finl fantasy XI

Oh.. and By the Way.. Barubary, PSO\'s most famous code maker, is already making "battleplans" and preparing to write the first wave of codes for FFOnline. While I already have experience identifying the warning signs and dodging the harmful code users on PSO, your optimism will make you a prime target. Don\'t come crying to me and begging for help when your character gets destroyed/mugged.

so you cant play ff offline??
wats with that? this game will be so crap without offline since modems arnt default on a ps2 half the populous of ps2 owners wont go out and buy a modem
and the sony modems will probly come out in a year anyway...
i guess the games release is far off aswell so by the time sony gets with the program and gets some servers...yeh

It looks like its gonna be a great game
its taken the great aspects of past FF titles but combined it with the advantages of getting help from other people
the only thing im worried about is the possibility of Square charging for the use of the online playing which seems a bit cheap since its an online only game
Another thing is that im doubting the speed of the communication system using symbols, it would be a lot easier to have a usb accessory keyboard and simply type them in, but then that might be a bit steep in the pocket for the average gamer

Oh well everything is my opinion and everyones entitled to their opinion

Dosn\'t anyone know anyhting about this game.

Final Fantasy is not a "Pay to Play" game.

However, Final Fantasy requires PlayOnline to play.

You must pay 10 a month for PlayOnline.

The reason why i don\'t consider this "Pay to Play" is because PlayOnline is more then just email and an online server. All of squares future projects are suppose to interact with PlayOnline in some way. Probably in the sence of what Final Fantasy X was suppose to be.  That you can go online and search for hints and tips while playing.  The biggest reason I don\'t consider it "Pay to Play" is because. . .

Square, Namco and Enix at last revealed solid plans on their much talked-about partnership, news of which first surfaced months ago. The bulk of today\'s announcement centers on network gaming, but the three companies will be working together in many areas outside of this as well.

Square\'s PlayOnline game network, scheduled to begin pay service in April of next year, will serve as the network backbone for Online games developed by all three companies. Square has already revealed its plans to make Final Fantasy XI playable only through the service, and both Namco and Enix have been rather verbal about their belief in Online gaming. At the briefing, Enix president Kenji Honda stated that Enix would release one or two PlayOnline games in the 2002/2003 business year, and would consider an Online version of Dragon Quest, one of Japan\'s most popular series. Namco chose not to reveal any further plans, with vice president Kyushiro Takagi instead choosing to restate that Online game development has begun within the company.

IGN\'s Official News Story

This news is ofcourse all rather old.

sounds like a scam to me

SonyFan-AFK:

So tell me. Why has Sonys MMORPG Everquest never been hacked before then ?
I have played EQ for 3 years, and it has NEVER been hacked, the closest thing to cheating I have experienced in this game is exploits of bugs, but that is not hacking. So tell me why EQ has never been hacked before Sonyfan-afk.
I dont say that FFXI will be hackfree, but the posibilities is there, to make it hack free.

I heard you can have a ton of people in your party. I forgot the exact number but it was around 9 people per party I think. Talk about multiplayer. And I also heard that you can join up with other party\'s to fight bosses. Talk about fun, around 32 characters fighting one boss

For me , it sounds like Everquest. I hope it wont be.
And in Everquest u may need up to 70 peeps to kill some of the hardest bosses.

For goodness sakes. Will anyone read what I have put in this topic. 6 players per team. 3 teams per Army. Total possible Allies? 18

Originally posted by Agnino
SonyFan-AFK:

So tell me. Why has Sonys MMORPG Everquest never been hacked before then ?
I have played EQ for 3 years, and it has NEVER been hacked, the closest thing to cheating I have experienced in this game is exploits of bugs, but that is not hacking. So tell me why EQ has never been hacked before Sonyfan-afk.
I dont say that FFXI will be hackfree, but the posibilities is there, to make it hack free.

actually there has been hacks for everquest

there are things you can do to see all the enemies and players in a zone with a map and all but you need two computers to do it

there has also been other small deals - also there has been character hacks and stuff but Verant is very good at taking care of hackers and stuff

while it is hard to hack EQ its not impossible

i play everquest and i dont hack but i am just saying it can be done

Yes it can be done. You should search the net for Everquest hacking sites, and I think you\'ll be surprised by the amount of things that people have figured out how to do in that game with their Hex editors. Diablo is another example. While hackin is at a minimum on that game compaired to PSO, it does happen and it\'s not that hard to do.

But for the sake of what FFOnline aspires to be, I hope your right. Unfortunately, I know that you aren\'t.

BTW: The night before last, Sega patched the Enable code which allows all the other codes to work. Anyone attempting to log on with that code was Disconnected instantly. Within 3 hours, a new and different enable code was out and people were back online spreading the new code to anyone who wanted it.