{"id":1923,"date":"2010-03-08T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T01:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2010-03-08T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T01:23:38","slug":"final-fantasy-xivs-closed-beta-goes-live-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XIV&#8217;s Closed Beta Goes Live Soon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guys over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/28\/final-fantasy-xiv-closed-beta-goes-live-march-11\/\">Joystiq<\/a> posted the heads up that\u00a0 on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playonline.com\/ff11us\/event\/vanafes2010\/\">VanaFest 2010 website<\/a> website (the site for the now eight-year-old MMO <strong><em>Final Fantasy XI<\/em><\/strong> ) a quick post\u00a0 that the &#8220;first wave&#8221; of (closed) beta testing for the &#8220;<em>next <\/em><em>Final Fantasy<\/em> MMO&#8221; (aka Final Fantasy XIV) will be going live on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>According to the site, Square-Enix also assured fans that the fears of missing out on the closed beta wouldn&#8217;t be an issue.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Those who were not selected in this drawing, fear not, for there will be other opportunities to come,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and adding that interested gamers should <strong><em>&#8220;Be sure to stay tuned!&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As it stands Final Fantasy XIV is a MMORPG just like its older brother Final Fantasy XI, and that this game will be available on the PS3 and PC (with rumors of it making its way onto the XBOX360)<\/p>\n<p>No official word on if the beta will be PC only or if PS3 users will get invited as well, but we will know more for sure in the coming weeks.<a href=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/final-fantasy-xiv1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1938\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/final-fantasy-xiv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/28\/final-fantasy-xiv-closed-beta-goes-live-march-11\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe guys over at Joystiq posted the heads up that\u00a0 on the official VanaFest 2010 website website (the site for&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=1923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Final Fantasy XIV&#8217;s Closed Beta Goes Live Soon.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-videogames","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Final Fantasy XIV&#039;s Closed Beta Goes Live Soon. - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=1923\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Final Fantasy XIV&#039;s Closed Beta Goes Live Soon. - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The guys over at Joystiq posted the heads up that\u00a0 on the official VanaFest 2010 website website (the site for&hellip; 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