Exploring Vana D'iel
Final
Fantasy XI (Fainaru Fantaji - Irebun), also known as Final Fantasy
XI: Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)
developed and published by Square (later Square Enix) as a part of the Final
Fantasy video game series. It debuted in Japan on the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2)
video game console on May 16, 2002 and was released for Microsoft Windows-based
personal computers on November 5 of the same year. It was then localized and
released for the North American market on October 28, 2003, and for the European
market on September 17, 2004. An Xbox 360 version was released worldwide in
April 2006 as the system's first MMORPG and also the first cross-platform MMORPG.
The story is set in Vana'diel, a fantasy world created specifically for Final Fantasy XI, where various tasks can be performed to improve a character's powers or to complete quests. Players are able to choose from five races as they progress through the storyline of the three nations and 4 expansion packs. There are also numerous sub-plots that players can experience while playing the hundreds of quests available in the game and even competing against other players.
In January 2004, Square Enix announced that a total of over 500,000 users using more than one million characters were playing the game and have held steady since. As of 2006 there are currently between 200,000 and 300,000 active players logging in per day and the game is the dominant MMORPG in the Japanese market. Four expansions for the game have been released since 2002, capitalizing on the game's success.
Taken from Wikipedia's Final Fantasy XI Article.
Guides
The following are personal guides that I have written with my experience playing this game. Granted, I did use other guides as a basis--you can see which when viewing the guides below.
| Red Mage The Jack of all Trades. |
Bard Using songs to support their allies and weaken their foes. |
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