Board 8 > FF14 PS5 beta

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Last time I checked out FF14 was the PS3 beta

I assume it's improved since then

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ninkendo posted...

I assume it's improved since then

https://youtu.be/b59TR8pShQ0

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I was really hoping the 2 at the end were also going to shout something

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fuck MMOs forever, because they can be insanely great games that are stupidly addicting and require you to basically quit everything else to succeed.

Fine when I was younger. Now not so much.

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I feel like FF14 is the one where that's not true because you can play the majority of the game by yourself I can go at your own pace

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FFXIV also isnt that long if youre just interested in it as a single player/story-driven experience (which is a majority of the playerbase). Its basically the equivalent of playing four mid-length RPGs because thats basically what it is. Id be a lot more worried if somebody said they wanted to get into the Persona franchise!

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Other than having to actually queue for dungeons and raids, FFXIV can basically be played as a single player experience. You can skip literally every generic sidequest with no punishment whatsoever, even. The base game is still pretty rough with a lot of old MMO conventions, but once you get into the expansions it's full steam ahead with the prestige stuff.

And as someone who was pretty terrified of having to go into dungeons and raid in their first MMO while flying solo and not knowing what I was doing, just make you're you're going through the game's story as a DPS job and not trying to play a tank or healer through the Main Scenario and you'll be on easy street with zero stress. The base game is meant to be beatable by total randos playing together with the most basic degrees of competency, all the actually hard stuff is totally optional. Unless it's something that just came out like a day or two prior that everyone is still learning, you can be carried in the actual large scale content even if you're completely incompetent at that time (and it's typically very little effort to get competent, it will happen naturally).

FFXIV let's you play and level every single job in the game on the same character so you're not locking yourself into anything by picking a class that feels easier/more comfortable to you at that time even if your end game goal is to be a crazy YuGiOh man tossing heals with his card deck that he draws from in the middle of fights.

I really can't stress enough here that 2 months ago my stance on MMOs is that they were a completely worthless genre that is not actually capable of having good content, and they were all just glorified chatrooms. Jump to now, and FFXIV is one of my favorite Final Fantasy games. And even though I power played it to catch up to current content insanely fast, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from taking it slow. Even the director's stance is clear: if you're not having fun, then stop playing for now, and come back when you're think you'll have fun again. I literally did not even join this game's equivilant of a guild or add a person to my friends list until 2 days ago, and I did not feel hindered flying solo in the slightest.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prw2B_03IzY

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Was that in response to me or whoever I have blocked <_<;

I didn't realize how long that was until I posted it lol

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Was that in response to me or whoever I have blocked <_<;

Ulti.

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JonThePenguin posted...

Ulti.

https://youtu.be/w9pePpxU58M

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Such a weird dude.

Looks like if you ever played the PS3 version you can get a code for the PS4 version on the Mog Station, activate that, and then get the PS5 version.
Or I just took a bunch of unnecessary steps.

let me know when there's an FFXVI PS5 beta or demo

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As far as a purchased item goes that probably is the easiest way.

Also a reminder that if you haven't actually bought the game then the entirety of A Realm Reborn and Heavensward are completely free with no subscription fee.

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LeonhartFour posted...

let me know when there's an FFXVI PS5 beta or demo

There is already a beta for it out, its called Final Fantasy XIV.

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Not wrong, lol.

If you wanna get a feel for what story and characters in XVI are gonna be like this is the way to go.

Creative Business Unit III!

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Lightning Strikes posted...

There is already a beta for it out, its called Final Fantasy XIV.

Then I guess I'll be waiting for the finished game since the beta will be longer than FFXVI apparently

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Honest question Leon, what's the problem with playing FF14 just as a single-player game?

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Realistically if you literally just mainline the Main Scenario Quests and do NOTHING else (other than the Realm Reborn raid which is required) you're looking at an average of maybe 75 hours per release including base game. ARR itself used to take a lot longer but it got mega streamlined at the end of last year.

So that's 300 hours or so give or take for a PURE STORY RUN. Of course there's plenty of story outside of the main scenario, but if you want to just look at the throughplot then that's how it is. And yes, that means that around 150 hours of main scenario, with ARR and Heavensward, is completely free.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Honest question Leon, what's the problem with playing FF14 just as a single-player game?

For everyone else, nothing. For me, just not interested. People try to sell it as not a big time investment but I'm pretty sure this was the only game user SaveEstelle played for about six months.

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300 hours for the existing content is about right.
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Leonhart4 posted...

For everyone else, nothing. For me, just not interested. People try to sell it as not a big time investment but I'm pretty sure this was the only game user SaveEstelle played for about six months.

Not a big time investment if you dont want it to be, but yes, if you want to stay theres lots of other things to do besides main story.

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FYI for anyone planning on doing the free to play thing for it, I recently discovered their play for free until level 60 is only available if you have never ever had a paid subscription before.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

FYI for anyone planning on doing the free to play thing for it, I recently discovered their play for free until level 60 is only available if you have never ever had a paid subscription before.

Yes, because it's not "free to play". It is a free trial. If you have ever spent money you are no longer trying the game, you have bought it.

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Yeah thats what I just said.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

FYI for anyone planning on doing the free to play thing for it, I recently discovered their play for free until level 60 is only available if you have never ever had a paid subscription before.

Uh, yeah it is. You just make a new account and you can play the free trial with it.
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So does anybody know anything about the actual PS5 version? Like for instance is it supposed to carry over all your settings and presets and such?

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You have to go to both of the config options on the character select screen in the PS4 version and select to upload all your UI stuff to the server. When you launch the PS5 version, go to those same options and download them back.

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How playable is this on a console? I played ARR a little bit years ago but I can't recall much of the experience in terms of mechanics. I might just load up the demo to see for myself, but, just chatting here.

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I played the whole thing with controller (though having a keyboard plugged into your console to use chat occasionally is a plus).
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I know people who complete the hardest content in the game on controller. It's just as viable as MKB.

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Alright I've made the horrible mistake of downloading this.

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yes......join us......

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/875/692/b11.gif

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This game looks pretty good on PS5


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ninkendo posted...

This game looks pretty good on PS5

Looks even better in PS4 backward compatible mode!

Imo* I'm pretty disappointed with the PS5 version so far and if it wasn't for the load times, I'd be tempted to just stay on the PS4 version honestly.

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I guess the free demo I played back in the day prevents me from playing this, oh well!

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yeah you'd have to make a new square-enix account to play the free version

I happened to have a 60 day time card just lying around from when I was planning to get into FF14 last summer (which never happened) so I just used that to try this out

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