Letter from the Producer, XXXVI (10/05/2012)

[ShellQ8]

It's really great of Yoshi-P to answer the wishes of the 30% who wanted to just spend time in-game with their friends. Some LSs will start "hide-and-seek" and "racing" events I guess :P

[Maxthunder]

Well 30% isnt many players and seeing as date wont be saved there really is no point in continueing to play XIV. The fact is regardless of how many players you try to keep by keeping servers open as well as no saving players are gonna leave XIV and may never return. What is gonna be funny as hell is when some1 actually gets a drop they really wanted and than they realize that OH SHIT NO DATA SAVES. Unfortunatly a majority of the player base wont be there to LMFAO at that person (unless forums are kept open and they post it). Yoshi is and has been making some bad choices and thats not good, and this last choice definitly isnt good for any1 not even those that wish to continue w/o data saves.

[moriandrio]

I feel the same exact way >.< I have every class/craft 50 and am bored to death with the game sadly. There is nothing to do as the game is not PUG friendly and insists on having players form a clique and play with the same 8 people constantly...gets boring. Does not feel like a MMO...etc.

Where is all the info on beta and the games release? If they are so close to taking down servers they should at LEAST be able to say when beta is or be starting it soon. If they are not even ready to announce when beta is by no means should they be taking down the servers/saving character data already. It is really confusing me what is going on. They need to stop with the classified/secretive shit and just be as open as possible or else people are just going to lose interest if they haven't already. I know most of my buddies have ._.

Thats exactly what i mean. If the gap between last save and relounch will be too big ppl will loose interest and move on to another game and prolly stay there. Only way to avoid this is to let ppl play beta in the time between last save and relounch or it could end in an another desaster.

Alot ppl always say it wouldnt matter cause so many ppl would start the game, but where do you want to take all these ppl when it's a game that lost all of its reputation allready...
It will need take time to build it up again and make some positive publicity before you get new subscribers. Until then they need the ppl that are playing right now.

[Cynthis]

If they are so close to taking down servers they should at LEAST be able to say when beta is or be starting it soon. If they are not even ready to announce when beta is by no means should they be taking down the servers/saving character data already. It is really confusing me what is going on. They need to stop with the classified/secretive shit and just be as open as possible or else people are just going to lose interest if they haven't already. I know most of my buddies have ._.

Amen sister!

[Shougun]

Win?

It wasn't a contest.

In 'Merica everythin a contest

. . .

[Efrye]

A lot of game companies were started by fresh into/out of college interns lol.

But those companies didn't start out developing triple-A games with several hundred people working on them.

[Zezlar]

What was the point of even voting? Why is it that the majority population vote never wins anything? lol

The logic is amazing though. If the majority wants something it's not implemented but if a minority wants it then WELL WE MUST MAKE IT THUS!!! (not limited to this specific poll).

[Abriael]

Yoshida: The servers are staying open for a while longer.

Trolls: WHINEFEST!

Ok...

[AttacKat]

Okay, just to throw in some positive thinking here ...

Alpha phase 1 starts at end of the month. If lucky, giving some credit to internal stress testing, Alpha phase 2 may start 2 weeks to a month after phase 1. At that time, more general population will be accepted into the testing, in other words, a larger base "playing" their char. Once the necessary global stress test are completed, which can take place quickly because more likely the focal issues here are likely be more server related, beta can start.

So all in all, we may only see a 1-2 month downtime before the closed/open beta phase begins. If such is the case, then a postponed char save point really does not add much benefit.

Heck, we can dream, can we?

jc

[viion]

I am really confused.

When is our character data being cut off? Originally they said 1st November, with shutdown on 11th, now they're saying 11th with game possibly being up after (at it will be).

So is it the 1st or 11th?
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/55751

November 11, 2012, even if none of the character data accumulated beyond that date

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e57e858ee82098

November 1, 2012 (Thursday) Character data (including in-game progress) will not be saved after this date.

am I missing something?