FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread II: Let's Speculate the Speculations

[BlackheartX]

The Dodo in the first picture seems aware that...
http://img.moronail.net/img/5/7/1257.jpg

[King Zuca]

thats not a glitch. clearly thats the /heaven emote.

[Hyan]

How's the EU test going? ;o

[Purrrfect]

Well, lack of info isn't great, but lack of complaining is pretty good news.

[Darte]

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http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4738/up46424.jpg

I see what you did there...

[Omniyoji]

Are there any vids of the male Lalafell emotes? I've yet to see any.

Yes, but the voice is a bit weird to me. The females are waaay cuter than males. I'm pretty sure there was a vid posted in that FFXIV section.

I like the dodo's looks and that epic ass reminds me of Sleipnir's epic ass when that JP PLD vid first appeared from FFXI.

[Corrderio]

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http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1410/up46433.jpg

Is that supposed to be a mosquito? 0.o

[elsoco]

Is that supposed to be a mosquito? 0.o

chingoe if i am correct

[Loaar]

How's the EU test going? ;o

Much smoother.

[Satyr]

Rejoice for there will be all silence in japan after the test, ah that is sooooo relaxing!

[Kyrra]

Any reports on the stability of the servers in this testing?

[Loaar]

Any reports on the stability of the servers in this testing?

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Originally Posted by Hyan
How's the EU test going? ;o

Much smoother.

[Lazytowner]

Any reports on the stability of the servers in this testing?

*servers turn out stable*
*All of NA reaches Rank 20 in 2 hours*

Do this.

[vrumpt]

wish they would get out of alpha for 2 reasons:

A: they can get more ppl in and i can not get chosen and

B: They can add more crafting classes because i'm dying to see how that turns out.

Since these servers are smooth enough to not merit any kind of complaint apparently, this is just a really good of things to come. Hopefully these are the fruits of the cancelled tests from last week.

[Jinko]

Sadly alpha is guna be a few more weeks at the most, they haven't had chance for testers to test what SE originally wanted.

Hopefully I am wrong though.

[Katlan]

nice to hear servers are much more stable. Good sign for getting out of alpha... If it keeps up, would be nice to think alpha will only go on for another week or two. Maybe middle of May at the longest?

Sadly alpha is guna be a few more weeks at the most, they haven't had chance for testers to test what SE originally wanted.

Hopefully I am wrong though.

That's the thing though, aside server stability and making sure gamep'ay mechanics arent broken, what are they looking for that only alpha testers can test? Id figure that once server stability is mostly fixed, then they can move on to more gameplay mechanics and balancing

[bluestar]

didn't the recent interview say they were testing the progression scheme as well and that they were going to wipe all the toons and put a different scheme in place and let them play through that - then after that stage is over it will move to alpha 2 or beta 1?

ah here it is

How long do you plan to run the current alpha test?

Komoto: We had a general idea in the beginning, but the server stability issues have caused more problems than we could foresee. We still want to examine players after they have been able to level their characters a little more.

Tanaka: Actually, we have two patterns set up for the speed of character growth, so we plan to delete all characters at some point during the alpha. After we collect data on the currently implemented pattern, we will wipe everyone and start again with a the second one in play.



- So, at some points you will have to start over from scratch.

Komoto: That's right. This isn't limited to the alpha, but in the beta as well, once things are running smoothly, we plan to do this multiple times up until the game's release.



- Will you move on to the beta phase once you have fully examined the growth rate?

Tanaka: Currently, the alpha test takes place on a single World. The next step is to increase the number of Worlds, which will multiply the number of testers. That will be the start of what we call Beta-1, or perhaps Alpha-2.

so we can expect another round of invites going out sometime after the characters have been wiped

[Kirb]

Sadly alpha is guna be a few more weeks at the most, they haven't had chance for testers to test what SE originally wanted.

Hopefully I am wrong though.

Pretty sure using alphas to test server stability was pretty high on the list for what they wanted, though.

Guessing they'll be running all of the different balance builds they have prepared for the next few tests.

The next step is to increase the number of Worlds, which will multiply the number of testers. That will be the start of what we call Beta-1, or perhaps Alpha-2.

Sweet.

[ScGr]

FYI that thing is one of the gods worshiped by a "beastman" tribe, they have not direct hartred for hyrans or other PC races but I'm sure if they are summoning gods of this variety, it may pose as a bit of a problem if you ran into it.

On the official site, it talks about the Beast-tribes and the primals they summon molesting the land unchecked. They have direct hatred of PC races.

na.finalfantasyxiv.com

[Purrrfect]

so we can expect another round of invites going out sometime after the characters have been wiped

The bold part of the quote you were talking about is a response to a question that stated after they were done with character progression. Meaning, invites wouldn't be until after they have wiped once, set new plan in, tested, wiped again, and add servers.