Quote Originally Posted by Dragonheart View Post
This^. In the very first video they showed the direction of the game, the PvP goals, the server structure, how the PvE works (dynamic combat with things to avoid, etc. while in every ARR released video the players just stand on the place.. 0 movements required, and in the era of action games, that's not a good marketing) .

All that in the first 9 min. video. But ppl here, just prefer to defend the SE politics: less you know better is. :/

Guys if you keep saying it's early for this kind of information i'm asking for, i'm sorry to say but you don't know how much about mmo's (without offense ofcourse, but most ppl here just played XI and XIV.. )

The basic information (foundations, ideas, or call anyhow you want) are given when a game is announced.. Look TESO first video.
Other examples: From GW2 announcement you knew that it will have RvR massive PvP, dynamic combat, innovative PvE without class trident etc etc.
SWTOR: great and always voice acting story lines, classic WoW style combat, and so on.

For XIV we're almost in beta and we don't know anything on pvp, anything on character development like revamped job system, any spec/build system (are we gonna to be again all clones with 0 customization like 1.0 ? )?

It's pretty ridicolous that you know more about the direction of a game "just announced" like TESO, then ARR.

p.s Good Morning

Giving out lots of information early on isn't necessarily a good thing though. Good examples are WAR and Vanguard, both handed out a whole lot of info pre-release, but in the end, many of the more unique features turned out to be difficult to implement, so they had to either remove them, or dumb them down considerably. There's a much greater negative impact when you promise something and can't keep it, than not announcing a feature or announcing it fairly late. I'd love to see some more stuff as well, but I'd rather not they talk about possible features that may get canned ..

And, actually, there's actually quite a bit of info out there if you look for it, it's just not gathered all in 1 spot. Just re-watch/re-read some of the live letters and you'll know that most of the main story will be voice acted (they even said why they don't want to voice act everything), there will continue to be both classes and jobs, screenshots etc. from character creation show much more customisation options, etc. etc. There is info there, it's just spoon fed to you.


Also, while TESO may have been 'just' announced, it's been in development longer than ARR has