/dance
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/CHEST!

it would be pretty rad to try the beta, I already subscribed for it. I am not the biggest Final Fantasy fan, but the MMO for it seems like a great experience to try.

PC to PS3? All PS3 dev kits are on a PC. You didn't know that? I think you mean to say PC/Xbox to PS3 doesn't work to well. Xbox360 and PC are nearly the samething they both work off the same general code. I think they are doing it right to get the best out of the PS3 you need to do the higher form of medium first, which would be PC. Plus the development time is better spend on the varieties of PCs rather than one form factor(PS3). This way when they go to bring it to PS3 it has a higher bar to reach up to. Instead of going from the lowest, up. Which is why it's better to develop on PS3 first and come down or in this case the higher medium would be PC.

Um yeah, all PS3 code is developed on PC's, most likely in tandem with a PC version, only problem comes when a system has already been created for another platform and needs butchering to make it fit into/onto the esoteric PS3 hardware.

Well, it will only start with testing on the PC. According to the translated article reprinted at ffxivcitadel.com, the game testing will take the following phases: Initial testing (hourly chunks mentioned by the OP), 24/7 tests, stress testing, open beta (possibly where PS3 testing will start), then release. The Game Watch interviewer guessed the release would happen sometime next summer, but that would put FFXIV before FFXIII!

Not surprised, like others said, why would you play it on a console? Well except for the hardware requirements. BLUE RAY!!!! Oh wait, computers have those already.

Thanks for update Brad, but it's missing some facts. Here is what Zam.com unearthed.

"Beta testing will begin for Windows PCs only. They will be conducted as focus groups that last around 3-4 hours at a time. This will be to iron out every little detail of the game utilizing player feedback. The next stage will be weekly tests that last a full 24 hours. After this, they will begin to stress test the servers by adding people in increments - they will start at 10,000 and double the amount for each subsequent test. Finally, after expanding the pool of testers to their liking, a full open beta will be initiated."

You left out some of the important facts. I will give you the post and link here.

The Beta
Can you believe it? GAME Watch got actual information about beta testing! The first round of beta testing will be done with a relatively small group and be conducted worldwide. It won’t be a continuously running beta test but broken down into small 3 or 4 hour tests held at different times. They plan on doing very detailed testing on FFXIV so users will see how the game develops over time. At the beginning, tests will only be conducted with the Windows version. From the initial 3 or 4 hour tests they will expand to daily or weekly beta tests that run for 24 hours a day. After that comes stress tests which will require a lot of people. Tanaka says it could start with 10 thousand people and go up from there to 20, 40, and 80 thousand people. Finally, there will be a free open beta. Originally he thought it would take half a year to go from a development build to the open beta, but he now thinks it will be shorter than that. The interviewer guesses at a summer release based on that and Tanaka says it all depends on the feedback they get from players during the beta testing. It doesn’t sound like the development build he is referring to is the same demo shown at gamescom. He says whether or not a development build is made by year’s end will depend on the developers.

http://www.eorzeapedia.com/2009/09/28/game-watch-interviews-tanaka-and-komoto-at-tgs/