FFXIV Random Speculation/Question Thread X: "Social life ends tonight."

[Priran]

For the people who are getting shipping information from Amazon, did you order before or after June 30th? This is some bullshit, how is amazon going to ship stuff out of the order they received the orders in. They better have this shit here by tomorrow.

I ordered in late July.

[Murugan]

For the people who are getting shipping information from Amazon, did you order before or after June 30th? This is some bullshit, how is amazon going to ship stuff out of the order they received the orders in. They better have this shit here by tomorrow.

In the past I've had great luck with Amazon on pre-orders with release date delivery, they were always here before noon. I ordered my copy on the 6th, and it is already in the mail as of 10 this morning. I'm located in the US if that helps.

[zalasta]

Did you try making any hide? I heard dying it was tougher.

Actually, it's not that dying that is harder, it's the fact that creating the leather itself is a much higher synthesis than the recipes that use it. For example, making sheep leather from skin is like rank 7-8, but most of the sheepskin gears and parts have a much lower requirement. Taupe sheep leather uses the exact same ingredients as a regular sheep leather, other than the additional dye.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Wait, is the FF13 code unrelated to this code that gave me some BS "Members Points" several months back? Because that is the only code I can find. D:

[goodr]

I have registered 3 different copies of ffxiii to get this working. Xbox didn't work. The first copy of ps3 ffxiii just came with a normal registration code. The other copy of ffxiii had a similar looking piece of paper with a registration code, but when I registered it, it also gave me the 20 digit bonus code for the extra item. Hope that clears things up.

[vivix]

Some Gamestop employee just tried to convince me that the servers weren't going up until 8:00 am Pacific tomorrow. /sigh

[SephYuyX]

Posting in this thread too

For people who dont want to math:

30 days = $9.99 (999 Crysta) + $3.00 (300 Crysta) = $12.99 (1,299 Crysta)
90 days = $26.97 (2,697 Crysta) + $9.00 (900 Crysta) = $35.97 (3,597 Crysta)
180 days = $47.94 (4,794 Crysta) + $18.00 (1,800 Crysta) = $65.94 (6,594 Cyrsta)

500 Crysta (USD 5.00)
1,000 Crysta (USD 10.00)
2,000 Crysta (USD 20.00)
3,000 Crysta (USD 30.00)
5,000 Crysta (USD 50.00)
10,000 Crysta (USD 100.00)

Note you dont need to buy 100$ worth of crysta to do 180 days, you can do 50 and 20.

Yearly Costs:
12 x $12.99 = $155.88 (Save $0)
4 x $35.97 = $143.88 (Save $12)
2 x $65.97 = $131.94 (Save $23.94)

[Kurokikaze]

Didnt have a phone to show them the website? lol

[Brandson]

Has anyone's Amazon order actually shipped yet?

My Amazon.ca order just shipped.

[Sephiroth]

It's kinda funny how XIV will be cheaper than XI if you buy in bulk. And that's not even taking into account inflation since XI's launch. But XI never increased fees for inflation either. XIV is still a bargain however.

[Draylo]

My Amazon.ca order just shipped.

same

[Cray]

I'm so pissed. I did my order on Amazon the first hour it was up and it still hasn't shipped.

[Sky Red]

oh yeah for some crafts color is important, for some it is not.

oh this is just crazy then, Bronze labrys require Buffalo Leather Strap (Ochre) for one of it's mats, that craft so hard for a lvl 9 Gaxe, Hardcore mode on /


@SephYuyX I thought the character fee was only for extra characters, well SE explains it so well. >.>

[Lucavi]

Square likes to eat our tears I heard is the reason

I'll be maging it up, while storing up on all the crafting mats that drop, so they'll have to feed on my tears a bit later in the year.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I think weapons are the worst, since there is really only one recipe for a weapon vs (usually) multiple ones for armor with respect to different dyed gear. Some gear is only available in two colors though, like that bone scale mail, and of course they didn't stick to just having everything 'undyed' as a staple. So being able to buy from vendors or get as a drop of mobs isn't always going to help you out.

[Harajuku]

Order just shipped. :]

[Cichy]

for those who torrented it, how's patching going? I just started seems to be pretty fast at moments

[shirasoma]

One thing I still don't understand with this crafting system is how do miners make their money? Is there some secret to acquiring fire crystals that I'm not aware of? You mine up all this ore and then nobody can do a fucking thing with it. To smelt the ores into nuggets that are useful to blacksmiths and armorsmiths you need fire crystals, not shards. I even heard something about the alchemy recipe to convert shards to crystals no longer worked in open beta? Is that wrong or am I missing something else here?

When I tried this in open beta, I could only get it to turn 1 crystal into 16 shards, and not the other way around. Also, based on the lodestone recipes, I don't think it'll work the other way around, aka. shards -> crystal.

[Cray]

for those who torrented it, how's patching going? I just started seems to be pretty fast at moments

It will slow down a bit but way faster than beta.

[bori]

Anyone's install freezing up at 50-75%? It TERRIBLY slows down my computer to the point of no function, forcing me to restart.