2.0 beta?

[TheVedis]

No, I know exactly what a beta is. The more people who touch XIV that never touched it before, especially during it's testing period is a lot better than people who have been playing it the past 2 years.

If the beta is polished, that can only mean the game itself will be which is why you'd tell your friends to keep an eye on a potentially good new MMO coming out.

if its a closed beta, its not about polish though, which is what it sounds like is gonna be happening first

open beta is moreso the polish end of things

[Onisake]

if its a closed beta, its not about polish though, which is what it sounds like is gonna be happening first

open beta is moreso the polish end of things

Open beta is almost always about stress testing the server and see how the load is distributed against the new engine(s).

Polish does come from feedback, but it's a part of the natural progression of what players want to talk about.

many players think 'Oh, they want me to tell them how they can make their game more fun. so i'll talk about that.'

and the feed back will go to the devs. but this feed back, if it is implemented, won't be seen for months. it has to be developed. tested internally. validated. and then released. Polish comes well after release, and well after beta.

what will be implemented is emergency fixes to the UI. or ground breaking bugs/oversights. "I can fish up 100 fish in an hour. turn them into a hat. and NPC the hat and make 2m gil an hour." or "If i move the minimap partway off the screen, it glitches out and doesn't refresh my position"