Final Fantasy XI Abyssea Edition incoming

By Fred Dutton Published 28 April, 2011

All MMO's content bundled together.

Square Enix has just announced Final Fantasy XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition – a PC download that bundles its 2003 MMO and all associated content into a single purchase.

It's available for download on 16th May from Steam, Nexway and Metaboli.

As well as the core game, you'll get all four expansions: Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urhgan and Wings of the Goddess.

All add-on scenarios are included too, namely, A Crystalline Prophecy – Ode of Life Bestowing, A Moogle Kupo d'Etat – Evil in Small Doses, and A Shantotto Ascension – The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born.

Not only that but all additional battle areas are lumped in: Vision of Abyssea, Scars of Abyssea and Heroes of Abyssea.

Finally, all downloads come with a new in-game item called the Destrier Beret, which is apparently loaded with bonuses to help new players get started.

Final Fantasy XI Online originally launched on PC and PlayStation 2 back in 2003, with an Xbox 360 version following in 2006. Eurogamer's Rob Fahey dubbed it a "a beautiful, intriguing, mysterious and captivating experience" in his recent retrospective.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Arsecake_Baker #1 1 year ago

    So tempting!

  • silversun #2 1 year ago

    I would go back to it if they announced a new full expansion (not mini expansion) but i guess i need move on from it , it was great game but i hit my limit with it , for people that never tried it it worth trying out as it has improved alot since 2004.
    still on final fantasy 14 and hope that will get better.

  • Futaba #3 1 year ago

    I started playing on its EU release so I've seen it evolve over time, it's too different now compared to how it was originally for beginners to get into. In a few ways FFXI is much more forgiving for people starting the game now, but the actual experience they'd have would be drastically different to players starting years ago. They'd find too many jaded high level players playing the game more out of routine than enjoyment and less and less new players to progress through the early levels with. This has caused the most popular areas to always be crowded and many zones throughout the world empty for hours at a time, causing even magical locales to lose atmosphere.

    Even ex-players returning may find the change disconcerting if they have had a couple of years hiatus. Obviously this was bound to happen but abyssea really has very quickly and dramatically altered the game for the worse. It's a real shame, I enjoyed this game in its peak and it was an amazing experience.
    Edited by Futaba at 01/05/11 @ 04:08

  • Zastai #4 1 year ago

    Played this for several years (Taru WHM called Pebbles on the Pandemonium server). May get FF14 if/when it hits the ps3.

  • Slipstream #5 1 year ago

    Argh so this isn't coming to the 360? I would love to have re-entered FFXI with this.

  • wittynic #6 1 year ago

    wish i had the time to invest in this but FFXI especially for MMO's is so time consuming. Also wish it was on the Xbox 360.