Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Alpha test now accepting applications

[Vassteel1]

i actually read the whole NDA and TOS. its pretty standard compared to the last NDA i was a part of for Dust 514 i wonder if they got legal blah blah from the same places as every one else

[Delsus]

i think 2.0 won't take that much resources like 1.x

Read the Alpha system requirements and compare them to the box of 1.xx, what stuck out for me was reccomended CPU for 1.xx is an i7, for ARR alpha its an i5 so yes they are a lot lower, my laptop may be able to run on high settings.

EDIT: Here is the minimum and recomended specs for the ARR alpha and 1.xx for comparisons:

1.xx

Minimum

OS: XP, Vista, 7
CPU: Core 2 duo 2GHz, Athlon X2 2GHz
RAM: XP:1.5GB Vista/7 2GB
Graphics: 512MB Gforce 9600 series, 512MB Radeon HD 2900 series
Screen resolution: 1280x720
Internet: Always on Broadband

Recommended
OS: 7
CPU: i7 2.66GHz
RAM: 4GB
Graphics: 768MB Gforce GTX460

A Realm Reborn Alpha

Minimum

OS: Windows® XP 32bit, Windows® Vista 32/64bit, Windows® 7 32/64 bit
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo
Memory: 2GB
Available space on hard disk/SSD: 20GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA® Geforce® 8800 Series
Screen resolution: 1280x720
Connection type: ADSL
Connection speed: 1.5Mbps

Recommended

OS: Windows® 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5
Memory: 4GB
Available space on hard disk/SSD: 20GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX 5xx Series
Screen resolution: 1920x1080
Connection type: Fiber optic
Connection speed: 100Mbps

So essentially if you can play now, you can play and chances are if you currently run on medium settings you should be able to step up to high settings the thing I have noticed is the minimum settings don't seem to have changed too much.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Absolutely in and passed on to our LS of course. Can't have us slowing down !!

[Starlord]

Applied^.^, If I recall back in 2010 there was somebody who broke the NDA for giving out alot of info from the beta, I can't pin point who it was though, and everyone was talking about him and his " Noble" deeds :P.

[Zenaku]

Applied^.^, If I recall back in 2010 there was somebody who broke the NDA for giving out alot of info from the beta, I can't pin point who it was though, and everyone was talking about him and his " Noble" deeds :P.

yep i remember him there was even a person putting a live steam of it i think it was same person you talking about.

[Zenaku]

Me and my gf playing ffxiv can only one of us sign up for alpha? we play with the same IP.

[Jocko]

reccomended CPU for 1.xx is an i7, for ARR alpha its an i5 so yes they are a lot lower

It doesn't quite work like that. There are modern day i5's (2500k) that outpace 2010 i7's (900 series)

[Evren]

Me and my gf playing ffxiv can only one of us sign up for alpha? we play with the same IP.

You should be ok, it seems it is tied to account and not IP address

[Zahak]

Remember kids! Don't alpha and stream Pooky Poo

[Munba]

Ahah i remember Pooky Poo. XD

Signed, though.