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CONFIRMED: Final Fantasy XI is a game for crazy people

by Gus Lanzetta August 13th 2008 2:49 AM CDT1 Comments

I don't know if this is the boss mentioned in the article, but if it is any indication: no one is puking in this pic.Final Fantasy XI was not a very popular MMO, but it has its share of avid players and the community is an active one... More and more it gets hard to know why.

First, Sage Sundi, the Global Online Producer and Lead Game Master for Final Fantasy XI, said it took about 18 hours to beat one of the game's bosses. The name of this boss is Absolute Virtue (no relation to the vodka or any real virtue) and there was a clan of players that decided they were going to beat him/her/it... They did.

So, a few weeks ago, Square Enix released a new content pack that added new bosses to FF XI, the toughest one is called
Pandemonium Warden (just to keep in line with the random-words-thrown-in-together-to-sound-tough names). Hit the jump to continue the hilarity.


Then, that same clan mentioned above, called Beyond the Limitation, set itself on fire a mission: to defeat Pandemonium Warden. Eighteen hours later they had to quit because some of the players were geting seriously sick (clearly showing that they were not beyond THAT limitation). One of the members of the clan later wrote that "
People were passing out and getting physically ill. We decided to end it before we risked turning into a horrible new story about how video games ruin people’s lives." Yes, because you were clearly not going to become one just for playing a game for 18 or more hours at a time and only stopping when someone is puking their guts off. Apparently the line had to be crossed and it wasn't way back, before the first 18 hour battle.

If you feel confused as to why this is in an Xbox 360 website, I may have to remind you (or more especifically: awaken repressed memories) that Final Fantasy XI is available for the 360. Yes, you could be playing this right now. You too could be puking over yourself while playing for way too many hours straight to NOT get any achievements (because there are not achievements for going through the new content).

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