Free FFXI Beta for 360 owners

Either of those sound ok, I like CAGlink or CAGshell. Whatever works I guess will have to be good enough. :)

I'll be on again tonight, I hit lvl 9 last night and would like to hit 10 tonight.
 
[quote name='edison']Either of those sound ok, I like CAGlink or CAGshell. Whatever works I guess will have to be good enough. :)

I'll be on again tonight, I hit lvl 9 last night and would like to hit 10 tonight.[/QUOTE]

Don't get too high or you won't be able to play with any CAG's. I hit level 8 yesterday and im gonna try for 10 also by tonight :)
 
Did anyone have to "purchase a content ID"? Im doing it now, fee is $0.00.
Would you have to purchase if you bought the game? (says no fees will be made during beta)
 
[quote name='Eastsidecracker']Did anyone have to "purchase a content ID"? Im doing it now, fee is $0.00.[/QUOTE]

Yes. It tells you too lol.
 
Ok the linkshell is made as CAGlink. Anyone who wants one let me know. JimmieMac was the first person I gave on to since I was showing him the ropes a little bit ago.
 
Can anybody tell me how to get quests/missions? Also, where do I go to sell items I pick up from monsters? I'm in that San whatever town.

It's a royal pain in the ass leveling up. There's so many people playing that every creature that pops up has about 5 other people swarming it. It's pretty sad...
 
[quote name='FaintDeftone']Can anybody tell me how to get quests/missions? Also, where do I go to sell items I pick up from monsters? I'm in that San whatever town.

It's a royal pain in the ass leveling up. There's so many people playing that every creature that pops up has about 5 other people swarming it. It's pretty sad...[/QUOTE]

Sell at the Auction House. Keep your prices lower then what the bid history says so you can sell your stuff. Also give it a week and hopefully it will fill out, people will gain higher levels and move on to other places for leveling.
 
[quote name='FaintDeftone']Can anybody tell me how to get quests/missions? Also, where do I go to sell items I pick up from monsters? I'm in that San whatever town.

It's a royal pain in the ass leveling up. There's so many people playing that every creature that pops up has about 5 other people swarming it. It's pretty sad...[/QUOTE]

welcome to FFXI =p
 
Isn't the auction house a place for players to buy items from other players though? I doubt anybody would want the crap I have.

These MMORPG games really need in game tutorals. This is a standard in video games now people, what gives? Most of the ones I've played don't have tutorals either.
 
[quote name='FaintDeftone']Isn't the auction house a place for players to buy items from other players though? I doubt anybody would want the crap I have.

These MMORPG games really need in game tutorals. This is a standard in video games now people, what gives? Most of the ones I've played don't have tutorals either.[/QUOTE]


People buy everything. Sure your not gonna make 10 million gil for rabbit hares but 30 gil for each does add up.
 
Hmm, alrighty I'll try that out. Thanks.

I really need to buy a keyboard for this. I'll try to pick one up Friday. I'd hate to buy it and not use it after the beta, but I'm sure it'll come in handy for other 360 stuff though.

My name in the game is Chaska, I'm a lvl 2 male human warrior with short black hair. If anybody spots me wandering around aimlessly, gimme a hollar :D
 
This is probably obvious pimpinc, but send me an invite to CAGlink if you haven't already. I'll probably get to play a little tonight and I'll be on for large chunks of time tomorrow, Saturday, & Sunday.
 
FaintDeftone A lot of the early items you'll get can be used for quest in San d'Oria (many of which are repeatable). Some of the items you get from quest will not be for your character so sell those on the auction house. If the auction house price seems low try selling the item to a vendor (those tents set up near the auction house/west gate/east gate in South Sandy) sometimes they will pay just as much, and its instant.

The items I recommend keeping for quest that are repeatable.... (in San d'Oria)

flint stones 4 qty=120 gil (quest starts in tavern south Sandy)
rabbit hides 3 qty=100 gill (quest is guy standing outside tanner's guild)
bat wings 2 qty=200 gil (quest is guy just through the arch in north Sandy heading towards Port Sandy)

Great Resource for quest just select your area.

I'll be on today/tonight will pick up the shell when I see you PimpInc333
 
Pimp, Shipwreck or any bag holder I am in the Dunes again tonight I can walk to the boarder and grab a bag to hand them out in windy which is where I am from if needed.

18WHM
 
[quote name='BREVITY']Pimp, Shipwreck or any bag holder I am in the Dunes again tonight I can walk to the boarder and grab a bag to hand them out in windy which is where I am from if needed.

18WHM[/QUOTE]

Ok cool. My highest level is only a THF 8 right now so the journey out to the dunes might be troublesome. I'm also not too sure how late ill be playing tonight maybe til like midnight est. I will go out there though and just bloodport back home. Send me a Freind request or a tell later when your on.
 
[quote name='edison']FaintDeftone A lot of the early items you'll get can be used for quest in San d'Oria (many of which are repeatable). Some of the items you get from quest will not be for your character so sell those on the auction house. If the auction house price seems low try selling the item to a vendor (those tents set up near the auction house/west gate/east gate in South Sandy) sometimes they will pay just as much, and its instant.

The items I recommend keeping for quest that are repeatable.... (in San d'Oria)

flint stones 4 qty=120 gil (quest starts in tavern south Sandy)
rabbit hides 3 qty=100 gill (quest is guy standing outside tanner's guild)
bat wings 2 qty=200 gil (quest is guy just through the arch in north Sandy heading towards Port Sandy)

Great Resource for quest just select your area.

I'll be on today/tonight will pick up the shell when I see you PimpInc333[/QUOTE]

Opps you got that a little wrong. 4 Flint give you 100 gil and 3 Rabbit Hides gives you 120 gil. But its all cool. I've done these 3 repeatable quests about 50 times each now. I have a lot of fame in Sandy.
 
I havent done much questing and just stuff from lvling I've been able to get 12k or so which makes buying armor a bit easier. Anyone with extra CP at sandy want to throw me some royal FTM gloves ;)?
 
[quote name='pimpinc333']Opps you got that a little wrong. 4 Flint give you 100 gil and 3 Rabbit Hides gives you 120 gil. But its all cool. I've done these 3 repeatable quests about 50 times each now. I have a lot of fame in Sandy.[/QUOTE]


It was early :) give me a break. I'm back in Sandy now so I'll try to hook up with you later tonight if you get back on.

BREVITY If I get a pearlsack from Cyrril tonight I could probably run it down to the La Thiene/Valkrum boarder. I went to Selbina today, then to Windy for a while this afternoon. Never got aggro'd (knock on wood) and I was only lvl 9 at the time. :)
 
[quote name='Zoglog']hmmm need a linkpearl in windy, heading to valkrum maybe in a bit[/QUOTE]
I just got off but last time I saw Brevity was in valkrum. He has a Link Sack so he can give you one. Give him a tell.

Also for anyone else who hasn't gotten a linkshell yet please post here. The more CAG's the better. Thanks.
 
Ya I got a Pearl for anyone who wants one.
I would love to see this LS grow with good players both new and experianced alike.
LS functions like NM runs and BCNM runs are awesome and we all can help each other with diffrent things. I will of course let you know b4 adding a none CAG member and maybe those none CAG members will later become CAG members. We should get a sticky on this thread.


19 WHM in Dunes.

Edit: Will be on tonight starting at 5c and pulling a all nighter or till I fall asleep if anyone wants to party. I would even be willing to lvl a sub. Might be up for MMs in the maze this weekend. I got a RDM and a WHM to go with me BLM/WHM if we need it.
 
A little write up I did for another site:

BREVITY on FFXI 360:

I don’t intend for this to be a full comparison between the PC and the PS2 version.
I don’t intend this to be a full tutorial of what to do in the game.
I don’t intend this to be a full grip session about the game or MMOs or new players.

Preface and short Bio:
FFXI was my first MMO and my first PS2 beta. I believe it all started about June or July of I cant recall the year maybe 2001 or 2002. I do recall not playing KOTOR due to having this. Right off the bat I felt that FFXI was a rewarding game and never had I seen so many online people in one place. Within a week I was missing out on school work, regular work, family time, and sleep… welcome to the life of a MMO addict I thought. It took me about two months to get life back in order and work out not sleeping as much. I quickly got into a LS and made many new close online friends, that would later follow me in getting the PC version early and playing together for the next two years or so. What kept me coming back to the game besides the community was the rewarding experience of working hard to get something and receiving recognition for that: no matter if it were and item or a rank or a lvl. In FFXI when you look as someone RANK say 5 or lvl say 50 no matter the job, you know nearly exactly the kinds of hell they had to go through to get it and you can respect them for it.

As a result of the fame that came with working hard I quickly decided that I wanted to become as rich in money and items as I could so I started researching and camping even NM within reason. I would team camp and solo camp to raise my chances. I also farmed higher end things with my DRK/THF. Once I got to a point where people would scan me and see that I had this or that item and say “wow dude you got to dam much time on your hands, that or you used rl money to buy gil.” I then decided to go with a job that commanded more respect at least in my eyes. I became a BST and loved it more than any job that I had ever played. At this time I was well into the US launch of the PS2 and PC versions. BST lent its self easily to my life of on again off again AFKs and me falling asleep playing, that and no need for parties. Plus you cant forget all the loot you get and don’t have to share. When I finished the game and decided to call it quits I had been Rank6 67BST/65DRK/41WHM/35WAR/16THF/20BLM/3RNG. Those are all my lvls or nearly so cus I really cant recall exactly but those are within a lvl of each of my former jobs.

I would like to note I played WOW till I got to lvl 45 Hunter. It was fun but I just didn’t get into it as much.

That said: My return to Vana'diel:
There were several times when I thought I might return to FFXI to start over or maybe buy my character back but I never did, so when I seen that it was coming to the 360 I knew I would give it a shot. This beta is so very much like the PS2 beta and I am having a blast with it. So far I like all the new additions to the game. Like the change that makes it so that trains are not going to be a bother every again. Wow, I cant even begin to tell you the times a train messed up life for so very many people.


On voice chat:
I was very glad to hear that you could use the XBL headset in the game but so far in the beta I can tell you its very nearly totally useless. You can only use it to chat in the same way it would work had you been sitting in the dashboard of your 360 and wanted to talk it but with someone. That being that as far as I can tell you can only chat with one person at a time and you have 4 dif rooms you can invite a single person too. This makes it so that you cant hope to have a match where atleast your whole team (6 members) in a single chat where you can talk about stuff while you play. I am not hurt by this since I truly grew up with this game not having voice the chat option and for me that’s fine and good even. I like that I can talk in so many different ways in the game the way it is. /sh for shout, where what you say will be seen through the whole zone; /p lets you talk to your whole party alone; /t lets you talk to a single person no matter where he is.

On wishful thinking:
Boy do I have a lot of things I wish would happen. First I hope they let beta people keep their characters. During the US PS2 beta this was not the case but I hear that during the JP PS2 beta they got to keep their characters. I hope they give us the game for free. At the end of the PS2 beta we got a copy of the game and the HDD needed to play it. I think I recall this being a 60$ value at the time, which I would think is what the 360 version will cost (though I think it should cost around what it does for PC and PS2 currently) so maybe they will do this. I hope they eliminate the monthly fee for the game or at least reduce it. Back when I played I think it was 12 something a month, I hope they take it down to 10 at least.
I hope they leave Hydra (our current beta server) up and allow us to continue to play there. This was not the case in the PS2 beta, they closed and deleted cactar. If not keeping the 360 Hydra alive I hope they make some completely 360 version servers or new servers where they don’t allow migration to. This is not the case with all the FFXI servers made so far. Every time they make new ones they allow migration, which the gil sale sites are sure to migrate to and with that they economy goes crazy and things start to cost a fortune. I know that before long any server will have some gil sale bots on them but atleast with the lack of migration it will be a longer time befor things go nuty.

My thought is that it would just plain suck to be made to go to servers already fully populated by long time players and super screwed up economies. Its hard enough just starting out in this game w/o having to be further bothered by things costing way more than they normally would. Plus its just sucky to go to servers where every NM is camped by super high lvl players that have been camping it for the past 3 years and only lose the kill to other players just like them. All that will come in time to any server but I would hope that SE would see fit to give us all a fresh start on a clean slate (server).

Will I move on to the retail version?
I am truly pulled apart by that thought for many reasons. One, I hate missing out on all the cool new games that come out. Two, I hate missing out on so much of just about everything else in life. The game is great fun but it pulls me back like no other game ever has. Three, I have in the past done so much in this game that the only “new” stuff to me I would think would be found beyond lvl 67 at least and so I would have to work for a long time to get to that point again and then beyond. The idea of coming back could be helped if I got one of my four old characters back or if we got to keep our beta characters.

On differences:
After the beta for PS2 I only played it on my PS2 for the first two weeks of getting it after SE sent it to me free when the PS2 version launched. I thought the draw distance sucked, I thought the words were awfully big at time and yet to small at others. I loved the PS2 Logitec troller/kb though and got an adapter and used that the whole time on my PC. On PC there were many things that made the game better for me. I loved seeing it run on my new PC and I loved playing other music or audio books in the background.

On the 360 my four fav things area:
One, the game seems to run great. I think this shouldn’t surprise me since it is a very old game that runs fine on older PCs.
Two, I love the look of the game on my 45” HDTV. I should say this though. The year I got my Sony HDTV rear projection, I had no clue about such items and this was the first game I played on it outside of Halo and a small handful of others. I tend to fall asleep while playing and at other times I will have long play sessions. Well this very game broke my pristine screens virginity by putting several spots of burn in on it. I got a perma-spot of signet, HP MP in the bottom right and I think even some Protect to remind me that I am a retard. There are a few others but they are none of them all that bad and I still think this game looks awesome in huge HD format. I cant wait to upgrade TVs though and get a DLP or LCD.
Three, I love that I can listen to my own music on this game, just the way I did on my PC.
Four, I love that I can still use and see my friends list while playing the game.
I hate that you cant get XBL points for stuff done in the game.

Peeves with current setup:
I don’t know who thought it would be an awesome idea to stick with the play online viewer but that’s just stupid. I hate that the game takes so many steps just to get going. If I had it my way you would put the game in and it would work just like any other game. I still hate how the friends list functions in the game. I mean to send a friend request for a new person it seems very odd in that you send them a message and in so doing you send a friends request. Its always been odd to me. Like I said this is a great game “for me” and I don’t want to go into all small gripes about the game mechanics.

Final thoughts:
I don’t truly think there is no reason for anyone who owns a decent or even a fair PC to get this game on 360 over the PC version. It will no double be cheaper on PC and you don’t have to wait for its launch. And you might even use less power per hour to play it over playing it on the 360. The game is older and I think SE is trying to breathe life into it but I hope that effort doesn’t stop with simply porting the game. I hope they offer a lot of new stuff that every lvl and job and rank can enjoy in the coming updates. I can tell you I will be playing this game often while the beta lasts but beyond that I just don’t know as of yet.
 
I am going to be on now for the next few hours. BREVITY if you could send me a tell I would like to meet up for a LS pearl.
 
i'd love to join you but this game is way too slow and i've already been through it all before so I don't see myself playing too often.......

For now tho i'll get some reminiscing with shitty parties in valkrum when I get there =p. I highly doubt i'll find the calibur from back in the day since most people cant afford food and no ninja tanks really.
 
Alright I'll be on tonight at like 10:30 PM est. To to get to level 10 tonight. If anyone from Windhurst can check their AH and see if there are any "Daggers" called "BeeStinger" for sale. Its a levle 7 Dagger and I really want it. Please check for me and send me a tell if there are any. Thanks.
 
I got a few questions for you guys if you don't mind answering. I just got done playing for awhile and I have a few things that confuse me.

1. How are we suppose to level up if there are so little enemies that spawn in the fields? There's seriously like one within a mile radius and everybody swarms it. It's so hard to level up because of so many people acting like vultures. Is there a better way to do this? I have only been able to make it to LVL 3 so far and I'm still too weak to take on orcs, sheep, or goblins.

2. What's some good ways to make money? Running around the fields really doesn't do much. The best method I've found is to get signet casted on you, which'll sometimes drop crystals. Too bad they're not worth much though. I've tried doing quests too but I can't find very many and most of them give you dumb items. I was told by an NPC that the lumberyard will give me work. I went in the area where this lumberyard is suppose to be and there's only a carpender's guild. Where the hell is this lumber yard? What are good methods of making money?

3. Anybody know where that little kid's father is? The kid crying by the fountain in North San whatever?
 
For anyone that is trouble having trouble with things to fight it seems like the towns other than San D'oria are less crowded. I first started in the one with a desert outside of it and it was pretty easy to find things to fight, I don't know if that's still the case now though.
 
[quote name='FaintDeftone']I got a few questions for you guys if you don't mind answering. I just got done playing for awhile and I have a few things that confuse me.

1. How are we suppose to level up if there are so little enemies that spawn in the fields? There's seriously like one within a mile radius and everybody swarms it. It's so hard to level up because of so many people acting like vultures. Is there a better way to do this? I have only been able to make it to LVL 3 so far and I'm still too weak to take on orcs, sheep, or goblins.

2. What's some good ways to make money? Running around the fields really doesn't do much. The best method I've found is to get signet casted on you, which'll sometimes drop crystals. Too bad they're not worth much though. I've tried doing quests too but I can't find very many and most of them give you dumb items. I was told by an NPC that the lumberyard will give me work. I went in the area where this lumberyard is suppose to be and there's only a carpender's guild. Where the hell is this lumber yard? What are good methods of making money?

3. Anybody know where that little kid's father is? The kid crying by the fountain in North San whatever?[/QUOTE]

1.) Yea this is a big problem right now. There are soo many people playing the game. I guess try to play when its off peak times. Play early morning or something. Maybe less people will be on.

2.) Everyone has there own way to make some gil. I won't give out any of my tips since that might F me over. But keep tring different gil making approaches. One tip I do is look at everyones Bazaar when they walk by you ( The little bag by there name ) . Sometimes they just want to get rid of the item fast so they are selling it half off from the Ah price. Flipping stuff is a great way to make some gil.

3.) The father is in Helbert's Blades. Its the weapon Store in South Sandy on your way to your Mog House.

Good Luck bro and keep at it. We could use some more members in our linkshell
 
I made it to the dunes and log'd out for the night if any one 9-10 wants to party tomorrow sometime post a time.

I'm lvl 9 BLM
 
Ok, I started the game, but dont know what to do. Do I just run around and get quests (have one inwhich I need to get water for the church, and the little boy one) and fight enemies to get to higher levels? Also, all I have is the oniko (sp) sword, and when I select it in the menu, my character still punches. Am I doing something wrong.
 
Cus I didnt have anything else to do I stayed up all night last night and have yet to go to bed. This on the heels of 4.5 hours sleep the night b4 cus I got an all JP party that was awesome.
So I got lvl 21 and all my sub items. I cant believe I am still in my starting gear. I have only died like 4 time in the dunes since going there too. I am quite lucky. Last night out of 9 ghoul pops we got 5 Skulls in a row. I got the last one of those. Just a great night. I plan to get on a bit later today and play through the night again maybe. I really want to play my WHM to lvl 30 by its self and not have to stop and lvl BLM. I know for all my other characters BLM was the fastest thing for me to lvl but thats when I had nice things to wear and money for food.
 
[quote name='Eastsidecracker']Ok, I started the game, but dont know what to do. Do I just run around and get quests (have one inwhich I need to get water for the church, and the little boy one) and fight enemies to get to higher levels? Also, all I have is the oniko (sp) sword, and when I select it in the menu, my character still punches. Am I doing something wrong.[/QUOTE]
You have to go to the Equipment Screen and equip it as your primary weapon. All you basically do is level up and stuff. Try to Level to like 10 before doing missions. You can get Quests by talking to NPC's. Good luck dude.
 
[quote name='Eastsidecracker']K, what do you do with the adventurer coupon, and the crystals that you get when you kill something?[/QUOTE]
Sell the crystals. You do want gil right :) If not then give them to me for free lol.
 
Has anybody done the quest in San D'oria when you talk to the little girl and that thief runs past and you have to find her? I kept talking to NPCs and following her trail. It eventually took me to one of the gates that leaves town (the one by the watch tower) and then I couldn't find any more clues. The last clue I got was a guard standing by the exit said he saw her run by. So I went outside of town and that messed the quest up. Anybody know where she goes?

Also, anybody know how to extract water from rivers?
 
[quote name='FaintDeftone']Has anybody done the quest in San D'oria when you talk to the little girl and that thief runs past and you have to find her? I kept talking to NPCs and following her trail. It eventually took me to one of the gates that leaves town (the one by the watch tower) and then I couldn't find any more clues. The last clue I got was a guard standing by the exit said he saw her run by. So I went outside of town and that messed the quest up. Anybody know where she goes?

Also, anybody know how to extract water from rivers?[/QUOTE]

Im not sure about the THF quest but to extract the water you go to East Ron. It like H-6 not too far from the town gates. Once you get out go north towards the river. It should be the north most point of the river.
 
[quote name='pimpinc333']Im not sure about the THF quest but to extract the water you go to East Ron. It like H-6 not too far from the town gates. Once you get out go north towards the river. It should be the north most point of the river.[/QUOTE]

Yeah for the water quest you had to get a water skin from another priest (closest one to the guy that gave the quest for like 50gil donation). Then go outside and there will be a targetable point that says something like 'Cheval River' trade the water skin to that point and it will fill the skin to give back to the first priest.

The thief is outside in West Ron in one of the towers like F-6 on the map. You will have to talk to her, she'll deny it. Then go back and talk to the little girl in Port Sandy she'll give you a button she thought you dropped. Take the button back and trade it to the thief, she'll confess then give you back the glasses. Return the glasses to the guard in Port Sandy.
 
[quote name='pimpinc333']Im not sure about the THF quest but to extract the water you go to East Ron. It like H-6 not too far from the town gates. Once you get out go north towards the river. It should be the north most point of the river.[/QUOTE]

I followed the whole river to the end of the map and still couldn't figure out how to extract water. Do I have to stand in the water and hit a button or is there an NPC to talk to?

EDIT: ohh okay, water skin. Thank you.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']I am not enjoying this game at all.[/QUOTE]

i'm not suprised. This game is hell really it is. I think i'm onlyplaying for some nostalgia and some dialogue with japanese folks. Hell the first time around it was horrid. it's 50% pure ass and 50% pretty ok. I blame my friends mostly for buying it when it came out because they wanted to drag me into thier sick little world.

Anyway yeah D: I think I head to dunes now

Anyone did anyone check this out?

http://www.ffxifestival.com/

lol 85-100 dollars for entrance. Talk about a ripoff..... I live nearby and I'd only semi consider it if it was free for the goodies.
 
is the whole economy thing screwed up or did they reset it for the 360ers?
 
Okay I have another question, sorry.

Has anybody played the quest where you have to pass out the 15 fliers for that lady in the magic shop? She said to give it only to townsfolk (which I assume are NPCs). I've tried giving them to tons of different NPCs of all races and types, none of them accept them. I've given fliers to them by trade menu and when I give it to them, they won't take it. How do I complete this?
 
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