You are here: - In other words, during the alpha and planned beta testing phases about Final Fantasy XIV, you want players to send you any opinions they might have, no matter how trivial?
Exactly, as we mentioned, player opinions often contain things we simply overlook on the developer side. Even before the alpha started, we posted the play manual and people already had opinions on that. Developers would take a look at what players noticed and learn things. Conversely, we are also able to get confirmation for some of our own assumptions. So there's two goals: Discovering what we overlook, and confirming our assumptions. That's why every single comment is important to us.
- Let's move on to talk about the testing schedule. Is it safe to assume the size and scope of the test is going to increase gradually?
We're still examining the situation, but at this initial stage we want to be able to consistently conduct three tests a week. We feel it's important to maintain server stability and allow everyone to enjoy the game(ffxiv gil). As for the region-based testing, we are thinking of changing that at some point. There are always people who just can't fit the testing times into their schedule.
- How long do you plan to run the current alpha test?
We had a general idea in the beginning, but the server stability issues have caused more problems than we could foresee. We still want to examine players after they have been able to level their characters a little more. Actually, we have two patterns set up for the speed of character growth, so we plan to delete all characters at some point during the alpha. After we collect data on the currently implemented pattern, we will wipe everyone and start again with a the second one in play.
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