Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
Also i dont think its "alpha", they said its all finished up and now its just putting in content, if anything its Beta, even pretty much finished just additions and content.

We will know for sure tomorrow when more is explained in the interviews!
From Venture Beat interview

He was less willing to share when the subject of a release date came up. More generally, said Yoshida, he hoped to bring an early alpha test online by late September, which will roll directly into a much larger beta test. He hopes to have the game out sometime in winter (“ish,” he said) of this year.
So if I'm reading that correctly these SS's are actually pre-alpha

also
There will be a way for players to train their own Chocobos from birth, giving them unique abilities for taking a support role in-game, like a mage chocobo or an item-storage chocobo.
Read the whole interview here
http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/05/fi...ble-franchise/