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« Reply #300 on: June 29, 2013, 11:26:31 PM »
hear it runs like shit on PS3...hopefully it's not an eventual bottleneck like the PS2 rev of FFXI was to the PC. They are doing an DX11/PS4 update probably by the end of the year, so here's hoping. maybe they can consolidate a few of the city zones.

played a good bit this weekend, but not going too crazy since they are going to wipe. had enough money on the legacy character to give myself a decent leg up on crafting after launch. will be fun!


game sorely needs an inventory sorting system, and to implement the dungeon finder. still, what I've explored of the world has been great. it is a bit too by-the-lines basic MMO, but does a lot of things really really well. for FF fans, I's think it would be worth the purchase just to run through the story. guaranteed to be the best FF since forever. for those wondering what has changed so much since the 1.0, and why it's "good all of a sudden"...it is pretty much a brand new game. try to check out the open beta next month and try it yourself.

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« Reply #301 on: June 29, 2013, 11:29:04 PM »
So why is this suddenly good all of a sudden?

because they have devoted all their resources towards it for over a year and it will probably cripple the company!

Are there Tarutaru

God fucking damn I hate Tarutaru

They renamed and redesigned all of the races. Tarus are now LALAFELLS. They are just as bad, if not worse because they aren't as cute...just kind of odd, and all the NPC ones have way too much facial hair.

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« Reply #302 on: June 30, 2013, 12:03:27 AM »
Got my PC beta code finally, I'll install it and give it a whirl.
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« Reply #303 on: June 30, 2013, 12:04:24 AM »
Game is decidedly better than it was when I played 1.0 Beta and decidedly mediocre all the same. Every class feels exactly the same. Skills are 90% useless buffs with the rest being a 2 button rotation with a DOT. Boring as all fuck after spending an hour or two with any class. Quests are boring. FATEs are less interesting than GW2's whateverthefucktheyrecalled and are 70% waves of generic mobs and 30% tank and spank boss types.

I guess the environments are sort of pretty, whatever.

Poor Man's GW2 is probably the best I could describe it, and I don't even like GW2. I'd go back to putting up with XI's bullshit any day of the week over ARR.

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« Reply #304 on: August 16, 2013, 12:12:20 AM »
man I suck at maintaining a thread. then again....crickets.

OMG hype! don't see too much work getting done tomorrow. goooo Sargatanas!




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« Reply #305 on: August 18, 2013, 10:01:47 PM »
Played the beta some this weekend since they sent me a key and I was otherwise fairly bored. It was okay, I guess, people who enjoy these guys of games shouldn't have a whole lot to complain about [unlike the previous iteration of this game]. Quality aside, I've still got to question why they thought it was a good idea to completely remake the entire game, given the incredible cost of doing so, are people just waiting to flock back to it?
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« Reply #306 on: August 19, 2013, 10:38:20 AM »
I enjoy the idea that you think Square is going to do anything that makes sense.

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« Reply #307 on: August 19, 2013, 10:51:23 AM »
FF11 was one of their all-time biggest cash cows and I'm guessing they refused to let its successor fail. This remake will review better, but it's still not going to sell to subscribers.

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« Reply #308 on: August 19, 2013, 12:28:24 PM »
More like A Realm Reboring. :gun
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« Reply #309 on: August 19, 2013, 12:32:31 PM »
A Realm Stillborn

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« Reply #310 on: August 19, 2013, 10:37:44 PM »
A Realm Stillborn

 :lol

actually had a blast on beta 4...didn't get any of the errors that went around ruining people's weekends. kinda going through withdrawal now!  :-\

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« Reply #311 on: August 19, 2013, 11:01:57 PM »
ah, how i've missed being subjected to people's final fantasy online vacation slides

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« Reply #312 on: August 20, 2013, 07:19:47 AM »
ah, how i've missed being subjected to people's final fantasy online vacation slides

don't expect it too long from me I think...the world is still new and I'm hype. :hyper
although they do allow for PS3 screenshots now, so expect to be flooded soon.

@ Joe LOL

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« Reply #313 on: August 21, 2013, 10:23:05 PM »
ZOMG


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« Reply #314 on: August 25, 2013, 03:32:06 AM »
Seeing as the game is effectively $20 on Amazon DD right now, I jumped in to play with a friend. I wasn't super impressed by the Beta, but I'm enjoying this more than I expected. We'll see if I can get past the "just resub to XI already" feelings.

Trying out ACN as it wasn't available during the Beta, and so far I'm liking it alright. One of my main complaints about the melee combat was that it was repetitive with a handful of skills and a metric fuckton of (boring) cooldowns. ACN seems to avoid this a little with some pet micromanagement and reactive skills.

The instanced capstone quests to the story arcs in each zone are actually pretty enjoyable and a nice way of mixing things up. Wraps up the current storyline with a little progression of the main story. Guildleves, FATEs, and Guildhests are a good way of breaking up the kill X / collect Y quests. Need to dig into the Crafting / Gathering jobs.

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« Reply #315 on: August 25, 2013, 06:41:40 PM »
I am guessing the tales of terrible server problems are exaggerated?

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« Reply #316 on: August 25, 2013, 07:04:05 PM »
The north american servers had like 3 maints in 24 hours, lol. JP servers are running smoothly.
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« Reply #317 on: August 25, 2013, 10:34:13 PM »
I am guessing the tales of terrible server problems are exaggerated?

Not really. 2-3 hour maintenance every couple of hours. Instances are up and down, which prevent progressing the main / class questlines.

It's mostly manageable, but I've also gotten lucky with the maintenance starting just as I need to do other things or ending just as I login. I imagine it's pretty frustrating to someone who was online every waking hour this weekend.

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« Reply #318 on: August 26, 2013, 11:13:50 AM »
I have a FFXIV 1.0 account, but I'm still debating whether to reactivate it for a month or not.
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« Reply #319 on: August 26, 2013, 03:45:54 PM »
Id like to play this but uhm, does the 25 euro fee include 1 month?

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« Reply #320 on: August 26, 2013, 09:57:56 PM »
Id like to play this but uhm, does the 25 euro fee include 1 month?

Yes.

Amazon also had a $5 credit / $5 digital games credit thing going on as well.

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« Reply #321 on: August 27, 2013, 09:14:44 AM »
Servers at this point are fine,  it's logging in in the first place that is the issue. Havent had a ton of time to play, but I was totally locked out of most of the early access... Was only really able to play last night.

Game is great assuming you can get in. Pretty substantial difficulty spike at level 30, pretty much easy mode till lvl 20.

Fun times, will prob play this for a while.

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« Reply #322 on: August 27, 2013, 10:23:09 AM »
Really great launch so far. Can't even register your PS3 code ye!

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« Reply #323 on: August 28, 2013, 10:25:00 PM »
So I visited a local Kmart and well I found the original 14 on PC for $10 and hey the code worked!
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« Reply #324 on: August 29, 2013, 12:50:43 AM »
Best game ever.

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« Reply #325 on: August 29, 2013, 03:26:33 AM »
So they stopped digital sales? No point in picking this up then till the server issues are solved.

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« Reply #326 on: August 29, 2013, 07:57:25 AM »
I plugged in the code I got in July of last year and it worked! :lol
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« Reply #327 on: August 31, 2013, 10:09:13 AM »
I just bought it  :-*

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« Reply #328 on: August 31, 2013, 12:29:17 PM »
Reactivated my account, d/ling now.
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« Reply #329 on: August 31, 2013, 12:58:59 PM »

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« Reply #330 on: August 31, 2013, 01:09:30 PM »
It just looks more appealing then GW2.

But ive run into a snag

Game doesn't recognize my Nvidia 555, even forcin it through Manage 3D settings doesn't work.

 This worked fine in the benchmark.
 

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« Reply #331 on: August 31, 2013, 01:09:59 PM »
Also I cant login cause the world Is full

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« Reply #332 on: August 31, 2013, 01:13:57 PM »
congrats!

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« Reply #333 on: August 31, 2013, 03:18:01 PM »
It works now :rock

Great FF music from the get go

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« Reply #334 on: August 31, 2013, 03:30:09 PM »
Joe which server are you on? Im on Ultros.

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« Reply #335 on: August 31, 2013, 03:40:15 PM »
None, because it says every single one of them is full. I'll try to get on Ultros when I can, though.
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« Reply #336 on: August 31, 2013, 03:52:36 PM »
I'm on Ultros as well.

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« Reply #337 on: August 31, 2013, 04:09:54 PM »
Well I got kicked now too, Ultros is the only NA/EU server that is accepting new players.

Whats your name Rax Ill add you :)

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« Reply #338 on: August 31, 2013, 04:18:34 PM »
Looks like all the NA/EU servers are currently down. :lol

I'm in the "Coeurl" server, by the way.

Edit: Now they're up again, but they're all totally full. How long before SE announces an extra free month for everyone?
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« Reply #339 on: August 31, 2013, 08:11:20 PM »
you all bitch about mmos

and then play the janky mmo

i swear to gawd

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« Reply #340 on: August 31, 2013, 08:30:00 PM »
I don't think anyone that bitches about mmo's is playing this now.

It really isn't yanky, I like it more already then then what I saw of GW2 in the beta.

Edit: I wonder if there is a big story as well, just like in FFXI, haven't seen anything so far.
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« Reply #341 on: August 31, 2013, 08:44:59 PM »
you all bitch about mmos

and then play the janky mmo

i swear to gawd

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« Reply #342 on: August 31, 2013, 09:30:42 PM »
My character's name is Jojo Sonoshee.

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« Reply #343 on: August 31, 2013, 10:32:41 PM »
you all bitch about mmos

and then play the janky mmo

i swear to gawd

:umad

Why would I be mad? I didn't pay for FF14.  :gurl

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« Reply #344 on: August 31, 2013, 10:41:50 PM »
:lol

I paid $10 for it 13 months ago on a lark.
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« Reply #345 on: August 31, 2013, 10:49:08 PM »
Hey I'm not going to pretend it's anything great, but when I've been able to play has been fun.  Plus because of my geekyness I'm a little more interested in the story then I am in most mmos.

Plus artistically it's just a pleasure to look at and the PUG class has been pretty fun.
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« Reply #346 on: August 31, 2013, 11:53:27 PM »
please tell me the PUG class is an actual PUG dog and you build up combo points to slobberpiss all over the place

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« Reply #347 on: September 01, 2013, 09:46:39 PM »


So has anyone managed to log in yet? I like how there's not even a queue, just an error message telling to you feck off. How am I supposed to know when there's an opening available??
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« Reply #348 on: September 01, 2013, 10:22:31 PM »
I've only been able to play in the early am over here.

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« Reply #349 on: September 01, 2013, 10:24:40 PM »
lol, dialog boxes
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« Reply #350 on: September 02, 2013, 02:38:50 AM »
Getting in is part of the game.

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« Reply #351 on: September 02, 2013, 02:53:41 AM »
I tried to log in and got an error, said that 193 were queued in front of me. I immediately tried to log in again and it worked that time. :lol
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« Reply #352 on: September 02, 2013, 03:14:14 AM »
Can I still get a free month if I have a shrinkwrapped boxed version of 1.0?

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« Reply #353 on: September 02, 2013, 03:19:45 AM »
It should work just fine.
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« Reply #354 on: September 02, 2013, 03:25:08 AM »
Then I'll give it a try tonight.

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« Reply #355 on: September 02, 2013, 01:16:36 PM »
Can I still get a free month if I have a shrinkwrapped boxed version of 1.0?
Yes, I've received it myself.

You should be able to enter the code on the Mogstation website.

https://secure.square-enix.com/account/app/svc/Login?cont=account&request=mogstation
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« Reply #356 on: September 02, 2013, 01:18:50 PM »
For some reason I'm almost out of space on my 256 GB SSD and I'm in middle of three other games. Maybe I should finish some old stuff first. How much HDD space is required for this thing?

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« Reply #357 on: September 02, 2013, 01:20:55 PM »
About 9 GB.
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« Reply #358 on: September 02, 2013, 01:27:31 PM »
I guess I don't need to have 50 games installed at once.

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« Reply #359 on: September 02, 2013, 01:58:04 PM »
Well, this is stupid. First I have to install a version from July 2010 before I can download the current version.

Edit: Nope. The update only told me that the version is no longer playable. "Please uninstall."

Edit 2: They need to update their help pages or just add a big Download Client button.
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