I used to play FFXI back in the day. Was a relatively successful WHM in one of the first linkshells to down a lot of content on Ifrit.



I have tried to go back to the game in the years past, but the economy and lack of lower level support really has been a hinderence. The idea of boxing it would be real neat, but as far as I'm aware, it's one that would require a dedicated machine per account. Am I wrong in that assumption? FFXI, as far as I remember, was a majorly CPU-intensive application to run, as the port over from the PS2 was horrible.



That being said, I'm still a bit intrigued by the idea. I think I've invested too much time into WoW to quit it for another game now, but a team of 6 tarutarus would be completely awesome.



The money issue would be a bit of a worry for me, though. Could farm seals and then do BCNMs for AH selling. Once you could farm the Prime avatar fights, though... 360k a day. And since you'd level up fast enough, if you were to make a few alts on each account and leveled them up in the simplest way for the purpose of farming those Prime Avatar fights, you could make another 360k for each other set of alts you were to bring through the Prime Avatar fights.



Even if you skipped the more annoying ones to get to, you could still rake in a hefty chunk of change just doing Shiva, Titan and Ramuh each day on a few sets of chars.



I really just want them to come out with their new MMO, already. Swap Tarutarus for moogles, and you still have the awesomeness of a party of little guys running around. I think FFXI may be too far gone for me to ever really get back into the swing of things. I hate their fishing system, too, since it requires so much work.


Fun fun