Please make a better Commercial for North America!

[Chrony]

That was pretty painful to watch....Hope they make a better because this one is pretty cheesy

[Maeruna]

The problem i see with the commercial is that it doesnt really show anything for people that are unaware of ARR. just makes me wonder who the commercial was for. The only people that would "get it" are people that already played XIV and tested in the beta. Anyone else outside of this is just gonna see this commercial and go "what? what did i just watch?"

[Zekieldude]

The commercial does not do the game justice. FOlks that have no idea what the game is about are left wondering saying WTF just happened and what has happened to the FF series!?!?!?

[dosis]

I agree horrible commercial. The freaking guy that is talking is the dude that does spongebob voice over. This game is going to be too awesome for such poor advertisement..

[HamHam]

I think that SE got ripped off by the company that did this commercial.

Like others have already said, anyone that doesn't know about the game won't understand what did they just watch. If the targeted audience was new players, then this commercial doesn't accomplished this goal.

[FlowerPower]

I think that SE got ripped off by the company that did this commercial.

Like others have already said, anyone that doesn't know about the game won't understand what did they just watch. If the targeted audience was new players, then this commercial doesn't accomplished this goal.

I doubt that weather or not SE being ripped off is a get out of jail free card. Outsourced or not they had the choice to air it or not after development.

[KimimiAvesta]

That live action one's just embarrassing, if that came on there's no way I'd pipe up with "Hey, that's the game I'm really looking forward to playing!". Stylistically it's about two decades late, shows nothing of the game itself and reinforces negative nerd/MMO stereotypes.

A better and cheaper commercial would have involved one chap taking a day to edit together some cool bits from the End of an Era, Dungeon Crawl and Primal trailers over one of the many great music tracks from the game - slap the FFXIV logo and release date on the end and you're done!

[WiseWolfHolo]

eww so ugly, plz make a new commercial

[Saraphim]

While this commercial does look like something that crawled up out of the 90s, it did not give me any feelings of nostalgia. Being a 90s kid myself, I mostly found it just embarrassing to watch. :/ Who, exactly, were they trying to appeal to here? If I try to gather together some real life friends to play this game with me, I will definitely not be showing them this commercial. I don't think that 10 year old kids with nerf guns was the audience they were trying to captivate, but that's what they got.

[RumiP]

All these real life intertwining with FFXIV game life commercials are kind of blech. Just make a good commercial detailing some gameplay, music, and maybe some soundbytes from NPCs about the crisis in the world. Then put in the standard, "Will you be the one to save them?" or whatever.

These commercials remind me of the weird ass PS2 commercials in the early 2000s. You would have some dudes head all segmented and there'd be a PS2 logo inside somewhere. Not that the FFXIV commercials are equally weird, but they leave the viewer equally not knowing why they should care about it or what they are being asked to buy. It's just not good advertising imo.