Eorzea Prelive gave us a lot of new information to sift through, so let's get straight down to brass tacks.  Part one of our Eorzea Prelive covers the facts as they were presented.  How will Final Fantasy XIV change between now and the retail version?  What things will be added for adventurers to enjoy?  Square Enix has been kind enough to provide a summary in English of all those nitty-gritty details.  We present it to you below, interspersed with pictures direct from the event!

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Introduced with the Rise of Kunark expansion, Timorous Deep is the home of the Sarnak, a dragon-kin race of Kunark.  Evil and Neutral players can join them as they decide whether to make peace or war with the Haoaera, an Aviak tribe on the island.  Work your way through the history and lore of the Sarnak, and you may eventually make your home in the cave city of Gorowyn!

If you choose Timorous Deep as your starting zone we hope you'll find our updated Timorous Deep Quest Series Guide useful!

Tomorrow, Yebisu Garden Place will be host to Eorzea Prelive, a special event to commemorate the imminent release of Final Fantasy XIV.  Square Enix developers and staff will be on hand to usher in their newest MMO, and ZAM will be in attendance to capture and collect all the pictures and information you crave!

Here's how you can keep up on all the excitement:

During the day, Elmer will chronicle the journey up the East coast of Japan to Yebisu Garden Place in Tokyo.  As with past events, readers looking for a fan's eye view of the trip to the event can expect some pictures and commentary.  

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When? Morning of the 14th ~ Event Time (Early evening on the 13th for NA players)

Then, as event time approaches...

...you will want to keep an eye on the official Square Enix FFXIV Twitter for comments direct from the event!

In addition, the crew in Japan was nice enough to set up a Live Feed for overseas players.  Once that switches on, you can view it here.  As with VanaFest, it will only be in Japanese, so keep the FFXIV Twitter feed open for official translations.

When? Eorzea Prelive begins at 6:00pm on Tuesday, September 14th. (EST: 5:00am, PST: 2:00am)

Once the event is over, check back here later in the week for an event wrap-up!  We hope you enjoy our Eorzea Prelive coverage.  See you tomorrow in Tokyo!

With Final Fantasy XIV's release just around the corner, players are going to find themselves plunged into a brand new and sometimes confusing world.

This guide should help just a bit with that not-so-slight learning curve that is a Final Fantasy MMO.

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ZAM is pleased to present our new FFXIV database landing page!  For those of you that are more interested in searching through our ever-growing FFXIV database, you’ll find quick links to everything that you might be searching for including abilities, leves, items, mobs, maps, recipes, and more! Additionally, the search bar has been given a more prominent location for quick site searches.

We hope you like this new, clean version of the landing page, which also includes links to news, wiki articles and guides, forums, and more! Pass the link onto your friends, neighbors, relatives, and linkshell mates, because this is one useful little page.

Veteran players forget, sometimes, the things that threw us a bit when we were new players.  Remember getting your first free house and wondering where you were going to get five silver a week to pay for it?  Prices on the broker can seem a bit daunting when you've only got 90 silver in your pocket and really want to upgrade your pet spell.

Making money in EverQuest II isn't hard, but a new player might like a couple of hints to the better opportunities to line their pockets.  We hope our new guide, How to Make Money, helps you get the goodies you need to succeed.

With the launch of Final Fantasy XIV just around the corner, we are pleased to announce the opening of the ZAM server forums.

The FFXIV server forums give adventurers a place to come together outside of the game. Use these forums for organizing in-game events, recruiting new linkshell members, reconnecting with friends, announcing your latest in-game accomplishments or discussing the latest RMT trends. The possibilities are endless!

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Over the last few weeks, we've been giving you, the future citizens of Eorzea, sneak peeks of FFXIV, from our fishing guide to our tips on Japanese sayings that will help out in-game. But now, with the Open Beta phase pounding on our doors, it falls on all of us to make the FFXIV database as robust as we can by utilizing the FFXIV database. Here's what you can find:

• Abilities
• Guildleves
• Items
• Local Leves
• Mobs
• Recipes
• Zones

As you explore the realms of Eorzea, make sure you check back to ZAM FFXIV for extra information on the items that you’re looking for, whether that’s the Ocean Cloud, the Missing Teeth guildleve, Ursulie the NPC, the Hempen Cowl recipe, or a map of the Black Shroud zone – just simply type in the name of the item that you find and all of the details will come your way. Additionally, don't be afraid to simply tell us about the things you find in FFXIV by shooting us an email.

And remember those tooltips we promoted a few weeks ago? We hope that you can utilize them in your posts on our forums and around the Internet as well. So have at it folks – start exploring the world of Eorzea and tell us everything that you find!

The Far Seas caravans rolled into Darklight Wood on September 1st, bringing their wares for the monthly city festival. Neriak is proud to feature two new local specialties as well as being the first city to have the 2010 Forum Challenge paintings for sale. The festival will continue to run until 11:59PM PDT on September 7th.

This coming weekend will have a double experience bonus, kicking off on September 3rd at 10AM PDT and concluding on September 7th at 10AM PDT. Adventurer, Alternate Advancement and Tradeskill experience will all have a 100% bonus applied to them. This bonus weekend will affect all US, French, German, Japanese, Test and EQ2 Extended servers.

On the 20th of this month, the phases of the moon will once again be aligned, revealing the secretive grottos. Moonlight Enchantments will run from 12:01AM PDT on September 20th and will conclude at 11:59PM PDT on September 21st. No new items are expected to be on the grotto merchants.

Eight new druid rings in Norrath still feature the Druid Ring Reconstruction Event quests. Complete these repeatable quests to earn tokens that can be exchanged for special reward items, several of which are unique to this event. Players who have helped out with at least ten different tasks for the rings can assist Kurista in fulfilling the Path of the Prophet. This event is expected to remain until Game Update 58.

Phase three of the closed beta gave lucky beta testers a chance to give the Disciple of the Land and Disciple of the Hand classes a try.  To say that they are a departure from what we knew in Final Fantasy XI is an understatement.  These classes were completely redesigned for Final Fantasy XIV, and we have a guide prepared for those of you who like to put on your straw hat, grab a fishing pole, and relax at your nearest favorite fishing hole.

We will show you how to bait, lure, and get jiggy with this new twist on an old favorite job in Wint’s Guide to Fishing!