So what's been going on?

I've got a little back log of screens from the last few days that I haven't put up so here we go.

I got another 'Blogger Guy' /tell from the guy in the screen shot below.  It's nice to know that even in full retail fame is still strong!

I took part in a lovely large leve group which earned me quite a lot of exp and Gil

Remember when I found this thing back in the Beta and I thought it might be used for Airships or something?  Well it looks like it's still not being used for anything although to be fair I didn't stick around for longer than around 10 minutes, but it still looks like it's not being used yet.

Here's another blast from the past. back in the Beta I managed to get past the locked gates of Wineport and have a look around.  The place was pretty empty although their looked like there was two shops that were just not open yet.  I went back to Wineport now retail is out and nothing at all has changed apart from the gates are no longer locked.  I was very disappointed!

We have Team Speak

Yes, thats right we have a Team Speak 3 server for everyone on the Linkshell to use.
Now I have had a few people say that they would contribute to the costs via paypal, but I a better idea, one which will mean it won't cost anyone a penny.
All I ask is that each of you once a day click on the google advert thing lower down in the side bar once a day.  No more than that becuase it doesn't count, but just one click a day from each of you will cover the costs of the Team Speak server.

Are you American? This post is for you!

American voting time is coming up soon and video games need you to stop crazy old people from ruining your hobby.  I live in England where we have far less mental people running the place it seems, although that could well be a clever disguise.  Either way The Video Game Voters Network wants your help and you probably should take a look at their site and sign up now.  Comic book legend Stan Lee has got behind their cause and so has Zero Punctuation's Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw, so at least they are a credible group and worthy of your time.  So any American readers should check out the special Zero Punctuation video below and go and check out what good you can do in the upcoming vote.

Don't drink from the cup!

If you got the drinking cup with the FFXIV Collectors edition, don't use it!  Well apart from drinking water from it, anything else is bad news.
If you read the piece of paper that comes with it, it says the following:
"Do not fill the product with the following materials as they may cause damage: Items including salt and solid materials, carbonated beverages, milk or other dairy beverages, fruit juices, etc."

Source: Kotaku

Fun times in Eorzea

Today I set off from Camp Black Brush to complete from Local leves I had, there was no dust storm today so it was a nice peaceful walk.

After handing in the the Leves I needed to, I felt like a spot of minign was the order of the day.

After a little bit of mining I took on another few Leves and has luck would have it, I found another chest on my journey.

After finding the chest I went on to attempt to kill the mob for the Guild Leve.  It didn't work out so well.











After getting my arse kicked I went on the complete the Guild Leve, but only just!

I went back to camp and I found a Behest just about to start.  I joined up to it, as did many other people so the amount of mobs that we had to kill was quite a few.  being the level I was I found that there was not a lot I could do to help the group.

After finishing the Behest I took the reward money and went back to town and travelled to the market wards andspent my money on the materails needed for creating a Bronze Dagger.  After getting the bits I needed I went to the Blacksmith Guild in Limsa and created my new weapon.  I also got a new option after I had got to 100% to touch up the item.  I selected it a few times although I'm not too sure what it done.

I want you!

I am looking for more people to post about their own adventures on the blog.  This offer is only open to Linkshell members so either contact me in-game or on the forum via PM.
I think you all know how I like to layout the blog posts, so just follow the same sort of template.

Also, once I get home from work today I shall be sorting out a Teamspeak server and I'll give you the details soon.

My Article is online!

CVG.co.uk has published my article HERE about Final Fantasy XIV!  They link to this blog from the article and you can read it online right now HERE.
Yeah, ok I linked it twice, but I don't care I'm just so damn happy!

Group boat ride

Here's a few pictures of todays group boat trip to Limsa, I would write more but it's late, I've been playing all day and I want to go to sleep.  So I'll leave you with some pictures.

I found the hookers!

The Miners Guild looks like it'll be a fairly normal place to go, but once I got there I found out its actually a secret whore house!  This is what I found

1) First of all this lady says I might what to stay sober, pah!  What does she know!

2) Hold on, maybe she was right!  Whats going on here?!

3) No way!  Its actually full of hookers!  Heicko is going to go wild!

4)  You have got to be kidding me!  Damn it, why did I just spend my money on a pickaxe?!

Day one

As expected with day one, not everyone is in yet but here is a few pictures of who did make it in.

It's here!

I have it!  It came in the post today, so I have run home from work at lunch time to install it and while I'm waiting I'm posting this message with some nice pictures!
The book is nice, not sure what I'm going to write in it though, the map is made from cloth which I didn't expect and the Cup needs to be washed out first because there was some strange white powder stuff inside it.

Heroes of the realm unite!

The time has finally come, Final Fantasy XIV is now here!  Ladies and Gentleman of the Twelve, it's time to travel Eorzea and face a great evil.  So grab your bows, wands and swords, saddle up that Chocobo and get ready to fight because now is the time.
The age of Twelve has now begun!

Getting FFXIV? Better find out how to pay for it first....

Want to play FFXIV?  Of course you do, thats why your here!  Anyway you'll be buying Crysta tomorrow so you can play.

What is Crysta?  Well its like MS points that you use on Xbox Live but these points are used for paying for FFXIV sub and security tokens.  Being an English man myself, I am going to quote the exchange rate for proper money here,  £1 = 100 Crysta Points.  You can convert that into whatever funny money you have in your place of residence!
Either way buy points to play game, thats the bottom line.
Why not read what CVG had to say about the issue here.

Best of the forum

In what I think I'll start making a regular feature on here, I'm going to cover the interesting, funny and down right crazy things that have been posted on the forum.

Arkadian wrote:
"2 days left!!!! aaahhhbwabwahwhah!"

- Looks like Ark is really foward to Wednesday then!

Skotia posted:

Looks like some how Skotia found his way out of FFXIV and ended up at the hatch from Lost!

Arkadian Posted:

Ark manges to lead everyone to an early grave!

Delete the Beta

Well done to Arkadian for making this known to everyone on the forum, but I think its so important I'm posting it here too.

Make sure you delete the Beta version BEFORE you install the retail version.  Square-Enix had this to say:

"Installing the release version of “FINAL FANTASY XIV” or other software developed by our company while “FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version” remains installed may cause certain issues."