Final Fantasy 14 Beta is out!

[W1zzard]

config thingie is also in the windows start menu

 

[kid41212003]

Lameeeeee!

 

[digibucc]

http://img.techpowerup.org/100902/im01.gif

Lameeeeee!

go to http://member.square-enix.com/na, log in, go to account, and then account management. from there you go to services and add a service, it is a backdoor to the same page but does not error out.

i'll see YOU in game!

 

[kid41212003]

How do I get the code..?

Applications for the FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test have been temporarily suspended. Please wait until we are ready to accept new applications and then try again.

NVM

 

[digibucc]

ok got all the files but now version check is timing out - also when i try to log onto the beta forums it now tells me user/pass unknown AND their forgot info page doesn't work!

 

[W1zzard]

getting version check timeout here too

 

[digibucc]

getting version check timeout here too

i've been trying to figure out whether it was me or not, thanks for the confirmation!

well - i will try throughout the day - registered, service added, files downloaded. thanks again for getting a torrent up there! the squeenix provided ones were horrible

 

[human_error]

Square's sites are all getting hammered. They are posting updates on their twitter account http://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN so you can see when things get resolved.

 

[W1zzard]

one of the worst open beta launches in recent history. IT department: fail

 

[digibucc]

version check timeout because patch servers are down - even if you don't need the patch that's where it checks first. also all world servers are down - the only thing that is up is login , which does no good for now.

check server status
info found here

edit: patch is up - still no world servers - it's checking my files now

yep - i'm all updated and set, can login but it fails after authent as the lobby is down. I'll be on as soon as it's up bad work day today

 

[Batou1986]

one of the worst open beta launches in recent history. IT department: fail

agreed, already lost my interest since i been trying to sign up since this time yesterday

 

[NinkobEi]

The issues with this game do not surprise me. After googling for some gameplay vids, the ALPHA release was only a couple of months ago. This beta is actually new! Most good MMOs have half a year or MORE of beta. This launch could be one of the buggiest in MMO history. This is just my opinion based on my limited knowledge. I dont know anyone who has actually played the game and reported back, so I could easily be mislead.

 

[digibucc]

agreed, already lost my interest since i been trying to sign up since this time yesterday

if you lose interest that quickly, you aren't a beta tester. wait till the flushed out trial comes out - then give it a try.

not saying this isn't a failure of a launch - but launch failures happen all the time - let alone beta - let alone for mmos

 

[human_error]

Grrrr keep getting stuck with the updater here:

I downloaded the content from TPU to make patching quicker (i was getting 6kb/s from the square downloader).

After 5-10 mins of it showing 99.8% it sais "update failed, try again" :shadedshu

 

[Jaffakeik]

Server is busy

 

[Cold Storm]

one of the worst open beta launches in recent history. IT department: fail

It sounds like it is from everything I have read from the webz.. But, thankfully I'm working to much to really sit down right now and play it.. Hope they fix this soon!

 

[digibucc]

world servers are slowly coming back on - hopefully the lobby soon.

human - patch server is back up so it should be working now - it was down for another 15 mins or so around the time of your post.

 

[human_error]

world servers are slowly coming back on - hopefully the lobby soon.

human - patch server is back up so it should be working now - it was down for another 15 mins or so around the time of your post.

Lol i now get stuck at 99.9% complete - file 6 of 6

 

[digibucc]

Lol i now get stuck at 99.9% complete - file 6 of 6

yeah it stuck for me a few times - both the download and the app itself. I do not like Squares's way of programming for FFXI or this on PC - like they ported the game interface and all.

I went into

C:\Users\i7\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta\d96437e6\metainfo

and opened both 9/02 files in utorrent, downloaded them in seconds to the

C:\Users\i7\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version\downloads\ffxiv-beta\d96437e6\patch

folder. then on the next launch I just waited for it to verify everything.

all worlds are now online - so all world maintenance is either done or close I would think. then they will (hopefully) turn the lobby server on and we should be able to "start" after logging in.

wait for the flag... vroom vroom

 

[W1zzard]

great .. i'm crashing now before seeing the character selection screen

 

[AphexDreamer]

Is this going to be pay to play? I heard it was... Not sure though.

 

[digibucc]

great .. i'm crashing now before seeing the character selection screen

all servers are up but there is the "13001 the lobby server connection..." error. though it doesn't crash for me it just goes back to the "start" screen.

from what I have read that error goes up when they are still working on the servers - i am checking the support center for updates, as they are doing them often now. (they still haven't said the servers are up - even though physically they are, they are obviously not done with the work.)

 

[human_error]

@digibucc the torrent trick worked thanks - i'd tried it earlier today and got nothing down but looks like there are more seeders now

great .. i'm crashing now before seeing the character selection screen

Is this going to be pay to play? I heard it was... Not sure though.

£8.99/month

**edit**

got to 94% complete on install and then Microsoft Security Essentials catches a file as a virus in the ff xiv installer and kills it off

 

[W1zzard]

13001 lobby error now .. i've seen better mmorpgs that were in alpha ..

the game is pretty unplayable if you dont use a game pad, no hardware cursor
in-game is very laggy for me .. like 5 seconds to open some npc menus
user interface is worthy of a console, not of a pc game where the user interface benchmark is world of warcraft
story line & quests are boring so far ..

 

[digibucc]

i'm in char creation now