New quests uploaded

I pray to whomever that i hope that Sqauresoft is not like Sonic Team and makes Japan only quest! Final Fantasy 11 better have quests that are international and not country specific. What the f*ck is wrong with sonic team by making quests for only one country when there are others whom support it? Its that kinda crap that got them in trouble in the first place. If you are going to make quests for one country only, at least make different ones for the other countries too. That way, no one will be left out. Its this kinda crap that turned me off from phantasy start online ver 2. Im paying money to play a game monthly, something i've never done before, and i get zip while some kid 5000 miles away gets all sorts of stuff while im left with blank air? didnt i purchase the game and pay the freaking 5$ a month just like him? wasnt it freaking enough? why should he get all this stuff and i shouldnt when we both pay the same? I swear, if final fantasy 11 is the same way...Ill just forget any console online game forever. I dont care how cool or splendid it may seem. I cant take that crap twice in a row. ver 1 was one thing, and now ver2 too. Squaresoft...u better not disappoint me in the quest department.

...until I found out more about it. There will be NO offline mode. Just to make a character, you will be required to own a PS2 hard drive. So, just the game and the hard drive alone, that's $200. It will be the only game that uses the hard drive when it comes out, and I wouldn't be surprised to see little more than 4 or 5 other games come out that use the hard drive.
Beyond that... Final Fantasy XI is the first game in the Final Fantasy series that seeing a promotional video for it, has actually caused me to less desire owning the game. I'm genuinely not impressed by it. Square has done some very good stuff in the past. Final Fantasy VII is one of those games that I will still play to this day. Final Fantasy VIII was good, too. Final Fantasy IX has the most satisfying ending I have ever seen in a game. Final Fantasy X is a decent game (albeit, something about it just annoys me...). But what I have seen of Final Fantasy XI does not impress me one bit. And, by the way, Square plans to release Final Fantasy XI on the same day, all around the world, so it'll only be those few Japanese beta-testers who've got a head start on us.
Now, as for the lack of support that Americans get on PSO... Well, that's not that hard to figure out. Look at Sonic Team. It is comprised of 72 members, 59 of which are in Japan, the other 13 being roughly in the area of San Fransisco. Now... What does this tell us? Well, it tells us that in Japan they have 59 people overwhich to give the tasks of developing the new Sonic games, maintaining PSO, and developing misc. random games such as Samba de Amigo and ChuChu Rocket. Meanwhile, in the US, we have 13 guys running around, trying to keep up with the stuff their Japanese counter-parts keep sending to them. At least we're not getting shafted the way they are in Europe, who don't even have v2, yet. Oh look, they also don't have any members of Sonic Team, locally. Gee. You think that Sega needs to handle PSO better? Then go apply for a job with Sonic Team.

Sony will never be able to out-do Sega. How many first-party games have you seen for the PlayStation? How about first-party games for the PlayStation 2? I sure haven't seen any of note. All the commercials I see are commercials for games made by third-parties. Third-parties that aren't necessarily loyal to the PS2.
Now here's the deal: The PS2 is a poorly designed piece of junk. That's the grim fact. Sure, it can do some ungodly, 70 BILLION polygons per second... if you want them to be 16-color flat-shaded polygons, sure, heck the Dreamcast can do that. Now, while in theory, the PS2 is capable of reaching 12 million polygons per second... In reality it can't, because it's only got 8 megs of video RAM, which limit it to 6 to 7 million polygons per second, which the Dreamcast can pull off quite easily, with only 4 megs of video RAM. The Dreamcast was cleverly designed, with no single part being able to produce more than what another part can handle. Because of the use of hardware compression, the Dreamcast can do with half the RAM, what the PS2 does. That's right. The PS2 isn't capable of anything the Dreamcast isn't. And the Dreamcast is 2 years older. Sure the PS2 can play DVDs... But as a DVD player, it leaves something to be desired. Heck, some DVDs don't even work on it. As for the Dreamcast... It's capable of reading DVDs. It doesn't have any shell to play them from... But then, when the Dreamcast came out, DVDs were only just barely catching on. So, you see, Sega is loaded with good designers, who know what they're doing, while Sony is loaded up with a bunch of inexperienced little kids, jerking off in the corner, just slapping crap together to try to come up with something good. So don't give me the whole, "PS2 is superior, and Sony will rule the industry!" speech, because it's a load of horse shit. Flat out, Sega simply does not produce bad games.
PSO has been awarded with 13 awards to my knowledge (this INCLUDES awards that don't go exclusively to video games, mind you), which is more than any single Squaresoft title can boast. And have you ever SEEN a game produced by Sony? The only games that come to my mind are games like Jeopardy for the Sega CD. Hardly original. Hardly notable. So don't be so quick to put down Sega. I get the distinct feeling that they've got something up their sleeve, and when they come back, they're going to do something else that is just unreasonably ground-breaking, and then they're going to do what they always do, and under-advertise it to death.
Remember... Sales don't mean that someone has a superior product, sales only mean that someone has a superior advertising plan. But to those of us who play it smart, we stick to the person with the superior product-- Sega.

Hmmm i agree with most of what you say. I didn't know about the number of Sonic Team members and stuff, that opened my eyes a lot. But the thing is, why make an international game if you only support 1 single country? That is called bad game support, sloppiness (did i spell that right?), or plain lazyness. Don't make a game unless you are able to support ALL of the consumers. A business is made to serve ALL customers. You do not ever see a business serving only one type of client. If so, that business will soon find itself going broke and facing future problems. *cough Sega cough* Also, what's this about paying for a freaking ps2 hard drive? i say to heck with it. I'm broke enough as it is. I better get constant updates and quests for FF11 because i'm sure as heck am not going to cough up 200+ dollars for 1 game and like 5 modes. Pso has taught me that . sure sucks for no offline mode too. What if you need to lvl up? or just kill time and get money and exp offline? Is it mandatory for it to be online only?
More and more scary stuff I tell ya. then there are the monetary problems. Buying a Hard drive+cost of game+internet cost+believe it or not a possible fee to play online requiring a subscription to PlayOnline. Oh boy, were looking at purchasing another PS2 there. I had enough problem getting the system .online gaming is adding up points in my game list. Bad points. Squaresoft, don't fail me now!

Well... They released it internationally because that was one of the features... Meet people from different countries. Big selling point, for the small amount of advertising that they did. Plus... If they released it online in Japan, then they would've had people like us screaming at them, "Hey! Why did THEY get it, and we didn't???" Pretty well like the way we do with quests here, now. Effectively, they could've either done what they're doing now, or not make the game at all. All things considered, I think they made a good choice in making the game, particularly considering that it's already gotten them 13 awards that I'm aware that they've recieved. PSO has been a big money-maker for Sega, and really, it's a shame that they've been unable to give us more than the rather lack-luster support that we've recieved in the US. Personally, if it weren't a 3 hour commute to do it, I'd rather like to apply for a job with Sonic Team myself, to help 'em out.