Hi from the gamescom 2015 showfloor!

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Hi, this is Kahuna speaking. You might already know me from Reddit or the PlayStation blog but today I have the honour of being your live correspondent from the gamescom showfloor!

While gamescom only opens to consumers tomorrow, we already have two long days behind us! On Tuesday, we had our big introduction to this year's Community Ambassadors!

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Last year, we were confronted with a problem; like pretty much every other booth, we were looking for promoters but as you all know, FFXIV has a complex and deep story and explaining the fights we had in mind would be problematic to anyone unaware of this backstory. Who could answer all of these questions? How could we make sure that the promo team knew all of the complexities of FFXIV to introduce people to the game adequately?....Well, year after year, we've met experienced adventurers on the booth, who said they'd love to work with us for the week. So we looked into it and decided that, for the first time ever, we'd recruit Ambassadors directly from our FFXIV Community to work alongside the promotional personnel on our booth. It was a huge success!

So this year, both FFXIV booths will feature Community Ambassadors and Square Enix personnel! All of the Ambassadors have been hand-picked by us after days of back to back Skype video interviews. They're all hardcore fans just like you!

So if you're visiting us this year and have a question, grab anyone from our booth - we can guarantee that there's someone within reach who should be able to answer your questions. From "What's the story about?" to "Which weapon do you think is best-in-slot for my job right now?".

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However, working at gamescom undoubtedly is hard work, even for the Ambassadors. It's 6 solid days of hard work and we're obviously really happy that everyone agreed to help us out during this craziest week of the convention. To say thanks for this, Yoshida agreed to a meet and greet with everyone and signed whatever they put in front of him - just look at them lining up!

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Of course someone brought the Collector's Edition Art Book!

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Today, gamescom opened to trade visitors. Compared to the sheer amount of gamers, who will storm the halls tomorrow, today will be a rather calm day without any crazy queues but we have already managed to hand out a lot of Bismarck shirts! If you've passed by the booth, there's a good chance you heard me and my colleagues moderating the battle challenges.

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Tomorrow (when you'll probably be reading this), it will start for real! We're really excited about seeing many happy faces and giving away an enormous amount of loot!

We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday and for those of you that won't be able to make it, keep an eye out for more blog posts!

Eagerly anticipating a crazy week,
Kahuna

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