In an interview for GAME Watch at the Tokyo Game Show, Final Fantasy XIV Producer Hiromichi Tanaka and Director Nobuaki Komoto revealed that the beta will initially be for Windows only. At the moment, the game is said to be around 50% completed and developed for PCs and ported to PS3. The team is currently working on separate graphics for the two platforms and support for newer and higher-end (multi-core, 64-bit, Windows 7) computers is provided.

The first round of beta testing will be global and within a small group of users so it can be monitored by the dev team, with each session being 3-4 hours. Eventually, the testing time will increase and in time, a free open beta will be available when enough feedback has been gathered from the first beta.

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