Any update about xbox open beta

[ugaboy102188]

I know they said the open beta was coming in patch 6.5 but do we know when in 6.5 and how is expansions gonna work in open beta for the Xbox I own every expansion for ffxiv on the ps and pc and got a sub so was just wondering how all of this gonna work

[DiaDeem]

I haven't seen any posts about it on lodestone.

If it's anything like PlayStation, you'll very likely need to buy a separate XBOX license to your service account, which means buying the Complete Edition from the ground up, though your character progress remains.

We should wait for an update on the Lodestone though. Dunno if XBOX would wanna make the Windows license cross platform. We'll have to wait to see.

[ugaboy102188]

I wonder when we will have a update cause 6.5 patch comes out Tuesday

[Jeeqbit]

We should wait for an update on the Lodestone though. Dunno if XBOX would wanna make the Windows license cross platform. We'll have to wait to see.

That is an interesting idea, but they didn't do it with other platforms, so I doubt it. Xbox versions of games tend to be sold separately from the PC versions.

It would be ideal to pay a smaller fee for other platforms (whatever cut goes to that platform), but it's probably in part the amount of extra work to implement it but also because of the fact they don't sell the game on these platforms just themselves, but let other retailers sell it as well. Other retailers can't know that you already own it on another platform and therefore can't discount it. If SE stopped letting other retailers sell it, they would probably find it easier to discount the price for multiple platforms.

Letting other retailers sell it is important purely so that it can be on their main store ie. Steam store, Xbox game store, Playstation store. These websites/apps cannot know that you already own the game on eachother's platforms and therefore can't discount it, so when you take the code and add it to the mog station it's too late to discount it. SE could maybe refund everything but the cut the platform takes but that's all I can think of.

SE could also just discontinue selling the expansions that way and only sell expansions themselves directly, so the only thing that requires multiple fees is the game itself and not expansions, and make this cost platform-independent.

The base game itself is virtually just the first subscription fee as well, so it's virtually free.

[Nebelheim]

I thought at fanfest they mentioned spring time for xbox beta during the xbox announcement. But i could also be misremembering the announcement.

[Jojoya]

I thought at fanfest they mentioned spring time for xbox beta during the xbox announcement. But i could also be misremembering the announcement.

You're correct. The estimate was that the beta would be sometime in the spring.

I'd guess it would happen about the same time they increase the Comedy cap to 900 per week but it could be a little later than that.

[Nebelheim]

You're correct. The estimate was that the beta would be sometime in the spring.

I'd guess it would happen about the same time they increase the Comedy cap to 900 per week but it could be a little later than that.

I think it could be around 6.58 if that patch gets released around spring.

[Volkai]

Sigh... I'd forgotten that they never said 6.50, but 6.5x and 2024.

Drat.

[RapidRecharge]

Isn't it possible that it'll be on 6.51 though, which is supposed to be later this month?

[Jojoya]

Isn't it possible that it'll be on 6.51 though, which is supposed to be later this month?

While it's always a possibility, it's doubtful. I suspect they'll announce the date a month or two in advance to let some hype build between current players and their Xbox friends.

After the JP FanFest is over seems a lot more realistic.