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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Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs
Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped...
Final Fantasy XI debuts its revamped Limbus system with its June version update
Despite the similar name to certain party games, the revamped Limbus battle system in Final Fantasy XI is not a question of how low you...
Final Fantasy XI devotes its next version update to making Limbus a thing
So Final Fantasy XI has had Limbus for a while, but Limbus doesn't really refer to a specific type of content in the game. Limbus is...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XI and the comfort of being done
When I first played Final Fantasy XI, I wanted to be a Dragoon. I wanted this because I had never really given a whole...
Final Fantasy XI nearly went into real maintenance mode last year – but fan support kept it alive
We have a lot of fun here on Massively Overpowered making jokes about how Final Fantasy XI, despite having been in nominal maintenance mode...
Final Fantasy XI is considering revising character progression and accessibility
The last year for Final Fantasy XI has been a little slower in terms of new content for the title, but considering how long...
Wisdom of Nym: So what might the Final Fantasy XIV follow-up look like?
A couple weeks ago, I got a fun letter from a reader sharing his personal experiences with Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI and...
Final Fantasy XI’s May update offers new morale-based Besieged mechanics
The developers working on Final Fantasy XI are not done tweaking Besieged to make it more fun and rewarding, and that includes the most...
PAX East 2025: Final Fantasy XI and XIV crosses over into Magic the Gathering
It's perhaps one of the most significant crossovers to ever happen to Magic the Gathering, at least if you're an MMORPG player: This June,...
Final Fantasy XI invites players to return home and offers discounts for its anniversary
It's been 23 years since Final Fantasy XI launched (slightly less time in North America, but who's counting?) - and if you took some...
Perfect Ten: MMOs (and MMO moments) that live in infamy
To a certain degree, MMOs have always existed in a state of infamy. People assume that the game requires hours of sitting and scowling...
Final Fantasy XI kicks off several campaigns for its 23-year anniversary
As of this year, Final Fantasy XI is 23 years old. That means if you had a child who was born when the game...
Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...
Wisdom of Nym: Things I want out of Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming Occult Crescent
It is a fact almost universally acknowledged that human beings are never happy with where they are currently located; instead, we almost constantly wish...
The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes celebrates 11 years on Steam
A very happy birthday to Villagers and Heroes, an underrated MMORPG that's pushing 14 years old - 11 of them on Steam: "Throwback to...
Perfect Ten: The accursed MMORPG dungeons of no return
So it came to be that I did face my Judgment, and I sat between that greatest of all Game-Masters o'er all the online...
The MOP Up: Actual astrophysicists will headline EVE Fanfest 2025
At EVE Fanfest this May, CCP Games will continue its focus on smooshing science into the sandbox: It's announced that astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst...
Vague Patch Notes: What’s so hopeless about horizontal progression in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, I talked about power creep when it comes to MMOs in general, and one of the things I mentioned as...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XI is worth a second look after two decades
The second part of an interview with famed manga artist Mamoru Nagano is out, in which he talks about what he likes about Final...
Final Fantasy XI looks forward to balance adjustments in a very behind-the-scenes April update
The past several updates to Final Fantasy XI have definitely been calmer and smaller, but that's a trend that the upcoming April version update...
