Infos on the Real game Direction? WHEN?!

[Radacci]

In regards to the OP, SE have already given details on the game direction: "WoW themepark with more FF feels." That's not a direct quote, but close enough.

I think the reason they probably don't talk much about the features the game boasts nor the general direction of the game is purely because there's nothing much to boast about. Again, many things won't make it to release either, so talking about a bare-bones game may not be worth speaking about and that's why there is dead silence.

I think SE definitely need to work on their pitch though to evolve it beyond "WoW with more FF feel" well before release time, even if it's a lie, simply because it will generate sales. They need to sell it to an untrusting audience.

Even FFXIV 1.0 devs launched a pretty sales pitch. The original FFXIV website was raving about its new Armory play-anything-you-want System, and the new active battle system where each weapon would have a different range, and tanks would active block, and there were even diagrams and everything, and the guildleve system was positioned as a new way to quest, etc. None of these ideals may have been realised in actuality, but SE certainly made a marginal effort to convince people the game was developed with a certain philosophy in mind that went a little deeper than "we increased the FF feel, kthx."

The current website just re-uses the same FFXIV images (which is tantamount to fraud since the graphical engine has been replaced so its no longer a fair representation) and is devoid of any meaningful info. The dev blogs spell nothing out about the game beyond superficial features. And maybe that's because the game is designed superficially. That's the take-away message I get.

Or because Yoshi is off to promotion tour 10th Feb, and will reveal more then?
And because they just want to keep stuff a secret?
If they didn't even believe in the project, there wouldn't have been a ARR
They'll obviously update Lodestone etc during Phase 3, when the game isn't under NDA anymore.

The problem is, if Yoshi only appeals to those who stayed and FFXI veterans, then the game will flop. It already has. Like my above cake analogy, People want chocolate cake, Vanilla is the most popular and "safe" so Yoshi is trying to make a Marble cake. The only problem is with people perception, all some people hear is there is going to be vanilla in the cake and then they freak out.

Yoshi himself has already said he took inspiration from other games, like WoW, to make the game more appealing, to a bigger audience, so why would anyone be worried he's only catering to XI and 1.0 players?
I dunno why people are always crying about WoW clone this or that; It's not gonna be more of a WoW clone than when servers went down. To me the game looks quite the same, but more fast paced, and user friendly; if that is WoW clone, and bad...people are just retarded.