Comments from the Devs

[Gadritan]

Cold soggy scraps from the week before hardly count as appetizers.

[Lucavi]

you don't like appetizers before the main course?

We've been over this. Again, nobody likes appetizers before the main course when you've been at the restaurant for awhile now, they've already botched your first main course, and you're waiting for the second while they filly around, teasing you about how tasty the replacement main course is going to be.

At some point, you just want your goddamn steak and eggs.

When is Gamescon, by the way? All this talk of Gamescon and yet, it would be truly ironic (bitter irony, but irony nonetheless) if they just showed another FMV trailer simulating gameplay.

[Gokulo]

In 5 days, also:

FINAL FANTASY XIV producer/director Naoki Yoshida will be attending Gamescom 2012 in Cologne, Germany from Thursday, August 16th to Sunday, August 19th. He will be delivering a series of exciting presentations during the event, including a world-first gameplay demonstration. Fans will also have a chance to get his autograph at special signing sessions on the 17th and 18th.

[Lucavi]

5 days, eh? Just get me another martini, SE. I'll wait.

[Spira]

the appetizers aren't that bad by themselves, and its true people are waiting for the main course, but its going to be totally worth it.

[kisada]

who has steak and eggs for dinner?

anyway i don't really see the point in complaining non-stop about gameplay and endless cg trailers and such. you guys aren't the only ones who feel that way, but it's been clear for a long time now that we'd have to just wait. save yourself some grief and move on.

[Adajer]

They may not be much but it is better than nothing imo. Better some CG trailers to hold us over than silence.

[Elcura]

We've been over this. Again, nobody likes appetizers before the main course when you've been at the restaurant for awhile now, they've already botched your first main course, and you're waiting for the second while they filly around, teasing you about how tasty the replacement main course is going to be.

At some point, you just want your goddamn steak and eggs.

You and your goddamn restaurant metaphors.

[Kurokikaze]

All this talk about food... god damnit I'm starving.

What's for lunch!? >.<

[Mina]

BBQ wings and fries apparently from Wingstop.

I'll take anything at this point. I would love to see even ten seconds of actual in-game footage but I'll take a wall of text from the developers.

Maybe I'm too easy to please.

[Kuya]

In 5 days this forum be will set alight with either praise and excitement or loads of deja vu.

[XalienLevi]

I hope they show the new Battle Regimen system.

[Kurokikaze]

In 5 days this forum be will set alight with either praise and excitement or loads of deja vu.

I'm looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time.

[Gadritan]

Better some CG trailers to hold us over than silence.

I may be in the minority, but again, rehashed CG (it's.not.new.) pissed me off more than if they'd just waited to show something fresh and original. Be it gameplay or a truly original CG sequence. Quite a few players I know feel the same.

I just don't understand how people can look at the trailer and go "omg that's so awesome!!!111oneoneone," when we've already seen most of it. You know, when it was originally released.

[TacoTaru]

Calling it now: gameplay will be shown extensively, but only to the press and behind closed doors with no cameras. Everyone who isn't the press will get a 3rd CG trailer.

[Spider-Dan]

Didn't they already do that at E3?

If it's closed-circuit, no cameras, then it wouldn't be a "world-first gameplay demonstration" (because they've already done it).

[Shade]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...cfd590eb99f445

Inb4 the OF are flooded with inuendo-heavy threads about their rings.

Neat idea and all, but couldn't they have done it with something a little bit more significant than rings? Designing hats would've been awesome.

I saw "Gear Design Contest" and got all excited. Then I saw "rings" and got sad.

[TacoTaru]

Didn't they already do that at E3?

If it's closed-circuit, no cameras, then it wouldn't be a "world-first gameplay demonstration" (because they've already done it).

'T was a joke, bro.

[Burningthought]

Calling it now: gameplay will be shown extensively, but only to the press and behind closed doors with no cameras. Everyone who isn't the press will get a 3rd CG trailer.

Joking aside, didn't the people who got to see live 2.0 gameplay have nothing but positive things to say about it? Next month can't come soon enough.

[miokomioko]

Yeah, designing only rings is kinda' bleh as they're almost never visible. Still, I think this is going to be the first contest I actually enter. It's just hard to make a good looking ring that's big enough to be modeled and noticeable on a player's finger.

Would be pretty awesome to have an in-game item and be like "yeah, I designed this."