Is version 2.0 really coming out before 1-1-13

[Yucie]

2.0 alpha/betas for PC will begin around late September-ish.

Alpha and several closed betas (which Yoshi has said multiple times he wants to be as short as humanly possible) will probably lead to the PC release of the game first, sometime in Winter, with the PS3 launch to follow early 2013.

That's my guess.

[Rizon]

I have seen nothing from Yoshi-P saying that the time frame for the roadmap has been altered. Just the opposite. They insist that they are on schedule. To me that means that Ver 1.0 will shut down in late Sept/early Oct followed almost immediately with the distribution of the Ver 2.0 client to current subscribers in early Oct.

Sometime in late Oct/Early Nov <after completition of Alpha and closed Beta> the limited free trial period <open Beta?> begins. Closed Beta for the PS3 is scheduled for this time.

Sometime shortly after the first of the year the free trial period will end and the game will be sold to new subscribers on both the PC and the PS3. I imagine the date will be set when all the data is collected from the open Beta and the necessary patches are developed.

With this in mind I suspect the there will only be a 2 month downtime for current subscribers which is in line with Yoshida-san's oft stated opinion that he wants the shortest downtime for current subscribers.

Til I see a revised roadmap from him I will go by the one currently posted.

[Allcars]

I have seen nothing from Yoshi-P saying that the time frame for the roadmap has been altered. Just the opposite. They insist that they are on schedule. To me that means that Ver 1.0 will shut down in late Sept/early Oct followed almost immediately with the distribution of the Ver 2.0 client to current subscribers in early Oct.

Sometime in late Oct/Early Nov <after completition of Alpha and closed Beta> the limited free trial period <open Beta?> begins. Closed Beta for the PS3 is scheduled for this time.

Sometime shortly after the first of the year the free trial period will end and the game will be sold to new subscribers on both the PC and the PS3. I imagine the date will be set when all the data is collected from the open Beta and the necessary patches are developed.

With this in mind I suspect the there will only be a 2 month downtime for current subscribers which is in line with Yoshida-san's oft stated opinion that he wants the shortest downtime for current subscribers.

Til I see a revised roadmap from him I will go by the one currently posted.

This^

All these people jumping to conclusions and panicking are just bored and have nothing to do in game. The game is on track according to Yoshi-p. Most people seem to be forgetting about that ps3 beta and launch, and assume those later dates are for the pc.

[Dubont]

question...did you make your sig or did you get it from a site? It's kind of awesome.

[Allcars]

question...did you make your sig or did you get it from a site? It's kind of awesome.

If you are talking to me, I made it for the contest.

[Kagalli]

During the downtime, we won't have access to the game or what?

[Allcars]

During the downtime, we won't have access to the game or what?

In the downtime You will have no access to 1.0 content and potentially no access to 2.0, the current information regarding closed beta is a select number of players will be able to beta test. The max downtime you could have will be a month or so, not much longer than the downtime in march 2011 when the tsunami hit Japan.

[Kagalli]

So we can't play FFXIV at all unless you were chosen for beta? Welp, that's fine with me, i'll have a month worth of rested exp xD plus, it'll give me time to catch up on my backlog PS3 games.

[Sephrick]

During the downtime, we won't have access to the game or what?

Correct. Once beta begins, our characters are gone till open beta or release.

Personally, I doubt open beta will bring our characters back. Open beta is as much a promotional tool as it is a test phase. Unless they're going to allow new characters created in open beta to roll over into release, I don't see them allowing access to existing characters.

But it depends on how they run open beta. Usually it's still only is on a limited number of servers with the population controlled specifically to stress test the hardware. I don't see them moving characters to beta servers just to have to move them then to release servers.

So we can't play FFXIV at all unless you were chosen for beta? Welp, that's fine with me, i'll have a month worth of rested exp xD plus, it'll give me time to catch up on my backlog PS3 games.

Rested exp caps after a week.

Also, we're looking at potentially three months with no access to our character. Closed 1:Oct, Closed 2: Nov, and Open: Dec/Jan.

[Cynthis]

Also, we're looking at potentially three months with no access to our character. Closed 1:Oct, Closed 2: Nov, and Open: Dec/Jan.

I would say a minimum of three months. Yoshi pretty much says it's 3 months in the interview quoted earlier. While this annoys me tremendously, what really gets to me is the pointlessness of it. Ok, 1 month for database conversion, I would expect it to take less than an hour but ok, please test the crap out of it.

I can't see them doing this work until as close as possible to the open beta though just in case bugs creep up in closed beta that requires minor database tweaks so why not keep 1.23 up and running for at least the first month of closed beta?

The only possible reason I could think of is to make sure the beta testers play the closed beta rather than 1.23 but considering SE prefers to let random strangers at gameshows have prioriy for beta testing over legacy members that does not seem to be a valid argument.