Square offers to bring back deleted characters for new expansion
Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Expansions
Are you or someone you love a former Final Fantasy XI addict just itching to get back in the game again? No? Well me neither, but Square Enix is offering its services for those looking to fall off the wagon again. They're bringing back the "Return to Vana'diel" campaign, where players who have previously deleted their Content IDs or PlayOnline accounts can have them automagically restored. And wouldn't you know it, they're starting the campaign a scant three weeks before the release of their fourth expansion, Wings of the Goddess. The "Return to Vana'diel" campaign is set to run through the end of February though, so it's no rush.Personally, when we have enough strength of conviction to delete a game after we unsubscribe, it's usually evidence enough that we don't want to go back. So whether Square Enix is being nice and just offering a service to its former players or whether they're just being dirty rotten enablers hooking in former addicts, is certainly a question open to interpretation.






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11-02-2007 @ 12:31PM
onetrueping said...
The actual purpose for this is straightforward. With most modern MMOs, if you cancel your account, your characters are not deleted from the server. But when FFXI first came out, this was not the case. Canceling your account killed your characters, for good.
Since then, FFXI has changed significantly, including allowing your characters to stay put if you cancel your account temporarily... a common practice in such a brutal and difficult MMO environment. But the old characters remained deleted.
What Square is offering is for players to resurrect the characters that had been deleted for those players who want to return, but are still upset (many years later) that their original efforts had gone to waste. As far off as it sounds, the world of FFXI has been known to be addicting, even with its extremely punishing gameplay, so this is a good move on Square's part.
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