Open Beta?

[Loony BoB]

For those of you hoping to safeguard your name on our linkshell's server (should you wish to play with us other EoFFers), please check out this thread ASAP and vote in the poll...

http://forums.eyesonff.com/final-fan...we-all-go.html

[Jessweeee♪]

UUURGH I finally get in and it's like NOPE GOTTA LOG IN FIRST so I did and checked "Remember Me" but then it took me to another busy page and when THAT finally went through I was again taken to the log in page

I just wanna download the clieeeent at least let me get that far.

[Mirage]

Everything is installed and ready to go but then I tried to apply and...

Due to server congestion, the requested page could not be displayed. Please try again later.

D'oh!

Same. :(

You'd think they'd been ready for something like this to happen.

Square Enix? Prepared?
Bwahahahaha

I'm sorry


In other new, I'm ingame at the moment of this posting.

It is not a torrent per se, but it seems to download via P2P system.

No, it is a torrent per se. You can grab the torrent out of the patch directory and open it with utorrent if you feel like it.

[Ouch!]

This is going to present problems for me if Square Enix doesn't offer an alternative means of downloading patches. My university disallows any form of P2P file-sharing; the first two offenses of using any such programs simply result in having my internet terminated until I take my computer in and have the program removed. On the third "offense," I have to meet with the Dean of Students.

I'll have to use my laptop to download the torrents off campus (at my girlfriend's parent's house or at my aunt's house or some free wireless network) and then transfer the download via an external HDD.

smurfing obnoxious, but I'll do it.

I'll still try it when the game launches and see if they catch me on it.

[Mirage]

Can't you prove to them that you're using it for legit purposes?

[Lionx]

Game is whack, it could be because its beta but its whack. -_- Not what i hoped..

[Loony BoB]

Finally got a code! Looking forward to getting home and trying it out.

[JKTrix]

As far as downloading patches, it's entirely possible for people to upload these 'torrented' patches somewhere to be downloaded another way. If you can get the files from somewhere else and put them in the right folder, you're set. Just gotta find the files if someone uploads them.

[Jessweeee♪]

Finally got a code, but now I can't get to the page where I can download the client, because the server times out and then forgets I'm logged in

EDIT:

Okay I see what's going on. "If you change the screen" means "if you want to change your screen name." Whoops!

[Ouch!]

Can't you prove to them that you're using it for legit purposes?

I reviewed the university's peer-to-peer policy, and it acknowledges legitimate uses of peer-to-peer services. However, to validate use, I must have the dean of one of the departments approve its use for academic purposes and forward a message regarding that to the systems administrator.

Considering that a computer engineering major my freshman year was told he could not use peer-to-peer programs to download a monthly programming ezine for which he paid a subscription fee, I doubt that I'll have much luck finding a dean willing to okay an MMORPG.

My best bet is likely what JKTrix suggested. Just have to hope that I can find someone who makes a habit of doing that.

[Miriel]

Oh man, why is your University so strict about it? What a hassle. =/

[Ouch!]

They don't want us doing stuff illegally. And they seem to forget that students live on campus and we have lives outside of academia. :|

[Loony BoB]

Game is whack, it could be because its beta but its whack. -_- Not what i hoped..

Not really sure what you were hoping for, but I've found it to be pretty much what you'd expect to see at the start of an MMORPG but with very good graphics and, obviously, a little limitations due to the Beta stage.

The game has crashed out on me twice, though, and I've no idea why unfortunately.

[Miriel]

The initial impressions of Open Beta seems to be largely negative from everything I'm reading on other sites & forums.

I think people assumed that with all the trial & error for FFXI, Square would have a much better handle on what works and what doesn't so that FFXIV wouldn't have as rough of a start as FFXI did.

I'm not too bothered though. I'm more excited just about the social aspect of the game rather than game mechanics anyway. And I never had trouble with the controls in FFXI (which apparently, are very very bad?) so the complaints about the game controls (which seems to be a big issue for people) kinda go right over my head. I don't like what I'm hearing about the game being labourous and a chore though. That's the opposite of what I was hoping for. But we'll see.

I still think it'll be a ton of fun playing a shiny new MMORPG though.

[Jessweeee♪]

At my college they were able to disable P2P somehow. I could never ever get any torrents to run even four hours away from campus until I'd been home for a month. Dunno what they did. They had a strict policy on that sort of thing, but there were work arounds. I overheard the girl in the room across from mine get lectured hardcore about filesharing once.

I still can't log in to the beta test site