Servers will shut down prior to 2.0 for an unspecified amount of time (they won't run simultaneously as stated previously) and original players will be priority for the beta!
I hope theyre not down longer than a week! I'll go crazy!
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08...relaunch-a-re/
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08-17-2012, 04:14 PMRikkCavalierWARNING: Server Shutdown!
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08-17-2012, 04:17 PMHitokuQuote:
Originally Posted by RikkCavalier
you will survive no worries -
08-17-2012, 04:20 PMKiriA500
I have other games to play, so I won't be too upset with the downtime.
Sucks for people who only play this though. -
08-17-2012, 04:24 PMKeres
This was mentioned back in some of the E3 interviews. But no worries, we all have lives outside of this game.....right? :p
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08-17-2012, 04:29 PMChrees
They'll be shut down for up to a month while the data is transferred, so...
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08-17-2012, 04:39 PMKumaAkuma
Uhm there is an alpha before the beta, so you'll be waiting way more than just a week.
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08-17-2012, 04:47 PMHysterior
take that time to go outside and check what grass looks like
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08-17-2012, 04:54 PMFusionx
This is old news, we heard about this during our interview at E3-
Keep in mind, the month is only for transferring character data from 1.xx to 2.0. HOWEVER, they are still using the beta to gather feedback and this time they want to make sure they do the beta process correctly and act on all the feedback. So really we're looking at the game being down for more like 2, maybe 3 months while they get feedback and make changes in addition to transferring the character data.Quote:
GE: Speaking of Beta, will there be downtime between current game and 2.0?
Yoshida: What’s going to happen is that after the current version is finished and storyline over, the servers will go down and the 2.0 beta will start up. We want to make sure we don’t make the same mistake as before, and want to be sure we have enough time not only for the beta test but also to get feedback from the players and leave enough time to implement that feedback. Also, keep in mind that transferring the characters to the new servers and systems could take up to a month. So that process will be running while the beta test is in place. There can’t be a launch immediately after the current servers are shut down.
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08-17-2012, 05:00 PMPunainen
I just hope I have enough time to get the discontinues achievements. D: I'm working on the leves as fast as I can, but only getting 8 allowances a day makes for slow progress.
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08-17-2012, 05:06 PMAkujin
"something in the story will happen and the servers will be shut down."
Ok, so following Living in a Prayer, Dalamud is looking to fall in the SE area of Mor Dhona, where a concentration of Darnus' legion is supposed to be also located, which is also a 'summoning' area being set up by the Circle of Knowledge, to draw the 12 into our dimension to deal with Meteor...so the battle we see in the trailer.
Thing is..the trailer they've been showing.. other than Odin and Behemoth's screencaps and I suppose the chocobos running through green areas, everything else that happens in the first trailer is the battle between us and the empire.
So, is SE using that trailer as a part of the main entrance movie for 2.0, to explain what happened before and what has become of the world now, bringing us to ARR?
Or are they planning to use that same video to show us the battle itself, as they shut the servers down.
This is the battle.. this is where you get taken away.. and that's it, until ARR comes back up.
Its a precarious thing really, its also what I've worried about with this entire idea. How are they planning to transition us, in the game world sense, from where we are now to where we're going? I remember how it happened in GW, so maybe similiar to that. You go to what is the final stage in GW pre-apoc, watch the CS as the world is destroyed and then return to post-apoc world, just as you were before.
Suppose the other idea is.. they could begin to systematically shut down areas and access points through our current game world, Atomos for instance killing the aether points, disabling teleportation between camps and nodes. Then disabling teleportation between ourselves and camps completely. The cities coming under attack by a mass Garlean seige at the same time, on a grand scale, some large 12 hour period on all servers at once and there at the end, forced into combat you hear Lousiox(sp?)'s voice in your head, telling you he tried..light surrounds us..and thats it, everything goes black, servers down.
Side idea.. they could also give us a final quest line following it all, the battle with the empire at mor dhona, give you the warning message prior to going into the instance 'This is the final segement for the Seventh Umbral Era, by entering this instance, you cannot return to the game world as you know it. Upon its end, for your character, the Seventh Umbral Era has concluded..and he/she will not return until ARR is opened. This is a one way path. Are you ready?" and thats it.. say yes.. join the mass battle against Alliance and Empire in a massive scale battle.. and wait until you return to ARR.
Because otherwise.. you're gonna go log off in your inn, servers gonna shut down and you're going to wake up to find a brand new war ridden world a few months later. Some folks would be rather pissed if they missed the chance to be part of that moment, I know I would lol I'll take a day or two of vacation for that. -
08-17-2012, 05:12 PMZenakuhttp://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...-did-there.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Hysterior
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08-17-2012, 05:17 PMPunainenThat mostly makes me worry that it may be a short live event that is easily missable... :CQuote:
Originally Posted by Akujin
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08-17-2012, 05:22 PMAkujinWell, sadly they've already said this. When 2.0 was first being announced Yoshi-P said they would continue on a grand storyline to bring the current world to an end, while ushering in the new one, to tie it all together. But its going to be a once in a lifetime sort of event, just as the Goobbue was a once in a life time thing, either you got it while it was available or you miss it forever. So something is going to happen and it will have an expiration time on how long it will be available to us before they have to finally hit the kill switch and everything goes down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punainen
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08-17-2012, 05:39 PMEndemerrin
I believe in an interview it was said that A Realm Reborn is currently on schedule for a 2013 launch. It has also been mentioned that servers are shutting down soon - probably some time in September or early October. It's going to be much longer than a month of downtime with that in mind.
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08-17-2012, 05:53 PMMavera_Totori
We will all survive :) The new Square Enix Fall Lineup (Sleeping Dogs + Hitman), Tales of Graces F, One Piece Pirate Warriors, endless new blu-ray releases and walks in the brown, red, yellow colored forests with our loved ones will help us to withstand our anti-social MMO life we have.
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08-17-2012, 05:53 PMAkujin
Their perspective of the word soon doesnt bother me, not like next week.
I said it somewhere else, I could see them going into alpha testing now, tweaking it, polishing off some of the things people have mentioned from Gamescom interviews, pic reveals and even the videos floating around online. Closed Beta will begin after that, with XIV players taking a priority on the que list for that and open beta later on. I would forsee CB lasting a month or two, get actual player feedback, continue tweaking, bug fixes, glitch works, etc and about the same time they're ready to start OB, shut the servers down and run OB while they transfer data, run stress tests with more participants than CB allowed and run it for as long as they need too until all the data is transferred completely, no major meltdown errors in the way and start distributing the actual ARR client software at that point. So really..I dont forsee a true shut down until Mid-Late October. -
08-17-2012, 08:01 PMAkira_TenshiOnce the current game goes offline It will not be coming back.Quote:
Originally Posted by RikkCavalier
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08-17-2012, 08:38 PMNeroUldah will be missed... by some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi
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08-17-2012, 09:17 PMCynthisSurviving isn't an issue. Moving on and no longer caring about the game, that's the issue SE should be worried about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mavera_Totori
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08-17-2012, 10:07 PMAmandaHuggenkissDo them in a party with friends.Quote:
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You will each get credit for each others leves.
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08-17-2012, 10:40 PMbahleyThey're more concerned about the hundreds of thousands of players that did this a long time ago than us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cynthis
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08-18-2012, 12:56 AMyoshikwalla
I still have time to complete my GC set before the crimson moon drops.
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08-18-2012, 01:02 AMJennestiaPeople will be acting like lemmings without a blocker once Ul'dah is destroyed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nero
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08-18-2012, 01:03 AMKeresAnd thank god for that.Quote:
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08-18-2012, 02:21 AMNahaara
I'm gonna use the downtime as an excuse to play loadsa skyrim, as none other than my XIV character. The question is, how to get her there without making it seem utterly outlandish?
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08-18-2012, 02:34 AMKsenia
Can't say I agree with it but I have a Sub to Tera and Secret world. Also, that's due some time at the end of the year? After Hobbit comes out I expect LotRO to splode and it's F2P
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08-18-2012, 02:37 AMMasamune1004
Did this really come as such a surprise to people? I was expecting this from the moment they announced it, ARR is no small change you know.
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08-18-2012, 02:42 AMMishakai
I thought it was fairly obvious from the roadmap we got over a year back that there would be some down time between the close of 1.X and the start of 2.0 release.
I just hope that the downtime between the close of 1.X and the start of 2.0 Beta isn't very long. -
08-18-2012, 02:42 AMBruceyBruceyBangBang
It could be way more than a month depending on how the beta goes. They gotta fix those issues with the new client before thinking of launching it.
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08-18-2012, 02:54 AMNiqote
That's fine... I haven't touched FFXIII-2 yet... and Darksiders II just came out lol
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08-18-2012, 03:53 AMFusionxThe three cities will be largely unchanged in 2.0Quote:
Originally Posted by Nero
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08-18-2012, 04:07 AMJeanFrancois
This is really sad. I started maybe a month ago, am only level 32 arch, and a few lower levels harvesting classes. This game is just starting to get really exciting for me. The linkshell I'm in is great--I am starting to make friends. :(
While I would like to say the downtime won't matter. To be honest after a month I don't know how I will still feel about this game. If we have to wait months, that is a big chunk of entertainment time. Bad position... The GW system never entertained me and WoW is aging and (so I've heard) is a very different beast.
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08-18-2012, 04:08 AMLux_RaynaSomeone would have to be 3 kinds of stupid to subscribe this long due to the promise of 2.0, then never come back once 1.0 goes offline. I mean would anyone honestly pay monthly to wait for a game, then decide they can't be assed to wait for free? LOL. I'd say the game is better off without morons wouldn't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cynthis
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08-18-2012, 09:13 AMViritess
I'll also be playing GW2 during the downtime, and beyond likely. One of the few chances to have what i think will be 2 very quality MMOs for a single low cost Sub (yay legacy).
Despite the hate for any non FF MMO that tends to bubble up i've never felt the need for any MMO i play to be of a certain type or style. it just has to be entertaining to me. Besides all the real life stuff to do, theres plenty of games to get my fix on with ^^. -
08-18-2012, 09:31 AMAtoli
I have plenty of exams at the start of the new year so it's actually better if I study at the end of the year instead of playing FFXIV :o
I always un-sub for exams anyways but it comes with the bad feeling of missing something and it's always a hassle to get back into the game after a 1-2 month long period of absence.
With servers being down I know I'm not missing any content, no new people who I don't know joined the LS, etc.^^
I want this game to succeed so it needs proper testing, but still I hope they won't take too long otherwise people will start to lose interest and become too attached to the game and community they've played with during the down time (in GW2, Tera, or whereever). -
08-18-2012, 12:59 PMkazaran
THe plan was to be shut down a month for data transfer and RRB software distribution PC side. It will take time for all that. Then more patching.
I doubt they will have to much down time for peopel who have purchased a game and service they expect to keep going. Some of us paid 79.99 USD at launch -
08-18-2012, 01:19 PMCynthisWhich is as it should be. However, no one has been able to give me any compelling reason for why in this particular case SE can't both have their cake and eat it too. If I accept that the data conversion takes one month then that is the maximum amount of time the game would needs to be down, as in we cannot play our existing characters and save progress. Seems like a lot of people are coming around to my opinion that it is likely that period will be more like 3 monthat at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by bahley
I for one am really enjoying the game as it is now and I have been ever since I started playing it seriously about a year ago, if I had not been enjoying it, I would not have started to pay when the subscription fee was introduced. In that case I would simply have stopped playing to come back when the 2.0 free trial came around.That does not mean i believe people who made other choices stupid though, I try to avoid name calling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lux_Rayna
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08-18-2012, 01:30 PMAkujin
I may have to go with another poster's thought and just play GW2 or something else during the downtime. As much as playing Beta sounds nice, I dont really see a point, for myself personally. Its good for the testing purposes, stress tests and getting player feedback on things from consumer to developer perspective. But I dont see a point in doing anything that wont carry over to the main launch itself from Beta, even if I do it with the same character as I play now, unless for some odd reason they make it so it Will cross over..gil, inventory, experience, etc. That I'd consider, otherwise, just play another game and wait till the relaunch goes live and jump back in then.
Then again, my stance my be a little different than others, because I'm far from addicted to the game and have gone a week or more at a time without coming in game at all, just either out of lack of desire or due to other obligations, it doesnt phase me like it did in XI. Thankfully.