U.S. FFXI 360 Beta Begins

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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Re:First

[KDR_11k]

Commercial suicide. It alienates all old players and doesn't appeal to new players (because those new ones can just go to another MMO that's a better execution of the concept).

PS2

[metamatic]

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.

Actually, there's another big issue: I can't play it on my PS2, even if I wanted to. It requires the old PS2 hardware. I'm not sure why they haven't made a version that'll run with the current slimline PS2.

(And it's not unthinkable that I'd want to, since I'm currently badly addicted to FF:X.)