Open Beta Keys sent out (?)

[Averis]

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.

 

 

 

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.

[Havoc Snow]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/31/final-fantasy-xiv-beta-registration-site-outs-probable-closed-beta-start-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]

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).

[Havoc Snow]

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.