WARNING: Server Shutdown!

[RikkCavalier]

Servers will shut down prior to 2.0 for an unspecified amount of time (they won't run simultaneously as stated previously) and original players will be priority for the beta!

I hope theyre not down longer than a week! I'll go crazy!

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08...relaunch-a-re/

[Hitoku]

Servers will shut down prior to 2.0 for an unspecified amount of time (they won't run simultaneously as stated previously) and original players will be priority for the beta!

I hope theyre not down longer than a week! I'll go crazy!

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08...relaunch-a-re/

you will survive no worries

[KiriA500]

I have other games to play, so I won't be too upset with the downtime.

Sucks for people who only play this though.

[Keres]

This was mentioned back in some of the E3 interviews. But no worries, we all have lives outside of this game.....right?

[Chrees]

They'll be shut down for up to a month while the data is transferred, so...

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[KumaAkuma]

Uhm there is an alpha before the beta, so you'll be waiting way more than just a week.

[Hysterior]

take that time to go outside and check what grass looks like

[Fusionx]

This is old news, we heard about this during our interview at E3-

GE: Speaking of Beta, will there be downtime between current game and 2.0?

Yoshida: What’s going to happen is that after the current version is finished and storyline over, the servers will go down and the 2.0 beta will start up. We want to make sure we don’t make the same mistake as before, and want to be sure we have enough time not only for the beta test but also to get feedback from the players and leave enough time to implement that feedback. Also, keep in mind that transferring the characters to the new servers and systems could take up to a month. So that process will be running while the beta test is in place. There can’t be a launch immediately after the current servers are shut down.

Keep in mind, the month is only for transferring character data from 1.xx to 2.0. HOWEVER, they are still using the beta to gather feedback and this time they want to make sure they do the beta process correctly and act on all the feedback. So really we're looking at the game being down for more like 2, maybe 3 months while they get feedback and make changes in addition to transferring the character data.

[Punainen]

I just hope I have enough time to get the discontinues achievements. D: I'm working on the leves as fast as I can, but only getting 8 allowances a day makes for slow progress.

[Akujin]

"something in the story will happen and the servers will be shut down."

Ok, so following Living in a Prayer, Dalamud is looking to fall in the SE area of Mor Dhona, where a concentration of Darnus' legion is supposed to be also located, which is also a 'summoning' area being set up by the Circle of Knowledge, to draw the 12 into our dimension to deal with Meteor...so the battle we see in the trailer.

Thing is..the trailer they've been showing.. other than Odin and Behemoth's screencaps and I suppose the chocobos running through green areas, everything else that happens in the first trailer is the battle between us and the empire.

So, is SE using that trailer as a part of the main entrance movie for 2.0, to explain what happened before and what has become of the world now, bringing us to ARR?

Or are they planning to use that same video to show us the battle itself, as they shut the servers down.

This is the battle.. this is where you get taken away.. and that's it, until ARR comes back up.

Its a precarious thing really, its also what I've worried about with this entire idea. How are they planning to transition us, in the game world sense, from where we are now to where we're going? I remember how it happened in GW, so maybe similiar to that. You go to what is the final stage in GW pre-apoc, watch the CS as the world is destroyed and then return to post-apoc world, just as you were before.

Suppose the other idea is.. they could begin to systematically shut down areas and access points through our current game world, Atomos for instance killing the aether points, disabling teleportation between camps and nodes. Then disabling teleportation between ourselves and camps completely. The cities coming under attack by a mass Garlean seige at the same time, on a grand scale, some large 12 hour period on all servers at once and there at the end, forced into combat you hear Lousiox(sp?)'s voice in your head, telling you he tried..light surrounds us..and thats it, everything goes black, servers down.

Side idea.. they could also give us a final quest line following it all, the battle with the empire at mor dhona, give you the warning message prior to going into the instance 'This is the final segement for the Seventh Umbral Era, by entering this instance, you cannot return to the game world as you know it. Upon its end, for your character, the Seventh Umbral Era has concluded..and he/she will not return until ARR is opened. This is a one way path. Are you ready?" and thats it.. say yes.. join the mass battle against Alliance and Empire in a massive scale battle.. and wait until you return to ARR.

Because otherwise.. you're gonna go log off in your inn, servers gonna shut down and you're going to wake up to find a brand new war ridden world a few months later. Some folks would be rather pissed if they missed the chance to be part of that moment, I know I would lol I'll take a day or two of vacation for that.