Has Square Enix Banned Logic?

Relax -- Final Fantasy XI will be just fine.

That's what the development team said two months ago, right after Square Enix announced the upcoming release of Final Fantasy XIV. Although the news was embraced across the MMO universe, many FFXI players voiced concern over how this would affect their game. The development team reacted quickly, saying they already had a year's worth of updates all planned out, and that they had no intention of stopping after that.

But is everything OK in Vana'diel?

[Godmars290]

When they backed the 360 over the PS3 in Japan?

[Megaton]

Need to overthrow that worthless bastard, Wada.

[TheColbertinator]

The smart thing would be to support both.PS3 sales dominate in Japan,360 sales dominate in the West.Everyone knows this and SE does not lol

[Kushan]

The smart thing to do would be to stop releasing crap games.

[A_Little_Girl]

360 dont dominate sales in the rest, u troll. both ps3 and 360 in the west are 5 million apart.

[Godmars290]

No, stop making crap games that aren't *fun*

Back in the day, Squaresoft, and especially Enix, made crap titles that didn't sell were for hardcore gamers with lousy stories and scripts, but at the end of the day they had good solid play mechanics.

S/E's not letting their people put themselves into their projects or they've just failed to develop, aren't having fun with the tech. That's why the closet thing to a good game they've made this gen has been on the DS.

And Little Girl, I have no idea what you said, or even if you're addressing me. just saying don't be what you're calling yourself.

[El Botto]

And the end of FF11 may be near. So what? The game is 8 years old!!

[Shibaa]

In case you are not aware there has been a lot of people getting wrongfully banned recently, and your customer support service has no clue what is going on.

There was what players refer to as the "growing ban" where a lot of players that had mules to grow items and npc them were banned. I'm not sure if this can be called a "growing ban" as all it did was ban people who sold stuff to 1 npc that was outside the mog house in bastok mines. In fact if you sold anything to that npc you were banned.

Then there is the "credit card ban" where people who in the past were banned due to a charge back issue, were told to contact SE to have corrected and that it would not leave a mark on the acct, well people are still banned and still getting banned. SE implements the "verified by visa" and "MasterCard secure code" and changed the TOS right at the end of the month. No real time for notice, several people have cards that are not a prepaid card, that do not support this. In the message about the update it stated that if you had a card that did not support these programs to call you. However when people call you, you're customer service again is just as clueless and all they can say is get a different card. Some had thought this was to eliminate rmt by getting rid of prepaid card, but some prepaid cards do have this verification option, so in fact it will not stop rmt, and in fact the only reason it was implemented was to stop people from doing charge backs. If your billing was not messed up to begin with and cause double charges, and if it was would be easier to contract your company to resolve than contacting your bank then perhaps we would not be in this issue. You have no 800 number, a person has to pay long distance charges to contact you over the phone and be on hold for way to long to get a rep that has no idea what is going on due to lack of communication between your service reps and your company. Perhaps you outsourced the service reps, or maybe there are not getting trained properly, but there is some issue that is preventing people from getting adequate help that needs to be addressed.

So you caused a huge panic with the change of TOS, resulting in several people changing the card they had on file if that person had a card that would work with the new system, and then some of these people were banned for changing their card. Your service reps have told people that too many changed to a card on file will result in a ban. If a person had more than 1 acct they needed to update the info on they were also banned. It is believed there is a waiting period of 24 hours that you need to wait before you can re-use a credit card on another acct, if you try within 24 ho9urs of first acct then you will be banned. so you made a change to the TOS at end of month not allowing people to change card on each acct if they had more than 1 acct as would need to wait at least 24 hours, This 24 hour rule is not posted anywhere and could be great if you can confirm or deny it. The only written info I had received in the past pertaining to credit card was that authorization is blocked for 30 sec, and you do not want to retying until 30 min are up since last try.

Your message also states that if a person has an existing card in the system that does not meet verification then that card is fine, and it only new accounts or changed to the billing info that will be required to meet the new criteria. There are numerous people each month, that no fault of their own, SE does not collect payment on, so acct is marked no payed when in fact there was nothing wrong with the payment info. To resolve this the customer simply needed to go back into the billing section and re-enter the info they had before, but under your new system now the card they are re-entering has to meet the new criteria, when in fact there was nothing wrong with the card to begin with.

Your customer service reps have also stated that when updating card info on an acct if the name on account did not match the name on the card then there will be a ban. I'm not sure if you realize this or not, but there is a great many accounts that have the first and last name fields switched. Sometime in the past during some other billing system upgrade peoples first and last names were swapped, and this itself could be causing a mismatch.

[TheColbertinator]

Ouch.Seems like its a laundry list of issues with SE

[Myst]

Very well put and bubbles for you. I didn't have any trouble with Final Fantasy XI myself, but ran into a few people that were butting heads with them about several issues. Many of which seemed like they were never solved. Though I agree their were a lot of changes since the first time it came out all the way to the present time we are in now. Some of the choices were good, but some were just downright horrible in a way some of which you have already mentioned.

[GameGambits]

Here I thought I wrote a lot on N4G, but you just laid down the Bible. Not saying that's a bad thing, but your comment was directed as if you think Square Enix employees are going to read it. I hope for your sake you copy/paste what you just wrote and emailed it off to them otherwise you wasted a lot of time and effort.

I played FFXI for 6 years and honestly I had no issues with the game like what you speak of. I put my card # in, I got billed every month, I played legit(easy to do, since I though the only cheats were buying money from websites for it), and I had fun.

I can't wait for #14 though. :)

[Shibaa]

I also have been playing for a long time, since NA ps2 beta, and didn't have issues, until all this started very recently. What has pushed it over the edge for many was the update to the TOS so close to end of month when billing is done, without a proper time frame for card updates or canceling before getting billed again, which constitutes agreement to new terms.

The ban on people that would grow things to harvest using pots/seeds and crystals all of which is a normal game mechanic, in fact there is a quest in game that requires you to grow a specific item. Many players believe that who ever was banned in error in that had been restored, but in fact there are still accounts that had yet to be restored, and some who gave up the fight after dealing with SE incompetent customer service.

[FerrisRocksFaces]

I used to be a bigtime FFXI player also. I put a lot of effort and time into the game, but throughout the last year, SE has given the playerbase absolute crap.

The SE of yore was pretty cool, though customer service has never been something that they're interested in. But things have changed, and the company treats every single (non-JP?) like crap. Lackluster updates where programmers focus on /bell noises as opposed to actual game content, craptastic "Add-On Scenario's" that should actually BE content updates because all they are are a series of quests and add absolutely nothing new to the game, Gardening Bans, Credit-Card Bans, Fishing Bans, plus all of their "RMT Fighting" has absolutely ruined the economic world of the game.

It's ridiculous. And I think the worst part of it is the lack of communication, or caring.

[Shibaa]

Lets not forget about being banned for using more than 1 IP address even though the player has a security token to prevent unauthorized access. I frequently go upstairs in my apartment building to either my brothers or another friend who both play and to do this now could result in a ban. In addition the friend that is upstairs works in construction and during the slower economy he had been going out of state for work and used laptop at hotel with wifi to play, that could also now get you banned. There has been times I have connected my laptop to his wifi from downstairs due to my internet being out, again this is now bannable.

I can understand that if an account logs in from several areas it can view as if someone else has access to your account, but when your account is linked to a security token that is required to log in by generating a unique password every time a button on it is pressed, then there should be no concern about this, unless SE somehow knows that in fact its not secure like we think and are again silent.

[Prototype]

When I quit 11 back Jan 08 I left more because of the community not so much as SE however from what I've been told by real life friends I'm glad I quit when I did.

Personally I believe SE is doing this as a way to end 11 before 14 comes out so they can concentrate on one game instead of having 2 separate teams working or having to pay overtime/hire more people. If you think about it all these bans over stupid situations doesn't really make a lot of sense to the customer, and according to SE its "business" which they don't make a whole lot of business sense as well. I'm also certain their "Atomos" test server is where the banned accounts go for their "tests" to nerf jobs or what they call "adjustments." Ever time in an update an "adjustment" meant something was watered down or heavily penalized, yet they were so eager to post "Increase damage/radius" etc. If you don't believe me read their update information dated back 2004 you will see the pattern to vouch for it.

I believe SE gave up around the time they heavily gimped Rangers (I was one of the many that suffered as a Taru) and started stepping backwards instead of forwards; which was around the time WoW started getting a big name. I remember reports of SE gimping DRG however they didn't get hit no where near as hard as Rangers did and I also remember on allakazham and killing ifrit the countless petitions of people threatening to quit if they didn't at least compensate for the big "F-ck you" they gave to the most expensive job in the game.

SE also knows the name Final Fantasy 14 will sell only because of the name, I guarantee a lot of people who were banned from 11 will not even play 14 unless they are either talked into it from friends of 11 or SE does something about their ToS (Which I'm sure they won't); that's why SE "thinks" of expanding to 360 to try to sucker all the people that were banned back into 14 so they can ban them again assuming "RMT" like they do everyone.

It's going to take a lot for me to think about getting 14; again I quit because of the community however I don't want to risk getting banned because I want to get a ToD (Time of Death) on Nidhogg, or sell god pop items to complete a quest that does nothing but cause drama between players. People who played the game at least 1+ year know what I'm talking about (I've played 3 1/2 years).

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Well their committed to making flops for 360 no? So, yeah,they have.

[sack_boi]

That didn't stop Insomniac or SuckerPunch from working with Sony.

BTW learn to spell.

[PirateThom]

What flops did Insomniac or Sucker Punch make ever?

Some people are deluded.

[TheColbertinator]

That's a stupid comment from Sackboi and Canadianguy

"Well their committed to making flops for 360"

Uhh no they are making flops on all consoles and lazy remakes on the handhelds.

Last Remnant would have sucked ass even if it came to PS3.The dialog and story was boring as hell.Lets face it,SE is not focused on quality like in the old days.It has nothing to do with the 360

""Well their committed to making flops"
That didn't stop Insomniac or SuckerPunch from working with Sony"

Riiiight because Ratchet and Clank/Resistance "sold poorly" but then again they have sequels,entries on the PSP,and have a strong following of fans.

Sucker Punch made a good game.That is why we gamers love playing games,not sales.I don't care for Infamous but gamers who love superhero games will pick it up.

This site is called NewsForGamers,not NewsForStockbrokers.

[Godmars290]

Considering the actual programming and performance glitches, I wouldn't say that MS or the 360 were wholly innocent.

[TheColbertinator]

@A Little Girl

Why are you on N4G commenting on my "trolling"?

[Saaking]

All their 360 RPGs flopped critically and commercially. I think they lost logic the moment they decided not to release games on the pS3. I don't know how much money MS is giving them but it surely can't be enough. Yet the bots celebrate over mediocre RPGs. We all know the DS has the best RPGs this gen and the PS3 is getting stronger and stronger. Poor bots. Poor stupid bots.

[Sez]

I don't know what world everyone else is in. But the fairy server is like a ghost town. I dint know If it's because of the account bans or people have just moved on. But since they announced FFXIV the number of people still playing have gotten smaller and smaller.

[Shibaa]

Think a big part of this is the bans. I have seen others say same thing about other servers, I have even seen requests for consolidating servers there has been such a drop in populations.

[JD_Shadow]

"Good news, then, as this has gotten onto N4G: http://www.n4g.com/News-369... . It's at 100 degrees at the time I wrote this, so get that temp up.

Thing is, SE has been doing some major things that defy logic on all areas, and have been silent on all areas, too (where the hell is the PS3 version of The Last Remenant. Hell, where the hell is ANY PS3 support that SE is supposed to be giving, and why is the 360 getting all sorts of exclusive love from them but they say they want to be multiplatform).

I don't know if I got a card ban yet or not (I do have a Huntington Bank debit card and the money DID go through (don't know if that's a GOOD sign), though my card isn't eligible for the Verified thing. I DO have a Paypal card, too, but I don't know how that COULD end up), and I'm afraid to find out.

Thing is, FFXI hasn't been a place of too much logic. They make the game harder and more drawn out than it has to be, and the monsters end up being overpowered while they continue to "nerf" anything that might give the player even the least bit of an advantage (the free Carby nerf, for one. Why COULDN'T they leave at least THAT in and make it into a sort of neat trick one could do), and no way to counter anything the mobs could be able to do or to prevent them from doing anything.

Then the cut-throat way some people have to do their business in the game. No game should have people stab others in the back just for a drop, or have others "compromise" for things. Like the whole thing with the Erase spell: a BCNM drop that's not guaranteed that SO important for a WHM to get, yet got too damn expensive for some people to get, and so others wanted the scroll to sell at the AH, so it became a mad dash to get it for everyone when people KNEW that a WHM should lot for it because of the sheer importance of the spell at the time they can get it (some ptys downright REFUSED to let the WHM have it if they needed it and made the money (not guaranteed as some WHM's skipped the spell because of how inflated the spell became even though it was so important that some ptys skipped on inviting WHMs that didn't have the spell)).

The main problem becomes this: gil is harder to earn than it has to be in this game. If they had EVERY monster drop some gil (depending on the strength and difficulty of the mob, like every RPG in history has done), and not have the player need to jump through hoops just to earn ONE gil, then the RMTs wouldn't have shown up in the way they did.

There might be some light at the end of this tunnel, however, as SE plans to hold a press conference at GamesCon later this month, and they could possibly (and hopefully) address SOME of these concerns. Not holding my breath (remember about TLR), but I heard some good things are likely to come from this, so keep your fingers crossed."

[Sarick]

Me too I called up Huntington Bank and then verified by visa then back to Huntington fraud center then finally to the internal visa department.

They said this card was a debit card and they wouldn't add this service to the card. The rep said YOU need to apply for a credit card for this service >.< if you can't then you'll need to get a secured credit card.

Here is the Huntington Number where you can contact them about the feature.

1-800-525-5678

The debit card page page is >>

https://www.huntington.com/...

It doesn't seem to have anything about supporting this. It does, however say your credit is protected.

Moving on ---->

Anyway, I contacted SE's chat and they told me it would only affect me if I needed to change my credit info.

They refused to tell me.

If it affected consoles only or even acknowledge the PC and console differences. I did however find this information.

I went to the support site at https://secure.playonline.c... I found "Q12872" in the search. This help file Q12872 says it Windows platform only and doesn't mention 360 or PS2.

They refused to tell me what options where available if I did update. In other words. We can't tell you if there'll be an easy work around or if they have plans for one.

They refused to tell me if there where other payment methods available and wouldn't explain what would happen if I did need to update.

It's like "wait and see," just be sure to keep paying.

[JD_Shadow]

I DO have the PS2 version and CAN install it on my PS3 (thing is that I would have to buy the expansions as I haven't done that since getting the PC version. I got the PC version so I could do custom soundtracks with that, something else SE should've supported officially with the game). A PS3 version was announced to be green-lighted, but we don't know when.

I am very shocked that this game has taken this turn, though, and that it got as broken as it did, and I hope it gets fixed, because as much as it is screwed up right now, the game has some serious potential and is still one of the better MMO's out there if you put your heart and soul in it. They REALLY need to fix the recent controversies and really need to take care of things that are harder and prove to be more conflict-instigating than they have to be.

[Sarick]

You don't have to buy the expansions just to edit credit info.

I have several PS2 & PS3 with actual experience with the expansions. If you install only the basic PS2 with Rize of Zelart you can still load the game in ones that are compatible. In other words if you just install the PS2 version simply to update account info then you shouldn't have to worry about using incompatible Zones.

Just load up the PS2 client update the credit info then shutdown and log on the PC version. You don't have to play the game on the PS2/PS3 to update the credit info. Likewise once it's successful it shouldn't matter if you continue playing on the PC version. The problem is updating the credit info and since it only effects the PC client not the game just update it on the console and be done with it.

My second system at first didn't have all the expansions installed. I was able to load areas that where compatible. I was also allowed to log on accounts that didn't require those expansions.

So if want to play on PC I heard some people are bypassing the security using a PS2/PS3 or 360 to register and update their accounts. Unfortunately, the stupid account reg system likes to fail and requiring us to wait a full 24 hours. If it fails and we attempt to update info again it'll BAN us.

SE wants your bank account to instantly reply to request in milliseconds. It sends a hold on of $1 to the account. If those request aren't responded to it denies the card update. In the Bank menu each attempt puts a $1 amount on the account for a full 24 hours pass or fail.

Their billing account system basically doesn't account for lag or any delays when updating info. So updating the credit info is like doing a small lottery. When contacting SE they blame the bank, The bank says transactions are there and have been successful. The just say your bank servers are too slow or put transactions in a que that delay the transaction.

All services on the internet aren't near instant with money transactions, so they should just update the timeouts for credit updates.

[VicHyper]

I haven't seriously played ffxi in about two years, but I used to log in every week or so just to help friends. But this has just been the last straw. The game has been going downhill ever since the fourth expansion, and now it's just going to hell in a handbasket, Kupo. The developer <-> playerbase relationship is pretty much non-existant. I don't know what SE is trying to do, but if they want to keep a good image before ffxiv is released, they really should begin to have some tact for what the playerbase wants.

[JayDeeKay]

<I>"Here I thought I wrote a lot on N4G, but you just laid down the Bible. Not saying that's a bad thing, but your comment was directed as if you think Square Enix employees are going to read it. I hope for your sake you copy/paste what you just wrote and emailed it off to them otherwise you wasted a lot of time and effort.

I played FFXI for 6 years and honestly I had no issues with the game like what you speak of. I put my card # in, I got billed every month, I played legit(easy to do, since I though the only cheats were buying money from websites for it), and I had fun.

I can't wait for #14 though. :)"</I>

Actually that was written by 2 of the admins on Allakhazam.com. Trying to get it posted here & in other places is an attempt to actually GET a response out of S-E & frankly, it's pretty goddamn sad that this the only way to get them to respond anymore. Yeah I'm glad you never had any issues with them but a lot of other legit players currently are. This is the sort of crap you'll be in for with FF14 if nothing gets done now people.

[Sarick]

They don't seem to follow the good customer relationship motto. Simply make a service or product and make money. As long as it's profitable nothings wrong with it.

When people start making news with future customers geting wind that SE's Online services have poor customer support it could affect their next MMO choice. Just like the bad reputation Vista got when it was released. The customers are really grasping at straws now and the only thing that they can think of is getting the word out.

"Whatever you do, please listen if you don't want headaches in the future with the next final fantasy online. Take heed read before you invest in this product or these online services says thousands of loyal customers."

With all the competition out there today it won't be as easy to setup a strong loyal following if people are aware of how SE treats it's paying customers. Knowing that being loyal and paying for a service that doesn't protect from poor communication or services is limit growth and hurt sales.

Most people respect reviews from a loyal user base. They're more willing to make a purchase choice based on how the community responds to it then some 1 person review. Thousands of complaints heard across the globe are going to harm confidence in SE. Anyone willing to ignore these issues without batting an eyelid with the upcoming product needs to evaluate their reasoning skills. Excited or not, is it worth it to go through all this again?

If it's just busyness then why wouldn't want more money? After all, aren't happy customers what create profit? If they have bad service or a poor busyness model that should expect failure to begin with.

[annewandering]

I was banned early july. Apparently for gardening although that was never confirmed by SE. I was one of the lucky ones and got my account back but there are a lot who haven't.
SE has never confirmed the reason for many of the bans. Even if they tell anything at all the information is at best, cryptic.
The players are ignored or in general treated poorly by the so called customer service. They were always polite to me but gave no information at all.
Dont we deserve to know what we did wrong? I have played the game for about 5 years. I detest RMTS. A month later I am terrified to log in each time. I fully expect to see the you are banned window each time. Yet I have done nothing to deserve it.
We just dont know how to get SE to listen to us. All we can do is beg SE "Please let us enjoy the game without fear."

TEll us what you are basing the bans on. Give us a clue.

A loving fearful longtime fan.
annewandering
whm 75
thief 75
dancer 75

[Sarick]

It's one thing to not service a customer for wrongful activities. It's another thing to outright tell them. We no loner want your money, We just don't give a hoot.

The sad think is a lot of members have been playing for 3-6 years. Suddenly, out of the blue they decide to make it hard to reamane a player. It's like a BOSS that is hard to defeat you need to find weaknesses and exploit those to acheave your goals or it's game over.

A lot of people are hard pressed to give up these years of support and SE's like a dealer selling something people want. They seem to think that the customer needs them not they need the customer.

When My credit card was having issues updating I called them up and told them it wasn't accepting my card (server error). Instead of fixing the problem they told me "Sorry we have no physical method to charge your credit or fix the problem and all services are done through the playonline viewer."

I explained in a calm voice "I'd like to continue the service, so how hell can I pay for it if the system you have doesn't allow me to pay you.?

Response "Please refrain from using foul language or I'll have to disconnect this call" "We're sorry there is nothing we can do."

Of all the companies, this is the only service center that has ever told me they can't service their own product or modify credit information.

In my book this is ridicules service. Telling tell customers We don't care if you want to pay for our service. Even if it's not your fault but ours we won't commit to helping you maintain a heathy customer relationship. It's not our job to fix our support problems.

The recent changes where a result of US lawsuits from double billing and customers or financial institutions doing charge backs.

http://www.playonline.com/f...

Notice it states this is for the customers protection. After contacting my bank that doesn't support this service I was told a merchant may use this ability to protect their selves from charge backs. Once you use this feature you can't dispute the payment for any reason to the SE. Instead the dispute becomes a card issuer to card holder dispute. No matter if you win and get your money back they still get paid.

What other online company make it a boss fight to get past payment methods. WE already need 4 passwords to access playonline now some people need a fifth for their credit card security.

1. Clint side password
2. Playonline password
3. Square Enix Password
4. One time password (keydevice)
5. Mail Password
6. Credit Card Verification Password.

He's not kidding when he says jumping through hoops.

[FerrisRocksFaces]

The fact that SE bullshit us by saying "OH yeah, we'll be around more often." and 90% of the community was like "Oh, okay, thanks, we believe you now!" upsets me. The outrage should have lasted from the time they ninja nerfed enfeeb magic to now.

[Shibaa]

Completely agree with this, there was a lot of complaints about the elemental enfeebling nerf that was a long time error to get corrected and people were really mad about SE not communicating anything at that time also. When SE community relations member finally came to the forums, everyone was trying to be nice to make sure he would stick around. Mods and other forum members had stated the reason that people from the company do not come around as people are not nice to them. So people tried to be nice to them in hopes to have a more open free flowing conversation about the state of the game. Problem is that the SE rep did not care if you were nice or not, he came on to post a message and then left, probably didn't even bother to read the feedback.

So next time the person comes on I hope they get whats really coming.

Here is a post of when they came to post a message for us and you can see for yourslef how nice the feedback was:

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/...

[Vitaru]

I hope SE meets the same fate as Atari (which is going that way). And the massive number of Korean MMORPGs that been released in NA and in English in general is helping.

Also for FFXIV I'll try to read every word in the TOS. If it's as crappy as FFXI, then I rather play hide and seek with my nephews.

P.S. SE we have alot more options than your old game, so for god sake stop pissing on your players or they will piss on you.

[Shibaa]

I have no faith in them changing the TOS to any great degree for the next game, most of it is pretty standard but then again most companies don't fall back on half the crap like "we can do we want when we want and without your consent" type stuff.

As was mentioned by others SE has had what 7 years to get their crap together with their billing system, yet people are still getting double billed: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/...

and as predicted SE "forgot" to bill some folks thus getting their accounts suspended and needing to re-enter thrir payment info, but now needing to follow current guidlines for the TOS that was updated with extremly little notice:

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/...

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/...

Oh check it out, recent news from SE showing just how out of touch they are with the playerbasel. People all over the forums complaining about their service and calling them about issues and they post this in their news letter:

From the Desk of the Community Team" wrote:
Just as predicted, the July Version Update provides new levels of enjoyment yet to be seen in the world of Vana'diel. Not only did this recent update come backed to the "gils" with new features, changes to existing systems, and job update after job update, but July also saw the release of the second add-on scenario: A Moogle Kupo d'Etat!

Similar to the first add-on, A Moogle Kupo d'Etat has more to offer players who revisit some of the more memorable tasks. Players eager to sprint to the top of their world's ranks have already acquired a Champion's Galea, an Anwig Salade, or a Selenian Cap, and are sporting some shiny new augments, so be sure to give those dedicated players a /salute of admiration.

As for the version update, it's clear that players who take part in daily Campaigns come out on top! In another exciting addiction to the ever-popular feature, players can expect great bonuses when they participate in the Campaign Union system. Not only can you coordinate your plans with groups, but you're rewarded for working together as a team, earning bonus items for doing what players have already long enjoyed!

Now that the Version Update is released, players have jumped feet first into all the new features and updates, but there are still summer seasonal events and the latest community features such as the Player Event Support Service, making this latest era in FINAL FANTASY XI an exciting one.

We hope that everyone is enjoying this thrilling time in FINAL FANTASY XI. We look forward to reading your continuing impressions in the days and weeks to come and will continue to work to make the excitement last for months to come. See you all in Vana'diel!