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FreelanceWizard · **07-29-2013, 01:22 AM**

Dunno yet. No timeframe has been announced. We do know that the new character generator (which is the new benchmark, basically) comes out August 1, the next letter from the producer live is on August 8, and launch is August 27. IIRC, a dev said there's only a few days between P4 and early access. We can also be fairly sure that P4's primary purpose, besides testing ACN and housing, is pre-launch stress testing. So my wild speculation on timing is:

August 15-19: Phase 4 beta
August 23-26: Early access
August 27: Launch

However, this is all complete and total speculation on my part; there's been no dev confirmation on the dates for anything, much less the duration of early access. Some sites were promoting early access as one week, but they've backed off that, presumably because SE told them not to say that.

thealmightypoe · **07-29-2013, 01:36 AM**

(07-29-2013, 01:22 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Dunno yet. No timeframe has been announced. We do know that the new character generator (which is the new benchmark, basically) comes out August 1, the next letter from the producer live is on August 8, and launch is August 27. IIRC, a dev said there's only a few days between P4 and early access. We can also be fairly sure that P4's primary purpose, besides testing ACN and housing, is pre-launch stress testing. So my wild speculation on timing is:

August 15-19: Phase 4 beta
August 23-26: Early access
August 27: Launch

However, this is all complete and total speculation on my part; there's been no dev confirmation on the dates for anything, much less the duration of early access. Some sites were promoting early access as one week, but they've backed off that, presumably because SE told them not to say that.

That speculation seems pretty spot on. Although I would think they would either do the phase 4 a tad earlier, or a tad later. Either to keep it grouped nicely, or to give plenty of time between the beta and the release.

Let's find out what square decides!

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 03:14 AM**

Usually we see the next phase start the weekend after a live letter, so I'll have to agree with Freelance's time table for the most part, however the did say Beta 4 was going to be a week long test and that there'd be a few days for debugging between P4 and Early Access. So with that in mind my speculation is more along the lines of:

August 12-19: Phase 4 beta
August 20-22: Debug
August 23-26: Early access
August 27: Launch

As stated before though, it's all just speculation until we get an official announcement which probably won't be until the 8th.

Hywel Pendragon · **07-29-2013, 03:45 AM**

Actually, early access will be seven days before launch. So that means early access will be on august 20th. I'm thinking that P4 will be on the 9th or 10th and they'll have a couple days between P4 and early access to debug and such.

But (as stated before so many times I'm sure xD), won't know officially until the letter on the 8th.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 04:10 AM**

(07-29-2013, 03:45 AM)Hywel Pendragon Wrote: Actually, early access will be seven days before launch. So that means early access will be on august 20th. I'm thinking that P4 will be on the 9th or 10th and they'll have a couple days between P4 and early access to debug and such.

But (as stated before so many times I'm sure xD), won't know officially until the letter on the 8th.

I don't recall them ever stating how long Early Access was going to be, just that Phase 4 was only going to be for a single week. The fact that P4 is an entirely new client and not just an update to the old client makes it seem unlikely they'll start P4 a day after it's announced (assuming that they'll hold off announcing it until the Live Letter).

Hywel Pendragon · **07-29-2013, 04:55 AM**

(07-29-2013, 04:10 AM)Ashren Sno Wrote: I don't recall them ever stating how long Early Access was going to be, just that Phase 4 was only going to be for a single week. The fact that P4 is an entirely new client and not just an update to the old client makes it seem unlikely they'll start P4 a day after it's announced (assuming that they'll hold off announcing it until the Live Letter).

When I had received the email for registering for my early access code (unfortunately I deleted this email Frustrated

), and it stated that the early access will be a whole seven days before launch and will be a seamless transition.

***Though you're probably right about my guessed time of the start of P4, it'll probably be sometime after the 11th.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 05:02 AM**

(07-29-2013, 04:55 AM)Hywel Pendragon Wrote:
(07-29-2013, 04:10 AM)Ashren Sno Wrote: I don't recall them ever stating how long Early Access was going to be, just that Phase 4 was only going to be for a single week. The fact that P4 is an entirely new client and not just an update to the old client makes it seem unlikely they'll start P4 a day after it's announced (assuming that they'll hold off announcing it until the Live Letter).

When I had received the email for registering for my early access code (unfortunately I deleted this email ), and it stated that the early access will be a whole seven days before launch and will be a seamless transition.

***Though you're probably right about my guessed time of the start of P4, it'll probably be sometime after the 11th.

Wait, we can register our pre-order codes now?

Hywel Pendragon · **07-29-2013, 05:09 AM**

(07-29-2013, 05:02 AM)Ashren Sno Wrote: Wait, we can register our pre-order codes now?

I had registered my e-mail at the code-redemption website, not the actual code I had received. But I did get an email from Enix thanking me for pre-ordering and it had that information with it. Also stating to keep my code until they email me again, closer to early access with all the steps needed to set the game up, blah blah blah.

****Edit: HOWEVER, I do remember it not saying specifically august 20th, just that it will be seven days before actual launch and that it was supposed to be a seamless transition into the launch. I just did the math myself and assume the 20th if all went well with phase 4.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 07:07 AM**

(07-29-2013, 05:09 AM)Hywel Pendragon Wrote:
(07-29-2013, 05:02 AM)Ashren Sno Wrote: Wait, we can register our pre-order codes now?

I had registered my e-mail at the code-redemption website, not the actual code I had received. But I did get an email from Enix thanking me for pre-ordering and it had that information with it. Also stating to keep my code until they email me again, closer to early access with all the steps needed to set the game up, blah blah blah.

****Edit: HOWEVER, I do remember it not saying specifically august 20th, just that it will be seven days before actual launch and that it was supposed to be a seamless transition into the launch. I just did the math myself and assume the 20th if all went well with phase 4.

Ah okay, I misunderstood what you meant by that. Though there is a thread with a dev post on the beta forums that mentions specifically they can't confirm or deny whether the 20th is the actual start date for early access. I would think that if they were promising a 7 day early access this would be a given if they game is set to launch on the 27th, but the fact they they are still kind of protesting it means it might not be a 7 day early access.

Niteshade_Rune · **07-31-2013, 05:39 PM**

I got the key registered to my square enix account, when i went into my services/account page to verify i noticed that i have FFXIV 1 and 2 for services, 2 being the one that the open beta key was for. I just assumed it would fall in with the original instead of making a seperate listing, *shrug* as long as everythings tied to my singular SE account i'm good though.

Averis · **07-31-2013, 05:53 PM**

From what I remember Yoshi-P himself said the early access would only be 3-5 days, which is in line with most early access. A whole week seems unlikely to me. It's usually the weekend before launch. There was a hoax image going around the beta forums that seems to have started the 20th rumor.

There is also a new date found on the official site that has caused some new speculation. Aug 17 seems to now have some meaning in regards to beta registration. There's a lot of speculation going around right now.

(07-29-2013, 05:09 AM)Hywel Pendragon Wrote:
(07-29-2013, 05:02 AM)Ashren Sno Wrote: Wait, we can register our pre-order codes now?

I had registered my e-mail at the code-redemption website, not the actual code I had received. But I did get an email from Enix thanking me for pre-ordering and it had that information with it. Also stating to keep my code until they email me again, closer to early access with all the steps needed to set the game up, blah blah blah.

****Edit: HOWEVER, I do remember it not saying specifically august 20th, just that it will be seven days before actual launch and that it was supposed to be a seamless transition into the launch. I just did the math myself and assume the 20th if all went well with phase 4.

I still have that email and there is no mention of seven days in the whole message. I can quote it if you'd like.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-31-2013, 06:04 PM**

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/31/f...tart-date/

This was posted not long ago talking about the potential for P4 starting August 7th and apparently the Preorder slips stated Early Access was 7 days. That means Phase 4 is only 3 days. Seems kind of off to me.

FreelanceWizard · **07-31-2013, 06:25 PM**

I personally think it more likely that the early access will get cut in favor of a longer phase 4. Of course, they might do something really weird and make early access the end of phase 4 and run phase 4 all the way to launch, since P4 will carry to release unless something really weird happens. That'd be a really slick way to mollify 1.x players who didn't get early access because they didn't preorder, though naturally that'd really anger people who did preorder for that (though they'd still get their preorder in game items).

Ashren Dotharl · **07-31-2013, 06:38 PM**

I'm still inclined to believe until I see otherwise that Phase 4 will start two weeks prior to launch, and Early Access one week prior to launch. The most likely scenario to me would be on August 8th they'll announce Phase 4 release date, shortly after the client will be available, then on the 13th Phase 4 begins, and on the 20th Early Access begins. Since they said there will be a few days of debugging between Phase 4 and Early Access it doesn't make sense that it would start just over a week before the game launches.

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