About ARR release.

[Colvin]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...487#post886487

thanks lots!

[Kewitt]

When FFXIV comes back, We will all get a min of 30 days Free to play...

SE is betting on almost everyone whoever played FFXIV 1.x to come back and try there free to play 30 day FFXIV: ARR

[KaMuiSouZou]

As far as I'm concerned, ANY amount of waiting is too long for me xD but I am more than willing to wait a few more months now if it means a better game through the years.

The wait time is certainly long though, and SE will need to market it carefully with a constant stream of information/game media to keep us hyped up, especially for the media/non current FFXIV players. They've been doing a pretty good job imo but with 1.0 now down, they'll need to amp it up a little for all those with ver 1 withdrawal symptoms.

[rockman0]

I remember reading something about us being able to use our characters in beta. What if the beta is also meant to be a sort of early access for former subscribers with new accounts being available after beta?

I know it's not likely, but one can dream.

[auritribe]

In a perfect world without any problems during alpha and beta, it be nice to have ARR release late January 2013.

Perfect World is a fine example of what not to do. I didn't like that game at all.

[Sanctus]

I remember reading something about us being able to use our characters in beta. What if the beta is also meant to be a sort of early access for former subscribers with new accounts being available after beta?

I know it's not likely, but one can dream.

This is what I've been saying, from everything occurring the way that it is, its not out of the question. When I read the original 2.0 announcement in oct 2011, that was what I understood to be their plan.

[YuriSan]

<-- This guy's fears,
In my case personally the way we do things in the ls is kinda keep it super small and well...
We can't find people that will suit our LS easily cause everyones a shell hopper who has 78 shells to do stuff with and who wont be there when you need him, thus i dun like him to do stuff with me thus i dun have many players i play with. we a super small family. (also i'm a rude evil asshole that uses excuses when he screws up his job)
Now with that said i can't afford to lose a single person cause loosing one guy is a major step back.

We where like 20 people before server merged last time and we ended up with like 7 when servers came back up.
I just don't wanna relive that thing cause it was terrible...

That's just my personal thing and my view on this thing.
I aint worried about it all that much though. aslong as my core base of players (5 peoples) are back i'm good. Theres always more rude thugs who won't be all like "how dare you speak to me like that!" if u call them a fairy.. I will find them and recruit them in ARR I guess.

[rockman0]

This is what I've been saying, from everything occurring the way that it is, its not out of the question. When I read the original 2.0 announcement in oct 2011, that was what I understood to be their plan.

That's the way I read it as well. I hope it's what they are planning to do.

[novio]

I do wish for them to take as long as they need on 2.0 just to prevent the problematic launch that 1.0 had.

The one thing that bothers me is the fact that they are indeed behind schedule. In my opinion there's just a single issue with this, that the final save was possibly premature in timing. In turn we could have perhaps been playing the game a tad longer. Although I am aware if they had prolonged the final save then there would be issues with the final event and their initial schedule. I realize that none of us truly know exactly how long it takes to convert the player data. Yet given their previous projections it would have been a month or two. All the same since the schedule is off I can't help but feel that I would have enjoyed however much more play time before the final save was made. QQ

[TamjiN]

Even though it might be 5 months, I say let them take as long as needed. I don't want another 1.0 fiasco. Yes, its a long break but its better to have a complete game than a rushed game.