FF14 Suddenly Popular For All The Wrong Reasons…
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 3, 2010 11:44 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Internet, Mangaka, Marketing, MMORPG, Otaku, Square Enix
Square Enix’s latest update may have been a success after all – at least one of its “official players” was apparently so embarrassed at being exposed as having spent a month writing manga about her travels in the game, despite only having played a total of 10 minutes shortly after the game was released, that she suddenly launched into a 6 hour marathon session.
Mangaka Kayoko Saito drew 5 manga about the game and reported extensive travels (none of which, strangely, showed up in her play history), but her play history logged only 2 achievements over (at least) 4 minutes of playtime.
After the introduction of the history feature and the subsequent reduction of the “official players” to laughing stocks she suddenly took a renewed interest in the game, logging 14 achievements over a 6 hour play session – her first since the game launched over a month ago.
A long journey indeed.
The rest of the “official players” seem to have cashed their cheques already – they show no change, with most having given up on the game weeks ago.
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I can't help but wounder why this site hates ffxiv so much? All I can think of is the poster is one of the biggest trolls on the net and just wants to cause an outbreak. That or wow payed them off. >.>
Agreed. In the end, it's just as annoying as a Squeenix fanboy.
He's just reporting on anything of interest or amusing. It's not Artefact's fault Squarenix keeps dwarfing each of their epic fails with an even bigger one.
...Then she ran headlong into the fatigue system?
The irony.
Although that may have been the misguided point behind exposing player records. Lots of people like to comment on games they haven't really played. Exposing that information puts those remarks in new light.
Its not like you have to play a game to write about it, but if your going to get all bloggy about the mechanics then it would be wise to at least put in a minimal effort.
Unfortunately that's counter-productive when you're trying to put a negative spin on the game.
Yeah well, that just shows that people who talk about a game don't necessarily have played it. On the other hand, there are enough people who know what they are talking about and they will tell you that this game just isn't all that good.
I guess that fewer people would complain if FF14 was free-to-play. However, the very premise of the game is to make lots of money for the least amount of work. That's the wrong direction for a game with a monthly fee.
but doesnt WoW have the same system ? except the fact that you can only look at it ingame ?
In WoW you cant see how long other ppl played but you can type /played to see how much time you spend playing the character you are logged in with at this time.
Cool, she drew 5 mangas about a game she played for 10 minutes.
Hm, maybe i'll write a book about archaeology because i went to one lesson about history and culture of the old orient (Mesophotamia). xD
Funny how she tries cover it up now. ^^
Funny thing is, in most all mmo's, it takes an hour just to get from character creation to the first town.
Sounds like she literally gave up after the intro cutscene ended...
So she crotch slap herself in the game?
6 hour is nothing...
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lol square.
you've just wasted millions of dollars. you could have easily used this money for a PS3 Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy Versus XIII
damn just damn
I just love to see SE burn.
FFXIV lost 1 today. I quit deleted account and uninstalled game. I had enough. Char name was Rei Newyne had just bought a mining guild skill. Feel free to look my char up on lodestone. I grinded alot, but game simply wasn't able to keep me interested enough to put up with things even for duration of trial extension.
I think they just hired chinese farmers .
I would presume she had a friend who fed information, or who she watched at certain intervals. Maybe she just made it all up for the lols. Either way, TRANSLATION NAO.
When has Artefact stopped trolling us?
When you stop reading sankaku channels :3
"lulz. better go play that game now bitch you got exposed."
-square enix
just fire wada already
....
*shoots super soaker*
...?
lol
Probably someone else is playing her account.
I had a friend who drew a weekly cartoon about FFXI which became very popular, so much so that players would keep pestering him at the worst possible moments (during boss and NM battles, dynamis, etc...)
He kept publishing cartoons but ended up only playing a second, less notorious character.
In that mangaka's defense, it's possible he had two (or more) characters.
So the way to avoid being a phony is to...be a bigger phony?
So this was the strategy for FFXIV.
Which one is for FFXIII? Or are you they with the charts?
awesome. now time to play.
I fear that it wont last long...
"Fear" isn't the world I would've chosen. More like, "hope". Yeah.
Funny. I always thought that "fear" and "hope" were both words, not giant masses of matter floating about in space.
+1 for this, you made me lol
let's see how long it'll last i want to still have faith in it just a little to keep me tied to senpuku enix...just a little
Actually, as some guy on the previus post on this subject pointed out that it's actually sepuku, without the "n". Otherwise, it roughly translates as concealment, not ritual suicide :P
Except it's seppuku with two of the letter P.
Although senpuku doesn't sound all that wrong either.
Concealment Enix.
They like to conceal things from the eyes of public don't they? Though they tend to fail everytime. Especially of late.
I really don't think your faith is worth investing. All of Squenix's releases have been disappointments except the Kingdom Hearts franchise (so far at least). They have such a big monopoly on JRPGs since the merge that they are just releasing half assed games and people are still buying them. Sure there are other JRPG companies out there but none even close to the size of Squenix. Now if Square and Enix separated, then we might finally be getting some quality RPGs.
I feel so sorry for the mangaka and all the embarassement. But I could not stop laughing.
Same. Well, I guess FF XIV and her involvement will be forgotten soon.
i dont see how this makes it popular
New to sarcasm?
One player gaming for 6 hours. What a surge of popularity. lol
Artifact trolled us again!! ><
Wasn't this the game that stopped you getting exp if you played for more than an hour a day? What.
What a phony.. I bet it's somebody else who's playing the game for her.
After you said that I can now see that guy from family guy following her around and appearing in random places shouting "You're a phony, a big fat phony!".
Hmph..typical
could be just part of her job,or a show that
has her as a special guest to play
THEY MUST HAVE BRIBED HER TO PLAY.
lulz
This is rich. ^_^
FF14 shame is so massive it started to spread to its official players
Aww thats so cute
She feels shame!
Me thinks SEnix shame is massive its starting to spread like the black plague
It's good to see she at least has some integrity, too bad it didn't kick in until after she got busted...
Lol, Anon.
Sankaku knows how to make this popular.I see, I see :3
shut up , best game evaa ! Assuming you are Korean and love grinding to right to grind more at higher levels grind .
Square's aiming at Chinese players this time but Korea will get their Bird horses. It's new and original all Korean bird horses, not to be confused with the horse birds.
LOve it lol
Say goodbye to your privacy...
Ugh...At least the upcoming FF hentai doujins this Comiket Winter won't give away how much time you spent fapping on them...
don't give them any ideas!
Let's see...
*opens doujin statistics database*
User Azure Xuchilbara had page 12 of "Futa Family Anthology #11" open for more than 4 minutes about 3 hours ago. Suspicious... ^_^
Artifact? Making a misleading header? Perish the thought..