Well if you were beta testing it for the PS2 I'd assume their sending you the retail version for that. Apparently Square has been prepared for this for a while, with all the servers being ready and what not. We've all heard that the only reason Square isn't shipping the PS2 version yet is because Sony is giving them hell over the HDD. And given that the PS2 and PC play on the same servers, I wouldn't see why anyone with the game, an HDD, and an internet connection couldn't log on right now and play.

In retrospect if I had thought about it enough I would have purchased the game in Japanese and played it in America. Then as soon as the U.S. verison shipped I'd install that version so I could understand what the NPC's were saying. The community factor would suck given my lack of fluency in Japanese but at least I would be playing it...

Leighton