Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn

leoncc · 16 Nov 2012 at 23:24

Anyone else looking forward to this? I have played through the torment of 1.0 since beta and while I'm glad its buried and ARR is going to be here soon I enjoyed many aspects of the game and SE have done an amazing job to rebuild this MMO from the ground up, new regional servers, new engine, world completely rebuilt, 40+ zones upon release, cross server dungeon finder, many western mmo elements incorporated to bring this MMO up-to-date etc, new producer who played DAoC and is really great with the community.

End of an Era Trailer (brought a tear to my eye.) ;(

Final Fantasy XIV Letter from the Producer Live IV (enable captions)

Alpha footage!

Limit Break Trailer

leoncc · 16 Nov 2012 at 23:46

Yes it is coming out on PC/PS3 at the same time, it will be around May 2013 at a guess.

Alpha is live right now, they are on phase 2 atm iirc which is JP region only then they are adding everyone else in the last 2 which should be in a couple of weeks.

Beta is February.

leoncc · 17 Nov 2012 at 12:11

XI is a superb MMO but it threw you in the deep end.

I truly think A Realm Reborn is going to be epic, I've watched this take shape over 2 years. The new producer is very pationate to restore the community's faith so I would definitely keep an eye on this.

leoncc · 17 Nov 2012 at 13:12

thedinks said:
I bought the original, will I have to rebuy a realm reborn to play?

No, you will have to buy the PS3 over though if you want to play via that as well.

leoncc · 17 Nov 2012 at 15:53

thedinks said:
So it's cross platform then?

Yep

leoncc · 17 Nov 2012 at 15:56

No1newts said:
Do you still need to play this with a pad?

You can play with solely a keyboard just fine or mouse too etc, the pad does work really well though when lounging around crafting he he.