What is to become of Buttons?

Hey guys. :D

With FFXIV right around the corner I have had a lot of things running through my mind. Since I am in Japan for two more weeks I am unfortunately going to miss the CE release and 1-2 days of the official release. Since I am away from home, I was also sadly unable to try the Open Beta. I have however been following all FFXIV related news online and I have been gawking at all the FFXIV posters and trailers on display in Akihabara. xD

Now the question remains, what is to become of little Buttons? To be honest I have no clue. The FFXI updates seem amazing, but due to my holiday to South Africa and now my one month stay in Japan I have been absent from FFXI for weeks. A part of me will always love my little Taru to bits, but another part of me just does not want to level subs yet again, then get 4 merits and those 5 seals to unlock the new genkai, followed by burning to 85 in Abyssea.

FFXIV seems so new and shiny, Buttons is going to go on an adventure into a foreign world. :D My FFXI account will stay active and I will definately log in every now and then. I just think I won't do any events anymore for the time being and try and see what I want to be doing. I'll be focusing on FFXIV primarily but I have a feeling I'll still continue to play FFXI, especially if I get tired in FFXIV waiting for an expansion or something.

With the start of FFXIV I find myself in another dilemma. My friends. :( I had hoped to be able to coerce all my friends into playing on the same server, but sadly it's impossible. My FFXI Social Linkshell is heading over to Lindblum server, my friends Fievel and Snick are going to another server and another close friend is going to head over to Mysidia.

Believe me, it has not been an easy decision at all. :( I am still not 100% sure of where I am going to end up, but I think I am going to head over to Mysidia with a close friend and have a fresh new start. Hopefully I'll meet many cute and friendly little Tarus...erm Lalafell. :3 I'll miss my social LS a lot, I have met countless fun and funny people in my time with SecretFellowship. Maybe I'll transfer over to Lindblum at a later stage, but I think for now that a fresh adventure in Mysidia could be a lot of fun. :D

Before I headed to Tokyo, I was able to try Phase 3 of the Closed Beta. When I got back from my holiday to South Africa I had 3 weeks back home. I had bought a brand new PC for FFXIV as well as a new monitor, new speakers and a shiny XBOX 360 Windows wireless controller. :D

Specs:

i7 870 @ 2.93Ghz

4 GB Ram

Gigabyte nvidia Geforce 460 GTX 1GB

Gigabyte H55M- USB3 motherboard

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

Am very happy with my new PC and FFXIV ran pretty well on it.

To close off this post, here are my FFXIV Phase 3 CB screenshots. FFXIV release hype wooot. :D

Warning, incoming image dump! :D

Hope my screenies got you guys hyped a bit for the game. :D

I'm still in Japan till next Friday and tomorrow we're going to Disneyland and on Wedsnesday to the Pokemon Center in Tokyo.

It's been amazing here in Tokyo but I am looking forward to going back home. I'll be back on October 1st so with luck I'll see you guys in FFXIV on October 2nd. :) Still need to decide on a starter city, but Ul'dah seems fascinating. *__*

Buttons goes to the Tokyo Game Show

Hey guys.

Today I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Tokyo Game Show, so I thought I'd share a few photos. :)

Even though I had my ticket a few days in advance, we still had to stand in line for roughly 2 hours before we were able to enter. There were just way too many people. It was so hot today I almost melted, not to mention the sunburn I got while waiting outside lol.

It was really impressive, there was soo much to see and do, but due to the amount of people you had to stand in a queue whether you wanted to play something, just watch a preview or buy items. @,@

This giant Sora was next to the SE booth.

Giant Chocobo floating above the booth.

Since I had read online that there would be FFXIV merchandise on sale, I decided to stand in another line, this time for the Square-Enix merchandise booth. Took roughly an hour until I was in front. I was given a sheet with all items listed as well as a pen and was able to look at the glass cabinets and decide what I wanted.

I really wanted to take better photos of all the cool merchandise but the employes were constantly ushering us forwards and I was being knocked around non-stop by tiny little Japanese girls going bonkers trying to take photos of Kingdom Hearts statues lol...

Looky, FFXIV Moogle in the cabinet! They also had amazingly cool Guild-Leve keychains but at 1800 Yen each I didn't even wanna think about purchasing one. :/

Just so you guys have an idea of how crowded it was today... @,..,@

The side of the SE booth:

Square Enix were soo strict today. No photographs were allowed near the trailer screens. And if you wanted to see the FFXIII versus and Agito trailers you had to stand in a line.....to be selected to stand in front of the screen....you werent allowed to watch from the sidelines, so at the end of the day I still did not see any Agito footage since we were constantly shushed away and screw standing in a line for 40 mins to see 10mins of footage. :/

I did however manage to snag one photo of the Dissidia 012 vid. xD

The Monster Hunter 3 PSP booth was insane. The people over here really love these games. :D

Level 5 had footage as well as demos of the studio Ghibli Ps3 RPG Ni no Kuni. Photography was forbidden but erm...my camera slipped... >:3 *ebil Taru*

So you guys have probably been wondering...Buttons waited over an hour to go shopping at the SE booth, so what did he get?

A FFXIV Moogle!! :D I thought I was too old for plushies but this guy is so cool. xD

I also picked up something I wanted for a while, my own Prinny!

And on another note, I picked up a few random Taru figurines in Nakano the other day. I spent way too much money on them and ended up with 3 Arujido Marujido and still no Shantotto. The only Shantotto on sale was 2300 yen. ;__;

I'm just gonna buy a Shantotto on ebay once I get back home to Germany, it's so rare over here in the figurine stores it's insane. ;_;