Thread: 2.0 website and trailer...    

Originally Posted by Alkar

It's an announcement trailer calm down -_-
Either way Ul'dah getting nuked= win.

Its cool bro; you're right. There's everything wrong with wanting to see SE adopt a different strategy for once.

I just hope this spurs enough interest in the game that I can sell my sealed CE I bought for my wife that never got used for something close to what I paid for at least.

The stormwind example is a good one, considering that stormwind was pretty damaged post-Deathwing. I'd imagine Gridania is going to get a Orgrimmar-esque update, simply minus the spikes and death everywhere. Probably just as charred, though, or it should be, what with falling flaming rocks and shit.

ill return to try it out... but tera has me by the balls. This better be good, and i need some actual game-play before i even try enter in my login info

Originally Posted by Rocl

To be fair, was anyone expecting anything other than the pretty & dolled-up FMV considering that's what they said the first trailer was since pre-E3? >_>

Not that I wouldn't prefer actual in-game shots etc, but rather just I don't think they're fooling anyone (with any semblance of intelligence and/or self-respect) when they straight up said this shit was 100% cg for like months

(Which is even more confusing why they didn't release it way earlier)

I am going to guess because the trailer does kind of spoil the final story thread of 1.0. We now know WHAT exactly is going to happen to our characters.

Had to happen. Either they don't explain it and leave a plot hole, or they make it more complicated by saying it applies to some players and not others.

Originally Posted by XalienLevi

I want bubble shield.

I know, right? They teased that shit in 1.0 and never delivered. I assumed they were going to ignore it and hope we forgot. They could have gotten away with it too, no new players would have seen the Limsa opening CS. Now we see it bigger and more crucial to the new plot (time travel-ish), are they gunna add it now or have it remain that really cooling thing that you can't do.

As a person who bought the special edition and ended playing it for all of two or so weeks.. then playing it for about another two weeks when it was free.. I don't think I'll be coming back. Just came to post and note.. SE with a launch trailer that involved no gameplay, and instead.. dollified/pretty FMVs? Shocked. Shocked I say.

And I know it's an announcement trailer, but I really thought that maybe they'd learn their lesson and wait on an announcement trailer until they had something to..actually show.

Oh well! What's amazing is I've seen people on twitter already go "TAKE MY MONEY" and I"m like "...really? based on what?" :< Good luck with it all, though!

Wasn't it stated the announcement trailer was going to be strictly CG which is why they withheld it from E3 in the first place?

Which there in lies the problem. Smarter marketing for a game that failed as hardcore as Vanilla did would call for a different approach all together.. if they were smarter. Then again, this is SE, and trying to complain about SE not ever changing their ways.. welp.

But I'm not here to sling mud or anything. Just wish they'd done something differently with their announcement. Ah well. Don't effect me any :>

Originally Posted by Alkar

This is just the beginning... they'll be releasing a lot more info from here on out and it'll include gameplay.
It's a 1 minute trailer and we all knew it was going to be all CGI, why the complaints all of a sudden? Oh yeah, we really need to be reminded how much launch failed again and again because we sure have forgotten.

Because it is a legitimate complaint by a company with a history of doing this. I know you're in a rush to get all frothy in the mouth, but whether it was announced previously or not, the complaint's legitimacy stands based on the fact that this is business as usual in how SE handles things. You expect a company still trying to clean the egg off their face from using this tactic before to, well, change things up a bit. Forgive me for hoping that SE wouldn't and will not march down the same path of CGI cutscene and website launch on their way to poor implementation of Alpha/Beta feedback and eventual crusty and shoddy launch, as opposed to doing things differently, showing more of their hand up-front so that they can take in and address feedback earlier, on the way to a productive alpha/beta (something like GW2's responses to feedback comes to mind here...), en-route to a successful and amazing launch. The jury is still out on my end but, unfortunately, they've shown more evidence at this point in time to the former ringing true, rather than the latter.

You temper your overriding lust to smack down all things complaint-oriented and I'll get ready to spew out some frothing hot fanboyism when I see some actual real-time action so that we can see if SE has learned or not. Its really that simple.

So once again this is a "positive comments about the same quality FMV's we've been seeing for years need only apply" thread? I'm sorry, I didn't see the note taped to the door. I'll see my way out, then.

Edit: The trailer was cool. Would watch again. Muted, of course.

Originally Posted by Fievel

Can you guys not turn yet another thead into slinging the same horseshit back and forth like you always do?

Awesome trailer, has me even more amped for 2.0 with where theyre taking the story.

Except he was the one who got jumped on for voicing a perfectly legitimate concern. The trailer is not 'awesome' - it's CGI bullshit and I question the intellect of anyone who has any reaction to it other than 'Christ, not this meaningless shit again.' There's absolutely sod-all to be excited about until they show something substantial.

can we all agree it was a beautifully stunning trailer but we are bored with (opening cs only)?