FFXIV: Gridania during the night + quick news

Everyone who was able to play A Realm Reborn alpha knows that the time was stuck at 11 AM. A new post from Final Fantasy XIV official developers' blog shows us how Gridania looks like at nighttime (beta). Beautiful, isn't it?

Also, here are some quick official news which surfaced in the last days:

• Crossfire/SLI will be supporter when ARR gets released
• There are currently no plans to offer a lifetime subscription option; however, there's always a possibility it will be available in the future
• In ARR it will be possible to choose between displaying both first name + last name or just one of the two
• Bards will take their harp out when performing a song ability (not an item; animation only)
• ARR will offer a spectator mode for Coliseum fights (PvP), and only for those
• It will be possible to take screenshots even during cutscenes
• Clarification about level of 1.0 characters imported into ARR beta test (phase 3): click
• A new method to /tell someone by clicking on their name in the chatlog will be introduced
• Linkshells will be mostly about chatting with friends; Free Companies will have advanced management features, like the option to kick someone who is offline. There will probably be also a "feature where leadership will be passed to another member of the Free Company if the leader does not log in for a certain period of time"