well, Final fantasy was released in Japan around the same time as the HDD over there...
I can see the HDD being a waste of money to the people who don\'t play online games. I love online gaming, more than single player games at this point. And as far as "Paying more" than the PC version for FF online, thats very false.. Its time for a math lesson kids, you get the HDD and FF online for 99 dollars. Now, for you SLD kids, lets make it easy and round that price up to 100 dollars: that $50 for the Hard Drive and $50 for the game. Besides, I rather use my nifty PS2 controler than my keyboard and mouse anyday. Not to mention staring at my 36 TV as compared to my 17" monitor.