Although it's debateable whether it has topped EverQuest in terms of user numbers, Square Enix certainly has one of the most popular paid-for online RPGs in the world, with more than 500,000 active paying subscribers running a total of over 1.2 million in-game characters. Good Things Comeįinal Fantasy XI is a bit of an online phenomenon. And that's before anyone else realised that they could take their clothes off by clearing out the equipment screen. Evil grins spread around the table the Taru twins were surrounded, a countdown held, and a sackful of fireworks tossed on the unfortunate pint-sized heroes while our noble adventurers ran away to giggle in a corner like naughty schoolboys. "Hey, we've got fireworks!" Indeed we did each player given a nice attractive firework in their inventory, from the recently introduced range of exceptionally spangly special effects which have been added to the game. Game journalists let loose with high-level characters don't stay creeped out for long, though. A comparison with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum might have been more appropriate, but there's no doubt that there was something sinister and Kubrickian about the whole thing. Materialising from nowhere directly in front of the surprised player were two Tarutaru - "scary little midget chaps," to use the technical term - both red mages, both identically suited and booted, and both sporting exceptionally silly hats and equally silly cheerful grins. However, as journalists from around the (real) world gathered in a dank dungeon in the fantasy world of Vana'diel to experience some of the new features of the game ahead of its European launch next month, you could see where the unlikely exclamation was coming from.
Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film is not, admittedly, the first association that might come to mind when you think about Square Enix' first foray into the massively-multiplayer realms, Final Fantasy XI.
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