ToA Release Date

[thestalkmore]

Gate Guard: The Quadovs are invading lower Jeuno!

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies Lag Spike.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses Lag Spike.
357 people recieve the the effect of Lag.
289 people are disconnected.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies the Wrath of Gouda.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses the Wrath of Gouda.
Everyone else dies.

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable: Gee. That was boring.

Pretty much. SE is just not going to be bothered to fix their game and make it playable with more than 32 people in the same area. They'll release more mini-Dynamis and Limbus stuff instead of actually put any programming or architecture effort into it. So while 6+ year old games like Everquest can do things like have hundreds of people in an area, properly instanced dungeons, and message queues where you don't lose your chat while zoning, FFXI players can just forget anything like that. If Beastman raid a city you'll have to go to a BC to do it, and if it's actually popular you'll have to stand on the BC clicking madly for hours to get in because it's not instanced. Thank you PS2.

shutup and quit already

[Isildur]

only thing i wanna see

Isildur defeats the Lamia.
You find a martial abjuration: body on the Lamia.

[Belkin]

These new mobs have weird names. '~'

Look at your sig

[Tom Chambers]

FFXIFlux has convinced me to quit, see you again guys.

[NynJa]

Gate Guard: The Quadovs are invading lower Jeuno!

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies Lag Spike.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses Lag Spike.
357 people recieve the the effect of Lag.
289 people are disconnected.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies the Wrath of Gouda.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses the Wrath of Gouda.
Everyone else dies.

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable: Gee. That was boring.

Pretty much. SE is just not going to be bothered to fix their game and make it playable with more than 32 people in the same area. They'll release more mini-Dynamis and Limbus stuff instead of actually put any programming or architecture effort into it. So while 6+ year old games like Everquest can do things like have hundreds of people in an area, properly instanced dungeons, and message queues where you don't lose your chat while zoning, FFXI players can just forget anything like that. If Beastman raid a city you'll have to go to a BC to do it, and if it's actually popular you'll have to stand on the BC clicking madly for hours to get in because it's not instanced. Thank you PS2.

shutup and quit already

[Idlepimp]

Gate Guard: The Quadovs are invading lower Jeuno!

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies Lag Spike.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses Lag Spike.
357 people recieve the the effect of Lag.
289 people are disconnected.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies the Wrath of Gouda.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses the Wrath of Gouda.
Everyone else dies.

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable: Gee. That was boring.

Pretty much. SE is just not going to be bothered to fix their game and make it playable with more than 32 people in the same area. They'll release more mini-Dynamis and Limbus stuff instead of actually put any programming or architecture effort into it. So while 6+ year old games like Everquest can do things like have hundreds of people in an area, properly instanced dungeons, and message queues where you don't lose your chat while zoning, FFXI players can just forget anything like that. If Beastman raid a city you'll have to go to a BC to do it, and if it's actually popular you'll have to stand on the BC clicking madly for hours to get in because it's not instanced. Thank you PS2.

shutup and quit already

[BRP]

Gate Guard: The Quadovs are invading lower Jeuno!

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies Lag Spike.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses Lag Spike.
357 people recieve the the effect of Lag.
289 people are disconnected.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable readies the Wrath of Gouda.
Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable uses the Wrath of Gouda.
Everyone else dies.

Gahh'Duch the Unimpeachable: Gee. That was boring.

Pretty much. SE is just not going to be bothered to fix their game and make it playable with more than 32 people in the same area. They'll release more mini-Dynamis and Limbus stuff instead of actually put any programming or architecture effort into it. So while 6+ year old games like Everquest can do things like have hundreds of people in an area, properly instanced dungeons, and message queues where you don't lose your chat while zoning, FFXI players can just forget anything like that. If Beastman raid a city you'll have to go to a BC to do it, and if it's actually popular you'll have to stand on the BC clicking madly for hours to get in because it's not instanced. Thank you PS2.

shutup and quit already

oh why the hell not ;o

[Lordwafik]

why are you complaining about lag in areas with more than 32 ppl. The only dynamis you need more than 32 (to win) is Xarcabard. it's not like 64 ppl show up to each run anyway . Get a better graphics card. That's what I did when I was lagging, and woo problems fixed.

[Glikon]

It is my understanding that games are generally on the shelves at midnight on the release day of a game in Japan.
4/18 - US Ship Date
4/19 - On US Shelves
4/19 11:00 AM EST (4/20 Midnight JST) - On Shelves in Japan
4/30 - The first day anyone will actually be able to log on after the expansion is released due to update woes and "anonymous third party DDoS attacks" that for some odd reason only seem to occur whenever Square-Enix releases an update.
So, except for a few lucky people who actually get their games on the US ship date, most likely everyone will get the expansion within a few hours of each other.

To help out, i used to work at Gamestop, and the games are over night shipped. Gamestop and EB both will probably get there games at 9am. Since theres No hurricanes we wont have to worry about holds, unless fed ex fucks up the shipping. Hopefully, the US will get it a day early, but granted you know everyone ill wait and find from the JPs how to unlock everything. I bet they alrdy know how to get there and unlock everything, and they are just waiting to unlock all the jobs, and kill all the new HNMs and NMs.

[Nirokun!]

To help out, i used to work at Gamestop, and the games are over night shipped. Gamestop and EB both will probably get there games at 9am. Since theres No hurricanes we wont have to worry about holds, unless fed ex fucks up the shipping. Hopefully, the US will get it a day early, but granted you know everyone ill wait and find from the JPs how to unlock everything. I bet they alrdy know how to get there and unlock everything, and they are just waiting to unlock all the jobs, and kill all the new HNMs and NMs.

Im gonna be humping Karosu allllllllllllll fucking day to get all the new stuff :D

Assface gets everything...

[Elcura]

Ok, considering I got FFXI when it came out in the US and the expansion when my parents went there, would I need to get this expansion from the US as well? Or can I use the EU version?

[layoneil]

Ok, considering I got FFXI when it came out in the US and the expansion when my parents went there, would I need to get this expansion from the US as well? Or can I use the EU version?

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[Taku]

Ok, considering I got FFXI when it came out in the US and the expansion when my parents went there, would I need to get this expansion from the US as well? Or can I use the EU version?

You'd need to use the NA version...

I bought the JP version of FFXI a LOOONG time ago, and when I tried to create an account on the NA version with the registration keys, it said they were invalid. Assuming it's the same with the expansions, you'd need an NA copy for the registration key to upgrade your NA client.

[plake]

Ok, considering I got FFXI when it came out in the US and the expansion when my parents went there, would I need to get this expansion from the US as well? Or can I use the EU version?

You definitely need the NA version.