Open Beta?

[Loony BoB]

Makes sense. A little weird to do maintenance in the middle of the day, but that'd explain it.

Came across this site FFXIV STATUS BETA!

In international games, there is no midday. Japan? Europe? North America? There will always be a large group online.

[JKTrix]

TehKrizz.net - Your source for FFXI and FFXIV downloads.

A place for direct downloads (and torrent files) of the updates.

So I succeeded in my objective of going somewhere else. Nice thing about FF14 is that everyone can teleport, so once you touch the crystal in a new place you can just teleport there. So right now if I needed to I could teleport to my starting area, do all the leves there, then go to this new place to do those leves.

I can't remember the name of it, but it's like a city on the ocean. Got pirates and stuff. There's a musketeer guild there, I want to be a musketeer.

[Loony BoB]

Limsa Lominsa, I believe. We got there, too, after finding out from you that you could. And we went on a run through to get every aetheryte on the area around it, and visited the two (fairly dead in the beta) towns nearby. Nice area! Now we're going to do runners for all the other aerethyte around Ul'Dah and then Gridania, once we figure out how to get there. xD

EDIT: Worth noting how amazingly seamless everything is when going from area to area. The only time I remember loading screens is when FMV's are coming into play. Great stuff on that part.

[Ouch!]

I was just about list the place that JKTrix found. Awesome that it'll all work out. I tried to get a beta pass today, but SE has temporarily suspended it. I'll keep hitting it up and see when I can get in.

[Xardrick]

how can i play open beta? i installed everything and now it says:
There are no valid service accounts.
and i need a key to valid account.

isn't open beta for free?

sorry if I sound stupid

[Del Murder]

Even though it's free, you still have to apply and get a code from Square Enix at their website.

[Xardrick]

I already applied at their website, where do i get a key?

[Del Murder]

They should have emailed it to you.

[Xardrick]

I registered a couple of days ago, but I didn't get any code

[Loony BoB]

When you say you applied at their website, do you know when you did this and which url you used to apply? You need a valid Square Enix account and you need to use the following url: FINAL FANTASY XIV

Everything from that point on should be explained reasonably well. If you don't have a Square Enix account then there is a link on each of the region's beta application websites.

Every now and then they find themselves too congested to give out further codes, in which case you can keep an eye on the following website which should hopefully let you know when further codes are available.

SQUARE ENIX Support Centre (this is the European site - if you are in North America, try changing the url so that 'eu' is replaced with 'na'.

[Xardrick]

thnx man, I have a code now ;D

I have a problem, I started a game and than i have a black screen, but I hear a sound, then gold rings appear and i can move them, i click on one of them then i see characters but only characters and no words or sth. like that. I hear that I am moving across menu but I don't see any words.

[Del Murder]

That's further than I ever got so I can't help you with that. Many people have been having problems with the client. Make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date, etc.

[Loony BoB]

That's the character creation lobby. You need to create a new character - I'm at work and can't remember exactly what you do next, but there should be some kind of option if you select one of the golden rings where you go towards designing a character. Hopefully you'll figure it out soon, if not, I'll try to remember to check back and give you more details when I'm home.

[Xardrick]

I fixed it, I installed the latest drivers and codecs and now its working, but when I'm playing many times shuts me down because of some server error :S

[Loony BoB]

Which server are you on?

I know a lot of people have random shutdowns - I get them less these days, maybe one per four hours or so compared to about three times an hour when I first started beta-ing. Hopefully they continue to decrease.