Timeline for Playing again?Follow

So I guess I am realtively new again as I left the game for a while and only very recently came back but I cannot seem to actually find out what is going on.

So we got the to the end of the game as we know it yesterday with the Dalamud event and now the servers are closed down....but thats really as much as i know. I have read around about beta testing and alpha testing and I have seen dates of 26th November and stuff but i have no idea whats going on.

Obviously I understand that there is a major overhaul being done to the game to introduce the new landscape, gamplay, content etc but all I really want to know is......when can I play the game again? When does the rest of the world get to join 2.0....when will final fantasy XIV be playable again?

Can someone give me a bit of a rtimeline as to whats going to happen and when just so I can get it clear in my head.

Much appreciated

the new roadmap is supposed to be out by December I think. they've said they're running 2 months behind schedule.

probably late Q1/early Q2 2013.

I think I had read through most of this stuff but they talk of alpha test this and beta that I really wasn't quite sure who was what and when and god knows which planet.

I just find it a little hard to believe that a title of such size and reknown would take the whole game off air globally for such a long time and not have any kind of cast iron plan put in place. It seems almost worthy of the previous game designers to make moves such as this and not the new designwers who have made such headway with the game in such a short time.
I guess if their plans for the game and the longevity are such that they need to repackage the game and take it off line for a month or so then so be it. I managed 9 wonderful and all too brief years on FFXI even with all its initiaol problems too and if I have to miss a month or so to get another 9 years of Final Fantasy then it should all be worth it....I hope

Hohoho... If they are THAT far behind... oh boy that game better be EVERYTHING we want lol... No lackluster features!

Nevermind. Found it.

Edited, Nov 13th 2012 9:13am by Astarataru

I'm ok with them being a bit far behind. In any window given for a major launch I immediately tack on an additional six months for unforseen interruptions and delays. If they do get it out by the end of Q1, I'll be pleasently suprised.

In the meanwhile, I've got a lot to do on my end.

That makes sense, I guess. Thank you for the insight!

It's just the spoiled brat in me wanting to either play what I had or play what is new without too much downtown in between. Really hoping that they solve that 800+ person lag and everything moves smoothly. Really don't want to wait 6+ months for the game to come out!

so its looking like mid-late Q2.

thats a damm shame but i can understand that they want to get it right before launch

Bigger workforce = bigger communication issues. I'd be terrified to take a look at their Gantt chart.

On the other hand, Yoshi P has adopted Agile programming (Tanaka was very much a waterfall holdout), so they actually have a very good chance of putting the problems reported in beta into the final version.