Final Fantasy XIV Looks Better In Beta Than In Alpha

Oooh

yes

YEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yeah never-mind Beta is definitely better.  Much better textures and lighting.

You guys seemed a bit slow that time. Shouldn't there be more like 10 replies by now? Also, news flash, games look better and better as they approach completion. 
 
Another important question, how do the Japanese say Beta? What I mean to ask is it a Beeee-ta version or a Baaaay-ta version? This is an important question!

too bad the gameplay looks kinda dull

Looks like crap either way! :D

Its just a bunch of Technical touches, like better lighting, textures, and draw distance... all things that should be improved when going from alpha to beta.

At least the battle music sounds awesome.

Wait, games IMPROVE from alpha to beta? Does this really warrant a trailer?

That Alpha rat battle was SICK son!

Beta Beta looks better than Alpha Alphaa, because she is a lady.

Hmm the beta version did have more detail but I liked the way the Alpha version had brighter environments

completely not surprised that it improved!

Pretty big difference from alpha to beta; and there's always room for improvement as a beta product. Should be fairly good, I guess.

Look at our amazing ability to follow the standard development cycle! Our average pace of work clearly deserves your money!
 
Also of note, average  mmo combat system, average graphics, average game world. Where's the part where they make this in any way a better choice than WoW?

better texturing, lighting, depth of field etc. nice

Fucking work it out with Microsoft already.  
 

@Donos

" Look at our amazing ability to follow the standard development cycle! Our average pace of work clearly deserves your money!   Also of note, average  mmo combat system, average graphics, average game world. Where's the part where they make this in any way a better choice than WoW? "

Who would have thought?

FF11 reskined?  I think it so.

" This whole trend of overlapping MMO's seems weird to me.  FF 11 & 14, and Galaxies & Old Republic , it almost seems like an oversaturation.  I know that all the games are very different, it just seems like it would be difficult to keep them all successfull for a long period of time. "

Have to say, alpha looks better to me. Obviously beta has had more work but the problem with this volumetric lighting is that it doesn't look like how properly diffused (as in real life) lighting looks. Real life lighting is much more boring so to me alpha looks more realistic. Beta just looks, well dark, which isn't what lights do to a room.
 
Anyway, never mind graphics; it's still going to be the same shitty combat and levelling. Also, 69...

I think they bothered to put this out to the public though, because the chief concerns i read among the press were related to the time lag between the ATB bar being ready for your next command input.  In alpha as you could see the delay was painful.  In Beta they fixed it.  My guess is that this trailer was an excuse to get that single piece of data out to the masses quickly. 
 
its just a theory

Here, have metal?

" Looks like crap either way! :D "

I don't want to fight a rat anymore. I don't want to fight critters. I don't want to fight little monsters anymore. Can we move on from these conventional, old and hackneyed RPG game mechanics?

I love the beta battle system! You can attack way more often now.

My Most anticipated game of the year.  
  
There were a lot of people who were dissatisfied with the way the Alpha initially looked and played. A video like this cleared up a lot of those concerns. I know all the changes and little things that is going on between this comparison, but that's because i've been following this game like a bloodhound ever since it was announced (and even before).  
 
There are people who aren't convinced still and i don't think square enix really knows how to win those people over. A good start would be to simply put a voice over explaining what is going on in the videos instead of letting people just guessing and coming to a inaccurate conclusion themselves.  

Still not interested in it.

Looks shitty and incredibly boring.

Dammit! I was gonna name my character Beta Beta.

With some luck, we'll be able to solo some mobs in this one. I hated waiting for hours for a group to do anything in FFXI.

The first person scrolling through corridors reminded me of Myst and its sequels. Back then who would of thought we would have graphics like these this soon?

It still looks like Final Fantasy, which means I still don't want to play it... I'm burned out on MMO's right now anyway, but maybe I'll give it a shot. Old Republic, too.

i will never understand how things can "miss" if the damn thing is standing right in front of you... ugh..

" Combat looks thrilling. Can't wait to do that for a billion hours. "

I liked Alpha-lightning better...

Looks fantastic, hope I can get into the beta.

Alpha > Beta

man that looks really boring

Man the combat looks so boring..

If there's one Square Enix trailer that emphatically states, "We have run out of ideas," this is it.

It's gone from looking shit to looking slightly less shit.