FINAL FANTASY XIV for PC Confirmed for 30th SEPTEMBER 2010 Release

[bluefan]

Haven't played 11 in almost two years now, but before I left it seemed like NA HNMLS were greatly surpassing JP HNMLS.

It'll be interesting to see who's on top from the start this time around.

Honestly, does it really matter? Seems kinda petty to be honest.

Would be best to have a multi-country LS, cover all those time zones, downside would be communication,...

No reason why it can't. Several Europeans can speak, read and write English well enough. And ever since XI, there's been quite the emergence of NA peeps who can do the same with Japanese.

I've got a high school level of French (yay Canada education system), roughly same level Japanese (my minor), the bits I know of Chinese and Portugese (friends and friends of the family) and pretty well versed in Korean (parents native language). In my XI days, I had a few Japanese LS pearls. Amazing how many Japanese can put up with Romanji. Guess they like to brush up on their language skills as well

Plausible, but most LSs out there will most likely be regional.

[Kajii]

Fuck that, time we put NA ONLY in our search comments!

Of course it doesn't matter, will just be interesting to see.

[Gruntle]

No reason why it can't. Several Europeans can speak, read and write English well enough. And ever since XI, there's been quite the emergence of NA peeps who can do the same with Japanese.

I've got a high school level of French (yay Canada education system), roughly same level Japanese (my minor), the bits I know of Chinese and Portugese (friends and friends of the family) and pretty well versed in Korean (parents native language).

Plausible, but most LSs out there will most likely be regional.

Would love to see that LS work, if not be in it, if there is as many people who play with your level of language knowledge then communication wouldn't be a problem. Hopefuly culture differences, and peoples arrogance/ignorance of others cultures(that the right word?) won't come into play then~

or maybe im just thinking to negative.

[bluefan]

Fuck that, time we put NA ONLY in our search comments!

Of course it doesn't matter, will just be interesting to see.

Although a lot of those types of LS have valid reasons for that comment, like a smoother transition into higher level content and overall LS stability, it's pretty close minded.

I personally love world servers. Every MMO should have them IMO.

[Hyan]

I personally love world servers. Every MMO should have them IMO.

Why? Lots of people, if not most, prefer regional servers. Only one or two games with worldwide servers is enough for those who like them.


Anyway, I could clearly see the difference between 'competitive' NA/EU and 'cooperative' JP, and I hope that won't divide us this time.

[Gentaro]

Will there be NA/EU/JP version of FFXIV?

Is is OK to buy a US version from Europe? And pay with European Credit Card?

I didn't see any NA/EU/JP versions available yet - the only split I see is Collectors Edition/Normal Edition and PS3/PC. No mentioning about different regions.

What do you think?

I doubt that there will be regional differences in the versions - at least i hope so. All I can tell you is that i used a EU credit card on an US FFXI account - and since FFXIV won't use PlayOnline, the payment can only become better, so there shouldn't be any problems. On the other hand you have totally no reason to buy a US version as a european >_> the game will be released in September in Europe as well.

[bluefan]

Why? Lots of people, if not most, prefer regional servers. Only one or two games with worldwide servers is enough for those who like them.

And your evidence for that is?... The most valid reason my friends, both offline and online, gives for preferring regional over world is latency.

The MMO genre is supposed to be...you know, played with massive amounts of people. Restricting their game regionally kinda defeats that purpose, no? Plus, I'm a complete night owl (4am here). When one region starts to log off, another starts to log on. Never ending activity yummm.

[Gokulo]

I doubt that there will be regional differences in the versions - at least i hope so. All I can tell you is that i used a EU credit card on an US FFXI account - and since FFXIV won't use PlayOnline, the payment can only become better, so there shouldn't be any problems. On the other hand you have totally no reason to buy a US version as a european >_> the game will be released in September in Europe as well.

You need to remember that they require you to have a verified by visa card for SE US.

[Gentaro]

I'm MasterCard user, so i don't know much about VISA, but there no problem at all to have the MasterCard verification on a EU card.

[Hyan]

And your evidence for that is?... The most valid reason my friends, both offline and online, gives for preferring regional over world is latency.

Yes, but it's a very good reason too. XIV seems to work in a way that latency is not a big issue, but that's not the case for MMO's that require very precise timing. I would prefer regional servers in that case, even though overall I'm more fond of the concept of international servers.

[brand]

One of the largest threads on JP boards is about separating servers by language.

Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is another authorized distributor of FFXIV? I've been considering swapping my order to there so I can just pick it up at a local store rather than wait for the delivery man (thereby bypassing shipping costs). I've never pre-ordered anything from Best Buy before though, anyone have any insight on this?

Gamestop's online store definitely has restrictions about picking up in-store (usually never available for a pre-order online that I have seen); the only way to pick it up in-store is to pre-order it in-store.

[Azureo~]

im probablly not even gonna get the game now, being 6months behind isnt what i was hopeing for, was looking forwards to a fresh start seen as i joined xi a few years after it started, so was looking forwards to a fresh start and all sme release dates but they fuked ps3 over

[BlackheartX]

So WoW is a more polished version of WC3?

(yes I went there, I'll never do it again- I promise!)

Funny thing is that it kinda is if your played the RTS zoomed in. (atleast in the looks department)

[BlackheartX]

Haven't played 11 in almost two years now, but before I left it seemed like NA HNMLS were greatly surpassing JP HNMLS.

It'll be interesting to see who's on top from the start this time around.

Using abbreviations and words together like HNMLS and surpassing (Normally implies a skill of some kind is involved) is defying logic and tearing holes in time and space as we speak.

[sruon]

I doubt that there will be regional differences in the versions - at least i hope so. All I can tell you is that i used a EU credit card on an US FFXI account - and since FFXIV won't use PlayOnline, the payment can only become better, so there shouldn't be any problems. On the other hand you have totally no reason to buy a US version as a european >_> the game will be released in September in Europe as well.

If they're going to continue their $-€ bullshit, then yes, there is every reason to get a NA box.

Preorder box: $45 = 36€ at current rates
Monthly: 9-10€ / month

versus

Box: 40€ (will most likely be 50€ though.)
Monthly: 12€-13€ / month

180€ saved over 5 years not even accounting for box/expansions.

Only downside is waiting for box oversea (Digital download available maybe? Steam I'm looking at you) and having to put up with a shittier customer service.

As a comparaison, I saved well over 500€ over 5 years of FFXI using 2 accounts.

[Hyan]

If they're going to continue their $-€ bullshit, then yes, there is every reason to get a NA box.

Monthly: 9-10€ / month

Does that even work anymore in XI?

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Arguing this is probably a slippery slope, but I can't imagine anyone buying a computer and then never using it for anything but the game in question. Computers by definition are multi-tasking tools. The same goes for PS3. Even if you never play another game on it, you probably are still going to use its blu-ray features.

This is also another slippery slope, but you don't need a future-proof next-gen rig to play this game. If you are willing to make your own system, you can find parts for minimum requirements under $250 for a cpu, mobo, and graphics, even cheaper if you buy used. If you have to find a prefab system, it gets harder. Commercial sellers tend to bump the cpu quality several times before the graphics when increasing price.

This gets too subjective to argue, but either way, you make a choice within your means. Nothing else takes from your experience but how you make it. If you choose to (have to) wait for PS3, it sucks, but it's not the end of the world. SE aren't doing it to stick it to the console users (I'm just guessing), so take a breath and just hope for more favorable news in the coming months.

^
We needed a better computer back when we started XI lol. XIV requiring "higher" standards is but one of the needs the new system has to meet. I can't comprehend having to buy a prefabricated system though, too much proprietary crap in systems and that isn't even touching on the hardware we would need to pick through and toss out what we don't want.

Not sure if it is the same for others, just for us its been a backlog of system needs that we pinpointed XIV as a landmark time to set goals to. There are so many deals that come up, buying one-part-at-a-time is not so dramatic on the budget compared to buying it all at once and it works great for catching sales right as they announce them.

One of the major aspects this time around was to make sure everything is upgradeable, up to date within reason and modular because our current system sucks and is outdated in every direction without doing big replacements. It will be nice looking at a "new" pc game and being able to actually run it.

Because we need the pc for so many things including gaming, PS3 has always been a secondary thing and a bit of an aux gaming system.

[Azureo~]

on a few EU websites i normally preorder my games from it says release date sep for ps3 and november 2011 for pc... lol so random, i hope the ps3 is a few months behind but not 6...

[Sinzfeldt]

UK Pre order:

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1569...n/Product.html

[Jinko]

Does that even work anymore in XI?

I am guessing the UK price will be £8.99 a month which is as close as you're going to get to the US price.

Would make sense to say you live in the UK, no ?

If FF14 is anything like FF11 you have to remember that US expansions won't install on EU clients and vice versa.