Letter from the Producer, XLIII (02/15/2013) [Beta Phase I annouced 25 Feb]

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Originally Posted by Myranda

Apparently Yoshi-P giving us a beta date summoned down the real life Meteor o.O

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro..._share_toolbar

Who wants to go Bahamut hunting in Russia?? (seriously the shockwave from that thing was loud enough to be his roar, blowing out the glass from windows, just check the videos in the article!)

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Yeah I saw that (online) today! It was neat to look at, but the people that had to go through all that, I pray for them deeply. Bahamut! Get back in your own Realm!

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Originally Posted by Radacci

I don't know what the fck i'm doing here, but i'm loving it!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo...d4llo1_400.gif

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New mount: Mover
http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...Mover-FFIX.jpg

(But seriously, I'd love to see this monster in an endgame area.)

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Originally Posted by mbncd

That looks like a female roegadn to me.

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I'm just going to say that in game I'm probably not going to be able to tell the difference lol

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Originally Posted by mbncd

That looks like a female roegadn to me.

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Whatever it is its fugly for sure

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Whatever it is its fugly for sure

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you think thats ugly? Don't get out much, do you?

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Originally Posted by Lady

you think thats ugly? Don't get out much, do you?

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I think for a Muscular lady, she's Gorgeous!

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Originally Posted by Lady

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to.../16/8823_4.jpg
Think its weak against Stone?

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rofl, I think all the Lala's in the shot will be weak against stone.

*Squsish*

*Stone Golem's culinary ranked up*

*Learned Lala-Pancake*

They should let the beta invites preload. If beta qualifiers are getting into beta why not cut the initial server load and start allowing preload and unlock on the 25th.

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Originally Posted by Sarnath

They should let the legacy preload. I'm not saying we are in any way better than anybody but if it's known most legacy qualifiers are getting into beta why not cut the initial server load and start allowing preload and unlock on the 25th.

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I'd presume it's because testing the initial server load is part of what this whole thing's about!

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to.../16/8823_2.jpg

At first I thought it was a Female Highlander because of the ears, but she's wearing Roegadyn starting gear...

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...V-roegadyn.jpg
The concept art definitely has pointy ears... :confused: :confused:
http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/a...ensa05/055.jpg
But then again, Merwyb apparently doesn't...
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...31OdblrAXgg6g8
so maybe F. Roes get to choose what kind of ears they want??

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Originally Posted by Valthier

No email here yet either, they may just be sending them out in spurts or someone forgot to push the "Send" button!

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"...on their way" means the hand is slowly creeping toward the Send button. It'll probably make contact in a few days.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Whatever it is its fugly for sure

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I really don't see anything ugly about her at all and gladly look forward to the opportunity to make a female character in this game that does not look either anorexic or infantile. She looks strong and healthy and mature, like any good adventurer should be ^_^

That Gollum is huge D:

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Originally Posted by Shougun

rofl, I think all the Lala's in the shot will be weak against stone.

*Squsish*

*Stone Golem's culinary ranked up*

*Learned Lala-Pancake*

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D'= That harsh! It's not like Mashed Hyur or Pate D'elezen will be much harder for it.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

I really don't see anything ugly about her at all and gladly look forward to the opportunity to make a female character in this game that does not look either anorexic or infantile. She looks strong and healthy and mature, like any good adventurer should be ^_^

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I fully agree with everything you said. I'm really loving how female roegadyn looks like for those same reasons.
And I noticed that the only type of "pretty" that most people like is the cute/moe kind. Like miqo'te and female hyurs. To each their own.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

I really don't see anything ugly about her at all and gladly look forward to the opportunity to make a female character in this game that does not look either anorexic or infantile. She looks strong and healthy and mature, like any good adventurer should be ^_^

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I agree! While theres nothing wrong with being skinny, I love the look of female hilanders and rogadyns :) they are beautiful!

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Originally Posted by 3Jane

The perfect Birthday gift for me as mine falls on the 25th :) 'GuildHest' some kind of american-englsh localisation? :P

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There is an explanation to that! In long, it's here, by none other than Fernehalwes.

In short, 'Guildhest' has been formed the same way that the word 'Guildleve' has.

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Originally Posted by Vydos

I fully agree with everything you said. I'm really loving how female roegadyn looks like for those same reasons.
And I noticed that the only type of "pretty" that most people like is the cute/moe kind. Like miqo'te and female hyurs..

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

I agree! While theres nothing wrong with being skinny, I love the look of female hilanders and rogadyns :) they are beautiful!

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Notice how f. Elezen are always forgotten? :(
http://justreveal.files.wordpress.co...zen_female.jpg

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Originally Posted by Yrusama

"...on their way" means the hand is slowly creeping toward the Send button. It'll probably make contact in a few days.

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The invites will go out mid day, meaning 3 hours before the end of the day PST.

OMG I CANT FUKING WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

Notice how f. Elezen are always forgotten? :(
http://justreveal.files.wordpress.co...zen_female.jpg

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Not forgotten, just not as strong looking as that female roegadn. If I could get some meat on the bones of my Crystal character, I'd be very happy with my female elezen. I mean, really, I spend all day mining and then smithing, or chopping down trees and doing heavy carpentry work, and don't get even a little muscle from all that hard work? She looks like a toothpick, and not the tasty kind.

this is me after the letter and knowing i can't wait for beta ; ; lol
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma...cel6o1_500.gif

I'm surprised the newsletter e-mail came on time this time, not 2-3 weeks after it was announced. LOL

Hope they keep it up :)

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

Notice how f. Elezen are always forgotten? :(
http://justreveal.files.wordpress.co...zen_female.jpg

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I haven't seen much content with male kitties either. Sure there's that one trailer, but one would think they'd show off alot of the Fem Roes, Femlanders, and Male'qote since they are the "new" races.

YAY!! I finally have a date so I don't keep having random moments where I girlishly whine "Ugh I want Beta!" lol ^_^

Although I'm having such an inner conflict now on if I should keep my character as is or go female highlander >_<;
They're so pretty!! But I played this one for 2 years that I feel like I'm obligated to keep her as is lol.
*Sigh* Damn my brain for not being able to decide! XD
I wonder if the woman in the second picture under the female midlander is another midlander or a female highlander cause the face doesnt look like any of the midlander choices from 1.0

or could just be more face options for midlander lol.
Either way this calls for a happy dance!
*runs away dancing happily*

Yoshi-P, I totally sympathize with you on the flight anxiety. I hate flying, too. :P

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Originally Posted by Gemma

YAY!! I finally have a date so I don't keep having random moments where I girlishly whine "Ugh I want Beta!" lol ^_^

Although I'm having such an inner conflict now on if I should keep my character as is or go female highlander >_<;
They're so pretty!! But I played this one for 2 years that I feel like I'm obligated to keep her as is lol.
*Sigh* Damn my brain for not being able to decide! XD
I wonder if the woman in the second picture under the female midlander is another midlander or a female highlander cause the face doesnt look like any of the midlander choices from 1.0

or could just be more face options for midlander lol.
Either way this calls for a happy dance!
*runs away dancing happily*

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Well, say that your Female was, in fact, a female highlander, but she was very young when she was fighting against Nael Darnus and the forces that brought about Dalamud's fall. And that mysteriously, while your compatriots managed to travel through time, unaffected, your character aged in hibernation five years.

That's pretty much what I'm going to do with Lin.

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Originally Posted by Meatdawg

Common sense just dictated the 25th or thereafter. Once the Live letter date was picked it pretty much sealed the 25th.

That gives you one more week of Fire Emblem. You should be happy it's a good game, although i get a headache looking at a 3ds longer then 30 minutes.

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More like getting to play Metal Gear Rising for a whole week before beta. I am just fine with waiting. :)

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Originally Posted by Velhart

More like getting to play Metal Gear Rising for a whole week before beta. I am just fine with waiting. :)

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I herd that game was like less then 10 hours long ><

Hopefully it will last you till the 25th

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Originally Posted by Meatdawg

I herd that game was like less then 10 hours long ><

Hopefully it will last you till the 25th

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With cutscenes, you could probably double that. Metal Gear Solid 4 was pretty much 10-12 hours of gameplay, hours and hours of cutscenes. Doesn't matter though, the cutscenes are extremely enjoyable.

For benchmark, I am sure it will be around sometime next week, the 22nd at latest. Also, I think the Rogaedyn female is pretty hot. When I first heard of female Rogaedyns, I was thinking of a male Galka in a tutu and a bow on top of his head. Ohh how I was wrong big time when I saw Merlwyb.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

I'm surprised the newsletter e-mail came on time this time, not 2-3 weeks after it was announced. LOL

Hope they keep it up :)

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The newsletter at 8:00 am was saddening... I almost thought it was the beta pass...

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Originally Posted by mbncd

I really don't see anything ugly about her at all and gladly look forward to the opportunity to make a female character in this game that does not look either anorexic or infantile. She looks strong and healthy and mature, like any good adventurer should be ^_^

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I wasn't talking about her physique :) Just the facial structure and nose thing that the Galka have goin on doesn't do it for me s'all. Each to their own though ...

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Originally Posted by Lady

you think thats ugly? Don't get out much, do you?

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Don't get out much? I fail to see the correlation here, unless you live in a place with a lot of ugly masculine looking women? Most women I see (in the real world) look like women...

Don't get me wrong I'm not hating on the Galka or referring to her physique, just don't care much for the facial structure of them. No need to comment like that, I gave my opinion - I didn't say anything about you personally -_- ...

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Don't get out much? I fail to see the correlation here, unless you live in a place with a lot of ugly masculine looking women? Most women I see (in the real world) look like women...

Don't get me wrong I'm not hating on the Galka or referring to her physique, just don't care much for the facial structure of them. No need to comment like that, I gave my opinion - I didn't say anything about you personally -_- ...

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wow... about a 9 on the reaction scale don't you think?

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/u...eo-400x300.jpghttp://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to.../16/8823_2.jpg

Enough said about Roegadyn Female...

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Originally Posted by Lady

wow... about a 9 on the reaction scale don't you think?

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I think you might need to go back and read my post again Lady - There wasn't/isn't anything in there that could be taken as me going off on one. You were the one to make a snarky comment -_-....

You're one of the people whose comments I normally enjoy reading and like most of them.
This one was just shitty though, no idea why you felt the need to make the whole getting out much comment.

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Originally Posted by IronSoup

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/u...eo-400x300.jpghttp://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to.../16/8823_2.jpg

Enough said about Roegadyn Female...

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Oh dear lord...

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...eed1/unsee.png

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Originally Posted by Stephen

I think you might need to go back and read my post again Lady - There wasn't/isn't anything in there that could be taken as me going off on one. You were the one to make a snarky comment -_-....

You're one of the people whose comments I normally enjoy reading and like most of them.
This one was just shitty though, no idea why you felt the need to make the whole getting out much comment.

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Now you're swearing at me? Dude, I didn't do anything other than imply that if you think that that lady was ugly, you haven't seen ugly women.. sheesh..

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Originally Posted by Stephen

I think you might need to go back and read my post again Lady - There wasn't/isn't anything in there that could be taken as me going off on one. You were the one to make a snarky comment -_-....

You're one of the people whose comments I normally enjoy reading and like most of them.
This one was just shitty though, no idea why you felt the need to make the whole getting out much comment.

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lol, I remember on the meme thread when I was messing with Hiir talking about pretty boys vs "manly men", and she took my comment about my eyes being more privileged than hers too seriously. Your comments remind me of her response. XD

I think you guys need to calm down a tad. It's all fun and games, ladies and germs.

Everything is so Grand looking! :D /excitement