Open Beta - Coming Soon!

[Kafeen]

From http://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN:

The application period for the upcoming open beta on Windows® is also scheduled to commence in the near future.

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Posting screenshots is now allowed.

[Freelancer]

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Awesome, now we'll see real loggin in/lag horror, I can't wait! lol

[Kailea]

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I never kept track of this, is this twitter really from SE? Seems they changed their mind about having time for open beta, cool.

[Kafeen]

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I never kept track of this, is this twitter really from SE? Seems they changed their mind about having time for open beta, cool.

Yeah, its SE's twitter. Its linked to on the main Final Fantasy XIV page.

Given the remaining time before release, I'd say it looks like something along the lines of, 2 weeks phase 3 beta, short downtime between versions again, 2 weeks open beta, short downtime between versions, collectors edition release.

6 Weeks today to release. \o/

[Takelli]

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6 Weeks today to release. \o/

Yea, for those damn PC users, not PS3 users... F**K this...

[jenova_9]

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well at least we can watch them play on youtube until march.

[Takelli]

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well at least we can watch them play on youtube until march.

Its not quite the same as playing the game. I still call this a Dick move by SE. Why fuck over the people who can't play on their PC, and don't feel like paying 1,5000USD for a new computer that can play the game?

They just wanted to beat WoW with their Cataclysm comes out. That's all they wanted to do. I am fucking tired of waiting for them to release the game, I have been following it since it has been called Rapture.

[Fliegar]

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Its not quite the same as playing the game. I still call this a Dick move by SE. Why fuck over the people who can't play on their PC, and don't feel like paying 1,5000USD for a new computer that can play the game?

They just wanted to beat WoW with their Cataclysm comes out. That's all they wanted to do. I am fucking tired of waiting for them to release the game, I have been following it since it has been called Rapture.

It's not their fault that you can't play on a PC. You knew it was a "next-gen" MMO, and you can put together a pretty good computer for $800 or so that will play it fairly well. You could have put a little bit of money away and had enough by now if you have known about it since it was called Rapture.

It sucks that the PS3 release was delayed, and I'm sure it wasn't their intention to "fuck over" the people who can't play on a PC. Shit happens, the game will be released eventually.

Can you technically be fucked over if you haven't actually bought the game yet? O_o

[jenova_9]

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Don't worry, this means PS3 version will start with MORE than the PC started with. , mew.

Just like when PS2 got FFXI, it came with RotZ and its extra jobs for free.


All updates from FFXIV launch up until PS3 release, will all be included in PS3 version. remember the servers are crossplatform.

[Kailea]

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Don't worry, this means PS3 version will start with MORE than the PC started with. , mew.

Just like when PS2 got FFXI, it came with RotZ and its extra jobs for free.


All updates from FFXIV launch up until PS3 release, will all be included in PS3 version. remember the servers are crossplatform.

so did the PC version.

RoZ came out when the NA version did, so NA got it for free

[jenova_9]

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oh ya! it at least means PS3 will start off up to date with PC versions updates for FFXIV! It's sure to make sense, mew.

[Solymir]

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but then they will notice issues with PS3 version and we'll have dowtime for those updates too.

[jenova_9]

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the downloading/downtime won't take too long, besides once it's done, it's smooth mew mew sailing!

[Freelancer]

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On the bright side for the PS3 users (as if this hasn't been pointed out before) you'll get the game with most/all of the bugs/kinks fixed, so it should be a more enjoyable experiment than starting out with all that.

Playing beta and crashing very often and freezing and other kind of nonsense, if I didn't have friends playing with me I would have uninstalled this by now.

Though lack of content (beta) is making me bored, we were just walking (yes walking) around and targeting random people, circling them then just doing an emote then run away out of boredom while leves refresh.

[Malacite]

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Speaking of which, hasn't SE learned their lesson? Why the fuck do you only get 3 every TWO REAL LIFE DAYS?!