TGS Trailer ahoy!

[Elexia]

1-2 years off? yeah ok

Yep. No need to be overly optimistic about it, the fact we go from Alpha in "Late september-early october" to "After the servers go down on november 11th" when that was originally the beta should tell you to finally wake up about the reality of the situation.

Source?

This sounds more like baseless negativity than thought filled speculation.

I'm sorry YOU don't feel like it's going to be good enough to release. Personally, the trailer still has me excited for ARR and I think it's looking great.

We're looking at a few months of testing starting in mid november (if even exactly as the servers go down) and we already know the first phase of testing is locked to Japanese region only. Unless you assume the testing starts the second servers goes down it may release in early 2013, otherwise it's pretty clear we're a long way from release at this point.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post837083

So baseless speculation? No not really, you have to assume there's going to be downtime between the closing of the servers and the start of first closed alpha test.