SquareEnix, the company behind Final Fantsay XI, has announced that they have recently banned or suspended 7,900 accounts for various infractions against the user agreement. They have also released a report from their Special Task Force on the issue:
SquareEnix is hosting another round of contests for the Fan Festival attendees this year. Pool your talents and master the fine arts with your entry in the Art, Costume, or Movie contests.
The next expansion of the land of Vana'diel will turn back the clock to a time before the events of Final Fantasy XI's storyline, before the crystal war. Square-Enix's booth was running at trailer at TGS 2007, revealing the release date to be this November 22. Featured in the footage were lots of sweeping environmental pans showing off passages hewn into snow-covered rocks, armored black chocobo, and expanses of dusty desert mesas.
PC and Xbox 360 expansion pack will receive a simultaneous worldwide release. Square Enix has announced that Wings of the Goddess, the fourth expansion pack for Final Fantasy XI is to be released worldwide for PC and Xbox 360 on November 22.
Square Enix today announced the release of the Final Fantasy XI Starter Pack for a retail price of £4.99. The Starter Pack will be released on 20th July and is the ideal inexpensive introduction into the MMORPG genre. Included with the Starter Pack are the PlayOnline Viewer, Tetra Master online card game and the original Final Fantasy XI software.
Square Enix has recently held their first ever "Premier Site Summit" at the Square Enix offices. They invited the heads of the Premier Sites to attend an all day event where they discussed the state of the community, how to strengthen their communication and participate in some fun in-game events. Two representatives each from Allakhazam, FFXI Online, Stratics, Warcry, FFXI Vault and FFXIclopedia were in attendance, as well as North American Producer Yasu Kurosawa and Global Online Producer Sage Sundi.
Square announces a street date for it's ultimate FFXI Collection, and details of what's in the box.
Cheaters beware! If you think taking advantage of others is the way to go, take this latest bit of news as a mild warning. More than 2,000 players within the Final Fantasy XI MMORPG universe have had their accounts either suspended or terminated recently because of the use of some "third-party software tools."