Open Beta Running from 17-19 of August

**Andromeda** · 08-08-2013, 05:43 PM

A new Letter from the Producer was run recently by Yoshida. In it he answered many of the questions fans had about the game, most notably, about the up coming Phase 4 and open beta. He confirmed that the open beta will be August 17-19, with Phase 3 Beta testers getting early access on the 16th. Then they will go down in preparation for the release of the game. Progress made during the beta will carry over into the release. Early access for the release will be on the 24th, before the public release on the 27th.

There are a lot of details he went over, but he is a run down of the big things. The open beta will be level cap to 20. The housing system will be available to test in Gridania. The Great Labyrinth of Bahamut is meant to be the hardest challenge in the game at release and for a while. The Arcanist class will be available for the beta. There will be a unicorn mount available at some point. It also sounds like there will be user created content with tools available. They are currently working on them and said to look around at 8 months after launch for it.

Source: Letter from the Producer LIVE Part VIII Q&A Updates

**loaf** · 08-08-2013, 06:25 PM

Sadly I see there being a better chance of me playing FFXI than FFXIV.

**Ryu-Kentoshii Hirokima** · 08-08-2013, 07:53 PM

Well Andro, I will play with you if you would like during the Open Beta! Just let me know ^_^

**Andromeda** · 08-08-2013, 08:07 PM

Yeah, I might play since it is out away from Xillia, but still unknown. The idea of playing around with the housing system is fun though.

**Odin1199** · 08-08-2013, 08:58 PM

How do you deal with playing with like 100 people at a time? Don't these type of games get crowded and repetitive?

**Andromeda** · 08-08-2013, 09:11 PM

Having a lot of people is the point of the game. It makes it fun and exciting having a group of people that aren't AI all working together for a common goal. Plus, you can meet others that enjoy the same thing you do. It is a good social experience.

**loaf** · 08-09-2013, 12:19 AM

Most MMOs have gotten repetitive lately. He makes a valid point. Final Fantasy has done well with making it not hat boring. They actually have good cut scenes and story that rival most the Final Fantasy games we call the best.

**Fuzz** · 08-14-2013, 08:46 AM

I can't wait for this weekend to start playing

Since this is Phase 4 they won't wipe your character/progress when it closes. I also pre-ordered, so I get early access (only 3 days early, but oh well!).

My question is... what server will most TFFers be on?

**loaf** · 08-14-2013, 09:20 AM

Ultros I believe Fuzz.

**LocoColt04** · 08-14-2013, 11:51 AM

Loaf is correct! Even a fair few players who were on other servers at launch are starting fresh on Ultros.

**noxious.sunshine** · 08-14-2013, 11:54 AM

Ultros? I'z be dere. woohoo!

**Rocky** · 08-14-2013, 12:24 PM

must get to diamond in league befoer this starts....

hopefully ill start getting some crazy winstreaks...

**loaf** · 08-14-2013, 01:00 PM

Rocky you have to quit your job to do that.

**HeroZero** · 08-14-2013, 01:02 PM

Perhaps at some point I will move my character over to Ulros, but for now, stuck on my native server... which I don't even remember which it is right now, ZRO knows... But hey at least I can play around with stuff and not lose the forward progress.

**loaf** · 08-14-2013, 01:12 PM

Since Shiva is EU we switched to an NA server.

**LocoColt04** · 08-14-2013, 07:49 PM

Hero, you two were on Sargatanas - but I believe even our dear ZRO will be migrating over to Ultros with the rest of us. It was something we discussed a few weeks back and I think he's relatively set on the concept. No reason he can't keep his legacy character and ALSO have an Ultros character, after all.