PS3 beta test.

Something I noticed on the alpha test signup page under the beta test section that everyone seems to have over looked, and people are speculating well off the time stated.

"The PlayStation 3 Beta Test will start in conjunction with the PC Beta Test"

So that means PC beta = PS3 beta as well, which according to what Yoshida said will be Jan/Feb.

http://entry.ffxiv.com/alpha/index_na.html

Check the "Beta Tester application section.

Hmmm, on another thread "Translations (JP to English)" Soukyuu translate an interview and it says: "PS3 Beta after PC Beta enters phase 3" and we don't really know when it start the phase 3, phase 1 will be on Jan or Feb.

Maybe SE changed something.

Delsus is a boss. That is all.

phase 3, Will be the last phase too, will last like a month , then enter Retail world wide !

I plan on testing on my PS3, however little upset over having to pay for Playstation Plus just to join a beta :P Thank you Sony! :P

Ah well, I should be used to making sacrifices for this game by now ;) lol

If you have your FFXIII code still you can 100% get in the PS3 beta.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

If you have your FFXIII code still you can 100% get in the PS3 beta.

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Oh I have it and it's applied to my account, and while that will get me into PC beta, I'd still like to do the PS3 beta.
But it's not SE's fault that Sony requires Playstation Plus for players to do Beta, timed trials- and discounts on certain games. :( Whatev?!

Good looking out!

Unrelated, but if you own a PS3.. and you like video games..

Holy god is Playstation Plus amazing.

I've dropped like, 100 dollars over the course of two years for PS+ and I have more games downloaded (for 'free') than I've ever owned in my life. Also, themes, avatars, ridiculousness. At least try out the short term subscription.. I think it's 3 months for a little less than what FFXIV would have cost. :)

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Originally Posted by A_Hortensia

Good looking out!

Unrelated, but if you own a PS3.. and you like video games..

Holy god is Playstation Plus amazing.

I've dropped like, 100 dollars over the course of two years for PS+ and I have more games downloaded (for 'free') than I've ever owned in my life. Also, themes, avatars, ridiculousness. At least try out the short term subscription.. I think it's 3 months for a little less than what FFXIV would have cost. :)

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I agree I have had it for 2 weeks now Crysis 2 Resi evil 5 and theres still more I want.

And I'm surprised this hasn't got more replies... oh yeah its not a troll thread.

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

I plan on testing on my PS3, however little upset over having to pay for Playstation Plus just to join a beta :P Thank you Sony! :P

Ah well, I should be used to making sacrifices for this game by now ;) lol

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You don't need need PS+ to join a beta, only if the beta is made available on PS+ only. We do not know how the ARR PS3 beta will be released. Considering they said the FF XIII codes are still valid I don't think it will be exclusive to PS+.

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

Oh I have it and it's applied to my account, and while that will get me into PC beta, I'd still like to do the PS3 beta.
But it's not SE's fault that Sony requires Playstation Plus for players to do Beta, timed trials- and discounts on certain games. :( Whatev?!

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Theres no reason to believe that Playstation Plus would ever be required as if you look at Dust 514 Beta everyone who played EVE online got a Beta code.

Yoshi already said (I think in the live letter 3) that PS3 beta test don't start in the same time like the PC beta start, but during the PC beta. They want to fix first most server bugs before they bring the PS3 players to the beta.

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Originally Posted by A_Hortensia

Unrelated, but if you own a PS3.. and you like video games..

Holy god is Playstation Plus amazing.

I've dropped like, 100 dollars over the course of two years for PS+ and I have more games downloaded (for 'free') than I've ever owned in my life. Also, themes, avatars, ridiculousness. At least try out the short term subscription.. I think it's 3 months for a little less than what FFXIV would have cost. :)

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Wait a second? I checked and you said Free stuff is bad!?! Take a look at your own words!

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Originally Posted by A_Hortensia

People will burn you at the stake for even suggesting that the free to play/low quality idea might be okay, though.

After all, it's not just another MMO by some company.. it's also a Final Fantasy title made by video game super power SE. Fanatics are going to want it to be P2P and the highest caliber experience possible because anything else for FF or SE seems ludicrous. (And you've played enough XI to know how crazy us FF fan-boys/girls can be, haven't you?)

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Hmmm... I think PS+ users should at least have FFXIV F2P. In fact, maybe *only* PS+ subscribers should be able to play. That would keep out all the bad players. Oh wait I'm a bad player.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

Wait a second? I checked and you said Free stuff is bad!?! Take a look at your own words!



Hmmm... I think PS+ users should at least have FFXIV F2P. In fact, maybe *only* PS+ subscribers should be able to play. That would keep out all the bad players. Oh wait I'm a bad player.

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SO what about me as a legacy and ps+ subscriber, should I get it f2p with my legacy benefits? it would make a lot of trolling, everyone should pay to play.

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

Oh I have it and it's applied to my account, and while that will get me into PC beta, I'd still like to do the PS3 beta.
But it's not SE's fault that Sony requires Playstation Plus for players to do Beta, timed trials- and discounts on certain games. :( Whatev?!

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Sony does not require beta users to be playstation plus subscribed.. I am currently testing 2 closed beta games right now and have never subbed to ps+ . It might be something that the game developers have chose to limit how many people can gain access to the beta or something, I don't know.. but I do know for a fact it is not a requirement if I am testing 2 right now.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

Wait a second? I checked and you said Free stuff is bad!?! Take a look at your own words!

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Hmm... what? I don't see a relation between PS+ and my stance on FFXIV having a subscription. I'm not actually getting anything for free. PS+ is pretty much a subscription service itself, comparable to Netflix. Once I stop paying for the service, I lose access to all of my PS+ content. I imagine PS+ is giving some kind of compensation to the games that are available under it's service. Aren't these two entirely different subjects?

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Originally Posted by Laraul

Hmmm... I think PS+ users should at least have FFXIV F2P. In fact, maybe *only* PS+ subscribers should be able to play. That would keep out all the bad players. Oh wait I'm a bad player.

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I don't agree with FFXIV being F2P for anyone. ._.
I think a cool idea is: offer a free download with a trial, then at the end of the trial let users digitally purchase the game and get their month free, then subscribe if they want later on. I liked that a lot when XI did it for PC.

I don't know if you're a bad player or not. I don't really know what a qualifies a player as bad. As long as they aren't RMT, I think players of all caliber and skill should play FFXIV.

(I didn't bash anyone for their ideas; well, not this idea.)

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Originally Posted by Linkurrra

Oh I have it and it's applied to my account, and while that will get me into PC beta, I'd still like to do the PS3 beta.
But it's not SE's fault that Sony requires Playstation Plus for players to do Beta, timed trials- and discounts on certain games. :( Whatev?!

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The FF13 code would give you a 100% Beta invite for PS3 Not the PC version

Considering there's hardly any info regarding the beta I wouldn't bet on 100% anything. There's forum posts from 2009 saying they got into the 2010 14 beta with the 13 key.

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Considering there's hardly any info regarding the beta I wouldn't bet on 100% anything. There's forum posts from 2009 saying they got into the 2010 14 beta with the 13 key.

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The FF13 key is for PS3 invite it was a promise the old team made but it never happen to due to what happen. Yoshi-p is keeping that promise and he said it not to long ago that what it's for.

People got into Beta by many ways i remember i got mines eorzeapedia.com and many fan site was also giving beta key so who every said they got into beta with 13key does not know what there talking about that a fact that 13 key give you beta key for PS3 you could only get the FF13 item code from the PS3 version of FF13 only why would that give you access to ffxiv for pc version.

I got into the 1.0 alpha by signing up, the specs I put in were actually lower than required and they let me in.

Originally you had to register with the Square Enix Members site with the code that came with FFXIII, then they gave you another code, which was used on the SE Account site to give asuran armlets, which this code was also suppose to double as a way to get into the PS3 beta.

I am guessing when they actually have PS3 beta sign ups you have to enter that code that got you asuran armlets which will get you in. Then when it starts SE will send you a 12 digit PS3 code to use on the store since all betas are downloaded through the store.

I'll be mostly playing on pc but if I ever when somewhere without my pc guess I'll an ps3 for backup :x

Well I'm glad to hear that with a code provided by Square that we can join beta without being a member to P+!

I only got that idea from reading literature on the new PSN revamp and one of the Playstation Plus features is, access to Beta's and timed trials. (I know timed trials are different, but that is how it is worded)

And I entered the XIII code to get my Vanguard gloves, but never knew how the beta thing would work. Interesting that it was for PS3 beta. :)

However I am sad I didn't get an invite for Alpha. :( However it's probably my own fault for saying I wanted to test for PS3 over PC. lol Oh well... lol

Needing a Playstation+ account to access the beta is one of the things that would probably cause SE to drop FFXIV from the PS3 entirely since it would confound SE's ability to target the widest audience(unless they gave some sort of "preferred" status, while others would eventually gain access) possible. It's much akin to them dropping the 360 version because MS prefers to keep a Draconian grip on the gate keys to Xbox Live.

I also wouldn't expect SE to honor those FFXIII beta invite keys given the situation of FFXIV currently. But hey, they DID surprise us with the announcement of 2.0, so who knows?

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

Needing a Playstation+ account to access the beta is one of the things that would probably cause SE to drop FFXIV from the PS3 entirely since it would confound SE's ability to target the widest audience(unless they gave some sort of "preferred" status, while others would eventually gain access) possible. It's much akin to them dropping the 360 version because MS prefers to keep a Draconian grip on the gate keys to Xbox Live.

I also wouldn't expect SE to honor those FFXIII beta invite keys given the situation of FFXIV currently. But hey, they DID surprise us with the announcement of 2.0, so who knows?

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I'll leave this here

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Hey everyone,

This was mentioned in an interview with Yoshi-P but we wanted to spread the word that the campaign codes included in FINAL FANTASY XIII will be valid for gaining selection priority for the FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn PS3 beta test!

When we have the drawing for the PS3 version of the beta test, we will be adding the campaign codes and making selections.
(You will have to re-apply to be a tester, but the code you entered previously will still be valid.)

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Could someone perhaps help me with a little inquiry regaurding the FF13 code matter and asuran armlets and all that? I'm posting here since it's part of the topic of discussion and because I didn't feel it waranted a new thread.

Anyway!

I have my FF13 code and I registered it with SE Members when I first got it awhile back. I don't ever remember receiving another code to register on my SE account for the asuran armlets (and subsequent PS3 beta test guarantee). At the time I didn't really care to start my character over just to get the asuran arm gaurds but now the PS3 beta seems like a big deal to me since I can't play the PC version. Where might I locate the asuran armgaurds code, if I've already connected my FF13 code to my members page.

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Originally Posted by Ralos

Could someone perhaps help me with a little inquiry regaurding the FF13 code matter and asuran armlets and all that? I'm posting here since it's part of the topic of discussion and because I didn't feel it waranted a new thread.

Anyway!

I have my FF13 code and I registered it with SE Members when I first got it awhile back. I don't ever remember receiving another code to register on my SE account for the asuran armlets (and subsequent PS3 beta test guarantee). At the time I didn't really care to start my character over just to get the asuran arm gaurds but now the PS3 beta seems like a big deal to me since I can't play the PC version. Where might I locate the asuran armgaurds code, if I've already connected my FF13 code to my members page.

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Sadly you no longer can put the code in Square einix website to get the asuran armgaurd at this time you have to wait when they open that up.

To answer your question when you put the code on Square einix website it then would send a email to you with the code for the FFXIV 13 item. But seeing like you can't add the code to the account part of square einix does not even matter you just have to sign up for beta when they allow us and hope you get in ps3 version.