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I'll just chim in and say my first impression of the game. First and foremost, my god did they turn this game around since the last time I played. Granted it was in the first beta but, the interface was slow, the game was kinda bland, the performance was not that great either. All that totally changed, the interface is smooth and slick, giving the game a very clean look, there's a lot of detail on the character and there's a lot of custumization that can be done. For example, I made a Mi'qote male because I could not believe they put both gender in FFXIV. :D And the nice thing is that you can change both the color of your eyes, different shade in your hair + all the normal stuff you find in other MMO. (scar and the like).

I'm at the very beginning and did not play a lot right now, mostly because my PC have a hard time with game that demand a little more and just overheat and shutdown if I play for too long, which is a bummer . :/ But overall when I play the game it play more smoothly that I would have thought. All the music in this game is really great and I find the leveling up fanfare to be really gratifying, but the nostalgia may be a big part of it. :)

Overall, I really hope they can pull off a miracle with this game and that it has the same magic FFXI had for me at the time. I played a lot of MMO since then, but nothing took my attention as much as FFXI did.

Here's some screenshot I took:

Just got a key. It was a pretty painless process and I'm now downloading the game. Can't wait to remake my Elvaan Paladin... except that I don't remember the name of the race nor if the Paladin class exist in FFXIV since I only played the first beta....

Anyway thanks for the tips, I know what I'll do this week end! :)

Here's my update for June. Pretty proud of myself for my first month in the competition! :)

June 2013

Monthly result:+ 5

Current result: -1.

Pretty close to zero! Doubt I'll buy much game in July but who know. Trying to finish Human revolution at the moment. I'm at the moment where I find the doctor after traveling in a boat from shenghai so dunno how long I am from the end. It's getting pretty tedious because I have less and less interest in the game. Dunno if it's because of the story or the character. Nonetheless, I'll finish the game this month for sure.

Anyway, that's it!

@lord_xp: Oh so il already exist on steam? Good to know I use steam but never looked in all the feature it offers. Thanks for the info.

A good voice to text application would not be bad too.

DRM and always online.

Joke aside maybe a looking for group feature that have similar interest but on the platform level to add on the friendlist . Something that existed for s long Time in MMO.

That's exactly what I was thinking as well. Microsoft try to force the change when in reality it should be first and foremost accepted by the customer. How can a company make the consumer want the change is pretty much what sony is doing at the moment: Don't restrict Blu ray but also support digital content as much as possible, show people that it can be advantageous to go the digital road instead of buying a disc. The change won't happen in 1 day, but if they can show that buying digital game has more benefice than the restriction it come with, then the custumer will be ready for the change and disc will fade away by itself.

Also, the big plus of this method is that it let sony plenty of time to figure out the best method to handle Digital Market when it will become the main way to sell game. But for now there is no rush, the transition as begun slowly but surely. For example, I just bought Tomb Raider bundle on PSN for 20$ that incldule a bunch of skin pack/multiplayer map and it came with Quantum Conumdrum . If deal like that continue to improve on console, it can only be a good thing for consumer.

Guessing Luke skywalker and darth vader. Those memorable Disney character!

Even if it's far from the FF root, maybe it's what FF need to get back. Really liked the gameplay. Just hope that it's as fluid as they showed in the video.

@jouseldelka: There's also Liquid snake and Solidus Snake I think both of them are considered the brothers of Solid Snake (well I'm sure for Liquid but I can't remember for Solidus)

They are the produce of a project called Les enfants terribles, a cloning experiment of Naked Snake which became Big Boss after killing his mentor named The Boss. And no... I'm not making this up. If you really did not know then enjoy the glorious Metal Gear lore... :)

Strangely enough, I was thinking about something like that 2-3 minutes ago to be able to finish my backlog. So I guess I'll jump in for fun. Here's my list since january (thanks to email receipt and not my memory):

January 2013

Monthly result: -4

February 2013

Monthly result: 0

March 2013

Monthly result: -2

April 2013

Monthly result: -1

May 2013

Monthly result: +1

June 2013

Monthly result:+ 5

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Current result: -1.

Now let's see if I can get above 0. :)