How long will FFXIV be down for?

[PinkamenaDiane]

Anyone know how much downtime there is going to be before ARR is out? 5, 7, 10 months ?

[viion]

The only and most accurate answer: No one knows.

[Shougun]

Too long >.>

I'm not done playing! lol

Q1 was the goal release so.. 5 seems what they want, 7 is what might happen and 10 fkin sucks.

[Akira_Tenshi]

There is a rumor ARR will release in July. I am really hoping that isn't true, that is a long time to have no game at all.

[Altena]

July? That can't be true :/ The game is in alpha phase after all..

Rough guess? Jan-Feb next year. Depending how beta goes. But as said above - no one really knows..

[Zenaku]

Anywhere from 3-5months but we get to play beta at least

[Elexia]

Till July 2013 or later. People told them to take as long as they want and need to make it get right and Yoshida agrees, so.

[Jocko]

There's no definite answer as no information has been given, but educated guesses would place it's release around March at the absolute earliest

[Huginn]

SE is not insane. If the release gets delayed until July or even December 2015, SE will let us play the in progress apha/beta after maybe a month or two of the v1 servers going down.

[EinSoFZ]

Looking at their timeline, I don't really think July 2013 is what they're aiming for. Taking time is one thing, but we're already in alpha. Beta will soon follow and then release. They will take time to get it right, but I don't believe they need until July 13 to do that and I don't think they believe that either. Recall that it's not like they were not working on ARR while we were still playing 1.0.....