Info on Early Access (including times!) and question...

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...723b86c22fee5fhttp://i.imgur.com/stney.gif

Key infos include;

Start Time : From Friday, June 19, 2015 at 2:00 a.m. (PDT)

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Windows/Steam users
Users who have registered their early access codes and are currently playing FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will have their game client updated automatically as we near early access and will not need to download a separate client. Users who do not have the FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn client can download it here.
(http://sqex.to/ffxiv_client_en)

PlayStation®3 / PlayStation®4 (physical package version)
After registering the pre-order promotion code*, you will be prompted to download the client from PlayStation Store. * This is scheduled to be delivered before the start of early access.

PlayStation®3 / PlayStation®4 (PSN download version)
After pre-ordering from PlayStation Store, you will be prompted to enable automatic downloads to have the game pre-loaded on your console starting June 17, 2015. The Heavensward software will be available for pre-load two days before Early Access begins and will automatically download to your PS3/PS4 if automatic downloads are enabled. (Click here to learn how to enable pre-loading on PS3/PS4.)

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Now my question is in regards to the DX11 client...is this going to be made available as well prior to the EA start, or after?

Why do expansion launches always have to happen at like 4 in the morning >.<

I was at least hoping for JP midnight.

wont be home till sunday anyway I hope they fix all the bugs and log in issues by than

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Originally Posted by Callinon

Why do expansion launches always have to happen at like 4 in the morning >.<

I was at least hoping for JP midnight.

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JP Midnight is great for Americans! (At least, those that don't have to work or go to school.)

...not so great for JP. "Yay, my game is being updated and I can finally try out Heavensward! At least until I collapse from exhaustion after a couple hours! Woo!"

4am in America is just about perfect for prime time play in Japan, which is why they do it. Being, you know, a Japanese game, and all... Just accept it, and go to bed early the night before. :3

9am gmt... not too bad :3

This is why I changed shifts on the 18th and took the 19th off.

Do we know if the DX11 client will include a DX9 option on it? Much in the same way as the benchmark does? Otherwise I'd want to have both available in case there's some serious issues that come out at launch.

The bug...... -_-

Early access starting in the morning is not all bad. It being early in the morning might lower the chance that the servers will instantly crash from the load. Just imagine if they launched it in prime time. That seems like an accident waiting to happen.

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Originally Posted by SovereignAegis

The bug...... -_-

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I'm excited about it starting in the morning tbh. I would have been up all night on the 18th otherwise just because of the anticipation. At least, now when I pass out around 3 pm est from a lack of sleep, I will have had some quality time with my Au Ra machinist.

The only thing missing from the lodestone page is information about the DX11 client...
Community reps, please say something about this.

so 5am est. I think im going to knock out early and then get up at 5 to play before work at 8. so glad they told us the time so early

Looked at the page, looks like there is a one week grace period to enter your actual expansion code since EA ends on Sat the 27th. Your character needs to be out of an expansion area if you somehow don't have it by then unless they implement some kind of teleport.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

The only thing missing from the lodestone page is information about the DX11 client...
Community reps, please say something about this.

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Read this: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...for_beginners/

Calling it DX11 client is most likely a pretty poor wording choice. You'll download the same things as everybody else, and just have to select DX11 somewhere in the game config wills if you want to use it.

I'm working on day 1. I think that's probably a good thing. In the past any major release involved with this game has been very rocky. I truly hope they have done something like renting out additional server capacity, if anything for a temporary solution to the huge volume they will be dealing with. I don't want to be sitting here again, reading "we had more then expected players" or something. This game is exploding in popularity. So you know at least that. True you don't know an exact number. IDK if its as simple as temporarily adding server capacity for something like this. Just hoping they are prepping so it don't blow up on early access, or on launch day. I'm sure when I try to login on balmung it'll be like um sorry dude your 3000 in line. But ill be happy so long as its not the fiasco of 2.0 where you couldn't even connect or queue to login. I know the queuing was re-designed to help with this so we may be good. Here's hoping. lol Oh god just thought, "reserving instance..." for DF. God be with us. -excited

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Originally Posted by Hustensaft

Read this: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...for_beginners/

Calling it DX11 client is most likely a pretty poor wording choice. You'll download the same things as everybody else, and just have to select DX11 somewhere in the game config wills if you want to use it.

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I read it, but I'd still like some official word on this rather than speculation that seem likely.

Heh, I love how Square Enix left out EU PS4 users in this information. Some clarification is needed on whether we can download it from midnight 19th or 14 hours later during the usual store update. I'd also like to know if we still get preorder bonuses even if PSN goes down.

Doubt we'll get any more information though, SE could care less about EU customers.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

JP Midnight is great for Americans! (At least, those that don't have to work or go to school.)

...not so great for JP. "Yay, my game is being updated and I can finally try out Heavensward! At least until I collapse from exhaustion after a couple hours! Woo!"

4am in America is just about perfect for prime time play in Japan, which is why they do it. Being, you know, a Japanese game, and all... Just accept it, and go to bed early the night before. :3

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I find that rather irrelevant when they have players from around the world. If they sell and make the game available to all then it certainly is more then Japan. Other places in the world do exist! :) I will be doing same thing I did during ARR launch..lol sleeping, and by time I wake up hopefully they'll fix most of the login issues hah.

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Originally Posted by DarthBuzzer

Heh, I love how Square Enix left out EU PS4 users in this information. Some clarification is needed on whether we can download it from midnight 19th or 14 hours later during the usual store update. I'd also like to know if we still get preorder bonuses even if PSN goes down.

Doubt we'll get any more information though, SE could care less about EU customers.

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They didn't leave out EU PS4 users. OP linked the NA lodestone, not the EU lodestone.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6e106d2f23f2c9

Some of the online retailers are not emailing out early access codes until the 19th. I'm sure it's not going to be at 12:01 A.M. either, which means that early access is starting to look less and less early.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

I read it, but I'd still like some official word on this rather than speculation that seem likely.

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The last official word was that DX11 would be a separate client that would have to be downloaded and installed separately. However, since then the benchmark was released and it (at least) doesn't appear to be as separate as we were led to believe.

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Originally Posted by Gyson

Some of the online retailers are not emailing out early access codes until the 19th. I'm sure it's not going to be at 12:01 A.M. either, which means that early access is starting to look less and less early.

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Even if you get the codes on the 19th, and won't be able to play until the 20th... That's still early.

So for UK because its BST it will be 10am. Nice :D

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

Even if you get the codes on the 19th, and won't be able to play until the 20th... That's still early.

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Yes, X-1 or more days of early access is my definition of "less and less early" when compared to X days of early access.

Even though I knew it, I am still disappointed existing account holders who are switching to OSX will not have access to the early release.

Midnight launch for me, lol. Perfect time, as it's like going out to a midnight release, but I get to stay home instead of driving anywhere.....

At least so long as this holds true.....

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PlayStation®3 / PlayStation®4 (physical package version)
After registering the pre-order promotion code*, you will be prompted to download the client from PlayStation Store. * This is scheduled to be delivered before the start of early access.

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Does anyone know yet how large the 'patch' is going to be? Are we talking 2 GB? 5? 10? 30?

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Originally Posted by Drako

Do we know if the DX11 client will include a DX9 option on it? Much in the same way as the benchmark does? Otherwise I'd want to have both available in case there's some serious issues that come out at launch.

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The DX11 client will probably not be as big as you think it's going to be, and it'll probably be a simple switch. It usually is for games that allow it (WoW and Civ V come to mind)

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

Does anyone know yet how large the 'patch' is going to be? Are we talking 2 GB? 5? 10? 30?

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They've mentioned HW would probably cause the game to exceed 60 gigs, but I don't know if that's how big it'll actually be.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

I find that rather irrelevant when they have players from around the world. If they sell and make the game available to all then it certainly is more then Japan. Other places in the world do exist! :) I will be doing same thing I did during ARR launch..lol sleeping, and by time I wake up hopefully they'll fix most of the login issues hah.

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With a worldwide game, SOMEONE is going to get screwed over. XD

Better to start the launch sometime when the devs will still be awake to field any problems that arise. And problems WILL arise.

Yes, the folks at SE will be burning the midnight oil that night, anyway, so it's for the best that they don't start buring that oil STARTING at midnight...