How long will FFXIV be down for?

[Felis]

It should be clear that the july date was just a rumor.
Yoshi said that the date depends on how the beta is doing.
They can't make a date if the beta haven't started yet.

[Elexia]

They would need to move current players into beta fairly fast, and release fast.

Why would they need to do it "fast"?

It should be clear that the july date was just a rumor.
Yoshi said that the date depends on how the beta is doing.
They can't make a date if the beta haven't started yet.

Do you know anything about the game industry? Developers make dates all the time before even Alpha of games both online and offline, they just don't always make it public until their sure. He said the game will be out when he feels it's ready, but when you look back by patches, he as a nasty habit of delaying everything and there's still issues with them, and this is ignoring the earthquake and tsunami situation.

Btw, SE delays everything, testing for ARR was even delayed.

[Dragonheart]

Spring at the earliest (march - may ) .. but i believe it will be out in summer as the last rumor said (july)...

Give them all the time they need to make a good game this time.

I have to quote GW2 devs in this occasion.


Fans: When GW2 will be out?
GW2 Team: When it is ready.

[indira]

1.0's time from alpha to launch was 5-6 months, so expect something like that

well SE said in a interview they had 2.0 up and running before they anounced it. so its been around a year.
but in the end there will always be bugs after they launch it.

[Elexia]

well SE said in a interview they had 2.0 up and running before they anounced it. so its been around a year.

Up and running means they had a concept build going, doesn't mean they had the game in any actual playable form.

[Delsus]

Why would they need to do it "fast"?



Do you know anything about the game industry? Developers make dates all the time before even Alpha of games both online and offline, they just don't always make it public until their sure. He said the game will be out when he feels it's ready, but when you look back by patches, he as a nasty habit of delaying everything and there's still issues with them, and this is ignoring the earthquake and tsunami situation.

Btw, SE delays everything, testing for ARR was even delayed.

There called unforeseen problems, they happen all the time, especially in software development. Look at some software that was released on time, after having a public release date for months (I have 3 off the top of my head)

FFXIV 1.0, We all know what happened there, I don't need to explain again I don't think

iOS6, The main problem was the maps application, it had problems that were blatantly obvious, unless I haven't known we now live under the sea.

Windows 8, There have been some complaints about it, the main one is no notification center (see Android and iOS notification bar) you get a notification, miss it and if your app doesn't have a live tile you will not know you have said notification until you open it (I'm expected to open every app on my phone just to see if anything has happened every time I leave it?)

These are just a few examples I have read about or experienced recently, all of these should have been delayed until these bugs were squashed or features coded (Microsoft said they were going to put a notification center in Windows 8, but didn't have time.)

Delays are much better than huge bugs and missing features.

[GinTama]

my guess is, since alpha is moving smoothly, beta will start at the end of november or start of december.
The beta will probably take 3-4 months IF nothing goes terribly wrong. i dont think it will take much longer at least i hope so.
At the end SE is a company thatwants to make a profit, so time is money. Of course they dont want the same disaster as with 1.0 but that doesnt mean the higher ups are not running around with whips, whipping the hell out of the dev team^^

[Nero]

Spring at the earliest (march - may ) .. but i believe it will be out in summer as the last rumor said (july)...

It is what it is.. a rumour. Do you believe in rumour's? I have one for you.. 21.12.2012 Planet X will crash into Planet Earth. Same hilarious bullshit, made up by someone.

I have to quote GW2 devs in this occasion.


Fans: When GW2 will be out?
GW2 Team: When it is ready.

Actually you dont need to quote GW2 for that, Yoshi said the exact same thing. They will release ARR when they feel it is ready.

[EinSoFZ]

Just funny thought, but if they took team members from versus XIII to work on ARR (as the rumor suggests) we definitely won't be seeing it early. Look how long it's taken them to work on their own game.....that has seen 2 games released that were being developed at the same time. I'm hoping it doesn't take until late next year, but if that's who is working on it I wouldn't be surprised.

[Elexia]

All FF games have long development cycles for whatever reason, and while true earlier this year Wada stated all of their in production games have been pushed back by a year or two due to ARR's revamp, I don't think it's necessarily the dev team.