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Final Fantasy XI (2002)

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"After the English localization of Chrono Cross, development began on Final Fantasy XI by the same production team.[27] The game was the first developed under Square's new philosophy to develop for "all platforms and media".[28] Hiromichi Tanaka, the producer of the game, has stated that Final Fantasy XI is heavily influenced by Final Fantasy III, especially in its battle and magic systems.[29] The game was developed and ran on the Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti GPU, which the President of Square described as the most powerful graphics processor available at the time.[30] The game cost 2--3 billion yen (~$17--25 million) to create along with the PlayOnline Network Service and was assumed to become profitable over a five year timespan.[31] By creating a unified game world instead of different ones balkanized by language, development costs were cut 66%.[32][33] Since recurring monsters of the series are known by different names in the Japanese and English versions of the other installments, it was decided for Final Fantasy XI to use both Japanese and English names for different varieties of the same monsters.[32]

It was originally announced that there would be simultaneous release on the PlayStation 2 and PC as well as concurrent Japanese and American release, but this was later changed.[34] There was also discussion of an Xbox release, but it was abandoned mainly because of its small 2 GB hard drive.[5] Originally announced in January 2000 at the Yokohama Millennium Conference, there was a great deal of negative press.[35] There were questions raised about naming the game the eleventh in the series, since it was not clear whether the game would have a structured story, which it ended up having, and the title of Final Fantasy Online was suggested.[36] Following an August 2001 beta test in Japan, a public Japanese Beta test was done in December 2001." - info from wikipedia

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