TESO the biggest rival for ARR?

[Shougun]

Here is another video with better quality in graphics MMOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...ture=endscreen
Some of them seem to be Final Fantasy clones mixed with Korean sluttyness XD
BLESS and Kingdom Under Fire II have a few cool things but overall i don't feel like i'm making a bad decision playing ARR

Im really not getting that korean sluttyness thing, like.. just go google some "stuff" if you need it -that bad- lol.

I dont think ARR is a bad choice - specially if you like FF games. I was just trying to say in context of this thread that ARR does have competition and because of the unfortunate matter of it being behind (because of 1.0 and time available) that it has some short comings. Like I looked at some of those videos (you linked) gameplay of players knocking down tower, directional combat madness, highly limited to no zones, and open world building and I may have drooled a little. That said there where other parts I was like meh.. ARR is way better at.

In the end I left with the feeling that it was just my personal preference and not "THIS IS THE BEST". Being here it should be obvious my preference is ARR . There are a lot of things about ARR that I like, and there are a lot of things about SE and Yoshida I like. In the end I think ARR will payout better- I guess I'm just worried and sad that I dont think everyone will see what we see (or that Yoshida is pressured with time and wont be able to implement core mechanics and therefore may not ever be able to add them - although he has said many times that he wont release it till he thinks its great).

[Warlock]

Im really not getting that korean sluttyness thing, like.. just go google some "stuff" if you need it -that bad- lol.

I dont think ARR is a bad choice - specially if you like FF games. I was just trying to say in context of this thread that ARR does have competition and because of the unfortunate matter of it being behind (because of 1.0 and time available) that it has some short comings. Like I looked at some of those videos gameplay of players knocking down tower, directional combat madness, highly limited to no zones, and open world building and I may have drooled a little. That said there where other parts I was like meh.. ARR is way better at.

In the end I left with the feeling that it was just my personal preference and not "THIS IS THE BEST". Being here it should be obvious my preference is ARR . There are a lot of things about ARR that I like, and there are a lot of things about SE and Yoshida I like. In the end I think ARR will payout better- I guess I'm just worried and sad that I dont think everyone will see what we see (or that Yoshida is pressured with time and wont be able to implement core mechanics and therefore may not ever be able to add them).

Yeah i know what you mean but for the record some of those games look way better than TESO so i wouldn't worry about it

[Shougun]

Yeah i know what you mean but for the record some of those games look way better than TESO so i wouldn't worry about it

Should have clarified I meant the videos you linked- like Bless I was like.. "oh my lord the tower just dropped.. and that looks like its in game.."

TESO imo has inconsistent graphics some scenes are pretty great and others look like a convoluted crap ball - SE is very consistent in delivering great aesthetics (just hope they let PC users break their machines on it with HD textures and what not, Yoshida said they will have a graphic milestone update after ARR release - so I'm hoping around then there is a "break my computer ultra" button in the milestone update (DX10/11 supposed be in this milestone as well)).

[Warlock]

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I knew you were talking about those videos ^_^
best thing i liked was the giant scorpion mount haha XD oh and the transforming race and of course the sexy girls

[Firon]

All Se needs to do is advertise this game like they DD Ff 13 that shit was everywhere.

[SinisterJoint]

I will say this --- I WAS stoked about TESO. Then i seen info on ARR and well...

ARR > TESO

Im no longer stoked about TESO, iinstead ARR

[Atoli]

One thing that does seems strange. TESO trailer has 2+ million views in YouTube. While ARR only has 200k. Did Bethesda paid YouTube to make their trailer trend at the top of the search list?

Yep, they did.
You can pay youtube to make your video appear as "advertisement" at the top of the video list. It's all just a matter of money. An example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uUSP3j_zg&feature=pyv
I don't think anyone ever heard of this game nor is the general interest in it very high. Still, it has over 400k views, because it's always at the top of the list whenever you search for game-related videos.

Just like that, TESO videos have been at the top as "advertisements" for ~2-3 months now.
Of course they have more views.
Add the mass hype they are trying to create in Social Media and 2 millions views doesn't sound like much anymore.

Like some other people said already - SE isn't trying to hype ARR (yet).
Hype is always bound to disappoint anyways, also if they hyped it now, the hype would die down before the release in summer. And they don't even have a lot of material yet which is better than alpha footage.
ARR will for sure get it's fair share of marketing as well.

[MyKotoShi]

TESO will in fact succeed over FFXIV: ARR.

Although I am not a fan of the game or the company that makes it, from where I stand, there's just no way any MMO can surpass TESO's subscription numbers. Now I'm speaking in regards to western interest. How the numbers stack up between a world-wide game versus a national game, is a guess I can't make.

But I'm ignorant in full tbh, so I may be talking out of my arse.

[LlenCoram]

Considering TESO's subs currently number zero...

[Veltaine]

if they make TESO the way they make their solo games, kiss their franchise goodbye

imo, it would be FFXIV 1.0 all over again, totally gorgeous, horrendously unplayable