IGN: ARR's Jedi Mind TrickFollow

Not quite sure what the author was going for with the title of the article, but here's some more good press for ARR.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/23/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborns-jedi-mind-trick

I read it, and it didn't seem like good press. It went south pretty quickly. Stated that the only reason its coming back is so SE doesn't get a bad rep from the first failure.

Grrr

This is...one of the reasons for ARR, frankly speaking. If the original was called, oh I don't know, Eorzea Tales, they wouldn't have undertaken this massive task to bring it up to scratch. But as rightfully stated, leaving a numbered Final Fantasy title to die is too big a hit for a company synonymous with the franchise.

But I didn't find the article bad, really. It seemed to harbour cautious optimism. Better than inviting readers to simply skip it and move on, say.

That being said, TTH's last article was horrible, horrible, horrible. A multi-paragraph rant about...account management? Horrible. And over the top, too.

Eh, it was a balanced article, I like that. Bit of an exaggeration about 1.0 in an attempt to get the reader on his side, though. (You know, you'lll be like 'Oh yeah YEAH WE HATED THAT, now we're in this together and I can agree with other opinions you give!)

Classic manipulative opening lol. Otherwise, good.

Yeah the article wasn't bad at all. It was balanced an as favorable as a non-fan could write.

And I agree with Xoie, 1.0 was horrendous at release, had virtually no content, and problems with every system they introduced. IGN was being generous.

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The author had praise for most everything.

I hate modern (pop) country music, and not because the "hipsters" tell me to. I hate it because it's turned into this sensationalized BS where half their songs are about drinking or 9/11 or whatever else they can think of to sell albums. Give me some good old fashion Hank Williams or heck even some Johnny Cash and I'll listen all. damn. day.

To say it's an improvement is the understatement of the year!

I couldn't even play 1.0, so 2.0 is drastically different.

Not only do I want to play it, but I'm so psyched about it that I'm on this forum every day talking about it with you guys because I'm "jonesing" for it so bad...

I haven't done that since FFXI was in it's prime in the mid-2000's!

Um, no. Not only no, but hell no.

You literally couldn't be more wrong. I apologize because I'm sure my tone is rude, but I want to be very emphatic about not allowing this sort of revisionist history.

1.0 sucked balls. That's not some hipster sentiment. I played 1.0. I was the canary in the coal mine in beta. Got a ton of my posts defaulted and sub defaulted on ZAM from people who weren't in beta and thought I was trollling or hating because I complained about such "small" things as having a second of lag ...every... time... I... scroll... from.... one.... item.... in.... my..... inventory.... to ..... the ..... next....item.... making..... the ..... game..... miserable.... to ......play. There were dozens and dozens of flaws, big flaws, with 1.0. It would be safer to say that apart from the aesthetic and some fresh ideas on crafting and gathering, the entire game was trash. Every one who actually played 1.0 around launch knows what I am talking about.

Six months post launch, it was "merely" bad, but at launch, it was an abortion. I have no idea if it got a lot better after that because two bites of that rotten apple were enough for me.

2.0 is an entirely different game. Not merely an adequate game, as 1.0 needed to be, but in some ways, an exceptional game. There are times playing 2.0 where I think to myself "I would have done this differently" but not once where I have thought "this is garbage," which is the predominant thought about everything I encountered in 1.0. I have enjoyed every single minute of playing 2.0, and couldn't enjoy 1.0 at all.



Edited, Jul 24th 2013 10:18am by KarlHungis

Oh I don't mean that your opinion about the game is revisionist. If you liked it, you liked it.

I just mean the idea that if people are extreme in their criticism of 1.0 that it's somehow motivated by group think or hipsterism. As some one who was around at the start, you must be aware of the massive amount of negativity even when the game launched, even though the most critical people were often the ones who had the highest hopes and the greatest fanboyism prior to playing.


Edited, Jul 24th 2013 4:10pm by KarlHungis

I'm not saying it wasn't bad, but I am saying that it's cool to use 1.0 as the whipping boy, even for people who didn't play it. It's the same as calling WoW easy-mode, or Rift a WoW-Clone. These opinions may or may not be true, but that doesn't stop them from becoming a popular talking-point to sound more authoritative on a topic.

Edited, Jul 24th 2013 7:17pm by Louiscool

Seemed fairly balanced to me even though it seemed it edged more on the negative side but it wasn't overly downing it. But it's kinda to be expected... In the western market MMO's rarely get a second chance and the ones that have still released in a better state than XIV did they just couldn't keep enough subs so they went f2p hence giving them another chance. (Not saying XIV should be f2p) Lotta articles in the coming weeks aren't gonna let readers forget 1.0. lol

Plus, he's an insane clown who says "Hwa Hwa Hwa!" while shooting lazers at the entire world, who then turns into an archangel.

Do they have peyote in Japan? I think they must.

Edited, Jul 25th 2013 9:43am by KarlHungis

Man how could you forget having to repair damaged underwear? Or the fact that repair NPCs only repaired to 75% and didnt repair jewelry or underwear at all?

What did the colors of the crafting light really mean?

Remember searching for an item in pre-search window market wards?