Quick
and short, tomorrow's post is going to be fairly huge and time
consuming. Expect it by Saturday afternoon Tueday night as I fail at getting certain screenshots, and I NEED them to be proper, also I've been working on it
most of the evening and still nowhere near done, it's almost 3am btw
:p. I will restate this though, Post XIII and XIV are the last NDA
breakers. We decided to do up to 14 to give thanks to 14 for existing
and to allow SE to build up some more anxiousness in it's playerbase
rather than ruining everything prior to release. 67 days left till
Retail CE release and I'd like not to be a part of ruining someone's
dreams of FFXIV. These posts were to give the fans the information
they craved of Alpha and Beta and bits of Retail. I wouldn't my
dreams ruined, my excitement ruined so I won't do the same for a
fellow fan. After XII and XIV posts we will continue to post but only
with teasing information :) Call me a dirty tease, it's okay, I'm
used to it.
I don't really have too much to say this time around. The bulk of information was reported by Wicked, poor thing is having a rough time, she's a trooper. I'm also aware it's not Friday. I just wanted to make a update post before we really start down our road to release. This post, however, contains tidbit of Sugar I thought you guys might want a taste of before you get into our adventures of Beta.
It's been a pretty epic road so far and the Beta just hit. Although we had our first official taste of the Beta Saturday and the schedule was posted this week SE threw us a curve ball. This morning upon my daily log in to the official Test site I noticed an announcement that the Beta schedule for this week was getting an extension. Instead of just being 4 hours for 3 days a week rotating regions through the day we now have a sleep deprivation schedule! Listen to this; Tuesday July 13th from 3am to 1pm and then again from 3pm to Wednesday, July 14th at 1am. This is repeated for Thursday - Friday. This schedule has us playing with only a few hours downtime for an entire day. This isn't just a server stress test, this is a Tester stress test. This came as quite a surprise only one day into the Beta. Hopefully this means the Beta is moving faster than they thought and perhaps we'll be playing freely, off schedule, sooner than we thought.
The biggest WOW factor of this is that there will be no region restriction. We're all on the same servers. The best part of this is Wicked and I will be able to play together along with other Beta testers we've befriended along the way. How's that for Sweet?
Friday Fantasy Beta! - Logs from Eorzea Entry X [Wicked Edition] (Report!)
So this is what I get for being offline for a few days, I come back and BAM theres almost daily info released for 3 days lol. Today we take a look at the Dengeki info released. As well as an interview with Hiromichi Tanaka by Nowgamer. More videos! Scary info! Read on to get all the goodies!
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Hey, guys. Sugar here with an interesting tidbit of information straight from Alpha/Beta Limbo!
Without much warning and no information on the upcoming beta for FFXIV, SE has updated the online manual available to the testers. No doubt in preparation for the Beta they added three new subheadings entitled “Market Wards”, "Logging and Harvesting", and “Retainers”. There have also been a few changes announced from Alpha to Beta that I'd like to touch on. These additions are no doubt in direct correlation to the Beta giving us a 'preview' of what to expect. However, since the Beta has yet to go live I'll do my best to explain what these are and how they work based on the description given in the manual. Please keep in mind this is most likely subject to change until we are able to test these live. I recommend you take it with a grain of sugar. ;)
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The end of Alpha is here! Over! /END!, /QUIT /shutdown
When will beta start? I'm gonna say....within 2-3 weeks.
Hopefully Sugar and I can play together, and we may be able to play all of you as well!
Good luck to all those who are hopefuls in gaining access!
See you all in Beta!
Sugar and Wicked, signing off!
Names Sugar. Nice to meet you.
For my first post I have Bitter/Sweet news. Bitter; the alpha test is ending with the last Alpha test slot tonight. That's right, no more Final Fantasy Alpha. It has been fun. For the Sweet; that means the Beta starts soon! This is what we've all been working so hard to get to. I'm surprised it's started so quickly considering how much goes into making this possible. That also means everyone needs to keep an eye out for Beta test invitations. If that isn't sweet I don't know what is.
Now, to get everyone up to date with my short trek through the alpha. I'll take you through my first couple tests, my likes, and my disappointments. That entails my first run through Limsa Lominsa, the port town, and my first quest. I also want to talk you about the guildleves, both battlefield and gathering versions and all the while I'll give you insight on the sweet and sour parts of this Alpha. I won't touch on E3 as Wicked has done that oh, so well already and I don't want my first post to become a novella. I have quite a bit on my plate already. With that said, I apologize if this seems a little half baked. I'm about to head into my Alpha test for the night in about 15 minutes and my husband keeps calling me over to help him make dinner. Ah, real life. I'll make sure my future blogs are sweeter. It's a long drive so let's get started.
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Friday Fantasy Alpha! - Logs from Eorzea Entry VII [Wicked Edition]
So, with this years E3 over, we have little information available to the public concerning FFXIV. But we did get some cool options, plus a super awesome view of the Beta UI and BattleSystem. New videos posted on the FFXIV Lounge and their youtube channel showcasing a mash-up of 3 separate videos which one of them shows the Beta played by one of the E3 guests and the explanation of some of the new BattleSystem. Finally, we also have yet another log for Alpha 2 testing by Wicked, and one to come by Sugar.
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Friday Fantasy Alpha! - Logs from Eorzea Entry VII
Today's posts have been rescheduled for tomorrow, there is a lack of things to report on and our new author would like to make a proper introduction of herself to you all. So tomorrow, expect the Logs from Eorzea Wicked, and Sugar Editions!
Friday Fantasy Alpha! – Logs from Eorzea Entry VI
Another day, another test, this week they posted the dates for the entire week in advance. Telling us one thing, we are in phase 2 and Beta is closer than we thought. With the new addition of servers, which we have 10 of now. The stability has improved greatly, very very smooth, almost a constant 30fps. Today's post, Alpha, Alpha 2, and your thoughts hopefully.
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Friday Fantasy Alpha! - Logs from Eorzea Entry V
Another test day, this time though...filled with many bad decisions. Today the new world launched, named Garland. Many were excited, many didn't care, and some were really confused. I was part of the latter group apperantly as I took it as Yay! New place to explore! Must go do more testing! More stuff to write about! ( - _ -) yea...that wasn't correct -.- I've played enough MMO's and know enough about their terminology that I shouldn't have let myself get so excited and stupid over a little announcement. In the end, I regretted it, I lost the work I put into the character and the friends I made. I made a new Lalafell and got her back up to a decent level. Tomorrow, I plan to grind back my levels properly so I can pick up where I left off. So for todays topic, rumors, suspicions, and idea's. So far concerning the leveling system, the party system, and the UI there are many changes to come. They won't say what will be changed, but they do say it will not be seen until Beta.
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Friday Fantasy Alpha 14! - Logs from Eorzea Entry IV
It's that time again, and once more we had two tests this week, but we will be focusing on today's run through. More partying, more exploring for this test. A friend and I decided to get a little crazy, get some XP and explore further than we should. Also, tons of screen-shots this time. Enjoy!
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Another week, another test, and as I predicted, two tests this week. Unfortunately I missed the first one this week due to trying to get a job, failed so far if you're interested. Today was the Test Seven, Extended! Which they specifically wanted us to test out the workings of mining and quarrying, which funny thing, last week I stated I'd be doing that this week. Heehee, Great minds thing alike <3 SE. Also, a small section on the Status & Gear Windows.
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Friday Fantasy Alpha! - Logs from Eorzea Entry II
The day for me started around 1am when I realized oh no, I missed a test day. DAMNIT, I said. Then realized HEY! IT'S THURSDAY! I didn't miss the extended test! YAY!!! I finally log in, character selection is kind of laggy but not as bad as usual. Come into the world of Eorzea, and omg! There is no lag. They fixed something in 1 day time, completely blown away I speak to the first person I see, which by chance stopped right next to me when I spawned. I said Hey! And she responded Hi ^^!
We ended up grouping together along with a RoeGalkan(lol) for most of the day. Got lots of levequests done as well as learned much more about job changing, levequests/partying. Which, coincidentally, are the topics of todays logs.
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FFXIV Lounge!
Thanks to the effort of the creator of FFXIV Lounge, he has brought forth a collection of Benchmarks which are believed to be a good basis to test if your system can handle FFXIV.
Personally, I've read that as long as you can play Last Remnant you can play FFXIV very well. Two additional links provided just for a comparison basis.
Here are the links provided by Creator of FFXIV Lounge.
Last Remnant
Final Fantasy 11
Resident Evil 5
Enjoy, post your scores here or at FFXIV Lounge
Test Specs Oc'd 9800 GTX+, 3.4 Kuma Dual Core Res 1600x1200 85hz
Last Remnant Scores Average 75 Min/Max 70/119
Final Fantasy 11 Scores 7301
Resident Evil 5: Average 57 at max everything
Paradox PC & Gaming Rig X001 aka ChaosRig01
AMD Kuma 2.9 Dual Core(OC'd to 3.4GHZ) 1066mhz Bus with a CoolerMaster V8
4GB DDR3 RAM(Soon to be upgraded to 8 because I don't like being restricted)
21 inch CRT Trinitron 1600x1200 85hz Res
1TB SATA 7200(Soon to add another TB because I'm almost full @_@)
Nvidia 9800 GTX+ Superclocked OC'd 1198 VRAM Core 819(The new GTX line doesn't impress me yet as this baby can still do it all)
Windows Vista Custom(by PPG, yes I am the owner of this little company =3 )
and these are the expected requirements for 14
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (2GHz) \ AMD Athlon X2 (2GHz)
- RAM: 1.5 GB Ram
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 VRAM 256 MB or equivalent
Modest imo, and easily doable.
