FFXI mini-expansion arriving on Sunday

By Robert Purchese Published 30 March, 2009

A Crystalline Prophecy the first of three.

Square Enix has said FFXI mini-expansion A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of Life Bestowing will launch on 8th April.

The Masato Kato-scripted scenario was unveiled earlier this month and will cost GBP 7.99 / EUR 9.99 to download. Pre-orders can apparently be placed via the PlayOnline store, although we found no listing nor mention when we looked.

A Crystalline Prophecy is based around a giant primordial crystal in the sky that causes unexplained events to occur on the world of Vana'diel below. Players helping see of this new threat will uncover the secrets of the world and be rewarded with one of three unique pieces of fancy armour.

A Crystalline Prophecy will be the first of three mini-expansions: A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - Evil in Small Doses, and A Shantotto Ascension - The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born will follow later this year.

Square Enix is expected to finally unveil its next major MMO at E3 this year, but the six-year-old FFXI is still going strong, with half a million subscribers worldwide.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • ObiChrisKenobi #1 3 years ago

    People are still playing this? Its near on impossible to find in stores now.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #2 3 years ago

    The collection series of boxesets (07/08) normally pop up in places like GAME for about £15-£20 they have the current expantions, i've been back twice but it's been very unforgiving for new players in the past with the over inflated market in game thanks to the gold sellers ealier on and the fact it's VERY focused group based leveling.

  • Heybunny #3 3 years ago

    "Pre-orders can apparently be placed via the PlayOnline store, although we found no listing nor mention when we looked."

    Here is a picture of my Playonline window, the expansion is only mentioned after clicking play upon logging in.
    http://i42.tinypic. com/oiyv0n.jpg

  • GreyBeard #4 3 years ago

    Economy is much improved now thanks to the special anti-RMT taskforce SE setup awhile back.

    Its also a lot easier than it used to be in pretty much every way. The level-sync system is brilliant in that you can cap your party levels-down to that of the lowest member, gear scales with it too (to an extent) so its a lot easier to build a party at low/mid levels.

    I came back a few weeks ago, and I have to be honest in that the changes have really impressed me.

  • Entity #5 3 years ago

    /Pokes with a stick

    Nope, just thrown more shit onto a big pile of shit (that I was addicted to for 3 years).

  • ZxdarkstarxZ #6 3 years ago

    Yeah i recently came back to this game a couple of weeks ago as well. I think it has improved loads with the level sync feature etc. Really enjoying it =] Prob won't get the new content till i have higher level jobs tho...

  • rodpad #7 3 years ago

    If I could ever get this to update after installing it I'd actually play it. Stupid front end with shite delivery servers.