Originally posted by Kyleran

Not a great sign if they are going to start getting "gimicky" about beta invites, I'm growing weary of this cheap marketing ploy.

The people they need to invite are those who are most likely to help make it a better game.

 

Dont thin they were trying to be gimicky, Its only for PS3 beta.I think it is their way to narrow down people who actual own a PS3 and are fans of the series. Flip this on its head, if they opened PS3 closed beta to everyone on the net, they could potentionaly be sending invites to people with out a PS3 and only looking to trade theyre invite for something they want (like money).

I can see where your coming from thought and I agree, just dont think its the case here.

Originally posted by ramvo

Has anyone bought the PC version yet? Was wondering myself if theres a code in the box.

XIII will not be released on the PC, only PS3 / Xbox. Not sure if the xbox version gets a ps3 code, as my version is the ps3 one.

 This also covers the EU too. Im from the UK and I signed up my XIII code about 5 hours ago :) fingers crossed!

Hey just a quick question about getting in on the beta.

I know if you pre-order you get "early game world access on a first come basis". Just wondering if this is the only way to access the beta at this point in time?

Thanks 

I'd like to know this to, I've got an old account that i logged into the other month and my server was dead in EU peak times.

So any info on this subject would be helpful so i can xfere server to a more populated EU server.

Hello, just wondering if you get any in-game bonus from buy Fallen Earth from Steam? I know you get an ATV if you buy directly from the Dev's and a Horse if you buy from Direct2Drive. Anything similar from Steam? I heard there was a Steam branded shirt in-game but that was only for pre-orders I read.

Thanks

Wow 48 hairstyles...

Must admit thats impressive, wonder how many the male characters have.

Hello, I'm a returning player to FFXI starting up on a new account.

My old account had a couple of level 75s (SAM and RNG) which I gave away to a good friend of mine. Interested in starting up again but i have a couple of questions i would like to ask to people in the know.

With WotG how easy is it to solo now? Can jobs like WHM solo well? and about what level does leveling solo hit a brick wall if it does.

Any tips on a sever that might ease the leveling ( like good AH and community)

And are there any great tips for general gil farming, when i used to play I always like to have better than average gear so gil tips would be really helpful in the new AH prices

Thanks guys looking forward to reading some of the answers!

Thanks for the reply, Im gonna start downloading the trial tomorrow.

I am an experianced MMO player and i was wondering if the Guardian class is in demand at all? Or is it like other MMOs where you have to have the connections to tank in raids and other high end PvE stuff?

Hey guys ive been without an MMO for awhile and the current MMOs on the market dont interest me apart from Lotr.

I've got a couple question i'd like to ask before i download the 14day trial.

Firstly whats the population like on the EU servers? Will i be finding it hard to find a guild/group throughout the game from begining to end. Or are the servers going strong?

What classe(s) are in demand? And why are they in demand? if any.

What classe(s) would you recormend to a start out as?

Thanks

Originally posted by Lonesamurai1

Originally posted by Spriggan05

Tip for people in the UK that still need a CE pre-order. Go down to your local HMV and pick up a pre-order box for £10, Has all 3 Pre-order codes inside and once the game is released you get the £10 you spent off the price of the CE.

 

ONLY if two things happen...

 

1, they take your details down as a preorder and, 2, They know what a god damned preorder is...  Which my local HMV didn't, and FFS, even my ex-gf was there (who I gifted with at least a few brain cells to rub together) and no one, even the manager knew it was a preorder so I kicked up a stink

 

So no, thats not the case and now I and two freinds have preorderboxes that aren;tlinked as preorders

Ouch that sucks, you could try and take the receipt with the pre-order box to HMV at launch but judging from what youve said about your HMV store i guess they couldnt put two and two together.

Tip for people in the UK that still need a CE pre-order. Go down to your local HMV and pick up a pre-order box for £10, Has all 3 Pre-order codes inside and once the game is released you get the £10 you spent off the price of the CE.

Agree'd, Looks like they've improved it ALOT, I tested Beta Stage 1 and now the Videos i see from Stage 3, i can tell you its a hell of alot better now.

Originally posted by Vicksburg

Originally posted by Deto123

Originally posted by Vicksburg

I know what I am talking about.

A character that flows up a 25 step stairs in two steps is "floating"' movement and is NOT polished at all.

It is called uneasy control btw.

I just compared it with some stairs in SW: the avatar there takes exaclty the same number of steps as there are stairs in Stormwind Keep.

His steps even come out  exactly.

 

 

Ok just re wathced it. First it s 17 stairs , Second he s running, Third it s 4 steps so actually you re way off. And finally i asked you if you re in beta simply because i am and can assure you , you don t know what you re talking about just from some videos.
 

there are 25 steps and he is on top in just 2.5 passes.

I am not lying everyone can control it.

I look at the video footage for 1 year now and the only thing being added are the lightning effects since about 4 months.

Errr what more would you want them to add? Bright colours? Blocky character models? Out of proportion humans? Oh wait wait wait wait... Thats WoW sorry!

Thats because WoW characters all walk like they have a stick rammed up their arse.

Originally posted by Vicksburg

OK ...Those who don't believe the bad animations and walking speeds.

All watch that video.

Wind up to 1 minute 10 seconds (until the wiz starts running up the stairs.)

It is about a 25 step stair and he does this in just a 2 step run "floating over it".

Clear isn't it ?

 

So you would rather him take ten secs to walk on each and every step just because it would look more relaistic? Sorry but i wouldnt be playing WAR so i could get the best and most accurate Stair walking simulator on the market, no i'd like to think i could walk up and down stairs FAST rather than going into an stair walking animation loop as you seem to want so much.

Wow does excaly the same thing, you know why? because it doesnt break the flow of traveling.

One thing you must remember is that FFXI is a unique MMO in the sense that its on 3 different platforms, PC, PS2 and Xbox360. Must be a task and ahalf to run things on their end sometimes, but to answer your question. My time in FFXI (around 2.5/3years) i did notice alot of downtime compaired to other MMOs, Hurts more for the EU/USA players to because FFXI is running off JP peak times.

sprigganffxi@hotmail.com

Thanks buddy :)

Hello guys, i just have a question or two about the proformance of AoC on laptops of the same spec as mine. My laptop is as follows:

HP Compaq 8510w:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7700 (2.4 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2 cache)

2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M graphics, with up to 256MB dedicated memory (512 MB TurboCache)

Windows XP Pro, SP2

I know its a CAD software laptop but ive been able to play CoD4, Portal and others. I had a Tech beta for AoC but i only got to character creation screen before i alt+F4'd out due to proformance and bugs. I read somewhere that from Open Beta to retail client that the proformance has increased alot.

My question being given my laptops spec, would it be able to run the game at a decent resolution with alot of the eye candy switched on?

Thanks

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Why it wasnt the perfect MMO:

 

Badly ported from console.

The Best version of the game is the PC version, All you need is  a Pad and your set.

No UI to speak of, had to macro all your spells.

You dont have to Macro all your spells, it just made things easier. The macro system was pretty easy and intuitive.

Housing sucked.

I'll give you that, at leat it has housing. Also i heard they've updated it so players can invite other into their house.

Crafting sucked.

I'll also agree to a point, I like the fact that it was so fucking hard to level a craft to 100 that a random guy couldnt walk up and power level it in a day.

Fishing got nerfed so badly that it sucked too - so bad Id rather fish in EQ2, and I cant stand fishing in that game.

Theyve worked on fishing so it involes more player input, to try and get one over on botters.

Quests were hard to find... you practically  had to click on everything just to find one.

Agree'd

Zoning... as bad as EQ2.

Agree'd

Cutscenes.

I loved the cutscenes personaly, made YOU feel like a part of the story rather then having a lame scripted NPC that only one person could interact with at a time

Only those tribble things could be mages... loved them, but why? lol

Tarutaru's MADE the best mages, anyone could be a mage but just not as good as them. All classes were open to all races, just makes scense that the little guys would be better mages than a two handed sword wealding Dark Knight.

Those world codes, you had to know someone in a particular world just to get invited in... otherwise you got a random world.

Yea that was lame, theyve updated now thought so you get a world selection option at the start of character creation.

The airship between areas was annoyingly long.

They were fun but after the 100th time of you being in a rush somewhere they did get annoying.

Economy was screwed up.

Yes indeed, but as much as i'd like to talk bad about SE, they steped it up a notch and started doing something about it awhile back.

Graphics looked like they were filtered through a cheesecloth.

On consoles yes, but on the PC if you know what your doing you can break the graphics/res limit and run it higher. Theres even a downloadable tool called Mogs Tools (I think?) that would do it for you.