Square Enix have announced that 1 million users have signed up to take part in the beta of Final Fantasy XIV: A Real Reborn, the MMORPG arriving August this year for PC and PS3.
Final Fantasty XIV adds new and unique gameplay mechanics to the series, such as the Armoury system which will allow players to experience all the classes in the game on a single character as well as including cross-platform gameplay between PC and PS3.
This isn’t the first release of Final Fantasy XIV, with the original release in 2010 being widely lambasted for being glitchy, full of bugs, seemingly broken and unfinished as well as huge flaws in the gameplay itself. Though to the credit of Square Enix they recognised they had dropped the ball, apologised and have started again (hence the title “A Realm Reborn”). Getting 1 million people to sign up the play the beta is a huge boost for them, and hopefully a positive reflection on the quality of the game.
Final Fantasty XIV: A Realm Reborn follows on five years from the original release in the land of Eorzea. At the end of Final Fantasy XIV the primal dragon escapes its prison inside an artificial moon and causes an apocalyptic event, destroying most of Eorzea. The player character luckily escapes the apocalypes by being time-travelled into the future and is tasked to help defend Eorzea from invasion.
The PS3 and PC versions are currently in the third, and probably final, phase of Beta testing prior to the games release in August. A PS4 version is also in development and is set for release sometime in 2014.
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