in that mogstation page, go to the account tab, and click on view account. at the new page, you can look at the date it charge u. I think it's subscription something. sorry i just closed the page and cant remember the exact details.

yes, received email in the morning containing the codes.

usually there's only problem during 7pm - 11pm where server is full.
btw, even if u dont log out, well, you'll get kick out when server don't like you

Anyone know how to fix the version error issue after you key in ID and pass, and enter, then while waiting the message checking FFxiv version it gives an error.

The first error, is login traffic, u can't do anything but keep trying until server connection is smooth on ur side

the second error, is kinda same as mine but the version check error codes are different though, try https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2939800 I posted on how to fix it

cool green equip looks from Brayfox dungeon (for DoW)


This post has been edited by poipoy: Aug 28 2013, 09:45 PM

you might mislead new players. Bard doesnt have a single heal spell. they have support songs only, mp/tp regen.

Hmm can someone be kind enough to tell me what I need to do when after reaching lv50?
- I see the relic link above, that's for weapon rite?
- what about the AF+1 you were saying?
- what's the difference between AF+1 and the equips offer by the 2 npcs beside Rowena?
- are there gears that I need to grind for before I attempt any harder dungeons? e.g should I keep going to wandering palace(sp? forgot name) to get better equip than AF? or is AF better than the equips there?

Actually, are there any links that I can visit and be more clear on this matter >.<

Honestly, if the launch login issues really bug you guys, made you rage in real life, just stop playing, and wait for news that everything is stable then continue.

When I can't log in, I just wait patiently, do other stuff, go hang-out with friends, watch a movie.

Don't get me wrong, I do think SE is stupidly naive to not prepare for huge player base old or new that wanna try their revamped game. However, for the time that I have played, I enjoy the game too much and really would wait patiently until everything is fixed eventually.

You guys really don't have nothing else to do beside keep trying to login? this is not a short term mmo, it's not like missing a few week gimps u bad.

PS: BTW thanks Zeratos for the gear progression tips.

yea, please don't rage here, no one likes to see it. If really wanna let steam out of your system, I can recommend a page that welcome it, which is the NA/EU official FF XIV general discussion forum, please go join the NA players on raging.

BTW, I've got a little tip to share (maybe it only happens on me but anyway..) Always make a backup copy of the working "boot" folder of the game.

I'm not sure why but this happens to me sometimes, the version check error. Usually happens when my client crash giving a windowed error box saying program encounter an error and need to be closed. Then after attempting to re-launch the game, it'll give this message. To fix it i'll replace the boot folder's files with the one I backup.

The failure was due to (well, i'm not entirely correct on details, but it's not far from wrong):
- the server design was very poor
- everything was server based: NPC merchant, inventory, skill list etc. e.g talking to a npc to buy/sell stuff (delay 5s), getting to the menu then choosing options (delay 5s), then choosing your items to sell (delay). it's the same for viewing your own equipments or skill menu
- The graphics were really really pretty, even prettier than ARR now, but the world is very ... empty and bland, same tree, same rock, same roads, same outpost, same this, same that.
- the whole game is very taxing on your pc performance.
- there's not very much story, no end game, no purpose
- confusing mechanics as in 1 class can mix match many skills/spells
- basically exp through doing leves, there's an allowance on how many you can do, then wait 12hrs for refresh, adding to that, a fatique system where u reach the max exp you can get for the day, need time to reset to gain exp again something like that.
- the whole UI of the game sucks.
- the real problem is, you create ur character, you watch the intro movie, then you're dump into a world, with no guide, no quest guide, and literally you're like stranded in an island and need to learn ur survival ability. The maps were HUGE, you don't really know what to do lol
- almost forgot about the markets. you would expect 2010 mmo to have an auction house so you can search/buy/sell item with ease. but the dev team at that time decided to go the old fashion way of hiring npc(retainers) who you can place your items in them and sell. it's not a problem but when everyone does that in a cramp dedicated market area, it's chaos searching items u want to buy or sell. don't forget the high delay when interacting with npcs.

After the failure launch and negative response, the team leader was removed, replaced by naoki yoshida. then the whole game was being fixed slowly. During that time, dev team felt that they need to trash the game and re-design the whole server structure, in which they decided to make 1.0 have a story that the world was "destroyed", then ARR is reborn. The only thing i miss is the graphics, I do feel that 1.0 had really pretty and smooth graphics, where ARR have abit of jagged polygon, maybe it'll be perfect when they introduce the pc version with directx 11

This post has been edited by poipoy: Sep 2 2013, 11:23 PM

Yes, they had a 7 year old mmorpg FFXI. XI director was the same as XIV. You wouldn't expect that it's a problem during that time since XI was successful in its own way. Many dream and felt that XIV would be the successor of XI with better graphics, animation, story. Many wish all the best element of XI will be brought forward. sad to say the director think differently and want XIV to be a totally new game and just design something that had nothing in common with XI.

equipments have their equipment levels and item levels (ilvl).
example: a green lance is lv.15, have ilvl.17 <-- means that it's comparable to a level 17 with ilvl 17 equip, but you can use it at level 15 does this make sense? I don't know how to describe better lol

for item quality, the general idea is that for the same level equipment, white < pink < green < blue < purple (for HQ crafted equipments, I don't know where to put them )

to determine whether it's a better equip, the item level is more important, the higher the better

I've got a little suggestioin ^^, since we have a sub forum, why not the ones that wanna complain, make a thread about it^^

what I meant about doing ur complaints in another complain thread is that, ur complain doesn't help. I know you're stress out and just wanna let out some steam.

however, ppl who follow this thread, read about it all da time, it's getting irritating. You think I dont get those log in/kick out errors? I do, but what can my complaint do? SE obviously knows this problem, they can only fix it with time, so raging does nothing to help the situation. it just demoralize people. If you really wanna play the game, chill and wait it out.

Some kept asking why, WHY server capacity so low per world. well, why would you need to know? even if you get the legitimate answer as to why it's design this way, you'll feel better? Maybe I played too many other games that encounter this kind of problem, I'm somehow immune to it and just wait.