Square Enix has confirmed that anyone of the beta testers can now freely share their experiences about the beta test of Final Fantasy 14 with the whole world! The developer has called upon the people to share all screenshots, impressions and thoughts about the beta on the boards.

The fansite FFXIVCore uses the opportunity and posted a interesting guide about the most anticipated topic in FFXIV. The guides give you a first look in to mechanism of crafting and fishing:

Since everyone is worried about crafting and since ironically there has been nearly no real articles on crafting even from Famitsu and the like, I decided to start here and show everyone how craftsmen are self sufficient and don’t require an attached combat class.

Link: Crafting guide
Link: Fishing guide

Here is a little video update referred to Battle Regiment. Since Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) is in its beta state and the server enhancement made its part to fluent gameplay, it is getting serious with the further gameplay concerns.  we already reported about the battle regiment in its early stage.  now diamond posted three new videos on the forums which are featuring the Topic quiete well.

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JeuxOnline had the chance to speak to Hiromichi Tanaka, the producer of FFXIV. They talked about Linkshells or their replacements and also about the use of the former Alpha Tests.  In focus on Server endurance they made, according to Tanaka some bigger steps and the Beta Tests are ahead. Planned are various Closed Beta phases with 24/7 Gameplay time.to find out what Tanaka said about Servants and Faction points follow the links below.

via (JeuxOnline) or ( GoogleTranslate)

here is a link to the latest downloader that make you get the files from the beta. what for ? well, check out our forums, there are some guys willing to trade their keys. so you might get a chance to play the beta.

grab the client here

IGN compared Square Enix compared Final Fantasy XIV’s alpha and beta and showed the results in this video

Here are some videos of various other newsnetworks that had the chance to visit the E3 and get some offscreen footage  of Final Fantasy XIV.  So here is a little sumup of the Videos showing you battle gameplay, new areas, and the various classes since we had a lack of sword fighting folks in the videos before. also you might catch some little disturbances in gameplay as well.

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We have been very lucky the last days. lot of players are getting started into  leaking and showing us even more footage and Gameplay. Here are two videos that show you some Higher lvl Mobs  and  a raid. even though some details are blurred , i think you can get something out of it anyway.

Here are the latest videos , containing Emotes, Battles versus Nightwolfs and an E3 Offscreen gameplay scene.

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here are two new videos. the first one is showing another archer fighting an Aldgoat.  unfortunately a lot is blurred so you don’t get insight into the whole act ion and process. the other one is an offscreen video from the ffxiv E3 area.

Little video update:

The last few days have been quiete an enrichment in ffxiv gameplay videos,  since there was a tide in the last weeks. so in this videos we see beneath gameplay of a before unseen character some cinematic trailers next to character creation

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