Official Site:Â Final Fantasy XI
Studio:Â Square Enix
Launch Date:Â May 16, 2002 (in de facto maintenance mode as of November 10, 2015)
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription
Platform: PC, PS2, Xbox 360
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Final Fantasy XI developers answer fan questions on Reddit
Age is catching up to Final Fantasy XI, but the development team remains as passionate as ever. For the game's 16th Anniversary, English-speaking fans...
Final Fantasy XI brings out more waves of Dynamis enemies with its next version update
Get ready for additional waves of enemies in Dynamis-Divergence in Final Fantasy XI when July comes around, because that's what's being added. The game's...
Choose My Adventure: Capping things off in Final Fantasy XI
All right. When last I left off my Final Fantasy XI time, it was... wait, June 7th?! What the heck happened? If not for...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
Final Fantasy XI prepares for another round of the Celestial Nights celebration
The bright side of Final Fantasy XI having been around for a while is that the lack of new seasonal events is easier to...
Wisdom of Nym: The Final Fantasy XIV beast tribes, bottom ranks
I have mentioned before that I'm a big fan of the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV. Final Fantasy XI, too; there's a charmingly...
Perfect Ten: Ten things you need to understand about MMORPG Rogues
Sometimes I know that I may be a bit too old-school because there's a little twitch in my eye whenever I have to refer...
The MOP Up: The Black Death improves its profession system (June 10, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Wild Mage successfully funds on Kickstarter and confirms multiplayer
Congratulations are in order for Luna Orion, which just saw its Wild Mage successfully fund earlier this week! The open-world fantasy game, which the...
Choose My Adventure: For the short folks of Final Fantasy XI
You wouldn't think this was something that would frequently slip one's mind, but somehow I manage to repeatedly forget that Dancer was made in...
The MOP Up: Fractured Lands has fun in the apocalypse (June 3, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI makes me feel like dancing
Some weeks you have more time or less to do stuff. I managed to get a fair chunk of time in for Final Fantasy...
Final Fantasy XI announces a small June update and a big July update to follow
The bad news for Final Fantasy XI fans is that the game's monthly update in June is going to be on the smaller side....
Choose My Adventure: Two milestones at the start in Final Fantasy XI
If I have to summarize, in brief, how much Final Fantasy XI has changed since its launch in the United States? In half an...
One Shots: A sense of place
Why do you play MMORPGs? What keeps you questing through these ever-growing worlds? I think a lot of us might answer like Zyrusticae in...
Final Fantasy XI promises more reunions for its 16-year anniversary
It's been 16 years since Final Fantasy XI initially launched in Japan, which is a really long time. If the game were a person,...
Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh-ish in Final Fantasy XI
This is actually a Choose My Adventure that I was somewhat reluctant to do for a long time, simply because... well, in some ways,...
Check out one determined modder’s Final Fantasy XI retexturing project
For what amounts to a PlayStation 2 game from 16 years ago, Final Fantasy XI looks really good, even now. But... well, that's the...
Nexon posts strong Q1 2018 results, Final Fantasy XI mobile screens leaked
Nexon posted a strong first quarter in 2018, with its earnings call reporting that the game publisher raked in $827M in revenue (a 21%...
Choose My Adventure: Ultima Online, we didn’t need to do this
Yes, this is going to come in as the shortest Choose My Adventure series, but I feel it's got a good reason to be...
