This is cool!
Anyone who's been interesting in ever trying Final Fantasy XI but not at the cost of buying the game, SquareEnix is doing a free 14-day trial. All you have to do is download (WARNING: THIS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE A MASSIVE DOWNLOAD. It's only the original game - no expansions, otherwise it'd take a few days - but it's still going to be big). This is, in fact, legitimate. Offical site says so. (It's currently the - top - second announcement: Announcing the "FINAL FANTASY XI 14-Day Free Trial"!)
That link/site is for the North American free trial (I... don't know why there's a difference), but you can find the European version of the same offer at the Euporean PlayOnline site.
(There's probably an Asian - or at least Japanese - one, too, but I can't read Japanese. Japanese POL site.)
After the trial period is over, they'll apparently give you 90 days - 90 days? wow - to upgrade to an actual paying account.
I happen to think this is awesome. Good job, SE! Finally getting on top of this "free trial" thing that pretty much every other MMORPG already does!
(If anyone actually wants to do this, you should tell me. Get onto Phoenix server! I'll say hi to you!)
That link/site is for the North American free trial (I... don't know why there's a difference), but you can find the European version of the same offer at the Euporean PlayOnline site.
(There's probably an Asian - or at least Japanese - one, too, but I can't read Japanese. Japanese POL site.)
After the trial period is over, they'll apparently give you 90 days - 90 days? wow - to upgrade to an actual paying account.
I happen to think this is awesome. Good job, SE! Finally getting on top of this "free trial" thing that pretty much every other MMORPG already does!
(If anyone actually wants to do this, you should tell me. Get onto Phoenix server! I'll say hi to you!)