Translations (JP to English)

[Jennestia]

I pretty much felt that was going to happen. I don't see them releasing A Realm Reborn until at least early March to be honest. That is if they really do take the Alpha/Beta seriously.

Yep, they're really taking their time with this lol -- I don't see ARR till after XI's expansion launches next year to be honest and with how little there seems to be let alone the 'weekly updates after gamescom', I don't really think they're even in an alpha state. I really think SE should stop giving "seasons" and just give a month lol, Alpha testing "in fall"...November 11th (if even the same day or week) through endish of December is hardly fall testing, that's a month of testing and that's just the Japanese closed alpha test.

[Shougun]

It's good if they create a solid game. I don't care how long it's down for as long as the finished product is great. Also, I have GW2 during the downtime.

Don't know why they dont just keep the servers running with a testing bed server people can join in and help with.

I'm sure no one wants to play ARR if its going to suck, so though we dont want to we will wait. Also that means they can dress the city up and revive their halloween and christmas events..

[Rannie]

They are going to close servers for 3-4 months? I think this is no good..

Why would you think that? If they do that, which I'm hoping they will, will mean that they will have more time to focus on completing the game fixing as many bugs as they can and give us a break monetary wise as well as emotionally LOL. I'm very happy for this news. I don't want another half assed game to play, not that I never enjoyed this one, but I want it to be done correctly as I'm sure everyone here does. There are other things to occupy your time and money while the game is down. I myself may be playing GW2 (a coworker of mine is going to help me buy it and I'll be playing with them) and if I'm not playing that there's anime and a shit ton of other games I need to finish! *hangs head* I have never beat FFX FFXII or even FFXIII (all with good reason though was playing them on my ps3 had over 100 hours for two of the games and then the ps3 died... twice) There's a few others as well but I don't wanna look like a completely gimped gamer girl rofl.

[Guevara]

It's good if they create a solid game. I don't care how long it's down for as long as the finished product is great. Also, I have GW2 during the downtime.

This is true, but if moving data to the new servers takes 1-2 months, why not close 1.xx at a later date? Would keep us busy a little longer.

Wife will be happy, at least ahahahaha

[Colino]

I would figure they'd be frustrated with this as well. Not all of them are super hardcore players.

[Rannie]

Yep, they're really taking their time with this lol -- I don't see ARR till after XI's expansion launches next year to be honest and with how little there seems to be let alone the 'weekly updates after gamescom', I don't really think they're even in an alpha state. I really think SE should stop giving "seasons" and just give a month lol, Alpha testing "in fall"...November 11th (if even the same day or week) through endish of December is hardly fall testing, that's a month of testing and that's just the Japanese closed alpha test.

Technically if you follow the Solstices Winter doesn't officially start until Dec 21st though it is pushing the button with the whole fall should have been more like end of fall early winter.

[Coombah]

I'm not so focused on the season or the date just as long as they get the job done. I think ARR will be great from most of the information that has be released even though I might not agree with everything . I have trust in the team. Just keep us informed, give us the daily or weekly info to keep us checking in and take a hard look at what your testers are saying.

[Munba]

Why would you think that? If they do that, which I'm hoping they will, will mean that they will have more time to focus on completing the game fixing as many bugs as they can and give us a break monetary wise as well as emotionally LOL. I'm very happy for this news. I don't want another half assed game to play, not that I never enjoyed this one, but I want it to be done correctly as I'm sure everyone here does. There are other things to occupy your time and money while the game is down. I myself may be playing GW2 (a coworker of mine is going to help me buy it and I'll be playing with them) and if I'm not playing that there's anime and a shit ton of other games I need to finish! *hangs head* I have never beat FFX FFXII or even FFXIII (all with good reason though was playing them on my ps3 had over 100 hours for two of the games and then the ps3 died... twice) There's a few others as well but I don't wanna look like a completely gimped gamer girl rofl.

Well, i said that because maybe a long 'down' period could make to loose interest for someone. Dunno.

[RoxyLalonde]

Well, i said that because maybe a long 'down' period could make to loose interest for someone. Dunno.

I dunno about that... I tried to play other games and I always came back to this... I would even login when I meant to login to other games... I don't... I don't think we can escape.

[Breladine]

Well, i said that because maybe a long 'down' period could make to loose interest for someone. Dunno.

It's possible with me, I keep hoping I'll be able to keep my interest in this game. I also play WoW and I've put that on the shelf to level in FFXIV since re-joining in August, but once the servers go down for FFXIV, I'll have nothing left but the new WoW expansion and a whole lotta brand new content over there.. as much as I can't wait for 2.0, coming back to FFXIV will be a challenge if it stays down for huge lengths of time and I've re-devoted myself to World of Warcraft.

I'm just gonna try to stay up to date with information and stay in contact with my LinkShell mates and hopefully that will be enough to keep me hanging on. If the servers go down for long periods of months on months, their best bet would be to keep information coming to us from official sources at LEAST every week if not more.. to keep our attention.