Yeah. I'll most likely end up hitting the midnight release where I pre-ordered. But, if I don't, i'll just pick up my copy later on in the day. Not really in that big of a rush.
I acctually could have already been playing if I had really felt like it, but I wasn't up for the two hour drive back home. A close friend of mine runs a gaming store back near my home town, and with that he gets access to games before their commercial release date whenever the shipments end up comming in. Family owned, so he's fairly laid-back when it comes to giving his best bud a little headstart.
He got his copy the other day, and said I could bum at his place if I wanted to check it out while he's at work. Didn't even think to ask him if it came with anything FFXIV related. I'll have to try and give him a ring later, see if I can't get any details. Apparently people who pre-ordered over in Japan got a code for some bonus item in FFXIV. Since they're doing a world-wide release with FFXIV, I think i'de be pretty lame for them to give Japanese players a little something extra, and leave the rest of us in the dark.
...Then again, I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that. Afterall, all the Vanafest 2010 attendees got a sneak peek at some FFXIV stuff and free access to the Alpha/Beta, and that was more or less a japanese-only event, aside from the few major fansite admins and what not that were able to attend.
I acctually could have already been playing if I had really felt like it, but I wasn't up for the two hour drive back home. A close friend of mine runs a gaming store back near my home town, and with that he gets access to games before their commercial release date whenever the shipments end up comming in. Family owned, so he's fairly laid-back when it comes to giving his best bud a little headstart.
He got his copy the other day, and said I could bum at his place if I wanted to check it out while he's at work. Didn't even think to ask him if it came with anything FFXIV related. I'll have to try and give him a ring later, see if I can't get any details. Apparently people who pre-ordered over in Japan got a code for some bonus item in FFXIV. Since they're doing a world-wide release with FFXIV, I think i'de be pretty lame for them to give Japanese players a little something extra, and leave the rest of us in the dark.
...Then again, I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that. Afterall, all the Vanafest 2010 attendees got a sneak peek at some FFXIV stuff and free access to the Alpha/Beta, and that was more or less a japanese-only event, aside from the few major fansite admins and what not that were able to attend.
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