Final Fantasy XIV- Anyone gonna give it a shot? I'm picking up my copy today. Don't worry, my expectations are low. But fingers crossed I am pleasantly surprised.
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Anyone gonna give it a shot? I'm picking up my copy today. Don't worry, my expectations are low. But fingers crossed I am pleasantly surprised.
Anyone gonna give it a shot? I'm picking up my copy today. Don't worry, my expectations are low. But fingers crossed I am pleasantly surprised.
I think WoT has most of your attention and that you will not last long on FFXIV .
Just picked it up and am now figuring how I get myself registered and the long download, if the servers are still functional considering today is official launch day.
Hard to say. I'm pulling back a little from WoT. Actually spending quite a bit of time playing Minecraft if you can believe that.
Better be careful. You are one mouse click away from WoW .
Anyone gonna give it a shot? I'm picking up my copy today. Don't worry, my expectations are low. But fingers crossed I am pleasantly surprised.
Has anyone tested it on an intel hd 3000 card?
That's what I have in my macbook pro and I'm curious if it can handle it.
That video looks like it may be based on the older benchmark tool.
I suggest you download their new one and run it yourself. AAR is based on the new luminous engine whereas old FF14 was using the FF13 crystal engine.
Better be careful. You are one mouse click away from WoW .
I'm gonna try the PS3 version... only because a couple friends who played the original asked me to join em
But yeah my expectations are pretty low too
I'm discouraged with FFXIV right now because of limited log in access. I can't access any North American Servers due to ques. I might mess around on one of the Japanese servers now and then, but I won't really consider this game seriously until I can find a server based in North America, that I can call home. I'm going to give Square Enix another week or so before I tell them to FO.
My guild's server has character creation locked. Who knows when that will change? Ultimately I can deal with that, but I insist on an accessible N.A. server that I can actually log into. Because of this situation, I posted a message on the Square Enix forums telling them they should extend free access to the game for another month. Right, won't hold my breath for that one...
I'm on Exodus and while it might take 5-6 tries I can usually get in within 5 minutes. I'm using the PS3 client but I don't think it would make much of a difference. The longest its taken is 10 min and honestly for it being the first week I can deal with that, WoW had it far far worse during the first week.. WAY WORSE..
Give it 30 days and it'll drop off a bit, the queue kinda bugs me but honestly 5-10 min isn't much to complain about imo.
The first two nights, where I was lucky enough to make a character on a N.A. server, every time I tried to log in, about a dozen times, the queues were so large that I was just getting a message that the "world was full, try later".
Someone mentioned in the FF forums that the queue should not have a limit. I also read it's a problem with how the FF servers function and how many players they can handle in que. The largest number I've seen in a queues without an outright rejection is about 130. Of note, when I was number 136 and I watched for a couple of minutes, the number did not budge and I thought, this is going to take all night. Then pop I was in.
The other problem I've read which adds to conjestion is that unlike WoW when players go static, after 5-10 minutes, they are not ejected from the game. I tested that and nope I was not ejected. When it's really difficult to get in, I can see people not logging out even if they are going to do something else.
I did get in last night and played for a couple of hours. Although the game is beautiful, with the way the lower level quests are constructed, I'm all ready getting that been-there-done-that feeling, which is not a good sign for me and long term longevity. Not to sound overly negative, but I think the GW2 no subscription model is better because I could see my self casually playing FFXIV.
Not a word, Plutonius.
I did get in last night and played for a couple of hours. Although the game is beautiful, with the way the lower level quests are constructed, I'm all ready getting that been-there-done-that feeling, which is not a good sign for me and long term longevity. Not to sound overly negative, but I think the GW2 no subscription model is better because I could see my self casually playing FFXIV.
Just tried to make a character for the first time this morning and ran into all the problems you mentioned. The servers are capped at 5000 players and there's no AFK boot so people are logging their characters in the morning, setting them to AFK,going to work leaving their chars logged in waiting for them when they get home. Even my friends that asked me to play do this. This triggers the restriction where they won't let anyone add new characters to a server. So if you haven't created a character yet and you wanna play on an NA EU server you're kinda screwed until around midnight when some people start logging off. I can't get into any NA or EU server right now so I just made a dummy character on a JP server so I could learn the game.
Seriously all they'd have to do is add an AFK boot and that would fix the congestion problem. Instead they said they're just slowly rolling out more servers.