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Some Questions before I buy
FearGX
Member Posts: 317
I'm a huge FF fan and MMO fan, Although never played XI, I want to give XIV a shot. I only have 2 concerns, which I want cleared up before buying, sorry if the answers can be found on their site or somewhere here, i'm not good at searching for stuff.
1: Does the game come with gametime or do I buy the gametime on top? Also a secondary question, can I use a VISA debit card to pay for gametime?
2: Will the game run well on an average system with at least 30fps. My specs include:
AMD Anthlon Dual Core 2.4ghz Processor
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT
2GB DDR2 800Mhz Kingston RAM
Windows 7 32bit
I know not the best system, but will it be good enough?
Please provide a link if you can as well.
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1: Does the game come with gametime or do I buy the gametime on top? Also a secondary question, can I use a VISA debit card to pay for gametime?
- It comes with 30 days free.
- Yes, you can use a debit card. Though no actual information has been said about this, all other subscription plans allow debit cards so there is no reason for SE to not take them.
2: Will the game run well on an average system with at least 30fps.
- No, it'll be closer to 15 fps with low-medium settings and no AA. Mainly due to the poor optimization of the engine. Look forward to this being patched up within the first 6 months of the game's launch. Also, you can download and run the benchmark test provided by SE, it'll let you know where you fall.
Well, I can answer question 1.
FF14 comes with, of course, the 30 day or month Free of Charge.
And Final Fantasy 11 took Debit Cards made by Visa because I use the same kind. I don't see them changing most every MMORPG system of purchasing gametime, plus there own game FFXI could be payed with Debit Cards.
On top of what everyone has already said. I wish you the best of luck getting a game in a reasonable time frame if you are trying for CE still. A lot of people can't get it even if they wanted to right now.
You wanted my time, so I played you. You wanted my money, I forked it over. You wanted my soul, I gave it willingly. Not to complain... but when do I get my end of the deal? And no, I don't want your flippin' carrot. If you can't do that give me back my youth and keep the change. Why don't you try chasing your own damn carrot for a change? I'll gladly hold the stick.
Thanks for the answers, I'll download the benchmark test and see how it goes.
Yeah I think it's going to look pretty bad on your system. I would at least put another 1 gig of Ram in before really trying to run it.
The game is the first I've seen that can actually use 4 cores, and generally a speed around 3.0 is good to have. The 9600gt could just barely cut it if everything else was good.