When do we play?

Hello guys, I have a doubt here, when we will be able to play the realm reborn, I know that the official release will be in January, but will have to wait until January to play the realm reborn?

Thanks in advance!

No, beta of ARR will be at end of january - early feb, no idea about official release yet. If everything is going well woldwide Alpha will start 26 of this month.

As long as things go well, the Alpha will be going global around 26th Nov, beta will be in Jan/Feb and release sometime after that (Possibly April/May)

You and you alone will have to wait forever.

I think they just said they were behind by 2 months and 2 weeks, so if it was originally January, more like febuary or march.

And then if you get lucky, you could be playing the alpha by the 26th with possible invites to betas at some point between then and release.

What I don't understand is.. does it really take several months to transfer data?

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Originally Posted by Roaran

I think they just said they were behind by 2 months and 2 weeks, so if it was originally January, more like febuary or march.

And then if you get lucky, you could be playing the alpha by the 26th with possible invites to betas at some point between then and release.

What I don't understand is.. does it really take several months to transfer data?

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I think they will finish to transfer the data in 2 month or so but, they won't make the official release till the game is ready with a lot of bugs fixed and so.

My prediction for Easter release is looking increasingly optimistic.

There is no set in stone date because they want to make sure the launch isn't like the 2010 September launch.

It's more than only transferring data. They are probably not not done polishing content, balancing gameplay and squashing bugs, etc.

One bug, the the server starts to lag with 800 people close to each other... Still better than the 10 people making 1.0 lag :p

800 people in one zone. That's still quite a lot, but yeah, should be upped :)

I hope the 26th playing this wonderful game, thanks guys.

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It's more than only transferring data. They are probably not not done polishing content, balancing gameplay and squashing bugs, etc.

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I meant, they needed to save our progress and take don the servers to transfer the data. Why take them down before it is necessary? I don't understand why having the players not playing your game for 3-4 months is going to turn out for the better.

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I meant, they needed to save our progress and take don the servers to transfer the data. Why take them down before it is necessary? I don't understand why having the players not playing your game for 3-4 months is going to turn out for the better.

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There's a lot of complex data they need to re-encode, I imagine the data we have now will be incompatible with ARR because of the different graphics engine making it a lot more than a copy and paste.

Re-encoding complex graphics and data takes a lot of work and time, Yoshi-P said it will take over 1 month to do it, and they want plenty of leeway, imagine a completly working and polished game being delayed because the character port was not ready, or worse starting without our characters.

Guys, I came up with another doubt, will be the 26th Global alpha.
I signed up for alpha in September, I was not selected until today and I understand that perfectly.

However I wonder if there is a possibility I will not be part of the global alpha.

Or if everyone who signed up will be able to participate.

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Originally Posted by Razen

Guys, I came up with another doubt, will be the 26th Global alpha.
I signed up for alpha in September, I was not selected until today and I understand that perfectly.

However I wonder if there is a possibility I will not be part of the global alpha.

Or if everyone who signed up will be able to participate.

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No it's not sure. If you see #FF14 tag on twitter you will see many JP users are not selected even after SQEX has sent 3 waves of additional invitation.

This is because alpha version is started with single one server, it just can't bear all users who signed up. Dev will add servers before global alpha. But they didn't say they will send invite to all global users at Nov.26. When server is stable enough to run 24/7, they will let more users to get in. So all we can do is wait and pray for our luck.

Thank you for answer, i will not create many expectations, so I would not be sad later.

Should have a better idea of the time line at the end of Nov or the beginning of Dec when they publish the new Road map.

July or later.