Posted By Corinth on March 11, 2010
The day of the FFXIV Beta Test Site opening is upon us. Many people are anxiously awaiting a chance to play the alpha build and test out game play. What better time than today for Square Enix to give us more detailed information about some of the classes people will be playing around with! Both [...]
Posted By Gahoo on March 10, 2010
The next issue of Famitsu appears to have a ton of FFXIV information. And when that happens, an official site update is usually not far behind. So we can all look forward to what looks to be a pretty massive explosion of information in the next 24 hours. Here are some of the images to [...]
Posted By Gahoo on February 28, 2010
Perhaps not surprisingly, the release of information at VanaFest 2010 about the upcoming FFXIV beta testing has caused quite a stir in the community. But many (including us) may have jumped the gun in proclaiming beta to be starting on March 11. Well in a Q&A session after the event, Famitsu attempted to clarify the [...]
Posted By Gahoo on February 4, 2010
With beta applications now 6 weeks old, the chatter is all about (for some) when Square Enix will pull the trigger on the first round of beta testing, or (for others) how Square Enix started a beta test that nobody knows about. With this chatter comes speculation, and with speculation comes speculation about Japanese interviews [...]
Posted By Gahoo on December 23, 2009
More information has come out regarding the upcoming Famitsu article. Andriasang has posted both a quasi-translation of the article, which includes an interview with planner Yaeko Sato. According tothe article, Sato “is in charge of FFXIV’s main story.” That main story is the “first story that players learn of when arriving in the world [...]
Posted By Corinth on October 10, 2009
Going between two languages, it is easy for things to get lost in translation. Not only that, but for Final Fantasy XIV, the sites for each region are also presented in entirely different ways. That means sometimes there can be pictures or text in one that doesn’t show up in the either.
At the moment, we have extensive text on the NA site about some of the beast families like Aldgoats and Antelopes. However, the Japanese site does not contain any additional text, just the pictures that were released to the Japanese media as well. For those in Japan, they have to get their information from the magazines released this weekend or one of the several gaming news websites like GAME Watch or 4gamer.
Let’s check out what was in the magazines that isn’t on the NA site as well as what things may have been lost along the way.
Posted By Gahoo on October 6, 2009
While we wait for our trusty translator Corinth to get her hands on the full spread, here is the scan to keep the chatter alive. Looks like we have a new class confirmed – Lancer and two new beastiary entries – Raptors and Aldgoats. See anything else?




