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

[rubina]

nah 2Mbps is all you need to play any Online Game whatsoever.

Maybe if you only have one person using that connection, but I can't tell you how many times I see team mates that DC because one of their room mates or family members suddenly starts hogging their bandwidth. Isn't it better to have the extra headroom just in case? I for one have to support 4 computers plus 6 devices and make sure that a sudden spike in bandwidth usage from any of them doesn't impact my game usage.

[Delsus]

Even 2 Mbps is overkill, the game only sends/recieves like 5-20 bytes a second so dialup is capable tbh

Dialup doesn't work, I have tried to play on a GPRS connection before now which is as close as you can get to dialup speeds, I logged on to my character in a black void, no maps loaded (which was weird because the maps are stored locally) but yeah it really doesn't use much data so any broadband connection is good.

A 3g connection is also good, in fact on my 3g connection I seem to dc a lot less than other people in my LS which I do not understand.

[UnrealTai]

It could be worse, almost everywhere in china except shanghai your average ISP only gives you 1-4 MB down speed, and thats not stable either it cuts out all the time. Only place to have stable there like we do at home is in a corporate offices lol.

Oh yea, they share internet to all the residents in the building there too, like a campus internet does but its their whole country almost lol

[rubina]

Only place to have stable there like we do at home is in a corporate offices lol.

Maybe include prisons as stable ISP locations?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/22871..._warcraft.html

[Holy_Dragoon]

Yeah a 100Mbps conneciton is not even available anywhere close to where I live. They just started to roll out 30Mbps in my area, which I of jumped on right away.

[Laraul]

The only part I don't have in spades:

Alpha Test Recommended System Requirements
Connection type Fiber optic
Connection speed 100Mbps

Man, I thought 25 Mbps would be good enough. Well, guess I can always try moving to the part of town that's getting 1 gbps installed. :/

You don't need this for the game... why are they even asking this?

[Zezlar]

Don't even need the minimum speed either. I have like the crappiest isp in the world (Verizon) running at about 700kbps download and I am fine.

[Coombah]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

[Laraul]

Not like they only want to test things for high end computers. They'll need folks on the low end as well. Probably more so to be honest. There aren't that many people with super high end custom built gaming rigs. The majority of people are just using mid level Best Buy rigs.

They don't care. Right now the alpha looks more demanding than the current game anyway.

I think it'll be 1.0 all over again.

[Jennestia]

They don't care. Right now the alpha looks more demanding than the current game anyway.

I think it'll be 1.0 all over again.

It's really not -- If they optimized well it's actually less demanding with the same specs.