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It'll be 1 whole year since announcement at the last E3 and I'm wondering what we'll see. 1 month away!

-Open Beta date/release date?
-New classes?
-New trailer?

What do you think?

It better not be pushed back to 2011, I want to play it this fall at the very least.
 
I'd wager on all of the above, to be honest. The timing is about right for a major reveal, and you can bet that there will be other companies doing similar things this E3, so it behooves SE to follow suit, if it wants to maintain the right level of interest.

So long as they don't over-hype it, of course.
 
I would venture to say that if they don't make an announcement on the release date within the next month or two, it could very well be 2011 before it's released.
 
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I would venture to say that if they don't make an announcement on the release date within the next month or two, it could very well be 2011 before it's released.
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Not true... Its still 7 month away 'till December. They don't need to reveal a December release date until a few more months.

edit: I also already posted all of the classes in the other thread. I just wanna know what they do :3 What I'm far more excited for is an eventual beta release and FFXIII Versus :3
 
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Uzor said:
Not true... Its still 7 month away 'till December. They don't need to reveal a December release date until a few more months.

edit: I also already posted all of the classes in the other thread. I just wanna know what they do :3 What I'm far more excited for is an eventual beta release and FFXIII Versus :3
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Speaking of those classes, where did you find some of those? Mystic? I didn't see it on the main site.
 
my predictions are:

-FFXIV will be delayed til next summer.

that is all I got.
 
Cua said:
Speaking of those classes, where did you find some of those? Mystic? I didn't see it on the main site.
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They're in the .dat. I also have the weapons they'll use :3

I get the feeling its one of the things SE wanted us to find... Its the only leak their NDA crew has not even tried cleaning up. Unlike the leaked music score (which SE reacted strongly to), they haven't even mentioned the leaked classes. So at the very least it doesn't seem like they care much about it.

Although I have to say that its rather stupid of them to include the entire class list and music score in the .dat if they don't want it to be found.
 
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The release date is in the Gamestop reserve system for 12/31/10 so don't hold your breath for this year. Just my opinion~ ^^
 
Karihkinz said:
The release date is in the Gamestop reserve system for 12/31/10 so don't hold your breath for this year. Just my opinion~ ^^
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That sounds an awful lot like a default 2010 date to me. We get those a lot at work too, though our distributor uses 1/1/2012 for things they don't know.
 
Yeah, Gamestop always sets a release date of 12/31 for any games that are vaguely announced as "this year".
So we can pretty much assume it's coming out this year until the devs say otherwise.
 
Good point~ Though I've done closed beta for a few MMO's and they usually have a quarter set that they'll be releasing when that happens (in my experience). I would assume that SE is playing their games like they tend to do, keeping us in the dark as much as possible, and would would hope for a release date of this year. However, with all the new things they seem to be pumping into FFXI (like the level increase where the hell did that come from?) I view that as an attempt to keep us preoccupied because FFXIV will be later than originally expected.
 
tbh, I'm betting the beta or Alpha phase 2 will be starting begining of June.

SE said themselves that alpha 1 will be capped at 20 (and a lot of people are at that level in the alpha), and that they wanted to start alpha 2/beta 1 as soon as possible, but they wouldn't do it until the servers became stable enough.

Well, the past few tests have been very smooth, and this is the first week 3 tests in the same week have taken place. So if next week goes just as smooth, I believe it is rather safe to say alpha 2 or beta 1 announcement will take place beginning of June, and likely not start later than middle of June.

Now, it is possible they hold out for E3 and have a "beta invite" event at E3, but I find it more likely they'll make some announcement at E3 with a new trailer, and a more in-depth explanation of the way they wish FFXIV to take, as well as an announcement at some new classes, beastmen and storyline etc. They might also offer a playable version of the game.

The game stop etc. date is only a preliminary date. If you seriously believe SE planned the alpha to go smoothless and state that FFXIV will be delayed because of how sloppy the beginning of the alpha was, you're rather stupid imo. No company believe an alpha version of the game will run good. Alpha and beta is just that - an alpha and beta version of the game, which is offered to people with the some intent of finding bugs, errors etc. It isn't meant to be a fully functional playable version of a game.

Look at how sloppy the alpha was in the beginning,and compare it to how smooth it is now, 2 months after SE released it. That if anything is a clear indication that they're on track.

And no, I don't care how much you argue how smooth the FFXIV NA beta was. That wasn't a beta, it was a localization. The game has already been out in Japan for months.
 
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A friend of mine is in the Alpha, and from what he's been telling me about the game, its very well on track for a 4th quarter release. They've achieved decent server stability now and released comparison shots of what the beta is gonna be lookin like, so I'm thinking we ain't too far away from beta and eventual release. :D
 
Good to hear that the Alpha is now smooth. I was beginning to think that we've hit a bump in the road that would push the game back a whole month that we couldn't afford if we wanted it this year.
 
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