lol i,m so nerdy i,d buy this game when it eventually gets a PAL release even if i could not afford monthly fees, just so i can own all the numbered FF games(except ffIII).

thats why they named it ffXI, not ff:ONLINE. they knew it would sell more. nice manipulation Square i,ll be happy 2 fall for this plan in due course.

however it should have had SOME form of offline mode. eventually when the game dies and its not in Squares financial interest to keep up the servers, your just be left with an worthless disc.