Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August

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Teknoman said:
This is Final Fantasy.
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Coming from WoW I was actually pretty impressed that people were civil about it. It sucks that a bug like that happened but the fact that a line formed and for the most part was complied with blew me away. If that was WoW there would have been 8000 people huddled around the NPC raging. Good show FF fans.
 
I want a physical CE but I won't order from somewhere other than Amazon and don't want to necessarily play the PS3 version. So if I want the physical CE I have to buy the physical PS3 CE *and* a PC digital license. The way this was handled sucks. An account should just be an account.
 
Teletraan1 said:
Coming from WoW I was actually pretty impressed that people were civil about it. It sucks that a bug like that happened but the fact that a line formed and for the most part was complied with blew me away. If that was WoW there would have been 8000 people huddled around the NPC raging. Good show FF fans.
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Assuming this ultimately originated with the fellowship NPC lines of XI, I think a part of it has to do with influence of Japanese players, who were generally more civil and patient. I would say I'm going to miss having encounters with them on my server, but then I tell myself FFXIV ARR will be void of any dependency on strangers so no such community will come to exist in the first place.
 
Valnen said:
I want a physical CE but I won't order from somewhere other than Amazon and don't want to necessarily play the PS3 version. So if I want the physical CE I have to buy the physical PS3 CE *and* a PC digital license. The way this was handled sucks. An account should just be an account.
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I am kinda pissed square kept it as an exclusive on their store :(
 
Broadbandito said:
I am kinda pissed square kept it as an exclusive on their store :(
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I bought the original PC game in liquidation for 10 bucks.

Now I get to buy the PS3 CE because I'm a sucker for all the goodies that comes with it, and I get to play it on either PS3 or PC =D.

I know the original copies were supposed to be recalled, but it might be worth it looking around for a cheap copy.
 
Riposte said:
Assuming this ultimately originated with the fellowship NPC lines of XI, I think a part of it has to do with influence of Japanese players, who were generally more civil and patient. I would say I'm going to miss having encounters with them on my server, but then I tell myself FFXIV ARR will be void of any dependency on strangers so no such community will come to exist in the first place.
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I remember I use to get up really early some morning to get grind for some EXP in Japanese groups. I knew they were always in it for the long haul.

I do hope they do something to encourage interaction.
 
I wish they had made the combat more like you could move around, instead of being forced to stand still and just do the boring old MMO combat.


Besides that this game looks AMAZING.
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
I wish they had made the combat more like you could move around, instead of being forced to stand still and just do the boring old MMO combat.


Besides that this game looks AMAZING.
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I was doing a lot of kiting which was fun. I didn't get to level my lancer up too high to see what the stand still melee combat was about but I'm gonna try it out on Saturday. The ranged combat was fun enough imo.
 
I'm installing it on my PC right now. Where does it install the files? Anyone know?

Also...any way to install it on a drive that's not your C: drive (I'm just concerned since I have a small SSD partition for my MacBook)
 
Teletraan1 said:
Coming from WoW I was actually pretty impressed that people were civil about it. It sucks that a bug like that happened but the fact that a line formed and for the most part was complied with blew me away. If that was WoW there would have been 8000 people huddled around the NPC raging. Good show FF fans.
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it isn't really that rare in a beta. it's a beta, i bet people were eager to hop up in a line for this. people are kinder then you give them credit for when they think they're being watched. it's when the full game starts that is the real test of community.

tera was even funnier actually because that game was heavily driven at launch by 4chan

Gromph said:
This things was common on XI when the companion NPC was introduced.
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found some pics in that link above
 
Darryl said:
tera was even funnier actually because that game was heavily driven at launch by 4chan
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When these issues arose in TERA on Valley of Titans (PVP), back at launch, my entire guild mobilized and just went outlaw and killed everyone in the area until our entire guild was able to complete the quest one by one. That game had an amazing community (*rolls eyes*).

One of the worst MMO communities ever.
 
Does anyone know if I have to create an entirely new SE account to get the in-game v.2 CE items when I have a 1.0 standard account? Or is there a way I can replace my 1.0 account with the new CE I ordered?
 
Kuno said:
Got an EU beta key and PS3 client code here, quote to see.
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Just wanted to say thank you for this. A friend of mine has been waiting for weeks to get a PS3 code but ended up with a PC code (don't ask me how). I gave this code to him, it wasn't used yet, and now he's quite happy. He's downloading the beta to his PS3 right now.
 
Anyone want to try out this PS3 EU beta code?

Like I've stated before Square sent me EU codes instead of US codes due to me using Kotaku to sign up in February (darn Kotaku). So I entered a Square support and they gave me 2 new codes. The problem is that I used my PC code from the EU on myself, and my PS3 EU code just plain didn't work (it specifically said it was invalid). I'm not sure if its because I'm the wrong region for this or it's just a broken code, but if their's someone out there who wants to try it out for EU I'll give it to you.

Just to make sure don't get mad at me if it doesn't work, it didn't work for me but I want to see if it'll work for someone in the EU. Just hold your expectations of this code low because I'm not sure if it'll work. I just don't want to be sitting on a code that might work for someone else is all.

If it works for you then by all means enjoy the game.

Anyone want to try it out, quote this.
 
Looking forward to spending more time with this tomorrow. It is definitely something that takes some hours to really open up. I could tell that straight away.
 
Riposte said:
Assuming this ultimately originated with the fellowship NPC lines of XI, I think a part of it has to do with influence of Japanese players, who were generally more civil and patient. I would say I'm going to miss having encounters with them on my server, but then I tell myself FFXIV ARR will be void of any dependency on strangers so no such community will come to exist in the first place.
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Omg yes that sucks, SE making servers for each region.. Now no more Jpn shouts at midnight or early morning.. Game might be dead now in early morning and late hours..
 
Preordered a copy for both me and my wife, really looking forward to this. Not sure how much beta playing I want to get in. I played enough to know it isn't as bad as 1.0 and that I liked it, and want the rest of the experience to be fairly fresh.

I have a tendency to play these games more then my wife does, so I'll probably be bouncing between multiple classes. How quickly can you get a second weapon to open up a new class? My short time in the beta made it seem like weapons were pretty pricey.
 
I think you can get to level 10 in order to switch classes in about 4 hours of questing? Maybe a little less. I do remember from the beta that killing creatures just for exp is a tiny fraction of quest exp.
 
Gintoki313 said:
Anyone want to try out this PS3 EU beta code?

Like I've stated before Square sent me EU codes instead of US codes due to me using Kotaku to sign up in February (darn Kotaku). So I entered a Square support and they gave me 2 new codes. The problem is that I used my PC code from the EU on myself, and my PS3 EU code just plain didn't work (it specifically said it was invalid). I'm not sure if its because I'm the wrong region for this or it's just a broken code, but if their's someone out there who wants to try it out for EU I'll give it to you.

Just to make sure don't get mad at me if it doesn't work, it didn't work for me but I want to see if it'll work for someone in the EU. Just hold your expectations of this code low because I'm not sure if it'll work. I just don't want to be sitting on a code that might work for someone else is all.

If it works for you then by all means enjoy the game.

Anyone want to try it out, quote this.
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I'd like to try it out.
 
im usually against "furries" but i was an elvaan ninja back in FFXI... and the new male mithra... er.. sorry Miqo'te... just looked cool to me... so R.I.P. Vanik you elvaan Nin/War... say Hello to Kira Tetsuo the male Miqo'Te:

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(the black and pink hair doesnt show too good here... but its awesome!)
 
Woo got accepted.

Wait, do I need to register all that stuff with square-enix account and beta tester forums or just download the beta and start playing?
 
Alchemy said:
Preordered a copy for both me and my wife, really looking forward to this. Not sure how much beta playing I want to get in. I played enough to know it isn't as bad as 1.0 and that I liked it, and want the rest of the experience to be fairly fresh.

I have a tendency to play these games more then my wife does, so I'll probably be bouncing between multiple classes. How quickly can you get a second weapon to open up a new class? My short time in the beta made it seem like weapons were pretty pricey.
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An hour/hour and a half or so if you still have quest from a Main City you can leech off. (Also skipping text)
 
Glad we have another round coming up, I just wish I could take tomorrow off. Not really sure if I even want to pull out my 1.0 character for this or not.
 
Patch notes:

The following adjustment has been made.
As a temporary countermeasure for the congestion issue with instanced quest battles and instanced dungeons, we have implemented additional instances.

The following bugs have been addressed.
  • Players occasionally were not able to enter an instanced area even though there were enough openings.
  • The screen froze when a player spoke to an NPC to complete a quest and then spoke to the same NPC again to accept a different quest.
  • The server occasionally went down when monsters spawned during levequests.
  • The server occasionally went down when a player crafted under certain conditions.
  • Certain party features caused the server to go down under certain conditions.
  • An item that cannot be equipped was not properly indicated within the help text.
  • The window for removing materia occasionally did not open properly.
  • The materia type and count did not display correctly in the trade window.
  • Players occasionally were able to make a trade offer even while the quantity selection window was still open.
  • The trade window occasionally did not appear properly for the opposing player under certain conditions.
  • Damage over time (DOT) spells such as aero dealt less damage than intended at lower levels.
  • The graphics denoting quest and FATE boundaries on the map were incorrect.
  • Inactive linkshells was flagged as the active linkshell under certain conditions.
  • The volume adjustment bar for environmental sounds did not function correctly in the ‘Sound’ menu under ‘System Configuration.’
  • Upon creating a new character, the game selected the JP group as the default no matter the region of the account.
  • The screen occasionally froze and prevented the players from progressing with the game (PlayStation®3 only).
    　* Please note that this was only partially addressed.
  • The cursor occasionally continued to move across the screen and disappeared while in gamepad mouse mode (PlayStation®3 only).
  • The text command “/marking” occasionally did not function properly (PlayStation®3 only).
  • Sound occasionally reverberated greater than intended (Windows only).
  • The screenshot feature occasionally did not function properly (Windows only).
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I got a code, downloaded everything, registered and so on and now when I load it up it says "undefined" and I see a "play" button in the background. Is that normal? :(
 
KiraXD said:
im usually against "furries" but i was an elvaan ninja back in FFXI... and the new male mithra... er.. sorry Miqo'te... just looked cool to me... so R.I.P. Vanik you elvaan Nin/War... say Hello to Kira Tetsuo the male Miqo'Te:

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(the black and pink hair doesnt show too good here... but its awesome!)
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I always thought these things to be rather creepy. I don't know how the race survives since they're all obviously homosexuals, particularly this one.

But where along the evolutionary process, did humans get cat ears and a tail?
 
N.A said:
Patch notes:
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Good to see some of these issues resolved, espcially the sound bug and the instance bug. I'm hoping for a fix to the resolution issue I was having where you'd get a black boarder that could only be corrected by changing the game's resolution.
 
UltimaKilo said:
I always thought these things to be rather creepy. I don't know how the race survives since they're all obviously homosexuals, particularly this one.

But where along the evolutionary process, did humans get cat ears and a tail?
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..... okay....


Change of subject.... is there any sort of option in game to change your hair? Some MMO's offer hairstylists or whatever. I wanted to redo the color of my characters hair.
 
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