FFXIV Closed Alpha Testing Commences March 2010!

Yup, it's been confirmed by Square Enix during the VanaFest 2010 held today in Tokyo:  FFXIV will begin the first step of it's beta testing stages by conducting a closed alpha test—exclusive to only FINAL FANTASY XI users!

Everyone who has been selected in this first stage should be able to receive further information starting from Monday, March 1, 2010; and most importantly, the tester website is scheduled to go live on Thursday, March 11, 2010.

Good Luck in getting your beta invitation everyone... and thank you once again for all your emails (yeah guys, I wasn't able to attend VanaFest this year due to work and school but please cheack out the official FFXI website for details on new stuff coming to Vana'diel).   here are some of the awesome new images from the site which shows new quests, level cap increase to 99, future expansion, server merging and lots more!   Be well! xD

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VanaFest 2010 today... anticipated beta start for FFXIV?

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, Square Enix is hosting the VavaFest 2010 event tomorrow in Tokyo, Japan... (actually, as of the time of this blog entry it would already be February 28th in Japan xD).

The official website for the evnt has been up for sometime and SE also has Twitter and Facebook feds that will constantly be updated by the minute as the show progresses.   The main excitement about the show is not only for news on future updates for FFXI (including the game's future itself), but expectations are extremely high regardling the release of awesome latest news about FFXIV beta.

Also expected are updates about the city-states (finally, some tit-bits about Gridania, Ul'Dah and Ishgard?), and possbly more lores about Eorzea.  In the meantime, all the premier FFXIV websites have crews that will be covering the show live so feel free to scroll down to the end of my blog page and visit the links below (ZAM, Eorzeapedia & FFXICCore).

I'll e sure to post up links to any awesome news over the next 24 hours... be well everyone!