Originally posted by Inigo_Montoya
Live letter is April 4 that would mean Beta Phase 2 will be that day or just after . On a side note would be nice if they added captions to the last live letter lol

Agreed been waiting a while for that to happen.

New live letter incoming  how to view the broadcast.

And another article I found not sure if you already have it or not 

1. <blockquote restore="" "="">http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/0...naoki-yoshida/

    

Originally posted by GoldenArrow
FFXIV ARR is something every MMO gamer should be excited about, along with TESO.

 

Agreed sir  ^ ^

Here this should help ya http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/33824-ffxiv-a-realm-reborn-and-everything-you-need-to-know/

Magitek armor for the win 

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Originally posted by Magiknight

Originally posted by drivendawn

Originally posted by Murugan

Originally posted by Magiknight

Originally posted by Murugan

Originally posted by Magiknight

The level progression was fast in the original FFXIV. I did not reach endgame content but I know of people who did after playing for two months. ARR is probably going to have faster progression. You can watch the videos on youtube. As the game stanfs fights are over within seconds and there is no rest between fights. There is nothing to stop you from killing one monster after the next until you're either too bored of fighting or you have reached max level.  Battle tempo is never thought out beyond mashing buttons, sometimes in a particular order. It's like a cross between street fighter and an RPG.

 

Pure conjecture after watching an alpha video not meant to showcase progression but just specific combat changes (alpha did not even contain the bulk of combat mechanics that will be available at launch, or even that were in 1.0)

 

Without the context to place what is shown in those videos your judgement of "how the game will play" is complete speculation and contradicted by statements by the director here.

 

Nova Crystallis: I have a friend who played the original quite a bit and he enjoyed the combat system and toward the end, the higher level challenges. So he’s kind of worried – he wonders, “How is this going to appeal to me?”

Yoshida: Rest assured, come Phase 3 [of the beta] you will be able to bring in your level 50 characters into the game. I know there’s some people who’ve seen the alpha version are saying “Well where’s the regular combos, and I want to see more challenging techniques to be present in the system.” But it’s alpha and only up to level 15, so I deliberately didn’t bring in the complicated systems at this stage because otherwise it would scare off all the new players. So don’t worry, when the game comes out there will definitely be more challenges to be had.

 

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Lol, oh sorry I'm just so used to that being the case that I jumped the gun. Sorry my bad.

Originally posted by Karteli

Awesome, so they lacked the knowledge they needed, and went out to get some.  What did they come up with?  Some sort of auto-grouping anti-social GW2 clone?

More single player throwaway themeparks calling themselves MMO's, horray!

 

Well if you like sandbox this game isnt for you. If you want a solid thempark MMO with a bigtime FF feel, then you will love it.

Originally posted by dwarflordking

Originally posted by Allizar

MMO's have basically split into 2 genre's (good thing IMO)

 

A) Players who want the constant high of fast paced combat, furiously whacking their keyboard and mouse in the attempt to see which one fails first. Little / no social dependancy and tradeskills that involve quickly smashing a few easily obtained items together.  Quick and cheap rewards / gratification but no real way to prevent players from eating through the game content (and no social aspect to keep them there) so there is usually a heavy and simplistic end game grind where you repeat the same thing over and over until you quit.

 

B) Cognitive/tactical MMO's that are more about thinking / choice / interaction than reflex. Involved tradeskills and encounters, slower pased, more social dependancies / oppurtunities and thought out actions complete with consequences. Players have a better chance of being drawn into the game long term (I know people that have played MUD's like this for over 20 years, they will probably never quit) and there is more focus on the journey instead of the end reward.

 

FFXIV: ARR seems to be more in the B catagory, which is exactly what I'm looking for

seem like your just talkin crap about A

in B, you mean boring auto everything, auto aim , auto block, strictly gear dependent, stand there and press hot keys claiming its skills

 

Lol, like your any better with this polar opposite post. I can like both if they are done right.

Originally posted by neobahamut20

Originally posted by Kajidourden

Originally posted by Khrymson
Keep in mind though, Yoshi-P did say in a recent interview that the PS3 ver shown in the latest videos is only at 75% optimised.  Thats why the frames are so low with the horrible screen tearing.

Guess nobody is reading the whole thread.  Go figure.

Guess we have someone new to the world of MMOs. Welcome Newfriend!

They never fix it. Its why people ignored that; we are compelled to think that that person is a PR shill for SQEX.

Yoshi has pulled off everything he said he would, got no doubt he will on this as well .

Originally posted by DAOWAce

Originally posted by jordank23

All incorrect.  Game looks better, runs smoother, plays smoother and feels smoother.  You good sir must be a lot of fun to be around.

No need to quote my entire post.

Have you even played the game?

It looks worse, it runs better, it plays smoother. It also feels like WoW instead of FFXIV, which made me stop playing the alpha.

While it's most likely improved since then, it's still using auto-attack combat, meaning I won't be wasting my time with it despite wanting to love FFXIV since its release.

Have to disagree with you on the WOW thing but hey hope you find the game your lookin for.