Time between end of EA and offical release

[Bashkarthegreat]

when we do early access, are we needing to input credit card info for the first month? im not seeing an option to apply a service to ff14, which makes sense since its not live yet, and i know the first month of like every MMO that ever existed has always given out the first month free, but they still usually make you enter credit card info anyways even for the free month. clarification here?

[Flich]

It is awesome that we have till the 30th to register our codes for the game! I'm excited for the game. Yet, during phase 4, we downloaded the 7-8gb of the game. Since the restriction of the level cap, I assume that the whole game is not downloaded... or is it? So basically, will there be a patch to download and if there is one when will it be available?