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FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, which is scheduled to begin at 19:00 (PDT) on Aug. 31, 2010, will be postponed due to a confirmation of critical bugs. New schedule will be releaseｄ at a later date.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

For those not in the loop, the open beta patcher was having downloading issues, among other things.

Still sticking to my believes that the game isn’t ready for a September release since controls and even the fatigue system hasn’t been sorted out yet.

- Still can’t rebind keys. Huge problem to me since I’m a ESDF user.
- Mouse-based camera control improved quite a bit. At least mouselook is working now.
- Some framerate optimization done, game is a bit smoother than the previous beta
- Retarded menu-based system is still in. Still 5-6 menus to start a quest, 4-5 to sell/buy items etc…
- Server stability is non-existent. Crashes quite often at times.

No matter how I see, it’s still not ready for a September 2010 release. For goodness sake, Linkshells (i.e. guilds) functionality was only added this patch…

At least 3-4 more months of additional development are needed.

- Camera is still horrid: WTB working mouselook.
- UI still based around a game pad/controller instead of keyboard/mouse
- Still can’t rebind keys

Incredibly tedious to do anything due to the above. Still need to go through around 5-6 menus before you even START a quest.

Menu style stuff works well in a console RPG, but not on a PC, especially for a next-gen MMORPG.

As it stands, it’s STILL far from release worthy. It’s basically just a reskinned FFXI…

Nothing much has really changed from alpha other than some graphical changes. Combat speed has somewhat improved though.

Disappointment++

Back to DDO, unless they do some major changes before release.