ffxi article

[Amonet]

New game enemy takes a solid day to defeat
Players pass out, get sick during extreme battle.
By Ben Silverman

If it's good enough for Cartman, it's good enough for Square-Enix.

The developers of the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XI seemingly borrowed a page from the Emmy-winning South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" by updating the game with one of the longest - and most physically grueling - video game fights ever. Introduced in the game's latest downloadable update, the boss monster "Pandemonium Warden" remained perfectly fit after a group of high-level adventurers wailed away at it nonstop for over 18 hours straight.

Though the seemingly unbeatable boss will not prevent people from 'completing' the game -- persistent online games typically do not "end" like most single-player games -- it has sparked debate over what exactly the game's developers, Square-Enix, expect out of their devoted fan base. Message boards have lit up with disgruntled players calling out the company for failing to respect its very own in-game warning telling players they have "no desire to see your real life suffer as a consequence [of playing]. Don't forget your friends, your family, your school or your work."

Easy for them to say. While the beast continually healed, the gamers weren't so lucky.

"People were passing out and getting physically ill," leaders of the player guild said in a forum post. "We decided to end it before we risked turning into a horrible news story about how video games ruin people's lives."

Too late.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/new ... at/1238418

[RedIce]

Its all over the 'internet media' lol. Big 24+page BG post linking various sites and stuff about this.

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61639

Even made an lolgaming tv channel...G4 I think it was.

So news spreads to even those that aren't looking for it.

[Arthars]

lol tbh i think the leader just saying "people sick puke etc etc" for fun and obviously exaggerating bit on BG

and then reporters extract them, word by word with different social context, as if they are 100% real and blew it up and now making a world news lol

gotta love paparazzi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mosh]

I dunno, if I were to play for 18hrs in that kind of fight, I don't think I'd be feeling the best after either. Especially if I wasn't feeling good beforehand.

I do think they jumped to conclusions though. I don't think SE would make an 18hr fight.. that just isn't right. Think of how long it used to take people to kill Kirin, now it's down to 30s - 60~min depending on the shell.

Or imagine how long it took to kill Brigandish Blade until people found out you steal from it. That NM is a sky trigger yet it is unkillable if you don't know what to do.

I believe both PW and AV are killable if SE makes them killable if they really aren't, and/or we find the secret to it.

But, I also believe that SE is going to come under fire for this PW incident. And they'll have to respond by either fixing them or flat out telling us what to do. And that AV vid doesn't count.. that vid was a joke.. just something to toss at us to re-spark our interests.

[Arthars]

at least PW and AV doesnt drop something we must have lol

AV maybe some really good shits(sea drops all good shits anyway)

PW's drop is just lolAHonry

[Mateuns]

hachiryu body + shenlong's = win

[RedIce]

Magic crit!!