Why jot down January 7th?

Beta app is the best speculation.

My first guess is releasing a Road Map with dates for the beta testing schedule.... but then after shooting myself down on the possiblity of that reality... I have to agree with the majority of people here of the beta app.
However, I think the majority of us here don't even need to apply for the beta, so it seems kinda mean getting our hopes up for something we dont need lol.

Awesome letter by Yoshi-P and we wish the entire Dev Team a wonderful New Year as well.

I've stared very very very hard at the new artwork trying to figure it out and read the excellent speculations in this thread... yeah, I agree that Jan 7th might be another Live letter launching the benchmark. But what really intrigued me the most in that pic was why the snake was wearing a Paragon's Crown. No mistaking it.

Methinks its time for some very speculative feedback analysis:

• First, I think the crown represents us, the players, who are paragons because we are part of the guiding force in the rebirth of the game. The year of the snake generally represents good luck but actually because it is also the year of the Water Snake, there will be much wisdom and intelligence as well.
  
• Thus, perhaps Yoshi is counting on the benevolence of the year of the snake and our feedback to guide him and his team... perhaps his holding of the beloved Artemis bow shows that we could guide him in aiming for all the necessary targets he needs to hit to make ARR a phenomenal success.
  
• Plus, we guess he's shedding his old skin (version 1.0?) and coming out with guns-- no wait--bows and arrows blazing in 2.0.
  
• Next, the Fire Bomb keeping his coffee warm is a great touch... bombs are one of the most re-occuring mobs in the FF series. Totally represents that he and his team have completely tamed the "time bomb" that was 1.0 before it grew out of control and wreaked havoc on their honor.
  
• The baby chocobo maybe represents a part of the game that is still in its infancy stages but could evolve into something very dynamic and exciting...(remember the Chocobos with job classes?)
  
• Finally, the baby behemoth... dunno, but if he's holding Yoshi's arrows, he's important. I tentatively speculate that if the chocobo represents something in gameplay, then maybe the behemoth perhaps represents something in the storyline? Yoshi and his Team did say Gameplay, Graphics and Storylines were important to them for 2.0. (By the way, I totally NEED that behemoth armour for my personal Chocobo).

Meh... I've rambled and speculated enough (yeah I'm bored). Happy New Year again everyone... be well.

The helmet shows the Samurai class being announced.

The baby behemoth shows the Beastmaster class being announced.

What... one can hope ;D

And I'm pretty sure it will be the day the benchmark gets released as well

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Originally Posted by Kluya15

The helmet shows the Samurai class being announced.

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We've had those helmets both years during the New Years event, I wouldn't read into it too much. He did say Samurai would be sometime down the line, but realistically I wouldn't expect anything more than Arcanist to be ready for launch. Unless they have a giant trick in their bag they haven't released yet.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

Unless they have a giant trick in their bag they haven't released yet.

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*How much we know about ARR*

Lets leave it at that

maybe they will show us arcanist/ summoner gameplay for first time :|

My money is on the benchmark or beta invites for legacy players

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Originally Posted by Lady

My first guess is releasing a Road Map with dates for the beta testing schedule.... but then after shooting myself down on the possiblity of that reality... I have to agree with the majority of people here of the beta app.
However, I think the majority of us here don't even need to apply for the beta, so it seems kinda mean getting our hopes up for something we dont need lol.

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the roadmap is long out already :) http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...er/index2.html

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Originally Posted by Heavell

maybe they will show us arcanist/ summoner gameplay for first time :|

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Wouldn't be a bad idea especially considering we've seen absolutely nothing from arcanist since the concept art came out.

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Originally Posted by Colino

Wouldn't be a bad idea especially considering we've seen absolutely nothing from arcanist since the concept art came out.

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yea i would like to see that too

so much hype for a benchmark.... I'm hoping it's something else lmao... we already know how our PCs will run for ARR

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Originally Posted by Forgo

beta site up and benchmark O.O or i would have to re eat my shoe

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww....

What are you a cow???!!!

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Originally Posted by HiirNoivl

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww....

What are you a cow???!!!

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only on days that end in y......>.> <.< O.o

Iirc yoshi said something about showing the book auto attack in the next live letter. It would make sense to me to put out another one since it will be in between alpha and beta. Also, they are gonna need to balance arcanist along with every other class so at this point holding back info on arcanist /smn is irrelevant

To summarize im thinking live letter with arcanist gameplay and some other goodies because let's face it. Yoshi knows the community is suffering die to the downtime and hes gonna want to pull us back in every now and again. Gonna x fingers for it ^^.

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Originally Posted by KaiserDrill

Iirc yoshi said something about showing the book auto attack in the next live letter. It would make sense to me to put out another one since it will be in between alpha and beta. Also, they are gonna need to balance arcanist along with every other class so at this point holding back info on arcanist /smn is irrelevant

To summarize im thinking live letter with arcanist gameplay and some other goodies because let's face it. Yoshi knows the community is suffering die to the downtime and hes gonna want to pull us back in every now and again. Gonna x fingers for it ^^.

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On every live letter he posts the date and time well in advance. Since he only offered a date and I doubt he'll get us excited just to post another date for the live letter, I doubt it is a live letter announcement... But since he wants us to come particularly only on january 7 (since he chose to use the words jot down), what he may want to present us could be limited time only...

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Originally Posted by Kirito

On every live letter he posts the date and time well in advance. Since he only offered a date and I doubt he'll get us excited just to post another date for the live letter, I doubt it is a live letter announcement... But since he wants us to come particularly only on january 7 (since he chose to use the words jot down), what he may want to present us could be limited time only...

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That's not good! i work Monday!! D:

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Originally Posted by Warlock

That's not good! i work Monday!! D:

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I doubt he'll make it so limited but maybe a week or two...

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Originally Posted by Warlock

That's not good! i work Monday!! D:

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Japan Workday Monday is Sunday 4pm to midnight on the west coast (PST).
Pro Tip: Check late Sunday or early Monday before work. :)

You could be right. But like i said yoshi wanted to show that auto attack in the next live letter. If we're gonna play arcanist in beta (and i sure as hell hope we do because if anything needs to be balaned amd debugged it's a pet class) he might wanna show us that before we can play it or it would make no sense

Great way to get people to play arr beta: show new class footage. We know virtually nothing about arcanist/summoner. Other than the two concept arts from the teaser site which are confusing at best, we got some concept art of weapons. All we know is arcanist is a dot and debuff specialist with carby and books. Look at all the speculation about smn. I dont wanna derail this thread but summoner is way too vague at this point.

And i do think theyve got a bunch more tricks up tneir sleeves we dont know about. I have a feeling it's not just 1 class we're getting. Who knows? That pic could be hinting that they're going to do the whole one class/multiple jobs thing. If an archer can become a bard, why couldnt they become a bst as well XD. Have the mob you charm tank while you sitmback and shoot arrows.

January 7th, Can mean something good is coming from SE. We can see a number of things which haven't seen yet or expecting to see. Some thoughts below:

ARR Benchmark
Beta App. Opening
Uldah & Limsa new city layout.
Arcanist/Summoner game play video.
New Class/job announcement
Beta invitations for legacy players start going out

or.....:rolleyes:

ALL OF THE ABOVE will be announced.

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Originally Posted by KaiserDrill

You could be right. But like i said yoshi wanted to show that auto attack in the next live letter. If we're gonna play arcanist in beta (and i sure as hell hope we do because if anything needs to be balaned amd debugged it's a pet class) he might wanna show us that before we can play it or it would make no sense

Great way to get people to play arr beta: show new class footage. We know virtually nothing about arcanist/summoner. Other than the two concept arts from the teaser site which are confusing at best, we got some concept art of weapons. All we know is arcanist is a dot and debuff specialist with carby and books. Look at all the speculation about smn. I dont wanna derail this thread but summoner is way too vague at this point.

And i do think theyve got a bunch more tricks up tneir sleeves we dont know about. I have a feeling it's not just 1 class we're getting. Who knows? That pic could be hinting that they're going to do the whole one class/multiple jobs thing. If an archer can become a bard, why couldnt they become a bst as well XD. Have the mob you charm tank while you sitmback and shoot arrows.

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I doubt we'll get any more footage till closed beta. Once closed beta starts I expect there to be beta preview similar to how the alpha had it. We can hear more about the arcanist class through the blog in final fantasy xiv site. Now with auto attack I honestly don't know what much can be seen from auto attack footage. It will probably be like 1.0 where you character just does a melee and I think a regular melee was shown on the battle footage.

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Originally Posted by DarkkenMoneybags

January 7th, Can mean something good is coming from SE. We can see a number of things which haven't seen yet or expecting to see. Some thoughts below:

ARR Benchmark
Beta App. Opening
Uldah & Limsa new city layout.
Arcanist/Summoner game play video.
New Class/job announcement
Beta invitations for legacy players start going out

or.....:rolleyes:

ALL OF THE ABOVE will be announced.

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I highly doubt there will be any gameplay video of the arcanist/summoner class yet since by now the only real testing done would have been from SE's testers. It would make more sense for them to release a gameplay video of the classes after closed beta comes out and they've properly refined it since what would be the point of showing a video of a character that could be completely changed if (hypothetically) the majority of players deem that it as not fun to use...

Going with beta apps start on the 7th.

Benchmark, Opening movie, gameplay trailer, (Making of ffxiv vidoe)...?

It will be.....

The Return of the.....

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7felcXYao1r1cg0n.png

with this music....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI

Be sure not to miss it! lol

and of course the imperials with this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzntZLHcYy0

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Originally Posted by KairiSgheart

It will be.....

The Return of the.....

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7felcXYao1r1cg0n.png

with this music....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI

Be sure not to miss it! lol

and of course the imperials with this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzntZLHcYy0

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its possible
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7...p42banner1.jpg

Well the baby behemoth is carrying Yoshi's arrows, but we all know there won't be arrows in 2.0. So poor baby behemoth is prolly gone too /cry. And the snake with moogle wings/crown? Ooooobviously new playable race: Moogle, New Class: Morpher. Duh, how did we miss that?

Lol I thought Beta was over.. I remember a while ago they said they'd release ARR by the end of December. Now they are talking about Beta in January? lol..
So when can we expect to actually see a functioning game?

solace, beta will start sometime in feb, not jan. Alpha just ended, they announced a while back they are way behind schedule.

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Originally Posted by Sirakitty

the roadmap is long out already :) http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...er/index2.html

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/Sigh... i said with dates... you had my hopes up for nothing! :P

It will be the launch of the beta application website which is already confirmed to be coming early this month.

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Originally Posted by jojober

Well the baby behemoth is carrying Yoshi's arrows, but we all know there won't be arrows in 2.0. So poor baby behemoth is prolly gone too /cry. And the snake with moogle wings/crown? Ooooobviously new playable race: Moogle, New Class: Morpher. Duh, how did we miss that?

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Moogle FTW.

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Originally Posted by strallaalaa

lol is that a human sachel he is wearing around his waste lmao

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He's shedding his skin and attire.

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Originally Posted by Galliano

He's shedding his skin and attire.

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Or it's ARC/BRD ability Decoy.

I think people are reading too much into it. >.>

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Originally Posted by Solace

Lol I thought Beta was over.. I remember a while ago they said they'd release ARR by the end of December. Now they are talking about Beta in January? lol..
So when can we expect to actually see a functioning game?

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Do you actually ever read through your own troll threads after creating them?

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Originally Posted by Alerith

Or it's ARC/BRD ability Decoy.

I think people are reading too much into it. >.>

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Yeah, I insantly thought of the "Decoy" ability when I saw the floppy hanging Yoshi-P lol.

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Originally Posted by Solace

Lol I thought Beta was over.. I remember a while ago they said they'd release ARR by the end of December. Now they are talking about Beta in January? lol..
So when can we expect to actually see a functioning game?

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Somebody hasn't been paying attention. Seriously, where did you come up with this load of crap?

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

Somebody hasn't been paying attention. Seriously, where did you come up with this load of crap?

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yeah i seen his comment and first i thought he got confused or mixed it up with alpha. then i read it over again and none of it made any sense which then to me i knew it was foundation of troll work!

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Originally Posted by stanleyyoung

yeah i seen his comment and first i thought he got confused or mixed it up with alpha. then i read it over again and none of it made any sense which then to me i knew it was foundation of troll work!

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GREAT SCOTT!!! :O

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Originally Posted by stanleyyoung

yeah i seen his comment and first i thought he got confused or mixed it up with alpha. then i read it over again and none of it made any sense which then to me i knew it was foundation of troll work!

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http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...WJiADhl9-k.jpg

lol i put this on the meme thread but it fits here too XD