BETA TEST ROADMAP IS UP!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Just SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Squeel with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel* lol

[Abriael]

SE needs to market this game. A lot. This needs to happen at a worldwide event like E3. E3 is all about new games rather than those already released. Logic tells me the chance of this game releasing before E3 is 0.

What logic exactly? With all due respect it doesn't seem much logic, as much lack of knowledge on how marketing and the industry work.

Even if all beta testing is completed by the middle of May they will hold off the launch until after E3. They may even artificially extend the latter phases for this reason. Alpha was originally meant to end mid-December but they let it run a bit longer to let more people in.

This game will launch mid to late June if there are no delays. Don't expect it any earlier but do expect it later as delays always happen on big projects.

E3 is a press/industry event. It's not a consumer event. The marketing effect of having a game at E3 towards customers is very, very limited, especially if a game has been already announced and shown a lot.

What works as E3 is New announcements. IE: Showing games that have never been shown before. This doesn't apply at all to FFXIV: ARR.

By your logic they should wait for october and launch after Tokyo Game Show and Gamescom, that are partly consumer events and more in line with their target. And even then, the marketing effect would be very, very limited.

"logic" (the real one, based on actual marketing, not on "OMG E3!") would actually dictate to release as soon as the game is ready. Due to the alpha and the roadmap the hype is already building. Hype works like a bell curve, and launching later rather than earlier means doing so when the curve is already going down.

I really cannot stifle a chuckle at those that are already here preaching that Square Enix will undoubtedly (and intentionally according to some, LOL) miss their worst case scenario completely after they just published it today.

[DarkkenMoneybags]

SE is the ultimate team player out of any company i seen up to date. they actually talk to the people paying for there services.

That's a bunch of chocobo crap Indira. SE didn't even give the official forums any answers to any of our questions about alpha & to the many others reason of (why this & why that). Only thing that was up to date was the road in 1.0 rebuilding phase to servers going offline & what to expect next. Global Alpha comes along we get totally excluded in information on these forums and to where Alpha forums are considered the official response base forums when they're not.

[Norack]

Legacy ppl are almost guranteed to get in on phase 1? and ppl that have the square enix code have a higher chance to get into the PS3 beta? o.0 *does the happy happy joy joy dance around computer*

[HiirNoivl]

Just SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy happy, joy joy

[Babydoll]

So nice how they giving Legacy folks access to first beta and such I guess though that rumor was right about the game not coming out until summer LOL

[Wyyote]

Got into Beta with Legacy!



Haters gonna Hate!

[DarkkenMoneybags]

Legacy ppl are almost guranteed to get in on phase 1? and ppl that have the square enix code have a higher chance to get into the PS3 beta? o.0 *does the happy happy joy joy dance around computer*

If you still have your XIII beta access code from 1.0 you can use it for PS3 FFXIV:ARR beta testing in starting phase 3.

[Yrusama]

That's a bunch of chocobo crap Indira. SE didn't even give the official forums any answers to any of our questions about alpha & to the many others reason of (why this & why that). Only thing that was up to date was the road in 1.0 rebuilding phase to servers going offline & what to expect next. Global Alpha comes along we get totally excluded in information on these forums and to where Alpha forums are considered the official response base forums when they're not.

Yoshi-P said time and again he can't give out exact dates in case there is a setback. In fact we shouldn't take this new roadmap as absolute truth either, but I like that they give us a general estimate of how long each phase will take.

[Norack]

If you still have your XIII beta access code from 1.0 you can use it for PS3 FFXIV:ARR beta testing in starting phase 3.

That I do sir, that I do. I keep everything with every game I have ever owned, even all my receipts XD.