EUROPEANS GET CHEAP STARTER PACK FOR FINAL FANTASY XI, I FINALLY GET TO USE A '£' IN A POST
(Posted 2007-07-19 14:56:06 by basscomm)

It's bee quite some time since I quit playing _Final Fantasy XI_. I
actually quite liked the game, but the pacing of the game was ponderously
slow and if you didn't have a group of at least 5 friends then you had
troubles making it to the next town without getting savagely beaten to
death by rabbits [ http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=96 ]
and silkworms [ http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=98 ]. If
you _did_ have a balanced group then the game was quite fun, even standing
in one place slaughtering fish [
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=49 ] was entertaining if
your group worked well together.

I thought that the barrier to entry for this game was fairly low, since you
can get the game and 3 expansions for $20, but apparently it gets lower.
Eurogamer is reporting that folks will be able to get a 'starter pack'
version of the game (just the main game with no expansions) and a free
month of gameplay for £5.99 (or about $12.27 in American money, or about
the equivalent of a one month subscription to the game). I wasn't able to
determine if it was coming out stateside or not.

Is this a desperate attempt to increase a stagnating userbase or ingenious
plan to draw attention to the new expansion pack [
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/altana/index.html ]?

Time will tell!

Link! [ http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=80065 ] (Eurogamer)

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