Elmer over at ZAM has just translated an article from Dengeki Games. A few highlights (with interspersed comments) are below:
Ｑ：How much of the game will players be able to experience in the beta?
Ａ：We started at about 10% of the final product with the playable Alpha version and are ultimately trying to perfect [...]

Category: Japanese Press, News
Tags: Beastiary, Beta, Character creation, Dengeki, Disciples of Magic, Disciples of War, Disciplines

The official Final Fantasy XIV website has just been updated with details about character creation as well as the official story that has recently been released. Many new images have also been added to the Media section of the website including what appear to be shots relating to city-states as well as our first glimpse [...]

Category: Square Enix
Tags: Character creation, Clans, Official Website, Races

Another day another tidbit of news.  I could get used to this…
First off, as we showed yesterday, there were a number of  new images leaked, one of which looked to be some additional backstory.  Well, a trusty forum member Kayne has come through for the community and translated the story.
Overture
It was approximately 10 [...]

Category: Op-Ed
Tags: Ala Mihgo, Character creation, The Garlean Empire

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or asleep) for the past 8 hours,  you know that there are some new leaked images out there showing the FFXIV character creation.   So here they are:

But anyone can just upload images – let’s dig at least a little deeper shall we?

Category: Op-Ed
Tags: Character creation, Hyur, Lalafell, Roegadyn, Ul’dah