Yea in FF11 you always had to kill monsters that were well above your level to gain any xp, so I did expect that. What I didn't like was how you'd run out of things to do after about 2 hours worth of guildleves. The crafting in vanilla was tedious, but I found it OK - I was even making stuff for my character fairly early on (although this was mostly due to not having much better to do and not being able to find things to buy). It was very pretty, but it ran crappy on my very high end PC when every other game I have runs smoothly on ultra. The whole thing just felt like a crude port over to PC from PS3, and there was just no a whole lot to do. Looks like I may be giving the new version a try tho.

nanaoei

3358 Posts

June 13 2013 22:30 GMT

#82

I think it's about time to bring this thread up, the next phase of beta tests starts tomorrow (I assume) on June 14th.
I know that some new waves of invites happened because a friend of mine got one just now, I personally don't have one but look forward to when they send out more : D...

Ayaz2810

United States2763 Posts

June 13 2013 22:47 GMT

#83

Just got the email about the next beta wave as well as the release date. I'm really glad the people who bought 1.0 get the client for free. Having to pay for it again would be a travesty.

Battleaxe

United States843 Posts

June 13 2013 22:54 GMT

#84

Glad this thread got bumped, wasn't watching the beta forums. Getting more excited as release gets closer

nanaoei

3358 Posts

June 14 2013 05:10 GMT

#85

So the beta starts later tonight at 2:00am PST, i guess it would be called closed beta 3 or something on those lines. I'd be happy if there would be an open beta like the previous FF14 seeing as it'd be a good way to draw in many players and the subscription-based pay isn't the most popular means of getting your game out there these days.

I may be able to borrow an account to post my first-impressions, and i have not played with the other builds of the game.
Some of the things i loved the most about the original version of FF14 was just how adorable the moogles were, and how amazing the soundtrack was. I really do hope they keep and add onto nobuo uematsu's creations for the original game.

EGLzGaMeR

United States1867 Posts

June 14 2013 05:14 GMT

#86

Freakin can't wait for this game! hype hype :D sadly no time to play the beta since MLG is around the corner (need to train sc2) but going to play at release : )

ReignSupreme.

Australia4123 Posts

June 14 2013 05:33 GMT

#87

Damn, haven't received an email for this phase yet

I wanna propose the removal of subligar sets, sad to see they havent been changed from FFXI... So goddamn ugly

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

June 14 2013 05:41 GMT

#88

When I registered for the beta, there was mysteriously no option for USA (I was probably on the European page by accident) so I just left my country as the default UK, figuring that it wouldn't matter. Well, they sent me a code but I can't use it because my account is tied to America and its a European code.

So... first come, first serve to some European TLer who wants to play:
+ Show Spoiler +

RBWE LDP5 4TPJ BMJ8 6CQ5

TheFish7

United States2824 Posts

June 14 2013 13:59 GMT

#89

^Quick someone jump on that ^

Anyone who bought the game when it came out should have gotten a beta invite last night (at least in the US). I'll be trying out A Realm Reborn this weekend for sure. If anyone is interested I can post some screens and my thoughts on the changes.

FaCE_1

Canada6182 Posts

June 14 2013 14:36 GMT

#90

Dam, i hope i get an invite (didn't bought the game before

)

Look pretty good from what we saw since now.

Infernal_dream

United States2359 Posts

June 14 2013 15:08 GMT

#91

Just saw I got an invite but holy shit their website is beyond difficult to navigate. I'm not sure if there's a massive amount of people on it but half the pages take 5 reloads just to load all the way correctly and they require you to login on almost every different web page.

520

United States2822 Posts

June 14 2013 15:28 GMT

#92

Just got my invite. There seems to be a lot of website traffic which makes it difficult to navigate, haha.

Infernal_dream

United States2359 Posts

June 14 2013 15:29 GMT

#93

On June 15 2013 00:28 scintilliaSD wrote:
Just got my invite. There seems to be a lot of website traffic which makes it difficult to navigate, haha.

Glad to see it's not just me.

What's the NDA rules say as to streaming/screenshots? None allowed?

Edit: So uh, it shows no NA worlds and all that JP ones are full? O.o Am I doing something wrong? NVM restarting it got the servers to show up.

nota

United States231 Posts

June 14 2013 17:31 GMT

#94

hmm im kinda stuck at lvl 14 at some ridiculous quest " Duty, Honor, Country"

spawns like some lesser gargoyle elite boss 2 levels above you thats like impossible to kill.

Game plays like a less responsive wow from 8 years ago. Kiting is painful as a thaumaturge.
Not sure if I wanna continue. At least its better than the beta i played 3 years ago, although thats
not saying much

Infernal_dream

United States2359 Posts

June 14 2013 18:03 GMT

#95

It's not that it's less responsive, it's the long animations of the attacks.

nota

United States231 Posts

June 14 2013 18:13 GMT

#96

im more referring to the latency which seems like 250-300ms

XenOmega

Canada2822 Posts

June 14 2013 18:21 GMT

#97

Just got my invite. IS it worth playing?

If yes, anyone starting new and would like to party with me? I am complete newb of the MMO genre (I played a little bit AION, but that was a huge mess)

nota

United States231 Posts

June 14 2013 18:32 GMT

#98

ugh, im lvl 15 and i think im literally out of quests

slained

Canada966 Posts

June 14 2013 18:37 GMT

#99

I registered a key, cant find where Im suppose to download the client. Do I have to do anything with my account? Its soo frustrating.