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Is This Square Enix’s Last PS2 Game?
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Final Fantasy XI: Vana’diel Collection 2 is getting released in Japan on three platforms (Xbox 360, PC and PS2), but it will only be out on the Xbox 360 and PC in North America. More »
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Pre-Buy The Next Final Fantasy XI Scenario Next Week
1:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 Sued For $5 Million
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | 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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Final Fantasy XI Getting Three More Expansion Scenarios
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | 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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Protect Your Gil With The Final Fantasy XI Security Token
6:20AM Mike Fahey | 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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Square Enix Junk Mail Pisses Off Man, Man Files Lawsuit, Man Wins
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | An individual 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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Hundreds Of Players Banned In Final Fantasy XI
10:30PM Brian Ashcraft | 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 »
Three New FFXI Expansion Chapters Announced
5:00AM Owen Good | 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. Reader Boko was at VanaFest and caught the announcement, pointing us to the new splash page set up for the expansion packs. The titles of the three are “A Crystalline Prophecy – Ode of Life Bestowing”; “A Moogle Kupo d’Etat – Evil in Small Doses” and “A Shantotto Ascension – The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born.” The rollout begins with Crystalline Prophecy in the Spring of 2009, followed by Moogle and then Shantotto. All three will be available for around $10 and will be purchased online. There’s more via the FFXI Creator’s Voice Blog. The full announcement from that site is on the jump. More »
Epic Hard FFXI Boss Killed In One Minute
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | 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 »
