@only77

cool so whats your verdict so far?

I'm sold based on everything I have seen overall. This game looks like an offline-online version of Final Fantasy.

I am not a tester (so I didn't sign any NDA!) but I was linked Pooky Poos FFXIV Alpha link straight waya before SE had it taken down, and I saved hours of footage to my HDD.

All Pookys Poo's stuff was a video streaming website, but I used a a video grabber to take the .flv files.  The videos were online for a VERY short amount of time, and I just grabbed them instead of watching them becuase I knew by the time I had watched them, they would be taken down.

My friend HAS chatted to Pooky Poo, and she says that FFXIV is great and fixes all of the issues from FFXI.  The overall message I got was that it was kinda like FFXI that has benefitted from the ideas that WoW brought to MMO's.  

I wonder why no website wants to publish my FFXIV screens in their news? A few websites (like Offical Playstation forum & Escapist) won't let me post the screens/provide a link at all.

Put up some videos. I have been waitin! Lol. I'll watch game play but no storyline.

Ok, some more screens online now, I'll do the video tonight but I have to go out for a couple of hours. In about 3 hours I'll probably have at least 1 video online.

OK, I have put up the first video, its not that great - so I'm cutting another right now.  Remember the FPS is quite low as everything is filmed in Windowed mode

Here is the opening scene from FFXIV - it all starts on a ferry.  More at my blog

WOW thanks for the footage, it looks awesome!

I will not watch the ferry one. But thanks for the other.