The Road to Beta

This past week has been a great reward for all of us waiting on new XIV info! With the releases in both Famitsu and Dengeki magazines from Japan, loads of info explaining basic game mechanics, races, jobs, and more! Even the FFXIV main site was updated which provided a brief history of the land that we'll be exploring in the next half year or so. On top of all the information released, we also have high resolution pictures on the races (Still no male Mithras, sorry!) and a few regions. We were also released a brief history of the port city Limsa Lominsa as well as a few drawn pictures of three city-states -- Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah, and Gridania -- which we believe to be starting towns, but no word on that yet. The armory system was unveiled to us which we have seen an increased amount of speculation on SE's (Square Enix) example story of Leeroy. What is for sure is that one can solo or party while still having the ability to switch "jobs" by simply switching his or her weapon. I'm sure you don't want to hear me repeat the things you have been seeing on FFXIV's main site, so moving on.

My view on all of this is that SE is prepping us for an equal, if not larger, release of information at the European Gamescom this August 19th. Hopefully they can clear up some of the speculation that we've been seeing over gameplay and maybe if we're lucky, possibly get a first look into some gameplay videos/screenshots. I'm looking forward to hearing more information later this week and I'll update the next time I get some major information passed on to me. Until then readers, this is your friendly neighborhood writer signing off, see you on the 19th!