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Emiri Kato doesn't just play Final Fantasy XI, she lives there. More »
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Never one to shy away from porting a game, Square Enix talked about doing just that in the latest issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. The choice, this time is rather odd. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5820733&view=rss&microfeed=true Due to the power concerns that arose after March 11's earthquake, the servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI were taken offline. The servers for both games will be back online on March 25. To make up for the outage, FFXI players won't be charged for the April billing cycle. Final Fantasy XIV will continue to be free to play. [via PlayOnline] More »
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At 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST, servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI will be taken offline for at least one week as Square-Enix cooperates with a Japanese power company's request to conserve power while it restores services severely damaged by Thursday's monster earthquake. [Update] Servers for Metal Gear Online also have been taken out of commission for the same reasons. More »
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By day, 27-year-old Paul Turner was a computer programmer. By night, he played Final Fantasy XI as a Hume, hanging out with a Tarutaru named Branwen. Paul left his girlfriend for that Tarutaru and married the woman behind the avatar. More »
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The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online role-playing games ("MMORPGs") for one of my game design jobs. I said that it was especially difficult to understand what people were talking about on online forums, given that I'd never played an MMORPG for more than an hour of my life. More »
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May 31 seemed like just another Square Enix monthly update to its Final Fantasy XI online game registration server system. It wasn't. More »
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The sun rises around 6 am and that's when it starts to come full force.  More »
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In early January, a Japanese news program did a piece on "netoge haijin" or "online game invalids". A follow-up to that report has appeared, and some believe the segment is fake. More »
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World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is available on the PC and on the Mac. It is not available on home consoles like the PS3 and the Xbox 360. And it probably won't be. More »
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At Vanafest 2010 in Tokyo, Hiromichi Tanaka, the lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, announced that game will get three new high level battle area additions this year: Vision of Abyssea, Scars of Abyssea, and Heroes of Abyssea. More »
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There have been rumors swirling on the Japanese internet that Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy XI will be ending this year. Time for Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada to fire up his Twitter account. More »
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Now available at the North American Square Enix store, these adorable Tarutaru Play Arts figures represent the best thing to come out of Final Fantasy XI. More »
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While there's no word on when you can play the second of three new Final Fantasy XI scenarios. A Moogle Kupo d'Etat – Evil in Small Doses, now we know when you can buy it. More »
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Square Enix of America is being sued for allegedly deceiving 100,000 customers for "unfair business practices, false advertising and unjust enrichment" regarding online title Final Fantasy XI. More »
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Just in time for MMO Final Fantasy XI's security token comes three expansion scenarios. The first, A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of Life Blessing, will be able this month. More »
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The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic of the constantly-changing login password. More »
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An individual in Japan with no connection to Square Enix or Final Fantasy XI (he's never played it supposedly!) was being heavily spammed with FFXI re-registration emails. This individual got annoyed and took legal action. More »
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From the folks who brought you the 18 hour boss fight, comes this: mass bannings! Square Enix has nixed a large number of players from online game Final Fantasy XI. More »
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At VanaFest, a Final Fantasy XI event in Japan, Square Enix announced three new expansion chapters coming to Final Fantasy XI. Furthermore, the FFXI character Shantotto was revealed to be a playable character in the forthcoming Final Fantasy Dissidia. More »
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Back in August, we brought word of how tough beating Final Fantasy XI boss Pandemonium Warden was. Guild BeyondTheLimitation called it quits after 18 hours of combat against that boss. That was the only unnecessarily hard boss — Absolute Virtue has also been giving players headaches. Square Enix responded with a series of changes to the MMO "to prevent such battles from exceeding a certain predetermined length of time". A group of players brandishing super rare Kraken Club took down Absolute Virtue, the other impossible boss that supposedly takes 18 hours to kill, in like a minute. Hit the jump for a clip of the take down, complete with Smashing Pumpkins. More »
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With an established MMO full of powered-up highlevel characters, it must be tricky to attract new players. Word of mouth is usually a great way to bring in new blood, but it's no fun joining your mates if they are all demi-gods and you are just a lowly serf who can barely lift a sword. More »
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After one of the world's best Final Fantasy XI guilds had to throw in the towel after a marathon 18 hour plus battle left them exhausted, physically ill and — most importantly — non-victorious, Questions Were Asked. More »
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Square-Enix just opened up pre-orders for their Final Fantasy XI Players' Collection accessories. The first among these Vana'diel accessories is a Tidal Talisman. More »
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There's one boss that stands above all others in Final Fantasy XI. Pandemonium Warden. Never seen it myself (never even played FFXI myself), but I'm assured he's a tough cookie. So tough, in fact, that when the guild BeyondTheLimitation tried to take him on the other day, they ran into some problems. Namely, that it was taking hours to defeat just a single form of a monster that had already changed form 20 times. In the end, the guild had to call it quits, because after 18 hours of combat members of the party started throwing up and passing out from exhaustion. 18 hours? We get it Square, tough bosses are tough, but 18+ hours of combat isn't fun. It doesn't sit well with the game's own warning message, either. More »
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Canceling your subscription to Final Fantasy XI isn't easy. Illinois resident Alex Edwards found this out after playing the game for a few months. He couldn't cancel online, and no phone number was readily apparent. Eventually his parents got the number off their credit card statement and managed to cancel the account after being on hold for 45 minutes, but this wasn't good enough for Alex or his parents, one of which - Frank Edwards - is an alderman in Springfield, Illinois and a good friend of his local State Rep. To make a long story short, Illinois just passed a law that makes Final Fantasy XI illegal. Well not FFXI specifically, but the amendment to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act passed this week makes it an unlawful business practice to run an internet gaming service without some way of canceling the service online, without requiring customers to call a phone number or mail a letter. Hit the jump for the full synopsis of the law. More »
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If someone breaks into your house and steals your game console, you call the police, but what if someone breaks into Vana'diel and steals all your gil? When a 'friend' of former Blaine Wisconsin resident Geoff Luurs got hold of his username and password and then wiped his mage Sot's character clean, he went to the local authorities for justice. After determining his items were worth $3800 by looking them up on popular virtual goods vendor IGE, he went to the Blaine authorities with his complaint. They immediately went to the alleged perpetrator's house and shot him dead. More »
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Guys? Final Fantasy XI misses you. It wants you back. It's been thinking about you, now that the fourth expansion pack, Wings of the Goddess, is due to ship within the next few weeks. The "Return Home To Vana'diel" campaign actually kicked off last month, but late comers who've given up on the MMO, Square Enix is ready to forgive you. They're a nice bunch, aren't they? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314811&view=rss&microfeed=true After sitting through the forty five minute Square trailer extravaganza at TGS, I'm a bit surprised I didn't see this one included in that mix although this is being touted as the "TGS Trailer". Square's booth was packed and bigger than most houses so I guess it's not too much of a shock that I missed it. Final Fantasy XI Online has struggled a bit to keep up with it's FF brothers. Will this be the one that brings it back into the public consciousness? I don't know, but this trailer sure looks nice, but then again, don't they all? More »
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Final Fantasy XI producer Hiromichi Tanaka said the company has no plans to bring its PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 MMO to the online-enabled Wii. He explained at the Austin Game Developers Conference that "Nintendo's currently not allowing different cross-platform titles, and [...] resolution differences make it harder for us to make cross-platform games. Currently we're not looking at Nintendo Wii as a platform." Not good news, but I doubt it will drive many of you to rooftop ledges clutching suicide notes penned on Chocobo stationery. More »
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Osaka-based Kotakuites, heads up! On the evening of November 3rd, Square Enix is holding a Final Fantasy XI: Online event in Umeda. Called "Final Fantasy Arutana Matsuri in Osaka," there will be a developer talk session that will hopefully answer all your burning FF XI questions. Before the show, it costs ¥2,500 (US $21) to enter, but the entrance fee jumps to ¥3,000 ($25) the day of. Limited edition "special game items" will be given to attendees. Something tells me that the item will somehow involve FF XI. Call it a hunch — a shot in the dark, if you will. More »
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This November in Anaheim, California (right by Disneyland!), Square Enix is throwing another Final Fantasy XI Fan Festival to commemorate the game's 5th anniversary and its upcoming expansion Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess. Last year's FFXI was at the Santa Monica pier, but since the locale was "extremely cold," the event has been moved to Orange County. The FFXI team will be on hand to answer questions and make announcements. Hmm, wonder if they'll be announcing more in-game jobs? Hmm. Square Enix's North American online producer Yasu Kurosawa offers this tidbit: More »
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If you haven't gotten enough Final Fantasy XI: Online, there's an expansion pack coming. Excited? Well, just look at these folks. They've even got their cell phones out and are sending questions to the Final Fantasy XI: Online Althena no Shinpei Q&A so that their questions can be read live on stage. More »
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CBS news ran a piece on online game addicted players yesterday, highlighting former Final Fantasy XI Online junkie Kay Johnson. Johnson is a mother of two who was, at one point, spending 50 hours a week immersed in the world of Vana'diel. More »
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By: Lesley Smith More »
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Disturbed pizza manager Michael Devlin kidnaps two boys, gets caught, put on suicide watch and all he wants to do is play Final Fantasy XI. If he hadn't gotten captured, one shudders to think what he'd be doing. But Devlin says: More »
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We can all breathe a sigh of relief: the rumors of Final Fantasy XI-2 are greatly exaggerated. From Square-Enix themselves, courtesy of Luke Smith over at 1UP, who's gonna find face bleeding into his ass if he calls me 'Kotaku's lippy new kid' one more time: More »
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No one in America really likes Final Fantasy XI. It's just a throwback to the MMORPG conventions that we all gleefully abandoned about the time World of Warcraft came out. It's the sort of game that appeals only to those who are willing to become soulless zombies surrounded by jars of fluorescent urine to appease The Grind. More »
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I spent most of last night playing Final Fantasy XI on my Xbox 360. Actually, I spent most of last night loading the damn thing onto my Xbox 360. More »
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A bit of a slow week as we nudge closer and closer to E3. Some solid releases, but no froth inducing stuff. Here are the highlights! More »
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