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Found this on the beta forums once it finally came up, over 9,000 reports so far. http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/threads/102818-Regarding-Error-3102-Issue

Very well said.

Not really any details about it yet other than it won't be available until launch.

Error 3102 is the new Error 37.

The announcement said the maintenance wouldn't interrupt play so they didn't need to take the servers down for whatever they were doing. Friend of mine says she still can't login because of the error though so it would seem they didn't fix it.

Balmung is back up.

Damn server, couldn't have waited another 30 seconds for me to get credit for the FATE I was doing?

Chances are the lobby server is getting hammered. You just need to be patient.

To my knowledge no, you should be all set once you finish your 6.4GB download. The difference in size for the PC download was explained earlier in this post (difference processing types and what have you). I don't see any chance of an update when the client itself is downloading the latest version. However there is a good chance come Early Access you will need to download another patch, just because there are still likely things left out of the client that will be added in for launch. On the plus side, it looks like my download speed has stabilized at 160kbps so hopefully it'll be done in time for beta start tomorrow morning.

Downloading it at 0.07MBps at the moment, at this rate I should finish downloading the client just in time for the first expansion! :frustrated:

I COULD KISS YOU Huh, only 7300mb... guess people were right. It was already said before that the whole 20gb requirement was just to leave room for future updates and such. Most games are not that big at launch, maybe 12gb tops. I'm sure there will be another update before the 24th that will increase the file size. Thank god it finally went live though because it says it's going to take me roughly 12 hours to finish downloading :frustrated:

Download is up at last, 7.3gb so it wasn't much more than the PS3 version. Damn beat me to it!

I have the next few days off so I was planning on going to sleep soon so I could be up in time for when Beta starts and was hoping to download it while I was sleeping. Kinda seems like that won't happen at this point.

What you downloaded was the launcher, the launcher downloads the client. When that will be made available is only known by SE at this point.

According to this the patch server is up, but the launcher isn't taken out of maintenance mode yet.

So apparently the game files are only 6.4gb according to the people who have been able to start downloading the game on PS3. PC download should be available in about 30 minutes.

Ishgard is primarily Hyur and Elezen I believe, so the names would be mostly French (sounding) or Anglo Saxon, Germanic names in Lore are reserved primarily for the Roegadyn. As far as being there when the first Dragoon took Nidhogg's eye? That was (to my knowledge) ancient history, which would make your character impossibly ancient, and the idea that he was somehow at that event, and then somehow affected by the time warp Louisoux created hundreds of years later seems kind of impossible. Sadly this storyline just doesn't work with the lore without trying to make yourself a total special snowflake.

Sorry to hear that, though I wish you and your friends the best of luck on Gilgamesh.

From what I can tell Ishgard has very little to do with Asgard. It's a theocracy and it seems a bit like a military state where most people are trained to fight dragons since they've been locked in an endless war with them. I'd always say err on the side of caution, Ishgard exists in its current state because it's planned for future content, if you assume too much you'll end up having to retcon when they release more information.

Haha my bad, I was just excited to see they were gonna let us remake our characters earlier than expected. It was a major gripe of mine that I had to wait until launch to RP.

Only two of us played 1.0, and we didn't get very far for that matter, so we're all going to be starting out pretty much fresh. By the end of OBT we'll all be about the same level.

That would be exceedingly silly and not intuitive at all, considering ACN is a dps class, while SCH is a healer. If your points don't change when you switch to a job from a class, you're going to have a lot of people leveling ACN and finding out that they wasted 15 or so points on INT. If that is the case, it is a very, very poor design decision. Based on this statement, that is in fact how it will work. Yoshida also commented that it won't be possible to just change your stat allocations whenever you want, so I'm assuming it will require an item that is relatively difficult to obtain (like it was in 1.0) or it will be exceedingly expensive. In either case, consider this thread a warning to spend your points wisely when leveling Arcanist, because the choices you make are the ones you're stuck with regardless of which Job you pick.

He still has ears! They just aren't pointy, or furry anymore <.<

For those of us bringing over our 1.0 characters but don't want to play them they way they looked before, or don't like the names they had in 1.0 you are in luck! Hvinire posted today that they made the decision to push forward the character recustomization and all 1.0 characters will be flagged during the start of Beta Phase 4!

I just wanted to clarify that based on the information given by Hvirine in the post I quoted, this is no longer the case. Whatever stats you put into your class are going to be the stats you have for your Job, this is why Scholar and Summoner will share attribute distribution. As far as I see it, Jobs are basically your talent specs and you can only get the most out of them if you decide to spec completely into one area, though nothing stops you from splitting between the two of them. As far as stats go, the devs have commented several times how they do not use different stats from WHM and BLM, so you will need to pick between INT and MND.