Early access...whats the point?

[Radacci]

Alexander story is two weeks after launch, Alexander hard (or savage, or w/e) is one month after launch.

Nope, Alexander Story comes out 2 weeks after launch and Savage is 4 weeks. Source

i see, good to know hmm, was gonna cap all jobs, but i'll prob skip a few then, at least to begin with...depending on how smoothly we can gear them up.

[Gyson]

EA is so I can look around the maps in peace while not seeing fifty thousand people blocking my view.

I think it's reasonable to suggest that the majority will be right there alongside you "blocking your view" in Early Access rather than the official launch date. Most FFXIV players who plan to continue playing will be getting Heavensward (who wouldn't want access to the entire game?), and most of them will probably be pre-ordering. Yes, these are just guesses, but fairly safe ones I feel.

[Alberel]

The main purpose of early access is to make it a 'must have' to get almost everyone pre-ordering. The pre-order numbers gives SE a rough guide for how many people might be coming back to the game for the expansion and they can prepare accordingly for those numbers on the 19th. It's a clever move as they won't get surprised by a surge of people buying that did not pre-order since the only way into EA is via pre-order.

There'll be a small additional spike on the 23rd but nothing compared to the 19th.

Iirc, new tomestone will be released 2 weeks after launch, together with Alexander.

It is only Esoterics that will be released later. Law will be released with the expansion.

[Eye_Gore]

I'm curious to know the rationale behind this. Do you plan on finishing all 2.55 content and quitting?

Not even sure I'll be finishing 2.55. Time is no longer on my side, life events are becoming too much to allow me to play for more than an hour or so each day. I was on the fence about renewing my sub last time, but I did in hopes to atleast finishing some things I wanted to do, but its not going to happen. So after this sub expires that will be it for me, now I have to wonder what to do with this small fortune I have along with housing. Guess I'll liquidate all the housing items give up the plot and find some lucky person to inherit all my inventory and money, (that I can trade) would seem a waste to just leave it.

[PenutButter]

No, only people who pre-ordered are getting early-access. It's just that 3-4 day jumpstart. Not that much of an advantage, but noticeable for some.

Well, the people who are most excited about early access are those who are gonna spend the entire day on all 4 days on the game. VERY noticeable difference there, ESPECIALLY for crafters, where being the first to reach the top can really make a difference.

[Buff_Archer]

Guess I'll liquidate all the housing items give up the plot and find some lucky person to inherit all my inventory and money, (that I can trade) would seem a waste to just leave it.

Funny, I was just thinking of creating an alt on Malboro and then using that character exclusively for the use of helping other people and stuff. Did I ever tell you how clever and insightful I thought all your posts were? If I haven't, well I always meant to. And that was me hitting the Like button on wherever you saw that.

[Eye_Gore]

Did I ever tell you how clever and insightful I thought all your posts were? If I haven't, well I always meant to. And that was me hitting the Like button on wherever you saw that.

Aww I have a fan (probably the only one).......hey wait a minute, you wouldn't be trying to get some kind of brownie points here now would you? I'll clarify, some random player, you would no longer qualify as random.

[Kanti]

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me considering they're a month behind their initial planned release anyway.

Oh, well.

[Nutz]

It is only Esoterics that will be released later. Law will be released with the expansion.

That's true, but esoterics are the capped tomestone and law are uncapped, so EA doesn't allow players to gain any extra tomes except that time allows (no cap reset). I know it's not mentioned in the bit you quoted, but Kit-Kat was responding to someone suggesting EA provides an extra tome reset week.

[CrystalRainbow]

If anything breaks in Early access. they can say... well it's early access. Your getting extra time we gifted that to you.

So once it's live. They have to say. Sorry we need to take it offline but it's covered under TOS...