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| ONSLAUGHT 1619th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Final Fantasy XI pricing info"
, posted Tue 12 Mar 09:42
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PlayOnline
Game will be released on May 16, 2002, priced at 7800 yen.
Package will contain FFXI DVD + PlayOnline CD.
The use of PlayOnline is free, however FFXI server access will require monthly fee of 1280 yen (+ tax).
Each additional character will be charged extra 100 yen each (+ tax).
There will be additional fee of 100 yen (+ tax) to play Tetra Master.
etc., etc...
$10 for month isn't too bad, but FFXI game itself still hasn't convinced me. Think I'm gonna pass on this and see how XII turns out... 
Edit: DOH! Forgot to mention that FFXI requires PS2 Broadband Adaptor/HDD unit and ISP connection...
I'm a bit sad about this FF XI thing... After seeing how holy FF X was, and seeing it was the last of its type, kinda makes me sad...
Online thing is good, but offline thing is even better,I think FF XI will not have a good story, and will have zero character development... Of course this is only IMHO...
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| Mosquiton
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| "Re(1):....?" , posted Tue 12 Mar 10:03
I'm pretty psyched about FFXI myself. Despite what people say, online RPGs do have their good points. Being able to hang out amd play a game with your friends who live in different parts of the world is pretty cool, for one. Sure, there are a lot of assholes and lamers that play MMORPGS, but there are a lot of cool people too.
When you're playing with a cool group of people online games can be quite fun.
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Wait, so they're goin to charge you for each character you add to your party?
Doesn't sound too good...
I think they're going to charge you for each character you create because everything is stored by the server(to keep people from hacking their save info). You can only control one character at a time, as opposed to creating and controlling an entire party btw.
Anyway, with the Job System and class changing you won't need to create a new character for every class. In fact, it's already known that you can change freely between the initial 6 classes.
About the character development, FF1 didn't have any and yet people still like it. Square has indicated that there will be some sort of story... so we'll see what they have in store eventually. Square has also stated that the beta was supposedly only a small portion of the game. It's not over yet, in fact it hasn't even really begun!
It won't be everybody's dream game, but I don't see why so many people have to knock it when they hardly know anything about it.
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