CVG Article

[Abriael]

To get the level of detail we're accustomed to, a reporter would have to spend either countless hours digging through lodestone posts,

To be honest, doing research is a reporter's job. That's part of what they're paid for, and misinforming one's readers is the worst thing one can do.

Personally, I have to write a ton about games I know nothing about. When I do so, I make sure my facts are straight, even if I have to spend hours researching (and with the internet, researching isn't exactly challenging).

I've seen a trend of extremely poor quality reporting on ARR, because the writers didn't care to do their homework, and that's bad, no matter how you look at it.

[Zezlar]

Only one of those ten reasons was appealing. If I was a new customer I probably would have went right over that article.

[Pwnagraphic]

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


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.

Maybe it's coming from an unbiased source which is great, but also he must never ever play MMO's or video games online. I mean.. even CoD saves your progress online he has to know this if he works writing articles for games, right? Right??

[Yrusama]

Whoever wrote this needs to be careful about making wild claims. "Yoshida-san promises even promises that every single summon from every single title will be lurking around." While I wouldn't put this past Yoshi-P in the long run, that is an extremely big list. Not to mention they've set it up so that almost all of them need a tribe to call them forth in the first place.

[Dgsoil]

This is why other forms of journalism usually have fact-checkers. But then we have to remember that the majority of the MMO Gaming Journalists are just people as well and make mistakes. I swear I read an article not to long ago with some reviewer claiming Defiance was the first cross-platform MMO, lawls followed.

[Skies]

Whoever wrote this needs to be careful about making wild claims. "Yoshida-san promises even promises that every single summon from every single title will be lurking around." While I wouldn't put this past Yoshi-P in the long run, that is an extremely big list. Not to mention they've set it up so that almost all of them need a tribe to call them forth in the first place.

Not to try to defend that wild claim but that bolded part is not exactly true! The summons can appear but mayhaps not as summons! After all, look at Atomos and Carbuncle

[OrionInerghem]

Somewhere along the line, Square Enix remembered that this is a Final Fantasy game. As such, FFXIV:ARR will be rammed full of iconic staples from the 25 year old franchise. Things such as the Crystal Tower from FFIII (with the terrifyingly naked Cloud of Darkness as boss), moogle postmen, the awesome Magitek armour from FFVI... all of which will either be playable or interactive. Yoshida-san even promises that every single summon from every single title will be lurking around. Yes, even fluffy, useless Carbuncle.

He said that?

[Abriael]

Funny how despite the several comments pointing out the enormous mistake, they didn't care to edit it.

[Orophin]

Somewhere along the line, Square Enix remembered that this is a Final Fantasy game. As such, FFXIV:ARR will be rammed full of iconic staples from the 25 year old franchise. Things such as the Crystal Tower from FFIII (with the terrifyingly naked Cloud of Darkness as boss), moogle postmen, the awesome Magitek armour from FFVI... all of which will either be playable or interactive. Yoshida-san even promises that every single summon from every single title will be lurking around. Yes, even fluffy, useless Carbuncle.

He said that?

More like I don't even remember Cloud of Darkness being there. I remember pictures of Amon being shown, but nothing apart from that.