Saw 1st page, time frame stated at least phase 4 before officially launch? When are the estimated time that would be? Oh and are u one of the devs?

This post has been edited by mavezai1984: Mar 6 2013, 04:51 PM

Nope.. i do not work for Square Enix, i just manage this topic only.

My speculation that would be around June or July thou

phase 1 started on February 25th~ so there is one more testing period before the end of phase 1.

The game seems very wow like, raid and dungeon system apply as well? Well u do sound like devs to me lol, accurately answer questions and provide facts to other, kudos.

why you must say p2p like WoW? Why not said it P2P like FFXI?

Google is a very powerful tool.

The game does like WoW system, is meant for ease of players but is a little diffrent than WoW's battle.

When both FFXI(2000) and WoW(2004) came out, they copy EQ's action bar, party dungeon raid system and so on, then make their own MMO, althought we can see clear fact that WoW wins this debate and FFXI although still successful to this date as a P2P profitable MMO.

FFXIV on the other hand when release, is piss poor lag, bug, crash and somewhat not polish/very much nothing type of MMO.

It got bad review and the review is really justified by the way FFXIV 1.0 is. Then SE announce the change in team development, Tanaka, the previous FFXIV's Producer step down, being replace by a young(not really) avid MMO player and Developer YoshiP(he is a MMO player, he play WoW, Rift, Aion, Dark Age of Camelot and so on, so he has big clear on what to do as a Developer)

During his reign, he ask us to be patient and he will come with patch fix for the 1.0, every patch at first was just to address stuff, he also goes all the way to talk to the community and ask for input and stuff, this really change how the Company use to operate. They usually do not be as open, but with YoshiP the company slightly change overall time.

When the patch 1.18 came, the game was in a playable state, combat change, party change, it really was playable then BAM he announce FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, a totally new client, new server structure and many new stuff, basicly he is saying that FFXIV 1.0 is going to the trash bin when it's time.

So He still continue on doing the 1.0 upgrade and behind the scene thney work hard on building a new client, the 2.0 (A Realm Reborn).

the 1.0 patch version goes up till 1.23 which is the final version for it at that time there is already Job System that are much specialize roles of the Holy Trinity Roles, Tank Healer, DPS.

Classses were mere basis of it and they can mix-match skills of other classes. Jobs is more of a Party Play Holy trinity as such hehe.


(i could go more but i have to end here, want to finish pack my work place to go back home)




This post has been edited by shojikun: Mar 6 2013, 07:26 PM

The word " toons " has became widely used among various MMO as a reference of " my character " .
Its more like an MMO slang now regardless of game aethetics now .




This is actually incorrect , FF11 was released way earlier before WOW was . There were at least 4 years in the gap.
I got into FF11 beta from buying the genuine FF10 back then , the developers were carrying the trend from the popular online RPG ( not mmo ) Phantasy Star Online (DC version ) . So they were more alike of each others .
The early version of FF11 were customized exclusively only for PS2 , they originally do not have the plans to release it on PC until the later date .

The fact that W.O.W went on to carry a lot of height as a " spiritual successor " of EQ was largely due to the reason that more than 80% of the developers team were game designers from EQ .

This post has been edited by Convael: Mar 6 2013, 06:34 PM

You must have not been playing big mmorpg for a long time . Because all the recent releases, TERA , GW2 , SWTOR and all these mega budgets have similiar raids , wow-ish alike and a dungeon system as well .


With that being said, wow will still have the most polished system out of them all , since they have been polishing it non stop since release .


Obviously , because its the most notable p2p out there . But of course FF14 is likely to become the second one , as explained Square Enix . Because all the other P2P has major investors in the beginning QQ about profits,forcing all these originally P2P games went F2P to gather large influx of cash via cash store etc . But FF14 has pressure from no one since the IP is exclusively owned by the corporation .

This post has been edited by Convael: Mar 6 2013, 06:37 PM

i haven't finish yet.. was typing on iphone ;_; u evil man!

Just realize phase 1 has reached nearly 2 weeks

players still arguing in the BF about the chars wiping thing lolz

huh? i dont see that anywhere..

forgot the thread title, but i clicked it from the "hot topic" part at the right side of the page.

btw, i'm abit confused, does GCD means the "all skills bind to 1 cool down" thing?

This post has been edited by lavie87: Mar 6 2013, 08:32 PM

Nothing is there about Character wipes xD

lol its something about "wiping chars between beta phase kills the mood to "playing" because of repeat the same thing" vs "dude thats whats beta for". sorry i forgot the title.

anyway, just read ur post about the GCD and haste, i'm abit confused, does GCD means the "all skills bind to 1 cool down" thing?

Oh that thread! lol is what Beta is! xD i meant closed beta!

GCD effect all weapon and spell abilities.

so, it means the coldown which happen during change class(weapon)?
or the cooldown after i cast a spell?

after u hit the action bar

ah, that one. hmm.. now i'm doubtful, did my lancer's combo work or not.. thers a combo, i forgot the name true trust + heavy thrust? becuase of the cooldown, i dun even know my combo success or not, and which skill should i use 1st to get the combo.

true although this can be seen on how much damage you get when you compare non-combo and combo, heavy thrust has a potency of 120 when is used without combot, but with combo it rose up to 200 potency.

They usually will highlight the combo

It be good if we can know cleary if succeed or not xD