Please stop showing boring videos

[casker]

Yes, because 1.0 wasn't crushed under it's own hype...or The Old Republic....or Guild Wars 2....or Diablo III...

Hype does not a good game make.

I agree overhype is bad but SE doesn't even illustrate the best parts of their features or communicate their strengths.

[Alerith]

I agree overhype is bad but SE doesn't even illustrate the best parts of their features or communicate their strengths.

Because the game is incomplete.

Rather than rushing to show things that aren't fully built and cause a collapse like 1.0 experienced, I feel this approach of gradually revealing gameplay as it evolves works so much better.

It's infinitely worse to show a gameplay video of a raid using an incomplete game build than it is to show small videos of the evolution of the gameplay.

[casker]

Because the game is incomplete.

Yes, the game is incomplete, but do you seriously believe that. I assure you that when release time comes they will still not be communicative enough in their videos and marketing. There is nothing wrong with explaining what you have, as you have it. Everyone knows this is Alpha gameplay since there is that giant watermark.

[Alerith]

There is nothing wrong with explaining what you have, as you have it.

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

[Joji]

They do not put these videos up as trailers, they make these videos mainly for the current followers. Saying this won't bring new players is a vague statement, Many are encouraged by these videos.
Most people who aren't previous FFXIV'ers and just heard about the game doesn't even know lodestone exist.
We can't expect nice videos from a game that is under stress testing. What we see in these videos could change. A target cursor may be under consideration to be applied into the game. Some animations may not be active in alpha stage.

If someone don't know what alpha test means, they are in no position to judge a game based on these videos. They may do it anyways. Then what will happen? I guess the other part responding will tell this person otherwise. A meaningless statement in my opinion.

To me, these videos are informative and it pleases me that SE shares this. I wouldn't mind them being longer too, but it's entirely up to SE to decide and we should respect that.

[casker]

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

Yes, they show extremely boring kill 3 boar quests. This is what customers who haven't played the game think the questing is now like. They don't know about all the job quests and campaign quests. They just think "oh, the questing system in FFXIV is pretty much what we have seen before...LAME"

Even just calling them "sidequests" rather than "quests" would have helped. This is what I mean when I say SE needs to be more communicative and express what they have better. They aren't even doing justice to what they've got.

[Alerith]

You said:

There is nothing wrong with explaining what you have, as you have it. Everyone knows this is Alpha gameplay since there is that giant watermark.

Then I said:

Which is exactly what they are doing, hence the release of the videos as the Alpha progresses.

Then you said:

Yes, they show extremely boring kill 3 boar quests. This is what customers who haven't played the game think the questing is now like. They don't know about all the job quests and campaign quests. They just think "oh, the questing system in FFXIV is pretty much what we have seen before...LAME"

Even just calling them "sidequests" rather than "quests" would have helped. This is what I mean when I say SE needs to be more communicative and express what they have better. They aren't even doing justice to what they've got.

So which is it? Is it acceptable to show:

what you have, as you have it.

Or is it only acceptable to show things you personally deem worthy? Please try and keep a proper argument together.

They are illustrating how the quest SYSTEM has changed from 1.0. This isn't some trailer to get people interested whom have never played before. And of course they aren't going to know about all the job quests. There are currently only, what, 2 jobs even available for play in the Alpha?

Plus, the ARR quest system really ISN'T innovative compared to other MMO's. It's near impossible to get away from this model, and no other game has really done it in recent memory. What has changed is the way the system has changed from 1.0.

You're asking too much of a test phase that is meant to simply stress the server and find preliminary bugs. You're asking for beta level videos now, when that phase of development may not even be complete.

[Starlord]

Is this a "boring" video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cT_Ulmcrys

Does this music make you bounce? be honest? :P

[Xquiel]

Is this a "boring" video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cT_Ulmcrys

Does this music make you bounce? be honest? :P

hahah that's so fun xD

[Forgo]

Is this a "boring" video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cT_Ulmcrys

Does this music make you bounce? be honest? :P

that was epic XD