[kupoartist]

Originally posted by rpgKing
What are you thinking the_artist. No more online final fantasys. Maybe you can afford it but what about us people who can get a job anywhere. One online ff is enough. Plus I want to try to collect them all.

the really strange thing about FFXI is that in a few years, it'll be impossible to go back to. Don't think that people will be playing FFXI forever, because they'll still move on from the game in the same way they would with a single player game, only with the added problem that they'll probably be no servers to play it on. Because everyone will likely move onto a Second online FF anyway.

As for payment costs, I Think of them like a magazine subscription. about £7 is about as much as I'd have to pay if I wanted a top-name PC magazine in this country per month, and thats not really going to dent my pocket-money too bad (£50 - I do feel your pain for the job thing, as I have no job either ^_^)

- now, 1 dollar is £0.61 (I had to check recently - I may finally be getting FF Tactics and Threads Of Fate ^_^) so taking Dave's figures, thats £30.50 -> £42.50 for the Hard Drive, which sounds pretty damned nice to me (unless my maths is even worse than I think it is ) but to be perfectly honest, I'm not holding my breath for a European release... at best we'll see it about Christmas time, but more likely in 2004 or never. thats mostly why I'm planning on getting the PC version, but for quite a few people, thats definatly not going to be a valid idea