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 dont see how this makes it popular
New to sarcasm?
Hmph..typical
lulz
This is rich. ^_^
THEY MUST HAVE BRIBED HER TO PLAY.
could be just part of her job,or a show that
has her as a special guest to play
FF14 shame is so massive it started to spread to its official players
Lol, Anon.
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...
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!".
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..
Sankaku knows how to make this popular.I see, I see :3
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
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.
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.
awesome. now time to play.
So this was the strategy for FFXIV.
Which one is for FFXIII? Or are you they with the charts?
Oh ho ho Square Enix you sly devil you. I see what you did there.
"oh ho ho"
"you sly devil"
"i see what you did there"
Wow. Can't you come up with anything original rather than regurgitating the same popular internet sayings over and over?
Tell that to the company in question here.
I see what you did not did there. Azz.
Your remarks weren't very original either...
How to shot web?
@12:04 Your remarks weren't very original either...
everything has already been said over the internet...nothing is original anymore
How unoriginal.
I am unamused. *scoff scoff*
how unoriginal saying other ppl's unoriginal. well at least it amuses me alittle.
pffff I've heard that over 9000 thousand times already, so sorry if I am unamused
I feel kinda bad for the artist.
What a wonderfully hilarious cock-up all around.
Also, the phrase "too little, too late" comes to mind. She's already made the comics after less than five minutes of play, I don't see what playing a little know is supposed to prove.
Nothing. After 5 minutes of play time the mangaka already knew all there is to know about the game.
could be due to do "Copy&Paste" maps and stuff
I didn't even think about that... You're right.