Kind of Nice to See ThisFollow

So with the game's release imminently upon us, much of the game's success or failure will depend on what the "talking pages" are saying. Granted actual game experience will be the ultimate measure of ARR, but at the end of the day if the magazines are touting XIV's triumphant return it will go a long way to bringing back old friends and those who never gave it a shot in the first place... and with WoW recently losing over a million subscribers, I suspect at least a small portion of them may very well be looking for something new to sink their blade into

With that said, I'm starting to see some video game outlets starting to advise their readers to give XIV a second chance. I came across this article which was just posted yesterday.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/408926/previews/10-reasons-final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn-deserves-a-second-chance/

It's very good to see that the game is getting respect from the media (albeit I believe there may be a piece or two of misinformation in this article lol)... and what's even more promising is that the game actually looks damn good, this will go a long way to draw in the skeptics!

For as much flak as SE takes, and trust me, I'm the first to admit I've been critical of them recently... I must say I'm exceedingly impressed with their ability to take a disaster and turn it into something with true potential.



Edited, May 28th 2013 12:43pm by Parathyroid

Agreed that isn't the best article written as it seems to focus more on "what broken things SE fixed" rather than the many things that are fresh. But I guess the writer was trying to do just that: Reassure us the broken things are corrected...and he didn't really break NDA doing it. At any rate, I support any pro-final fantasy xiv post. The community needs it. Square needs it.

Hmm, that's a good point. I guess the one that really set me off was carrying over data from 1.0, as that doesn't seem like something that people reading that article would have much interest in. Heck, they could have delved into how the lag has been greatly reduced, or that the UI is far more intuitive if they were wanting to talk about broken stuff to be fixed. I guess I would think that most people who played 1.0 would either know that the data was transferring, or really wouldn't care as they'd be starting over. Perhaps I'm just thinking of it too much from my own mentality though.

One of the main issue people were having is the lack of content to keep you busy. That could have definitely been added in there as it looks like that has been improved.

Speaking of things that are nice to see...

I'm not advocating anyone ditch these forums for elsewhere but I really like what I've seen from the XIV reddit group. Lots of good people offering helpful information... and amazingly... almost no trolls. So it's a good place to frequent in between your visits to ZAM... and it's fairly active too. I got me some sweet ARR wallpapers from there. :)

Haha...

I guess I should add, that it's even more surprising given that reddit is more in the public sphere (and therefore more likely to draw critics) than ZAM which is more of a community site.

And Wint, I'm gonna be giving subbing soon, so you better be nice to me! :P

It's like navigating any site really. To find the XIV page just google FFXIV reddit and it will take you there.

There are threads alongside the left hand of the page... some threads are posts like this one, others are direct links to images, videos, other urls, etc. Then the discussion posts are listed underneath the setting.

Oh and you need to login to post.

That's about it. :P

(the site ate my first attempt at posting this )

I agree that the article is rather shallow and superficial. Still, it's good press that exposes the game to people who may not have considered it before. Hopefully we have lots of people who decide to try out the open beta and love the game enough to purchase it.

I'm always nice

Ridiculous as that sounds, yeah... a lot of people pointed to the fact that your character could be stymied by a one-foot high fence as an example of everything wrong with the world.

If you'd like another... in Aion (at least at the beginning, don't know about now), your character was a daeva. An immortal angelic being possessed of great power. Step into a pool, you sink like a stone and drown.

It's little things like that.

Edited, May 28th 2013 9:23pm by Callinon

It's so rare to find a good analogy on the internet, but that "nailed it".

/bow