***Official Final Fantasy XIV Thead***

MidnightLamp

MidnightLamp

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Yes, people now that FF13 is out in japan, square are starting to leak more and more info on their next-gen MMO.

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Websites

Official EU Final Fantasy XIV site

FFXIVcore fansite - very active forum, and updated regularly

CrystalCore Podcast - hour long pods with updates and info


Release Date
30 September 2010
(22nd September 2010 - Collector's Edition"


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yeah very excited, ffxi was a fantastic MMO - it had its flaws, but am very confident square has learnt a huge amount to make ffxiv special
(and yes i know it says THEAD in the title... im going with thats the special Eorzean term for forums posts) midnight fails outside of l4d2 too ya know :o
 
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yeah it did suffer at times from the RMTs, i was mainly a crafter and found myself countless times being screwed by RMTs. i hear now the situation is a bit more under control and square have had the 7 years of ff11 to find ways of combating RMT,

it seems they're adding a lot more solo content for ffxiv, but im sure the epic multiplayer stuff that was in ff11 will find its way across too. i far prefered ff11 over wow because of its neccessity to team up, spending weeks camping HNMs, dynamis, sky etc
also by and large a friendlier player base imo
 
i reckon closed beta will start in feb, open beta in summer. released by autumn 2010!

with betas, do they normally wipe your character info in the transition from beta to full release?
 
yeah no playonline thank god
will prefer it if they wipe characters in beta, providing i get in id love to experiment with classes a bit then be able to make an educated choice on what i want to stick with on my main.

massive fan of crafting and fishing so i think ill start out as fisherman and cook
 
well with the armoury system in 14 it seems that you'll be able to change character class out in the field, even in the midst of battle. equip a sword and you'll become a warrior, staff and you'll become mage etc

interesting to see how they implement that
 
yeah i joined quite early and found my way into an incredibly friendly social japanese LS on shiva. even though only the leaders could speak any english we had a great time. i then went on to some EU endgame linkshells and found a lot of the players rude and greedy.
im gonna pick my LS carefully next time, maybe even start up a crafters social shell
 
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I hope they made changes in FFXIV.
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yeah now with the guildleve questing system you can gain levels through solo work. 30-40 minute quests
i hope they have the balance right - the ability to solo but most endgame stuff being intense HNM/sky/dynamis style multi-party fights

if you choose to be a crafter apparently you can reach endgame without partying/killing mobs at all so they say...
 
i know its early days but do any of you fancy enlisting in the same server and joining an UK/EU linkshell when the game is released?

theres a few UK guys on the ffxivcore forums that want to team up too
 
yeah tef all servers are in japan. wonder what that'll mean for us lag wise...
i honestly dont remember ffxi being that bad except when some mobs popped the japanese would have the advantage in claiming them because of the ping difference. I wasnt even on 1mb back then

but id rather have it that way and have all servers international than have a server just for each continent. i think most ffxi players would agree the community was something special and i think playing with JP/EU/NA rest of world players was a big factor to that.

i will probably go support character on my main. most likely mage, but im gonna focus on crafting a lot. its good that its not the race now that counts towards stat bonuses but the subrace... so the roegadyn (galka) can be mages and the lalafell (taru) can be good DD.
 
UK/EU linkshell 'Knights Of The Round' is up and taking applications.

http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?PageName=Home&GuildID=343277&TabID=2873783

It's gonna be a friendly, social linkshell. And being a large GMT +0 shell, i'm sure at a time there will be an endgame shell born out of it. And hopefully a good number of the shell will have access to beta!

looking forward to news of beta, i reckon late feb/early march will be the first round of closed beta.
 
great stuff andrew, welcome to the shell. i too am waiting for that beta email.... i reckon sometime in feb they'll release the first wave of beta.
 
Here for LS signups

its not OcUK official but will be a good GMT social

Mid to end of march I'm reckoning now with beta, get the rest of world launch of ff13 well out of the way
and of course with the beta online even with the NDA information will still flood forth once people start playing :)
 
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exciting stuff, first round of beta confirmed to start around 11th march.
rumours flying round that those who got in will be notified tomorrow

time to pray
 
alpha testing has now gone live... very very few people have been selected for that. predictions for length of alpha test are anything from 2 weeks to 1-2 months, then there'll be bigger and bigger waves of invites for beta.
 
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