Which version of the game will you be getting?

[Eltharian]

I've pre-ordered the CE version, and I may pick up a copy of the PS3 version when it comes out as well. Hopefully it comes with some cool in-game item as well.

[Trizzip]

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

lol, well if my ex hadn't caused me to be so tight with money I'd just get the PC version then get the PS3 version when it came out. Unfortunatly, while I'm paying a mortgage all on my lonesome, I have no money left over for such pleasentries.

[Faust]

I think the biggest benefit of the CE will be getting to play for 8 days in the starting areas with less competition, and hopefully less congestion and crashes. Particularly if you plan to start in Gridania along with about half the server.

[Nikolai]

I believe it was eventually confirmed somewhere that goggles = standard pre-order and helm = CE pre-order.

 

Square-Enix said the goggles were put in to give the standard pre-order people a way to catch up to the CE pre-orders.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty certain that's the case, too. It's a damn shame, though, not to mention flawed logic; assuming the goggles don't stop working at some point, an effect like that would have to be pretty minor, or else SE pre-ordering folk would quickly surpass everyone else. That said, we don't know how big or small the bonus is, so who can say?

 

I think the biggest benefit of the CE will be getting to play for 8 days in the starting areas with less competition' date=' and hopefully less congestion and crashes. Particularly if you plan to start in Gridania along with about half the server.[/quote']

 

This is a very good point. My laptop runs the game a little slowly, but the fewer people around me, the better it runs.

[Kashemia]

Yeah, I'm pretty certain that's the case, too. It's a damn shame, though, not to mention flawed logic; assuming the goggles don't stop working at some point, an effect like that would have to be pretty minor, or else SE pre-ordering folk would quickly surpass everyone else. That said, we don't know how big or small the bonus is, so who can say?

 

 

I think they said somewhere that they only works up to a certain level. So yeah, I guess I agree that it's probably not with the CE.

About the lag, I agree, but on the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if there's still a LOT of people who get CEs. So there will probably still be quite a lot of people around. Though of course, splitting it means that it will be less than if they didn't, so still great ^^

[Garaf]

There certainly seem to be plenty of people here set on the CE. So if that's assumed to be representative of the player base at large then there should be a pretty sizeable "pre-population" come launch day.

 

I started preordering a CE as soon as they became available but switched to a Standard after I found out that was the only way the goggles would be available. Granted they're not the only goggles in the game, but being able to start with them would just be grand. =P

 

I was a scootch disappointed/surprised that the CE wasn't going to come with the soundtrack (which I guess has just been announced separately) but, art book and onion helm aside, there doesn't seem to be much in the CE besides the early start. Has anyone found out what the Right of Passage is? I gather that it's customizable, but the SE info page neglects to mention what it actually is (in game item? certificate for your wall? ticket through a dimension-warping field into the reality of Eorzea?) ...

[Renaise]

Getting the collectors edition because we get a lovely tumbler

 

As for the goggles or the helm...

 

If all new standard copies of FFXIV come with a code for the goggles inside the game then I wont be getting them. If however they are for preordering and the game store gives you a code for them for preordering that will mean I can get them. All depends how SE goes about setting the items up

[Shamadconde]

Nothing I have seen or read has mentioned anything about preorder items. As far as I have been able to determine, the items come with what you buy not when you get it but we'll see.

[Kima wolf]

Collector's edition, mostly because I want the security token and I'm also curious as to what this "certificate" is they are going on about to be honest.

 

Oh and the 8 day headstart doesn't hurt along with the amazing art on the box.

[Satrina]

So apparently the reasoning we won't be getting the goggles in our CE is due to them being there for the other people to catch up to us faster due to the 8 day headstart. That's pretty nice of SE honestly. The gauntlets for FF13 look awesome I have to say.

[Gleason]

Finally knuckled down and ordered my CE about an hour ago, with Release Day Delivery (I don't forsee myself getting much sleep that day before I go into work that night. )

 

I'm really looking forward to the extra 8 days of playing, and the tumbler looks pretty sweet. Artbooks never hurt, either! (Think the last game I got one with was Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube >.>;; )

 

Still don't have a clue what server I'll be starting on, though; need more info from the friends I know will be playing, I guess. (or, obviously, I could go take a look at the RP guilds that have posted their information already).

 

...oh right! The mystery surrounding the "Right of Passage" is intriguing, too. Watch it be some certificate in-game that says you ordered the CE or something silly.

[Trizzip]

Sorry for raising the thread from the grave.....I just didn't want to start a whole new thread for this image, and I felt it worthy of our admiration.

 

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[Freyar]

Neato. I wish I could vote twice, I have to CE's paid for in full.

[Koti Nexus]

Getting the Collectors Edition and it has already been paid off, so all I gotta do is go in the store and go get it.

However my mom is getting the standard, so we will be trading items. I get her goggles and she gets the helm.. or she may tell me to keep both since she found out her computer can't run FF14 ;

 

But yes, I will have the collectors and all its goodies!

[Shamadconde]

That's assuming they are tradeable.

[Trizzip]

That's assuming they are tradeable.

 

The classic 'rare/ex'....my worst enemy *shakes his fist in fury* Damn you SE!!!

[Koti Nexus]

That's assuming they are tradeable.

 

I figure they would be, since typically they ask for the "Code" of the product.. then again, that was back with PoL..

>.>

 

Don't give up my dreams of the awesome goggles! (cause I really hate that onion helm, if it wasn't for the 8 extra days and the leather bound journal, I wouldn't have gotten the CE.)

 

Now if you meant trade-able IG, that wasn't what we were gonna do. *lives at home*

[Ozak Kuzak]

I ordered the CE mainly to get on early but the extra stuff nice also. :approve:

[Zyrusticae]

I have to admit, the 8-day thingy for the collector's edition is an ingenious (if totally bastard-like) move on the part of Squeenix.

 

That being said, I'm still not entirely sold on the game in the first place, so splurging an extra $25 on this thing, even for that sizable of an early start, and even with all the extra goodies, is just a bit too much for me.

 

Maybe something'll click as I play on and convince me.

[BloodHecate]

By far the Collectors Edition. Even games in this world that haven't been on the far side of impressive I have simply loved getting the gear. I love artbooks, and the like. I have the Collectors Edition gear of Final Fantasy XII, and it certainly wasn't one of my more favorites of the series, and I don't regret it one bit.

 

In this case, for a game that I am planning to spend great amounts of time enjoying and roleplaying, the best game I've played in 3 years, the choice is ever so obvious. Even if just for the excitement and collection alone it would, but I firmly believe this was event to have waited for, a Final Fantasy XI that is upgraded and will drag me in and never let me go with it's sheer universe warping madness.

 

I could not miss that enhancement of being able to get a head start, that vastly superior, mysterious, haunting, Yoshitaka Amano artwork, the gorgeous, stunning journal filled with map and all sorts of things I am not even yet revealed, and a DVD to hold me over watching in euphoria, like all the others I current have before it's time, before it's release, I'm also obsessed with my character, and will cherish the Rite of Passage that I get with great care and fancy.

 

I could not skip out on this for the world.

[Mycroft]

I will be getting the CE, I'll have to hold out until the PS3 release though..

I don't think I'll be able to upgrade or buy a new computer before then anyway.