For those that haven't played the Beta - Here is the Japanese gameplay trailer:

2 MOAR WEEKS OAO!!!!!!

I so can't wait for this game, bought myself the CE for PC.
I'm also taking a week off from work the first week of next month to play this game.

So after deciding to find more information on this game I stumbled across this begginners guide. It seems quite useful for anyone who isn't familiar with the game yet.

Looks like I'll need to get this sometime soon.

Has anyone been able to update the pc version yet?

No, not yet, I still have a 3.5 gig update to download, and I only have about 1 gig left for the month. I'm sad now...
Maybe Thursday I'll be able to play it.

you guys aren't missing much hey, the servers are chocablock full, I finally got a spot in the que after trying to log in with my toon for about 40 minutes now

I deleted most of my games to make room for this one, and now I have nothing else to keep me busy with. I could look at my bonus disk, oh wait, I already did. Hmm, what to do, what to do...
Anime, here I come.

I hope they increasing the server size soon...I've been trying since 20h00 to log in and I can't, can only 50 damn ppl play at a time! It's BS...I paid for a game and now I can't play FFS!!!

*And why is there no que?

Finally....

@Morchee
Every MMO launch has been pretty much like this. It's amazing how quickly people forgot the Diablo 3 fiasco. . .

As for me, I've been trying to get this 1gb patch since early access started (read 3/4 days), and I find it more laughable than annoying. As long as they sort it out, I'm not too fussed, in fact I expected this since taking part in the beta.

I can say one thing though, when you are in the game and it's all running properly, it really is fantastic.

People tend to forget Simcity as well, and WoW did not even go off with out a hitch.

I have had little to no issues, currently sitting on LV.17 Marauder with a Lv. 3 Black Smith job. Played early access just fine, and have not had too much issue with world being full. Happened last night got in after 30 minutes of trying so not complaining lol.

Here is some screenshots from my game:






Server transfer is opening up middle of September so we can all shift to a server then, try find all the local SA guys and get them on one server.

They are also doing maintenance today already to increase the server capacities for all servers, so honestly one day after official launch, not bad imo.

Personally I think Square has pulled off one of the smoother MMO launches in history.

Ah some tips for noobs:

1. Scroll Lock will Hide the HUD and your screenshots are in my documents/ my games/ final fantasy xiv arr.

2. Hit R and your character will keep running.

3. Make sure to rest in a sanctuary for the rested exp bonus.

4. Do not change class until you have used all of your rested exp bonus, otherwise you will only get one bar and loose the rest.

5. Duty Finder is unlocked at LV.15 and mounts at Lv.20

6. Lv's 1 - 15 are pretty much solo, you will get 99% of your Armour and starter weapons from these quests.

7. Your can put gear load out's in your hotbar so you can change quickly on the fly.

8. Once you unlock your second class, it and all subsequent classes will level at an accelerated rate based on your highest class. That will decrease as it gets closer in level to your higher class.

E.g I started as a marauder, my second class pugilist and then warrior. Once I unlock the ability to become a pugilist as well, my pugilist will get an exp bonus starting at 50% more exp.

As it catches up to my marauder level it will decrease until we are earning the same exp.

So the grind to level all classes does not have to be such a headache

My gripe isn't really the wait to finally log in, but the fact that there's no queue system, how much sooner could I have logged in had the game used a queue system, rather than trying and trying by yourself and hoping to get in, missing on opportunities of getting in sooner...I know all MMO's has there teething problems in the beginning and even much further into their life, it's just annoying to be so amped to play something you just bought and you can't, Oh no wait, there is something worse, when you do finally get in an hour and a half later and absolutely enjoy the game, then an hour in, you get disconnected from the server and the whole waiting game starts again (This happened to me)

Anyway, Rant over...

Although I could only manage an hour of playing last night, this game so far feels quite refreshing compared to other MMO's I have played, as I said, I'm only an hour in, so I can't really give a full view of my thoughts thus far. This is the 1st "Fantasy" world that actually feels like a "Fantasy" world. It looks pretty to I have not yet gone through all the options in the menu yet (and there's a lot), but it seems this game is going to be quite big, but what I can say is, the battle system is so easy to get use to. Going from DC to WoW and SWTOR, it took me sometime to get use to Auto attack and switching between targets etc. but in this game they've really made it user/n00b friendly, it's really a pick and play battle system...I don't see it getting more involved/complicated further down the line tbh, which is a good thing.

Anyway, I'm so glad I got this game, I know I'm going to love it. For the 1st time in my MMO history, I have decided to go DPS (Archer) rather than Tank, so I hope it was a good choice. Can't wait to play again, just hope I get in before 19h00 tonight

@Morschee

There is a queue system lol, that's just how many [censored] are in there that it cannot even queue anymore lol.

In regards to the battle system there is actually more depth as you get further into it, but yeah doesnt get to crazy.

More of that comes in the crafting, like materia system is crazy.

Oh and on that note: DO NOT SELL YOUR SPIRIT BONDED ITEMS you will need to the create materia later.

Woofels said ...

There is a queue system lol, that's just how many [censored] are in there that it cannot even queue anymore lol.

Holy crap!!! K...I didn't realise that, well anyway, I hope the little capacity increase they adding today will help a bit then

As for the battle system, when I say "Not Complicated" I mean that mapping things to your Hot bar, and the way they have set up the controller to use in this game is "Not Complicated" and easy to grasp from the word go. I'm sure the actual battle system as in What to use when, which poisons to add for certain enemies etc will get complicated But that's where the fun lies

Crafting and those things are always complicated, probably the only thing where I always ask for help...

Woofels said ...


Oh and on that note: DO NOT SELL YOUR SPIRIT BONDED ITEMS you will need to the create materia later.

Yeeeaaaah, learned that the hard way lol, gawd, picked up a 3rd class just to see if I couldn't get anything to replace it via low lvl questing =P

I see SE stopped selling the game online because the servers are to crowded Good to hear the game is doing well

@Woofles, getting everyone from S.A on one server sounds like a good idea, what servers are you guys on atm?

Yeah...pls let me know which server you guys will be going on, I would like to be on the same server. Currently (if my memory serves me right) I'm on Cerberus...