMO franchise. your feelings on the issue are your feelings, but this is business. nothing personal.

Not to be nitpicky (yes) but when it says "game experience may change during online play" they're talking about how human experience has no ratings limit. People can speak well beyond the bounds of the Teen rating. It's pretty much just something game makers slap on online games so they're not responsible for anything 'morally or ethically objectionable' you come across while you're playing online.

[Starlord]

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Will that be all sir?

[Thunderz]

Will that be all sir?

Bored that is all and that post really didn't make sense

In any case I am surprised how people have that much time to post.... play the game lol

[fusional]

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considering you honestly believe "all that's been confirmed is jump", you seem to have trouble making sense of *anything* written out in plain, simple english. it doesn't hurt my feelings at all to be on the opposite side of the fence from you.

and as far as making time to play the game: take your own advice. i'm doing things in this game you can't even begin to match.

Not to be nitpicky (yes) but when it says "game experience may change during online play" they're talking about how human experience has no ratings limit. People can speak well beyond the bounds of the Teen rating. It's pretty much just something game makers slap on online games so they're not responsible for anything 'morally or ethically objectionable' you come across while you're playing online.

clearly i was using that clause in the ULA as an example of the shifting nature of MMO-related things. i didn't just throw "you get the idea" in there at the end as a redundancy.

and no, that isn't "pretty much" all it is. it has *quite a lot* to do with tweaks made to the game with patches. adding some content. removing some content. buffing this class. nerfing that class. changing the algorithms for enmity or damage. changing AI. adjusting NPC pricing and inventory (ie: the great guild wars 2 cooking purge).

so, no. you don't really sound nitpicky. you sound more jackassy.

[Starlord]

Bored that is all and that post really didn't make sense

In any case I am surprised how people have that much time to post.... play the game lol

Playing FFXIII-2 atm so I'm hopping back and forth :P.

PS: btw there is more information than you think, there's plenty of information, that some people will deny it's information, but I don't care it's decent information to me, if your not up to date, I can retrieve some links for you.