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

[Nekodar]

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

[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.

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

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.

[Nekodar]

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.

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

[Gyson]

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

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.