Are people recognizing ARR?

[Radacci]

So a game that can be seen by uninformed parties as a mere "giant patch" to a failed, badly received, badly reviewed and overall hated entry on a series that's been losing some of it's popularity due to some of it's recent entries and that's not (yet) being activelly advertised is not on any top hype lists?

Color me surprised.

Even before Alpha i read an article in a game magazine, where they talked about remake of FF14.
They were quite excited about it; So whatever opinions uninformed parties have doesn't matter. Those that care will notice ARR arrived and get informed, reading good reviews and decide to give it a try.
People should be aware already that over hyped games usually fail, and most other MMOs not from big companies fail too.
Tera wasn't even over hyped, and failed anyways, cause lack of content; that's what most random games lack...there's no lack of content in FFXIV. Anyone interested in FF in general will wanna try out ARR, to see if it's nice now; And since they might not have very high expectations to begin with, they'll be pleasantly surprised, and keep playing...unless they are already busy with some other game they like; in which case it doesn't really matter how much SE promotes the game.