Taking advantage of my Legacy status, I've just completed the story missions, and I'm blown away by the epicness, and plot twist at the end! You guys got to catch up, and I guarantee you gonna like it.

Also maintenance on the 3rd. A really long one too. Here are the details below.

source: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/4b021eb3d632f08be9d6198fd595066b31d7fb59

At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn to perform the operations listed below. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will be unavailable.

[Details]
- Addition of new Worlds
- Implementation of countermeasures to handle the influx of concurrent user counts as a result of split processing the duty finder
- Address several known issues

* Clients will update automatically upon launch after the date and time below.

* We will announce details of the fixes at a later time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
From Sep. 3, 2013 5:00 p.m. to Sep. 4, 2013 3:00 a.m. (PDT)
* The completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn

@mad55, i am on atomos server

Oh, I agree it's a bit early, it's just at the moment they really haven't provided me with anything to make me want to continue to pay for the game.

1. The game has thrown walls of text at me so I just click through most of the quests.  I have no idea what's going on for the most part and don't care.

2.  Right now the game isn't that interesting.  I run doing generic quest to quest and filling out my hunting log.  I might start crafting again.

3.  The story quests can actually be fun, though those are few and far between.

The game may get insane later, I don't know because right now I can't actually login.

It seems the story really starts to pick up at level 44. Pretty much every quest after that is full blown story rather than fluff. The game does get better as it goes Twesterm. I was very doubtful myself for a long time.

God this song is AMAZING.

@wagram, what server u on?
i am on atomos

Excalibur.

The game definitely doesn't do a good job at displaying its main strengths to new players. I do agree that there is a lot of text, so myself skim over most of it. Mainly the sidequests. I would suggest skimming over a bit slower so you can at least understand what's going on. :P 

Story quests become very plentiful around level 22, but it does feel like the story begins to move much more slowly. From what I've heard, it really picks up later on. I also will say that the second primal boss battle I did last night was SO much fun.

Also, a lot of your fun will be dictated by the class you chose. What are you currently playing as? I found arcanist/scholar to be really fun, but gladiator and archer I find super boring. Marauder/Warrior is hella fun though.

I've been trying to log in for 6 hours, now. Don't think I'll get in, but I'm having fun watching this Dota 2 tournament while I spam my log in button.

Server errors are RIDICULOUS today.

I find the best time to log in is around midnight when most of everyone in NA is asleep. hopefully this will be a thing of the past on wednesday.

Two reviews up.

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