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

[Destinye]

didnt you think it was weird that when you fought crawlers in front of windurst, you fought the same model when you were fighting rumble crawlers at 60 or whenever? Same goes with equipment graphics, not to mention they said they were limited on the amounts of stats available on each piece.

I would think its weird if it wasn't typical in MMOs (worst in low/no budget mmos) and RPGs. However they compensated by size differences and later regional differences, e.g volcanic ones were the burgundy eurcas, the cavernous ones in Aht Urghan were the green and black ones.

Model reuse is typical and not a bad thing, no game has completely unique models unless its a 2-4 hour game.

[Gokulo]

Ok, I must say I'm actually confused now: I downloaded the 3gb file using utorrent. Where do I put it now? Sorry if this has been asked before, but I went a couple of pages back and didn't see the answer (just a post saying that he put it in the "correct folder").

Edit:
Ok I think I've figured it out. Seems the file is istalling properly now.

[rithridan]

So if I get this right its the Collector's Edition that comes with the ingame item Onion Helm (shortens raise weakness) and the Standard Edition that comes with the ingame item [blabla] Goggles (increases skill-up rate).

In terms of advantage that really looks like in the long run you'll be better off with the Standard Edition compared to the Collector's Edition assuming the items are unique and there aren't any comparable items ingame.

[Brodan]

For me is authenticator+ probably worse item still better choice. And I still expcect both items to become useless quickly anyway.

[Freelancer]

So if I get this right its the Collector's Edition that comes with the ingame item Onion Helm (shortens raise weakness) and the Standard Edition that comes with the ingame item [blabla] Goggles (increases skill-up rate).

In terms of advantage that really looks like in the long run you'll be better off with the Standard Edition compared to the Collector's Edition assuming the items are unique and there aren't any comparable items ingame.

I wonder if its possible to use both codes and get both items... I'm sure some evil doers out there will sell their codes.

[Metafox]

I know the whole bonus item argument is getting a bit old, but I haven't heard anyone bring up the subject of crafting. It seems like it would be nice to get a little bonus to our crafting skillup rates, assuming it will still be difficult to level up our crafting skills.

[supercoco]

i hope it's as hard as it was @ ff11

[Sephiroth]

Once you're max level/skill, your skill up item is useless. But when you're doing end-game content shortening weakness time could be a big help. It just depends how good the effects are. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another way to obtain the items in-game anyway.

[Mooshywooshy]

Yeah im not sure, but I have a hunch that they could have improved the FFXI graphics for PC had they wanted to, which points to either laziness or cost effect.

[Rustyhagun]

I wonder if its possible to use both codes and get both items... I'm sure some evil doers out there will sell their codes.

I don't remember where it explains it. But, you have to enter your codes and register them before you start creation. Any character created after that will be able to get the items. On the downside, if you created a character from the 8 day head start, you will have the "onion helm" available to you, if you order the regular as well, you would be able to register those goggles on the charater you created 8 day previous, a new character would have to be created to get the goggles and the helm, which makes you loose the the 8 days you played your earlier character. Unless you have a hookup at EB I don't see how you would get the standard item for the day of the 22nd of play.

[Rustyhagun]

i hope it's as hard as it was @ ff11

take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwIi9...layer_embedded

[Lucavi]

They still haven't managed to speed up gathering, it looks like, and I don't mean the animations themselves. I'm talking about how swiftly one gets into and through the menus and into the actual animations. There's still that old, clunky FFXI delay - I dunno if you call that latency or what...

[Gokulo]

I don't remember where it explains it. But, you have to enter your codes and register them before you start creation. Any character created after that will be able to get the items. On the downside, if you created a character from the 8 day head start, you will have the "onion helm" available to you, if you order the regular as well, you would be able to register those goggles on the charater you created 8 day previous, a new character would have to be created to get the goggles and the helm, which makes you loose the the 8 days you played your earlier character. Unless you have a hookup at EB I don't see how you would get the standard item for the day of the 22nd of play.

It doesn't have to work like that. In other games when you get items from some extra "event" your already existing character simply gets an mail with the item attached. I don't see why it should be a problem in this case.

[Hyan]

They still haven't managed to speed up gathering, it looks like, and I don't mean the animations themselves. I'm talking about how swiftly one gets into and through the menus and into the actual animations. There's still that old, clunky FFXI delay - I dunno if you call that latency or what...

Afaik, at the E3 it took the testers like 3-4 seconds to sheathe/unsheathe their weapons too.

I wouldn't be surprised if these two things are part of the same problem.

Oddly enough, I think the actual combat (selecting skills etc.) was much more responsive though, so I've no idea wtf the real issue is.

[qpoiuwer]

They still haven't managed to speed up gathering, it looks like, and I don't mean the animations themselves. I'm talking about how swiftly one gets into and through the menus and into the actual animations. There's still that old, clunky FFXI delay - I dunno if you call that latency or what...

I noticed that too. Kind of worries me, I assumed that would have been fixed by the beta. It's not even like the server was under a lot of stress at that time, since they were the only ones on it.

[Jinko]

Welcome back Hyan

Gathereing is looking very boring I must admit, can understand it taking a long to craft something, but not sure i want to spend that much time gathereing aswell.

[Hyan]

lol thanks ._.

I hope as mobs get 'harder' as you level up a combat class, gathering would become more difficult as well.

Did anyone get Mining to high level in Alpha?

[qpoiuwer]

Welcome back Hyan

Gathereing is looking very boring I must admit, can understand it taking a long to craft something, but not sure i want to spend that much time gathereing aswell.

As long as they increased the rewards from alpha (mine 10 times, get 8 little worms and 2 copper ore), I think it will be fine. Since you can automatically detect mining nodes and player's don't compete, that itself probably makes up for the time it takes actually mining. Quarrying works the same way as mining in FFXI, too.

[supercoco]

As long as they increased the rewards from alpha (mine 10 times, get 8 little worms and 2 copper ore), I think it will be fine. Since you can automatically detect mining nodes and player's don't compete, that itself probably makes up for the time it takes actually mining. Quarrying works the same way as mining in FFXI, too.

if it's like in ff11 , they repop in the same place after X time , or i'm missing something?

[Jinko]

Ahh yea i didn't think about that, there maybe a chance to get a better quality ore/item which would make it more worth while.