Are you an MMORPG enthusiasts? Tired of World of Warcraft? Or are you just looking for a new game to help you waste the what is left of the summer? Well, you might be in luck. Final Fantasy XI (the mmo chapter of the Final Fantasy universe) is on sale in Steam store. What's included in this package can be seen as either an act of charity or desperation depending on your point-of-view. Regardless it is nice. For $5, you get the game itself, four expansions, and one free month of service. A nice deal.

I played the game a while back when it had first come out. It was okay. I didn't play it long enough to generate an opinion worth posting. The only thing I remember was the double-edged sword that came with leveling your character. Your traditional experience with MMO leveling is generally take with little give. Sure, you might damage your armor or end up with resurrection sickness for a few minutes, but the penalties for dying in PVE are minimal.

Not in FFXI. When you die, you lose xp. Kind of like Dark Age of Camelot. But unlike DAOC, you can lose enough xp to drop in level. In DAOC, once you hit that level, you were there to stay. I used to kill my character in DAOC constantly to get him out of a dungeon or back to a city quickly. I tried that crap once after hitting a new level in FFXI, next thing I know I get a notice I lost a level. My fault for thinking all MMO's are the same, but really... WTF?

Regardless, this is an excellent deal. If I wasn't in the middle of Darksidders and Crackdown 2, I'd give it a shot. Maybe next time.

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