FF14: A Realm Reborn

[Trippy]

Square's Web development skills have not improved since 2002, apparently. My profile is all fucked up and I still can't enter my promo code. The na.finalfantasyxiv.com is showing a 502 Bad Gateway error on the top and when I can get to my profile it's showing as being on the EU site.

[Nija]

Use http://preorder.na.finalfantasyxiv.com/ and use the login button on the page itself, not in the top nav bar.

Try it a few times and when you log on, click your name in the top right and mouseover the links to profile and settings. They should change from eu.sqaure-enix.com to na.

Once it's saying na, then put in your preorder code.

[Shatter]

Reporting in, its 4:45am and I have coffee...that is all

[Rendakor]

Up now, with 2 Monsters. Going to be a long morning. Haven't been excited for an MMO like this since Cata's launch. I'm on the Diablos server if anyone's hopping on with no one else to play with.

[Shatter]

Got in right on time, at level 5 now and no issues at all thus far

[palmer_eldritch]

I'm playing this. Everything's going smoothly so far. Some servers are full and not accepting new characters.

[Rendakor]

Yea pretty smooth (pre)launch so far. No crashes, lag, rubberbanding, dcs, or any other problems.

[Numtini]

Stable and playable? Is this really Squeenix?

[palmer_eldritch]

It works ok on my server until the main story quest sends you into an instance and you discover instances don't work.

[Rendakor]

Servers are down for maintenance now, to fix that very issue.

So far I'm enjoying it for what it is: a pretty Vanilla WoW clone. There's a lot of running around/backtracking, which is either tedious or expensive. The quests are way too dialog/cutscene heavy for my tastes, since I give 0 fucks about story in an MMO, and not of all of it can be skipped. The FATEs (PQs) are pretty cool, but again they don't do much new. Combat is standard tab-target with hotbars, which isn't a problem for me. Haven't messed with multiclassing yet, nor done any dungeons since the instance servers were broken. Most importantly for me, a lot of my friends are playing it so we'll be able to jump into the raid game once we all cap out.

[jth]

Down for emergency maintenance now.

It was pretty smooth for me all day, even instances worked (Odin/EU). Managed to get my beta CNJ character from level 8 to 14.

[Shatter]

I got on from 5am, they were open right at 5 and no problems making a character and logged into game.  Got 3 hours or so in and level 10 and had to call it but that was a perfectly smooth 3 hours which is usually the worst time for server pounding.  No lag, no FPS or latency problems...was pretty impressed so far, game is graphically very nice

[koro]

Played for about half an hour this morning before work and got my Arcanist from beta from 10 to 11.

Then I got home just in time for the servers to go down. 

[Ard]

Okay, geez, there are more people coming out of the woodwork for this game than I thought there would be.  I'm on Coeurl (well, come tuesday again at least), if anyone wants someone to talk to while killing crabs this time around.

[Trippy]

Use http://preorder.na.finalfantasyxiv.com/ and use the login button on the page itself, not in the top nav bar.

Try it a few times and when you log on, click your name in the top right and mouseover the links to profile and settings. They should change from eu.sqaure-enix.com to na.

Once it's saying na, then put in your preorder code.

Thanks. Now let's see if I can finish downloading the client before the game launches.

[jth]

Instances still aren't working, so now I'm more or less stuck with killing mobs for XP since all my open quests are instanced.

While we were able to address the previous issue wherein players were unable to access instances, we conducted another investigation and confirmed that the issue was ongoing for a number of players.

We have been able to identify the cause of the issue and have started the recovery operations. Once we have tested the fix, we plan on conducting another emergency maintenance. We will follow up once we have a better idea on the time frame of the maintenance.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Rendakor]

Damn, hoped they'd have it fixed by now because I was looking forward to trying the dungeons.

[Trippy]

And server down (Exodus at least)

Edit: actually it's just my character that's stuck in limbo -- I made the mistake of trying to zone to the Gladiator's Arena. I'm able to connect on a different account/character in a different region (Gridania).

[jth]

All EU/NA servers went down for emergency maintenance now, estimated downtime 2.5 hours.

[Senses]

They have a pretty nice window here of opportunity with Jack Squat to play and the only thing even on the horizon due out in probably 2014.  Having not played the betas...wow amazing cut scenes!  But yeah, I created my toon and then logged out because servers are down.  I am certainly excited though!  I miss AAA MMO openings.

[Shatter]

Guess they will be down a while, time for dinner and shower I guess...

[Margalis]

The quests are definitely talky and could use some editing down, but if you do bother reading them they are kind of interesting and tie together.

I think 95% of video game scripts could use editing down. Economy is definitely not the strong suit of game writers.

[Shatter]

[Rendakor]

They have a pretty nice window here of opportunity with Jack Squat to play and the only thing even on the horizon due out in probably 2014. 

This is my biggest reason for playing; with Hex still far off (alpha doesn't really count) and nothing else really stellar coming soon it's scratching my MMO itch pretty well. I've got ~10 RL friends playing too, since all the console-only guys I know can play on PS3.

[Shatter]

That's one of the reasons I'm playing as well, bored out of my tree with current games so its something new for a while, but I am having fun so...

[Senses]

So is there zero voice acting in this game...or am I broke?  I see their lips moving but I have to READ.

[Rendakor]

Doesn't appear to be voice acting. Meh, I'm skipping it all anyway.

Also instances are still broken. I managed to get in a solo one for a quest, only to get kicked out when the boss was at 10%, quest failed, and now I'm unable to re-join it.

[Numtini]

There was some voice acting in one of the class quests or story quests or whatever.

The stuff is really set up as if there should be voice acting. I don't know if it never got done in time or what.

[Senses]

Every older search says there is voice acting and its horrible, but I have none.  Maybe they yanked it to add a better one later?  Afterall, that's basically what they did with FFXIV Part One..

[Threash]

It works ok on my server until the main story quest sends you into an instance and you discover instances don't work.

Is this what the game looks like? I'm not getting why anyone is showing any interest rather than treating it like that goofy UO game bloodworth posted.

[palmer_eldritch]

It usually looks pretty good in fairness.

That shot shows a number of characters all standing round a sword which is supposed to send you to an instance when you click on it, but isn't working.

[Shatter]

Fuck it Im going to bed, I need to do 2 instances to progress(and they are broken for second time today) and Im already 4 levels above them...that is unless I want to just farm mobs, maybe they will be working by the morning.

[Rendakor]

I started leveling crafting because I'm also stuck behind instance quests. Can't do mining because that's in a different city, but I've got cooking and armorer both around level 10 now.

[Trippy]

Instances still not working right. Some people can get in but most can't. Apparently they are doing maintenance again at around midnight Pacific Time.

[Rendakor]

Yea it's hit or miss. We've found that hammering them for 10m or so will eventually get you in.