Final Fantasy XIV
 

beta is starting up for this soon, myself and some other guildies will be playing if anyone wants to come check it out

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

I really hope this one doesn't suck complete and utter horse cock. A good FF MMO would be one of the only things to get me to play another MMO.

beta starts feb 25th

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/60542

go here for more news

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/index.html

Has anyone received a Beta invite?

they have started coming out, i haven't got one yet

they sent out another wave recently, i didn't get one still

here is some new stuff

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/04/...nt-screencaps/

just signed up. probably to late to get in tho. never played a FF MMO before but ive heard one of them was rly awesome

just got my beta invite, anyone else in it?

share your infoz with me! I'm leaving for Colorado on Sat. but I'd like to play when I get back in 11 days!

k, infoz in PM, ima be playing tonight and this weekend, and the GF is gunna be playing, but im sure there will be plenty of times when its not in use. just ask. i use Gtalk / AIM / MSN / Skype 24/7 or u can txt me (just got the new S4 after dropping my S3) you can hardly tell the difference

http://i.imgur.com/hxEeZy8.jpg?1

Thanks Blake - check your PMs

finally got an invite, i'm on excalibur

nuch got his own invite also, were on midgardsomething.

this weekends test is over. u should roll with us. sucks having to pug ppl for the instances but I guess next test the LFG system will be ingame.

what lvl did u get to

i barely got a chance to play, server went down yesterday and when i tried to play today the test had ended

lol zorthy


and lol more at the wowgoons.com

That's actually pretty funny. It is a joke, right?

try to click anything on that page

and if you are ever bored, this thread is pretty entertaining:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...5617205?page=1

Haha

you should roll on midgard zorthy so we got more ppl to do duties with

keep in mind your class determines your starting location. around 18 you get to a common area where everyone can play together

i work doubles on fridays, then only have evenings off for sat/sun, so my time is pretty limited for this anyway.

this test might be longer then just this weekend. they havnt announced the end and only said that once the duty finder is bug free will they end this test.

Keys, if anyone needs one still:
https://na.alienwarearena.com/giveaw...ey-Giveaway-NA

roll on midgardsomething

Dates and Times
July 10, 2013 (Wednesday), 2:00 a.m. to July 15 (Monday), 2:00 a.m. (PDT)


* Beta test phase 3 will conclude on Monday, July 15th. The beta test phase 4 schedule will be announced at a later time.
* Testing of the new Lodestone will conclude on Wednesday, July 17th at 2:00 a.m. (PDT) / 9:00 a.m.(GMT). Please note that the new Lodestone will be inaccessible when testing has ended.

How's the game so far?

its not bad, its a lot like all the other MMO's.

There is a main quest line and then little sub quest. The questing is ez, most kill quest are like 5 mobs, the quest items drop for everyone, and the gathering quest are lootable by the whole party. You get these quest that you can only do so many per every few hours. You go to a spot and initiate it and it allows you to pick a difficulty setting 1-4. The higher setting the more reward you get.

also things like "rifts" spawn randomly where everyone in the zone can go inside the area and kill shit to complete it. you get ranks depending on how much you contribute

moving around from place to place is kind of tedious and confusing but it is starting to get easier. its got loading screens between each zone. you can pay to teleport to main crystals you have already activated. the return skill has a 15min CD and takes you to the crystal you designated as home. there is gryphon type things but they kinda suck. you get your first mount at 22.

once you get to like 18 or 20 you unlock the availability to be any class in the game. Just do a little questline for each and then all you go to do is change your wep and it changes your class. but each class has its own lvls so if I change my 22 archer to a paladin then i go back to lvl 1. its a pretty cool concept so you dont have to make a lot of diff chars.

gathering/crafting is just like changing ur class. when you go to your gather/craft mode you lose your current class and everything. also you wear totally different gear while in this mode.


currently our toons are like lvl 22 but in order to progress the main questline you need to have lvl19 gather/crafting so we pretty much just stopped there

asano, i have played and it is 90% just like GW2 PvE, same quests, same idea of a "timed" minizone within zones that are like events.

i am also only lvl 11 took me about 4 hours

I guess that's not surprising. Every MMO is pretty much identical. Just a matter of which lore you like best. FFXIV's idea of the class switching sounds pretty cool though.

I think it's hard to judge right now how good the game will be - but I feel that way about any game in beta. What really matters is the end game PvE and PvP, which you can't really judge too early on.

I just finished my first group dungeon. It was pretty boring and trivial. Not sure how much things will change once you get out of classes and into jobs.

In either case, I plan on playing for at least a couple months and checking it out since they covered the game in final fantasy nostalgia.

YOU said it Nuch, when the game turns into a job. GG.

How's the relaunch going?

I haven't been playing at all due to the PAD addiction

PAD > FF14 confirmed by nuch

Not that I've played FF14, but I feel comfortable confirming this as well.

When we gonna get a new banner Asano

GoL_Pad

Haha I should!

As soon as you get a smartphone and join us!

A few people I watch on twitch have been raving about FF14 lately. Apparently there was a big patch recently that turned the game around. So I grabbed a copy for $20 this weekend. Anyone played this recently?

I've played as a Conjurer up to level 11 so far. Gotta say, I'm not impressed. The class/job system is slightly intriguing and unique, but otherwise the game is just like every other MMO out there. Quests are boring and uninspired. Story isn't terribly engaging. The cutscenes that have voiceover are cool, but they're few and far between. Moogles, which were cute and funny in past FF games, come across as ridiculous in FF14 -- they make space-like martian sounds as they fly around. The scenery is quite nice, but the zones are very small and every zone switch requires a short loading time.

I don't understand why people rave about this game. Definitely not worth a monthly sub fee, imho.

Gonna try out ESO soon now that there's no sub fee.

I bought the game pre-release and have yet to install it lol

Same here. Pre-ordered, installed it, and was so pissed after an hour that I threw the game away..It was expensive too :(