Beta Tests start!

For those of you that weren’t aware that FFXIV now has a Twitter page, you can find it @FF_XIV_EN! Which of course means… Beta test schedules are no longer a giant secret anymore!

First wave of Beta tests starts on Saturday, July 10th. While they made it sound a little like we may actually get to play for longer than a few hours at a time… the test times will still only be Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, staggered to give the North Americans, the Japanese, and the Europeans a 4 hour window on each of those days. Kind of makes your answer of “over 70 hours a week” on the beta application seem absolete, doesn’t it?

And for certain little fruit Lalafels, it means that they’ll have to be staying up until 2 a.m. to hit their windows, what with the time changes and all…

While it’s not open beta yet (assuming SE ever does that), it may still be time to start checking your e-mails for that invite! Remember, some people have reported finding it in their spam folders instead of their main inboxes.

LOOK EVERYWHERE!

I, of course, will keep you posted on whatever I can.

Lalafellaru?

Sitting here on my crappy laptop and waiting patiently for tomorrow when I can download a new client of … something >.> … when a random thought pops in my little Taru Lalafell mind.

In FFXI, the Taru had an accent. It was all “cutaru” and “huggaru” and “see you late-aru” and crap… Hell, Tuufless even coined the word “bloggaru” if I remember correctly. All the NPCs said it, even some of us weirdo players said it.

But…

What the hell is the Lalafell accent going to be?

“Hello, I’m Strawberrie, the cutafell Lalafell from the Plains of Eorzefell. Nice to meet youfell.”

It just… doesn’t have the same ring to it. Or is it going to be… a variation on the “lala” part of the name? Which honestly sounds even worse…

Hellala! I’m Strawberrie, the cutalla Lalafell from the Plains of Eorzelala! Nice to meetala you!”

Which of course makes me pose the question so many have asked since the race names were first announced: “It’s a damn Elvaan, it’s a friggin’ stretched out Tarutaru, and it’s your garden-variety Galka. Why the hell are they called something else?!”

If anyone ever makes it out of the ship hold and has a chance to talk to some REAL Lalafell other than the ones sitting in that little room, y’all let me knowfell…

Say goodbye to your RL on September 30th!

It’s here! It’s finally here!

After the end of the extensive Alpha testing, it seems that Square-Enix has finally settled on a release date! Official Beta test clients go out tomorrow… That means it’s time for you guys to tell your Moogle to pack up your Mog House, hit Facebook for the mass “server move” groups that people are starting to keep y’all on the same servers again, and kiss your real life goodbye on…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010!

You can, of course, read the full story on the super-awesome FFXIV Blog to get more details on the date, the pricing SE is looking at, and whatever else you may want to know.

All I can say is…

OH MY GODARU!!