Um.. summer release?

[yoshikwalla]

So far, sites have posted in-depth impressions of the Beta (while following the NDA, something that you clearly don't understand). When it comes to information on the various game systems, Yoshi-P and his entourage have been more transparent than other developers on their respective games. The game will be at E3, the largest gaming press conference for upcoming games, to be tested by the press.

So please explain to me how the gaming press - people who are paid to write about any game-related thing shortly after it happens - won't have time to write their impressions of Realm Reborn before it launches. Your logic here is ridiculous.

The biggest difference between the original game's development and ARR's development is that with 1.0, Square was releasing a shitty game to begin with. Almost everything inside and out, from its engine to its server architecture, was a broken mess. All that Yoshi-P did was make the game's faults easier to deal with - they still existed, but in a lesser form - while working on the product Square should have released in the first place. Suggestions from players and the press couldn't stop a disaster of such magnitude from happening back during 1.0's launch simply because it would have required Square to scrap the entire game and start from scratch - something the producer and CEO adamantly didn't want to happen.

And the mainstream gaming press's complete lack of journalistic integrity? Congratulations - you finally understand how sites like IGN keep food on their contributors' plates. But not for the reason you think.

There are plenty of reasons, but the NDA is not one of them. A game journalists's impressions of a game are as simple as this: I like this part, I do not like this part. Any of the extra details are just ways for the writer to prove his point. There is no need to explain it in NDA-breaking detail - that's for later, when the game launches. Plus, anything that is released at E3 the journalists can write about - NDA doesn't apply there.

If you think the NDA will stop journalists from posting their general impressions on Final Fantasy XIV before it launches, then you are clearly wrong.