How will you spend the 8-12 months of downtime?

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10-02-2012, 07:15 AM
TohruHonda

How will you spend the 8-12 months of downtime?

I decided I would try playing FFXI during this period as well as start laddering again in Starcraft. I'm also riding my bicycle more now since the weather is cooling down. What have you got planned?
10-02-2012, 07:20 AM
Antanias

Stockpiling yarn to give to all of the miqo'te upon ARR's launch.
10-02-2012, 07:22 AM
Undrentide

8-12 months? i think thats maybe a bit excessive? im hoping three - four months, SE cant afford to try and build up the fanbase all over again...
10-02-2012, 07:24 AM
Xaimera

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Originally Posted by Undrentide

8-12 months? i think thats maybe a bit excessive? im hoping three - four months, SE cant afford to try and build up the fanbase all over again...

ya.. thats a little too much and im also hoping its not too long of a down time. They really can't afford to take too long, they already lost the interest of a lot of ppl with the first launch lol. Taking too long might make even more ppl lose interest and get tired of waiting :/.
10-02-2012, 07:26 AM
Issachar

8-12? Are you joking? The retail releases are early 2013.
10-02-2012, 07:31 AM
Victor

I doubt it will be 8-12 months, although likely more than 3-4.
10-02-2012, 07:31 AM
Griffster

I think 8-12 is a bit excessive. 6 months is more likely IMO.
10-02-2012, 07:35 AM
TohruHonda

Alright, how many more comments can we get saying the exact same thing and avoiding the actual topic of this thread? Go.
10-02-2012, 07:36 AM
Vanguard319

Probably see if my mithra in XI still exsists, if not, I've always got Mechwarrior Online, and Halo 4.
10-02-2012, 07:42 AM
casevi

cry my self to sleep eveynight waiting for AAR to come
10-02-2012, 07:47 AM
AmyNeudaiz

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Originally Posted by Vanguard319

snip and Halo 4.

Is that game even good? They really fudged the series up with bad story and multiplayer after 1 and 2 imo. Any game to come out with "Halo" after those 2 have been pretty poop in comparison.

Back on topic, yeah 8-12 months is extreme, more like 3-4 months. Do not care that other people have said the exact same thing. Anyways, I'll probably be busy with my new job that I start, oddly enough almost exactly when servers go down.

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Originally Posted by casevi

cry my self to sleep eveynight waiting for AAR to come

/comfort
10-02-2012, 07:47 AM
TohruHonda

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Originally Posted by casevi

cry my self to sleep eveynight waiting for AAR to come

Prepare yourself for MANY long nights.
10-02-2012, 07:52 AM
Alhanelem

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Originally Posted by TohruHonda

I decided I would try playing FFXI during this period as well as start laddering again in Starcraft. I'm also riding my bicycle more now since the weather is cooling down. What have you got planned?

There isn't going to be "8-12 months" of downtime.
10-02-2012, 07:52 AM
Breladine

Cross-stitch.

... no seriously. I'm gonna cross-stitch, I got a great new pattern and it's gonna take me forever :P

I thought about going back to WoW but to be honest the new expansion is a joke and while my husband is having fun playing it, I just think going back to WoW right now for me would never live up to playing FFXIV anymore, so it wouldn't be very fun. So I'll maybe do other hobbies.. cross-stitch being one of them. I'm also a hobbyist photographer.. you know, do things that don't involve sitting in front of a game for hours every day.
10-02-2012, 07:56 AM
Elexia

People that say there won't be 8-12 month downtime is putting quite a lot of faith in SE, remember, we were supposed to have a flood of information and weekly updates ever since Gamescom, not to mention we should be preparing for Beta in about a month.

I myself will be playing PSO2 still and XI's new expansion as it's pretty obvious that will be out way before ARR.
10-02-2012, 07:58 AM
NadienKirisame

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Originally Posted by TohruHonda

Alright, how many more comments can we get saying the exact same thing and avoiding the actual topic of this thread? Go.

The thread is... How will you spend the 8-12 months of downtime?

People are simply going off the title of the thread and stating it is not going to be 8-12 months... your over exaggerated title has destroyed most of what topic you could have unless people actually believe that it could take them 8-12 months to get the game out at which point then they could talk about what they will be doing for said 8-12 months time frame...

But I will give you a little hint so to say... and the cat knows all the secrets just to let you know... (it will not at even 8 months for the game to be done... in fact it would have been better for you to have said 2-3 months at most...)

In the downtime that we may have... I will be filling my time with the joys of all the anime I still need to watch... I must say at lest you humans can make some good things... :P

The cat is bemused =-.-=
10-02-2012, 08:01 AM
NadienKirisame

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

Is that game even good? They really fudged the series up with bad story and multiplayer after 1 and 2 imo. Any game to come out with "Halo" after those 2 have been pretty poop in comparison.

Could it be because 343 Industries is making the game this time?

The cat is bemused =-.-=
10-02-2012, 08:03 AM
Andrien

will spend it in the beta
10-02-2012, 08:07 AM
Dhalmel

isn't the beta in december?
10-02-2012, 08:08 AM
Elexia

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Originally Posted by NadienKirisame

Could it be because 343 Industries is making the game this time?

The cat is bemused =-.-=

Still has key Bungie employees working on it, hell 343 is essentially bungie still lol.
10-02-2012, 08:09 AM
TohruHonda

The truth hurts
10-02-2012, 08:09 AM
Elexia

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

isn't the beta in december?

Nope. Japanese Alpha starts sometime after November 11th then it has to go into NA/EU Alpha after and I highly doubt that's only a 1 or 2 week journey.
10-02-2012, 08:10 AM
MoarLegion

Go back to playing Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
10-02-2012, 08:15 AM
NadienKirisame

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Still has key Bungie employees working on it, hell 343 is essentially bungie still lol.

In a way yes though there is a lot in a name... I probably will not have any fond memories of playing any 343 games... but I will remember all the good bungie games I played. When it comes down to it really the game is still under microsoft so I think that answers it all right there...

The cat is bemused =-.-=
10-02-2012, 08:15 AM
Starlord

8-12 months?.... Um.. Holding out that long will probably kill the game before it starts.
10-02-2012, 08:17 AM
IloveYouPumpkin

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Nope. Japanese Alpha starts sometime after November 11th then it has to go into NA/EU Alpha after and I highly doubt that's only a 1 or 2 week journey.

English alpha registration site says the alpha starts in fall so I think it will also start in november. Maybe JP/NA/EU alphas will start at the same time? no??
10-02-2012, 08:17 AM
Yukagama

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Nope. Japanese Alpha starts sometime after November 11th then it has to go into NA/EU Alpha after and I highly doubt that's only a 1 or 2 week journey.

Nope wrong! japanese alpha star's sometimes this week. From what my cousin said and yes jp.
10-02-2012, 08:17 AM
Andrien

all right then.. I will indulge myself in Zone of the Enders HD Collection, Dust 514, and maybe PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
10-02-2012, 08:18 AM
Starlord

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Originally Posted by Yukagama

Nope wrong! japanese alpha star's sometimes this week. From what my cousin said and yes jp.

They have been throwing dates around like no ones business.. god knows when they will start :p.
10-02-2012, 08:19 AM
NadienKirisame

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Originally Posted by TohruHonda

The truth hurts

I don't think you know what the truth is... but you will make a trollish type thread which will get at some people...

The truth of the world is only visible to the few who know where to look... and I don't think you know where to look... so I wouldn't try to pass off what you think things will be as some truth you have no idea about...

You humans are odd creatures... oh how I wish to one day dissect you and see what really makes you act the ways you do...

The cat is bemused =-.-=
10-02-2012, 08:31 AM
Elexia

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Originally Posted by Yukagama

Nope wrong! japanese alpha star's sometimes this week. From what my cousin said and yes jp.

So the magazine reported the date incorrectly?

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Originally Posted by IloveYouPumpkin

English alpha registration site says the alpha starts in fall so I think it will also start in november. Maybe JP/NA/EU alphas will start at the same time? no??

Nope, the last written letter (or one before it) said it was going to be Japanese local then NA/EU.
10-02-2012, 09:19 AM
Ricky

SWTOR free to play, D3 when it isnt bad, BL2 DLC.. oh and actual more important things than games when I get around to them
10-02-2012, 09:39 AM
Inaaca

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Nope. Japanese Alpha starts sometime after November 11th then it has to go into NA/EU Alpha after and I highly doubt that's only a 1 or 2 week journey.

Alpha is just going to be stress testing during certain windows, so it won't be an excessive amount of time between alpha and beta unless something drastic goes wrong.
10-02-2012, 09:47 AM
Elexia

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

Alpha is just going to be stress testing during certain windows, so it won't be an excessive amount of time between alpha and beta unless something drastic goes wrong.

Yep, since the date keeps getting thrown in all directions something might not being going well to even begin the first phase D:
10-02-2012, 10:41 AM
Forerunner

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Originally Posted by Vanguard319

Halo 4.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

Is that game even good? They really fudged the series up with bad story and multiplayer after 1 and 2 imo. Any game to come out with "Halo" after those 2 have been pretty poop in comparison.

Yes.

Even though the best game in the series multiplayer-wise was Halo 2, and I didn't really care for Noble Team all that much, Halo 4 is going to be freaking legendary.

Halo 3 finished the fight, and ODST added some interesting back story into events between Halo 2 and 3.

Can't wait to kick some Promethean arse, or dominate in Infinity Slayer.

My only question is will the gap between November 6th, and ARR Open Beta be long enough?
10-02-2012, 10:53 AM
indira

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Originally Posted by Victor

I doubt it will be 8-12 months, although likely more than 3-4.

even 3-4 months is crazy people gonna froget about the game. if there always late on releases thats bad and if the game is still buggy it will even be worse, everything will back fire again.
10-02-2012, 11:06 AM
AmyNeudaiz

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Originally Posted by Forerunner

Yes.

Even though the best game in the series multiplayer-wise was Halo 2, and I didn't really care for Noble Team all that much, Halo 4 is going to be freaking legendary.

Halo 3 finished the fight, and ODST added some interesting back story into events between Halo 2 and 3.

Can't wait to kick some Promethean arse, or dominate in Infinity Slayer.

My only question is will the gap between November 6th, and ARR Open Beta be long enough?

I really think that Halo 1 was better, but that's mostly because I enjoyed the story a lot more and the fact that it was so different. Multiplayer was really fun too. I was unbeatable in a Banshee :D. Mainly I think it was the innovations that kept me more interested in 1 than 2 and hopefully ARR will have that same innovative feel that 1.0 had that's kept me here so long. (Except done better, of course ^^; )

But yeah, it's gonna be hard to find a game I can really put time into and actually care about. I don't know what it is, but for me a game really has to have soul put into it for me to really love it and that's what made me really like FFXIV. It really had soul put into it, granted they were on a limited tight schedule, dated technology and the game was a little too... brown. With all these games like Tera, Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3 or Modern Warfare 7 1/2 Super 1337 Edition all I can see is copy paste formulas for "over-hyped game in a can" type games and I just can't get into them because it's always the same old crap :/

And it's really hard to find a game with actual integrity these days because all of the titles I grew up with are becoming sell outs and comepletely ruining the franchise to make more money (see FFXIII, Pokemon Black & White, Ace Combat Assault Horizon, Battlefield 3, Diablo 3, any Modern Warfare title past 4, ect) and I've been getting really worried that FFXIV 2.0 will join that list with all the new info we've been slowly fed like starving stray dogs. To me it's looking more and more like a copy paste type game and I really, really don't like that at all.

I think that's enough for this rant, hopefully I'm not getting too off topic here.
10-02-2012, 12:19 PM
Thunderz

MOH, Watch the new season of the Walking dead, Battlefield 3, probably new BO, Guild Wars 2...maybe pick up some of my old games to play game

....

think that should be enuff

I hope they take 6~12months to release 2.0 then I will know the game is actually done
02-28-2013, 03:45 AM
TohruHonda

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Originally Posted by Victor

I doubt it will be 8-12 months, although likely more than 3-4.

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Originally Posted by Undrentide

8-12 months? i think thats maybe a bit excessive? im hoping three - four months, SE cant afford to try and build up the fanbase all over again...

3 days from now will mark 4 months since final save. Can't wait to keep revisiting this thread every time an optimistic prediction is wrong (I'm mean). I told you people 8+ months, I am not going to be wrong.
02-28-2013, 03:54 AM
Drygir

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Originally Posted by TohruHonda

I am not going to be wrong.

LoL Because you already are!

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