CVG Article

[Chopin]

Hello,

I was just browsing CVG and this article popped up. I thought I'd share because as much as we know how much work has gone into ARR, others don't! It's nice to see that all the efforts of the dev team are creating some buzz now that we have a release date!

Fred

[Anonymoose]

Better yet, both versions work off of cloud saves, so any progress you make on one platform will transfer over to the other.

The days of having to beat CoP twice are OVER!*

Good article. ARR is the mythical "Golden Patch" and it deserves its own evaluation.

*
Yes, I do understand that some people need to be told that MMOs phone home to save your progress.
It just caught me off-guard in a "Wait, what?" moment.

[Hulan]

It's always nice to see a positive article about FFXIV, they need all of the good publicity they can get. That being said... I find this article to be a little... thin. Between fairly poor research, odd statements like the one Anonymoose quoted, and the just plain kind of dull examples they gave, I'm having a hard time liking that article. Anyone reading that is basically going to take these three things from it - probably in this order: Look, you can jump! You can now play more genders for the same races! The director plays a lot of video games!

I'm always glad to see positive articles but.... This one is sort of like someone coming up to you and saying, "Wow, you look pretty good for a slob!" Yeah it's a complement, but I just don't get that warm fuzzy feeling from it.

[3Jane]

LOL, small details such as character movement have been finely tuned. Small details such as character movement have been virtually eliminated to facilitate pvp and stop the twitch playing children from sobbing.

[Chopin]

Yer, the article isn't the best and the fact that being able to jump was considered a reason to re-consider playing...

The reason I shared was I always find articles about FFXIV:ARR never seem to forgive the 1.0 release constantly making reference to it in every post, CVG typically does this a lot so it was nice to see it getting some attention at least!

[Pwnagraphic]

Excitingly, Squeenix have made the genius decision to support cross-platform accounts. So, if you buy FFXIV:ARR on PS3, you'll also get a PC copy. Better yet, both versions work off of cloud saves, so any progress you make on one platform will transfer over to the other. Tasty.

......What?

[Myranda]

So, if you buy FFXIV:ARR on PS3, you'll also get a PC copy.

......What?

Yeah... this also threw me for a loop. As far as I understand it, that claim is factually false. No idea where the author got the idea this was the case, especially with how much SE has stressed that anyone wanting to play on PS3 needs to buy the extra copy.

[KaMuiSouZou]

I think this article works great to initiate interest for people who don't follow XIV news at all. Short and to the point, they identified many of the big issues widely known for ver 1.0 and told people how SE worked to directly fix them. Hopefully this article will make them read up more on ARR through longer, more detailed articles elsewhere. The "So, if you buy FFXIV:ARR on PS3, you'll also get a PC copy" line is the only flag that really jumped out at me for being blatantly wrong, but other than that, hopefully this'll reel in some new players!

[Abriael]

Yeah... this also threw me for a loop. As far as I understand it, that claim is factually false. No idea where the author got the idea this was the case, especially with how much SE has stressed that anyone wanting to play on PS3 needs to buy the extra copy.

It is a false claim, and the author shows off as completely clueless in multiple occasions.

"Cloud saves"? Did this guy ever play a MMO?

[ArkhamNative]

Nice article. It's not perfect, but it's a bright, brief intro to ARR.

Between fairly poor research, odd statements like the one Anonymoose quoted, and the just plain kind of dull examples they gave, I'm having a hard time liking that article.

To get the level of detail we're accustomed to, a reporter would have to spend either countless hours digging through lodestone posts, or countless weeks playing the actual game, which isn't available at this point. I thought it did mostly well, considering it obviously wasn't meant to be an in-depth, epic-length article.

I still think SE should release a press kit or other materials to help journalists promote the game. Hopefully they'll have it ready before E3, or the best coverage will continue to be exclusive to fan/reporters from small and medium-size videogame news blogs.