Quote Originally Posted by Solly View Post
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'You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to [your plans] had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
'But the plans were on display...'
'On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
'That's the display department.'
'With a torch.'
'Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
'So had the stairs.'
'But look, you found the notice didn't you?'
'Yes ... yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'

- Douglas Adams

ummm... ok.

The Link about the presentation was in the Lodestone for over a week prior to the convention, and was up for a few days after as well, with the link pointing to the archived stream instead of the live one for a few days after the presentation. It only scrolled out of the news section because they started posting Fan Kit stuff that bumped it out of the frame. If you click the Topics button, it is right there for everyone to see.

It's not in some obscure place locked in a file cabinet in the basement. It's all right there where people would be going to find the information.

Not to mention, it has been posted in any of a dozen or so new threads that crop up almost every other day because no one takes the time to use the search feature on the forums. Just searching generically on the three words "World Transfer Service" gave me 116 hits--the third hit is to a fan translation of the presentation where they announced it was expected in early October.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1317020

There were at least a half dozen other hits I saw at a glance that were links to posts spreading the word about the early October announcement.


No arduous investigation tactics, no bazaar phrases needed to search on--all I did was type the words "World Transfer Service" in the forum's Search box in the upper right-hand corner, press the <Enter> key and actually looked at the results on my screen.