Reinhart's translation is accurate. Soken and Yoshida kept saying gakusha this and gakusha that (Scholar) and the PR guy you can usually hear in the background being all "yabaissu, mazuissu" stepped in with "We're not ready to talk about Scholar" kind of thing. The fact that the name Scholar was thrown around so much kind of sets a lot of doubt away.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT2| ARR: Phase 4 August.
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Black Door
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Since scholar is basically confirmed now, I really hope they're more FFIII-style (fights with items) rather than XI-style (superpowered Red Mages)
Relaxed Muscle
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We really need a class/job that throws gil at enemies since arrows are now unlimited.
Black Door
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I can already see the yt vids of poopsockers killing primals in one turn with their bottomless cash resources
Well, since Arcanist's abilities are focused on DoT and Summoning, and there's a Summoner, I expect that SCH will focus more on the DoT/Debuff side of things.
Return of the Helix spells?
QisTopTier
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Interesting, weird they are not on the CE cover then though
Wasn't a majority of the Summoner skills dot based though on the leak list?
Robobandit
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Interesting, weird they are not on the CE cover then though
I don't think summoner is on the cover either.. unless I just didn't see it.
QisTopTier
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SnakeLinkSonic
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Mine was for the PS3 CE.
I didn't even know Amazon had the digital CE up for grabs. I know we have to wait for the digital upgrade unless I missed something.
Showing up as #1 in PS3 Role-playing now.
Robobandit
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That is correct.
You won't get early access without a pre-order of some kind, though.
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I agree that Square Enix should have made this simpler. They could have avoided all of this by making the digital items a separate code from the collector's edition itself, but they didn't...
If you don't want to use your existing 1.0 characters, you could use the key that comes with your Digital CE and create a new FF XIV service account under your Square Enix Account, but if you do want to use those characters, it won't help you.
That makes no sense at all. I'm not going to spend full price just to get early access and nothing else. Few other people will either.
It sounds like early access will be mostly new players, then.
SnakeLinkSonic
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I was really hoping they wouldn't tie it to the account itself, but I always knew that was expecting too much.
Robobandit
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I agree, it's stupid. The issue is that you can't register more than one PC FF XIV key to a single FF XIV Service Account and they didn't make the digital items a separate code.
After it launches, you can buy the digital CE upgrade that they'll offer and get the items, but you'll lose out on the pre-order bonus stuff.
That would be your best option.
Early access will be for people that pre-order and people who have Legacy Status.
All I really wanted was early access and the baby behemoth...
Robobandit
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I'm hoping that if enough people complain about this that they'll let someone use the digital CE to upgrade their 1.0 standard account.
It seems surprising that they'd turn down a chance to get more money over what people would pay w/ the digital upgrade..
theSlacker
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And I'm still hoping that the PC physical collectors edition pops up on amazon sometime, or they get rid of digital river.
This.
I just preordered JP PS3 version.
Let's see if the moogle cap and caith sit codes work on my EU account.
I believe the codes are region-locked.
Probably a fair warning to anyone who is looking to a bit of minion code collecting through some of the tertiary merchandise i.e: the Before Meteor FFXIV OST Blu-ray that includes a Dalamud minion.
I haven't seen the leaked list, but I just think it follows that SCH would focus on the DoT/debuff aspect of Arcanist since Summoner obviously focuses on summoning.
That moogle cap and cait sith are so cool. I already have a Legacy account but I'm tempted to pre-order for those bonus items. Do you think I would be able to activate the bonus items and then return the game to Amazon unopened for a refund? From the wording on Amazon's site it looks like the bonus items are going to arrive in an email, so no need to open the game.
If they're sending the codes out now, you could probably just pre-order it and cancel the pre-order the second the codes arrive.
It's so far out that they could notify SE and have those codes deactivated. I don't know if they would actually do that, but it seems like it would be possible. I know BioWare threatened that with SWTOR codes, but I have no idea if they actually did it or not.If they're sending the codes out now, you could probably just pre-order it and cancel the pre-order the second the codes arrive.
theSlacker
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Well really you don't need to cancel them right now, wait until it is close to release but before shipping. A common thing people do with these "preorder and get into beta/start game early" stuff to get a free look at the game.
Live Letter starts in 40 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM05XXe1Qwg
They just showed a PS3 controller on the test stream so I'm guessing we will see that version.
They just showed a PS3 controller on the test stream so I'm guessing we will see that version.
Thank you for explaining this, I was thinking about pre-ordering the CE too (have a 1.0 account, not legacy).
Jrpgfanatic
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The Elite
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Mine was for the PS3 CE.
I didn't even know Amazon had the digital CE up for grabs. I know we have to wait for the digital upgrade unless I missed something.
Showing up as #1 in PS3 Role-playing now.
That CE box is beautiful. I have 1.0 CE but I'm tempted to drop $79.99 on that because it looks so god damn gorgeous.
WeaponKnight
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I emailed GMG and got the answer that they give codes based on the user's region. I hope they're right.
"We would also like to announce the Phase 3 start date. It starts... NOW!"
i'm going to escape from work lol
Munba
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Yeah, very relaxing remix and i love the second part too (very 'vojage' alike).
Duno if someone could clear up something for me.
I bought the 1.0 CE and have now bought the ARR CE for the pre-order in game stuff mostly, will I be able to add this to me existing account as I am finding the information a tad confusing lol.
I am under the assumption that the pre-order stuff is a separate code than the ARR CE activation key. (is this correct ?)
I bought the 1.0 CE and have now bought the ARR CE for the pre-order in game stuff mostly, will I be able to add this to me existing account as I am finding the information a tad confusing lol.
I am under the assumption that the pre-order stuff is a separate code than the ARR CE activation key. (is this correct ?)
You'll get the CE items on your old account, you'll be able to register the preorder code to get the pre-order items on your old account, and you'll have a spare copy of ARR (assuming you bought the PC version) that you won't be able to link to your old account.
That's actually pretty much what I did, and I'm giving away my spare copy to my mother.
Pre-order codes can be added to any account and as you have the 1.0 CE you'll automatically get the ARR CE in-game items.
The only issue is for those like me who have 1.0 standard and have bought the physical ARR. The in-game items are tied to the game code and SE are saying they won't allow that code to be used on an existing service account so we have to buy the digital upgrade too :/
Translated QA from the community team is here, courtesy of the lovely Bayohnetta:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/62075
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/62075
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