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U.S. FFXI 360 Beta Begins

Posted by Zonk on from the once-more-into-the-breach dept.

Gamespot is reporting that the U.S. Final Fantasy XI Xbox 360 Beta has begun. You're going to have to get ahold of a Beta disc from the Official Xbox magazine's February issue, and then sign up at the PlayOnline site. From the article: "When the game goes live in May, Xbox 360 players will be able to rub elbows and swap healing potions with their PlayStation 2 and PC counterparts. But for the duration of the beta test, Xbox 360 users will be kept on their own servers. They will be able to interact with beta testers from Europe and Japan, however. While Square Enix has issued a list of known issues with the beta game, support for USB keyboards and mice has been included."

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  1. Re:First by SScorpio · · Score: 4, Informative
    Reports are saying that look like the graphics on the PC version which are a big improvement over what you saw on the PS2. As for fizzlign out, I can't really comment as I quit almost a year ago. I still have a friend I talk to once in a while that still plays and it looks like the population is lower than when I played, but it's holding steady. The only issue now is inflation in the world. The way the game was designed you need a lot of raw materials to craft things. New players generally gathered these to make money at the start of the game. With less new people playing few of the materials are being gathered leading to higher prices for them which raise prices across the board. The game had some interesting concepts with how it handled crafting and the economy, but it seems like WoW has out shined it. Who knows, maybe with the new generation of consoles coming out ports of the game will bring in lots of new blood.

    But being a failure on the PS2? I'd have to disagree. The only issue is that the PC version was so much better as the PS2 chugged along at times. It's true that people looking for the next Final Fantasy game and spending 300 hours leveling your party and completing every side quest were disappointed, but as an MMORPG it was a good game. Well besides that part that simulated the wait in line game, but at least you were logged into the server unlike WoW during that simulation.