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#27 Jul 31 2013 at 2:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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Hairspray wrote:
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Speeeeeeculation! Smiley: grin

You can't even get to that page without pasting in the url. They've taken the beta application button off of the main sight. For all we know it could be a typo and late registration closes on that date.

The typo could also be on the number. Maybe it means August 7, 2013.


That would make it BEFORE the live webcast with Yoshi on the 8th... very unlikely.

But you get a W for Wishful thinking!


But it would be funny:

"And, oh yeah, Phase 4 started yesterday."

And the data centers all burst into flames simutaneously 10 seconds later.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 1:03pm by SkinwalkerAsura
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#28 Jul 31 2013 at 2:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Hairspray wrote:
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Speeeeeeculation! Smiley: grin

You can't even get to that page without pasting in the url. They've taken the beta application button off of the main sight. For all we know it could be a typo and late registration closes on that date.

The typo could also be on the number. Maybe it means August 7, 2013.


That would make it BEFORE the live webcast with Yoshi on the 8th... very unlikely.


Well, not really unlikely. After all, it says "registration." Perhaps it registration starts the 7th but the Beta P4 some days after.
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#29 Jul 31 2013 at 2:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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We really won't know for sure until the live broadcast with Yoshi next week on the 8th when they officially announce the dates.


Unless I missed something, it's still a guess that the dates will be announced in the Live broadcast.

By saying nothing until then, it seems like the Live broadcast servers are going to be crashed!

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 4:06pm by Gnu
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#30 Jul 31 2013 at 2:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Gnu wrote:
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We really won't know for sure until the live broadcast with Yoshi next week on the 8th when they officially announce the dates.


Unless I missed something, its still a guess that the dates will be announced in the Live broadcast.

By saying nothing until then, it seems like the Live broadcast servers are going to be crashed!

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 4:05pm by Gnu


I for one will be watching live.
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#31 Jul 31 2013 at 2:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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PavetlXIV wrote:
Hairspray wrote:
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Speeeeeeculation! Smiley: grin

You can't even get to that page without pasting in the url. They've taken the beta application button off of the main sight. For all we know it could be a typo and late registration closes on that date.

The typo could also be on the number. Maybe it means August 7, 2013.

That would make it BEFORE the live webcast with Yoshi on the 8th... very unlikely.

Well, not really unlikely. After all, it says "registration." Perhaps it registration starts the 7th but the Beta P4 some days after.

That was what I intended to imply. I just figured I would point out a more likely typo than the one that was given in the post I quoted.
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#32 Jul 31 2013 at 2:10 PM Rating: Good
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I'm sorry. Does a Kupo Nut get me forgiveness?

You have to make me smoked mithra tail for dinner, then we'll call it even. Smiley: nod

I think everyone here knows to just wait till the Live Letter approaches for confirmation, but it's always amusing to speculate.
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If Open Beta only lasts a few days, what would SE be hoping to achieve through Phase 4? Since non-Legacy characters all have to start from scratch, it's not likely that players will be able to test everything that was changed/fixed between Phase 3 and Phase 4. Would it be a better stress test than Phase 3, since an Open Beta is likely to have more participants?
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#34 Jul 31 2013 at 3:04 PM Rating: Good
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If Open Beta only lasts a few days, what would SE be hoping to achieve through Phase 4? Since non-Legacy characters all have to start from scratch, it's not likely that players will be able to test everything that was changed/fixed between Phase 3 and Phase 4. Would it be a better stress test than Phase 3, since an Open Beta is likely to have more participants?


That's what they have stated is the primary goal of Phase 4, a Stress test with more participants than P3.

They are going to make absolutely sure that 1.0 characters survive the transition as well, as they had some issues in P3.

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More than 20 Worlds will be available.
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All character customization options will be available.
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Version 1.0 characters can be used.
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The Duty Finder (player matching feature) will be implemented. → Will be in Phase 3
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The Level Sync feature will be implemented. → Will be in Phase 3
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Stress testing will be conducted on the housing system.
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Testing will be conducted on the PvP Coliseum.
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svlyons wrote:
If Open Beta only lasts a few days, what would SE be hoping to achieve through Phase 4? Since non-Legacy characters all have to start from scratch, it's not likely that players will be able to test everything that was changed/fixed between Phase 3 and Phase 4. Would it be a better stress test than Phase 3, since an Open Beta is likely to have more participants?


At this point that's my guess...

P4 is nothing more then an extended early access and stress test... I think we saw in P3 that the game is very polished already and really doesn't need a ton of testing with the possible exception of end-game.
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#36 Jul 31 2013 at 3:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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How or why would they start it before allowing people to register? SE is all about fairness with ARR, that wouldn't exactly be fair.


Phase 4 registration started weeks ago. This is for late registration.


I'm inclined to believe this. When I checked the beta tester page yesterday it had the "registration site closed, will reopen later" message. Makes sense that they would let things run for a bit before opening the floodgates.
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#37 Jul 31 2013 at 3:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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svlyons wrote:
If Open Beta only lasts a few days, what would SE be hoping to achieve through Phase 4? Since non-Legacy characters all have to start from scratch, it's not likely that players will be able to test everything that was changed/fixed between Phase 3 and Phase 4. Would it be a better stress test than Phase 3, since an Open Beta is likely to have more participants?


My guess is they'll be testing if they have enough capacity for launch day and use the Early Start time, which should act as an "eye of the storm," to prepare. There isn't time for much else. It's either going to work or it's getting patched later. Smiley: lol
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Hairspray wrote:
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If Open Beta only lasts a few days, what would SE be hoping to achieve through Phase 4? Since non-Legacy characters all have to start from scratch, it's not likely that players will be able to test everything that was changed/fixed between Phase 3 and Phase 4. Would it be a better stress test than Phase 3, since an Open Beta is likely to have more participants?


At this point that's my guess...

P4 is nothing more then an extended early access and stress test... I think we saw in P3 that the game is very polished already and really doesn't need a ton of testing with the possible exception of end-game.


The Player Housing and PvP Coliseum features have not been tested by the public as of yet. According to the Beta Road Map, they will be part of Phase 4.

Would we expect those two features have their own servers?
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Would we expect those two features have their own servers?


They will almost certainly be instanced, so they'll probably share a server with other instanced "events". Brenner in XI wasn't. You had to reserve the island.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:23pm by ScrapTower
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This is the "official" NA Beta Application URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks home/language buttons, and the "official" page has more polish.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:56pm by ScrapTower
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This is the "official" NA Beta URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks a home button or the polish of the "official" link.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:52pm by ScrapTower



I agree the OP link seems to look Photoshopped compairing the 2 pages its more than obvious.
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#42 Jul 31 2013 at 4:03 PM Rating: Excellent
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This is the "official" NA Beta URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks a home button or the polish of the "official" link.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:52pm by ScrapTower



I agree the OP link seems to look Photoshopped compairing the 2 pages its more than obvious.


The link is to Square-Enix's own site; it's not a picture.
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This is the "official" NA Beta URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks a home button or the polish of the "official" link.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:52pm by ScrapTower



I agree the OP link seems to look Photoshopped compairing the 2 pages its more than obvious.


The link is to Square-Enix's own site; it's not a picture.


Yes that's true but if you compare the two, the controversial link looks unfinished, and it's from square-enix.com. The "official" one that they emailed everyone is from ffxiv.com. Also if you look at the source, there is a large block of java script missing.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 6:13pm by ScrapTower
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#44 Jul 31 2013 at 4:20 PM Rating: Good
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Jeez someone is getting paid for this long running ARR beta game ad.I'm not getting hyped up like 1.0 had me. I admit i got hooked when they sent my beta invites to an old secondary email address,but then send the notice that i signed up to the recent email.I like to think there is a huge corporation that think "you'll play in 2 weeks" keep people hook on and talking about the game. I'm upgrading my OS HDD videocard before launch, now i have more time work on that. Hackers don't SE have a twitter account to clear it up?

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#45 Jul 31 2013 at 4:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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ScrapTower wrote:
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This is the "official" NA Beta URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks a home button or the polish of the "official" link.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:52pm by ScrapTower



I agree the OP link seems to look Photoshopped compairing the 2 pages its more than obvious.


The link is to Square-Enix's own site; it's not a picture.


Yes that's true but if you compare the two, the controversial link looks unfinished, and it's from square-enix.com. The "official" one that they emailed everyone is from ffxiv.com. Also if you look at the source, there is a large block of java script missing.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 6:13pm by ScrapTower



It would be a pretty lame hacker that would go to the trouble of breaking into SE's website just to leave a plausible date as to when beta registration would resume.
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Xoie wrote:
ScrapTower wrote:
Xoie wrote:
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ScrapTower wrote:
This is the "official" NA Beta URL. It says nothing of August 17th. Also notice the other link lacks a home button or the polish of the "official" link.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 5:52pm by ScrapTower



I agree the OP link seems to look Photoshopped compairing the 2 pages its more than obvious.


The link is to Square-Enix's own site; it's not a picture.


Yes that's true but if you compare the two, the controversial link looks unfinished, and it's from square-enix.com. The "official" one that they emailed everyone is from ffxiv.com. Also if you look at the source, there is a large block of java script missing.

Edited, Jul 31st 2013 6:13pm by ScrapTower



It would be a pretty lame hacker that would go to the trouble of breaking into SE's website just to leave a plausible date as to when beta registration would resume.


I'm not saying it was a hacker however it most certainly could be an unfinished/forgotten page, and the OP of the link is basically MIA with no explaination whatsoever.
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#47 Jul 31 2013 at 4:31 PM Rating: Good
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P4 is nothing more than a stress test. And bugs, glitches etc found during P4 isn't meant to be fixed by EA anyway. They would be pushed to post launch patches.
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#48 Jul 31 2013 at 4:38 PM Rating: Good
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So what was the point of registering a code before the end of July? if it starts after august 17th. Doesn't make sense at all.
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#49 Jul 31 2013 at 4:44 PM Rating: Decent
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So what was the point of registering a code before the end of July? if it starts after august 17th. Doesn't make sense at all.

I agree, it doesn't add up. The OP link might very well be legit, but I think it's quite old and unfinished and not actually going to happen.

This isn't a biased opinion because I want the beta to happen sooner either. The game is released in less than a month and almost all of us have early access and beta codes registered so we'll all be playing a lot sooner than that.
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I was under the solid impression that it would be on the 8th. I'm not sure why, it was just already in my mind. Weird. This kinda blows because I just so happened to schedule a week off from that day in no connection with beta, just for the hell of it. It would have been nice.
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#51 Jul 31 2013 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent
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The producer said the open beta/trial (he called it a free trial period) would be a week long in a post. Now he would not be lying I guess if he meant a business week :/
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