Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta!

[Minifig]

In preparation for the official release of FINAL FANTASY XIV on September 30, 2010 and the early release on September 22, we will be starting an open beta test to help put the finishing touches on the game. We ask that all users who can participate in the open beta test apply from the following website.

1.Access the following URL.

http://entry.ffxiv.com/

* The page will become accessible starting at 19:00 on Aug. 31, 2010.

If you don't have a Squeenix Account:

https://secure.squar...ix.com/account/

Be warned.. it downloads SLOW after you install.

Open beta starts apparently tomorrow.

[Pablo2008jedi]

I've got a square account, but no key.. :(

Edit:

FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test Postponed

FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, which is scheduled to begin at 02:00 (GMT) on Sept. 1, 2010, will be postponed due to a confirmation of critical bugs. New schedule will be releaseｄ at a later date.

Along with the postponement of FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, the issuing of registration code for FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test will be postponed as well. With the download of client software's installer, it will be suspended at 02:00 (GMT) on Sept. 1, 2010.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

http://entry.ffxiv.com/eu/index.html

[Minifig]

I've got a square account, but no key.. :(

Not sure if you need a key for the open beta.

If you do.. I don't know what they're going to do because I didn't get one either.

[shakey]

I got the invite, but Im going to wait to see if I can somehow jump onto the ps3 beta. My pc is no where near the needed reqs for this lol.

[bjoswald]

Thanks but no thanks. It looks like 11 with a WoW-style action bar at the bottom. I'll pass.

My friends, however, love FF so they'll be pleased. Thanks for the news!

[obiwong]

just got the email this morning...

don't even think i'll have time

if it gets some good reviews i'll probably give it a go

but with SC2, WoW and NHL 11 and Civ V coming up in Sept i don't see myself having any time for another game much less an MMO

[Xilo]

The game is horrible. I played in Alpha and Beta and there were so many problems and stupid design choices.

Here's a list of problems.

1. UI is extremely laggy. Trying to do any crafting, trading, buying/etc is very slow. They say it's because of debug code running, but it was unbearable.

2. No AH. This makes it hard to know what stuff is going for. It also makes it hard to search for items you want. People can setup their own NPC merchant in like 6 different zones. Going through every merchant in every zone just to find stuff takes a good 10-15 minutes.

3. Issues with crafting. You can lose all mats if you fail. Many recipes require around 3 items at least from other crafters. Many items require you to kill higher level monsters than what the gear is meant for.

4. Issues with MP classes. There is no way to regen MP except for a 30 minute timer ability or heal at a crystal. That and there are only 2 mage classes.

5. The way leveling your class is retarded. The only way you can level your class is if you perform abilities while you are engaged with an enemy. If you're a healer and don't heal before the enemy dies, you won't get XP for your class.

6. The amount of guildleves you can do is 8 per 48 hours. At least in beta, if you crashed, logged out, etc while doing one, you would fail.

7. SE introduced a system where they are forcing you to play casually. If you play too much, you will hit a point where you will not receive XP. The timer resets every week and will gradually decrease when you aren't doing XP stuff. Want to rush through your main class? Can't do that.

8. The game plays like crap. SE cannot code for PC worth ****. Even top end hardware (i7-970 and 480GT will probably get lag with everything on full) can only decently run it. With most PC games by SE, better hardware doesn't really improve performance much.

9. 1 hour stat point reset timer. This combined with #7 made leveling not so fun.

10. The XP curve is higher than in FFXI.

11. The installer requires 10GB free in your My Documents folder. A lot of people use a smaller drive for OS and a bigger drive for games. This makes no sense. You either have to move your My Documents folder to another drive just to play the game or delete stuff off your drive.

Imagine this. You are primarily a healer. You've done your 8 guildleves already and hit your XP limit for the week on that class, so you switched your stat points to a melee class earlier. Your friends want you to party as a mage Woops, can't do quests. Woops, no benefit to play your main class if you can't get XP. Woops, can't change to the 2nd mage class and take healer skills because your stat timer is down. Pretty fun right? /sarcasm

Granted, they have supposedly tweaked some stuff. However, the issues are still there and they won't be tweaked or fixed THAT much at release.

I cancelled my preorder.

[Azies]

Spent yesterday downloading it... waiting for open beta registrations to open.

[Grinch]

For those inquiring about the keys, you will get them when they open up the beta at the following URL link (according to the email anyways): http://entry.ffxiv.com/

[Blackhearted]

11. The installer requires 10GB free in your My Documents folder. A lot of people use a smaller drive for OS and a bigger drive for games. This makes no sense. You either have to move your My Documents folder to another drive just to play the game or delete stuff off your drive.

Yea, I'm one who uses a small drive for my os and bigger drives for everything else and I don't see why game companies do this. Even big names like blizzard have been guilty of requiring you to have the games usage worth of space available on drive c: to use their web downloader thing. Is it really that hard to program a setup in a way to let you choose where it downloads the installer(and game) files to?

[SkyDX]

Spent yesterday downloading it... waiting for open beta registrations to open.

May I ask where?

[Joseph B]

@ OP, why, oh why, would you try to recruit more people for an open beta that will already be 100% over crowded?

[McCordRm]

@ OP, why, oh why, would you try to recruit more people for an open beta that will already be 100% over crowded?

Here's a better question:

Why, oh why, would you waste time whining in a forum about it instead of going to the company

that made it an OPEN beta in the first place?

[spaceelf]

@ OP, why, oh why, would you try to recruit more people for an open beta that will already be 100% over crowded?

Because he wants people to try it.

Why do people make me state the obvious so much? (Don't answer that, seriously.)

[Phantom Spaceman]

I've tested many many games in closed betas and open betas. I got my invite and will definitely test it out, however from what I've seen in videos and what not it doesn't look promising. Still I'm keeping an open mind. I figure I might as well give it a shot since I think most WoW players like myself are really doing nothing more than biding their time waiting for the Cataclysm to finally hit.

[Joseph B]

I've tested many many games in closed betas and open betas. I got my invite and will definitely test it out, however from what I've seen in videos and what not it doesn't look promising. Still I'm keeping an open mind. I figure I might as well give it a shot since I think most WoW players like myself are really doing nothing more than biding their time waiting for the Cataclysm to finally hit.

Did you ever try FFXI?

[spaceelf]

Well hey on the plus side (unlike FF11) it should actually support basic 3d tech in the client.

FF11 was one freakin embarrassing console port.

[Phantom Spaceman]

Did you ever try FFXI?

I sure did played that until WoW came out (signed up for WoW in Dec of 04). I enjoyed it when I did play it the amount of group objectives it required really made it hard for me to stay with it.

[Joseph B]

I sure did played that until WoW came out (signed up for WoW in Dec of 04). I enjoyed it when I did play it the amount of group objectives it required really made it hard for me to stay with it.

Indeed, this time around should be a lot more solo content, well easier to anyways.

[rajputwarrior]

@ OP, why, oh why, would you try to recruit more people for an open beta that will already be 100% over crowded?

[bjoswald]

I've tested many many games in closed betas and open betas. I got my invite and will definitely test it out, however from what I've seen in videos and what not it doesn't look promising. Still I'm keeping an open mind. I figure I might as well give it a shot since I think most WoW players like myself are really doing nothing more than biding their time waiting for the Cataclysm to finally hit.

Exactly. The only people that will give two farts about this are the die-hards. Everyone else is waiting for Cataclysm. ;)

[Joseph B]

Exactly. The only people that will give two farts about this are the die-hards. Everyone else is waiting for Cataclysm. ;)

So... Why crowd our servers? If you play WoW, stay on WoW.

You are going to go back to WoW anyways after you all drop 75$ for the CE, then realize a few months later that the game isn't going to hand you gear like WoW has been spoon feeding you since Burning Crusade.

[Phantom Spaceman]

So... Why crowd our servers? If you play WoW, stay on WoW.

You are going to go back to WoW anyways after you all drop 75$ for the CE, then realize a few months later that the game isn't going to hand you gear like WoW has been spoon feeding you since Burning Crusade.

I'm not buying FF XIV at all not regular or CE. I will, however, test the game for them and provide valuable insight into things that I feel should be changed. So it's not crowding your servers imo, I intend to spot bugs and just help out as much as I can.

For futher reference about how to win at beta testing see attatched.

[spaceelf]

Exactly. The only people that will give two farts about this are the die-hards. Everyone else is waiting for Cataclysm. ;)

Everyone? Really?

I'm not waiting for any new MMOs unless Turbine's developing anything new.

[Joseph B]

That your Youtube channel?