Alpha test "soon"

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Originally Posted by Raldo

A vast majority of us will be completely unaffected by Alpha, so I'm not entirely sure what you're looking forward to.

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We'll get tons of new footage and juicy info, how is that completely unaffected?

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Originally Posted by UmJammerSully

We'll get tons of new footage and juicy info, how is that completely unaffected?

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Not to mention the servers will have been shut down. So it affects us all.

Lets put it this way.. When Servers go down, that just mean its the start of something great ^.^.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Lets put it this way.. When Servers go down, that just mean its the start of something great ^.^.

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And the start of:

"We waited almost 2 years for this unfinished relaunch? Really? Fail once again SE"

From the people who take Alpha and Betas as being demos rather than testing environments.

I would be much more worried about the reverse... rushing to put this into alpha/beta testing. I think that's what shot this game in the foot the first time. I remember playing the open beta and with the mouse cursor and ungodly slow UI, I was in shock that they were even considering releasing the game in that state. And sure enough it was not fixed before release and was nearly unplayable for thousands of eager fans that waited YEARS following information on lodestone before launch. They need to deliver and if that means more time upfront now, for a more polished product later, please for the love of god take the extra time.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

And the start of:

"We waited almost 2 years for this unfinished relaunch? Really? Fail once again SE"

From the people who take Alpha and Betas as being demos rather than testing environments.

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I'd hazard to guess there's a good chance they'll shut down the forums save special Alpha- and Beta-only sections for testers.

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Originally Posted by Sephrick

I'd hazard to guess there's a good chance they'll shut down the forums save special Alpha- and Beta-only sections for testers.

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Honestly, I won't be surprised if they even wipe the forums clean at that point since come ARR almost nothing will be relevant anymore lol, so it would make sense if they do make some changes in that regard.

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Originally Posted by Sephrick

I'd hazard to guess there's a good chance they'll shut down the forums save special Alpha- and Beta-only sections for testers.

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I would wanted them to do that, tbh That way they can only hear the voices of the Alpha/Beta people. I also think, they are going to redesign the forums to look like " A Realm Rebornish"

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Originally Posted by Starlord

I would wanted them to do that, tbh That way they can only hear the voices of the Alpha/Beta people. I also think, they are going to redesign the forums to look like " A Realm Rebornish"

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Agreed, it's certainly be for the best.

I'm sure there be a NDA for alpha the game would just be to test the servers. ffxiv 1.0 would be still running with the alpha and the alpha wont be very long maybe 1 week at best from what yoshi-p have said.

But even with NDA people still upload youtube videos they did that for alpha, and beta version of ffxiv 1.0.