FINAL FANTASY XI BETA ENDS IN DRAMATIC FASHION
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Posted on 10.16.2003 by Sifar
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The folks at IGN.com were lucky enough to witness the finale to Final Fantasy XI's US Beta testing. The event ended on October 14, 2003 and apparently was the best part of the whole Beta Test. We have quoted the entire article, and provided the link to the images.
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Here is the article:
To celebrate the end of the beta testing, Square-enix made sure it went out with one heck of A bang. At 5:30PM PST people started crowding the streets of the Windurst, Bastok and San d'Oria. At this point No one really knew what was going to happen. As time went ON parties were formed and old friends reminisced about the early days. The air was thick of rumors of what would happen. No one could stop from trying to guess what was going to happen. Some thought the monsters would appear IN the cities. Some imagined that they would try and invade and it would be up to us to stop them.
Then and after what seemed like an eternity 6:00PM PST finally arrived. A message from the server appeared. The event was moments away. People cheered and clapped IN anticipation. Last minute groups formed and we waited once more. Shortly after the last message rang out, A new message appeared. This would be the last chance for the people of Vana'diel to defeat two of the most feared Monsters. Moogles appeared next to each Home Point We were informed to talk to the moogle if we wished to fight these nightmarish foes.
After talking to the Moogle the people of Vana'diel were teleported to different gigantic monsters. People were scattered across the land. Most of these monsters had never seen the likes of any beta testers. Stories soon began to surface IN the city streets. Monsters such as, Serket, Colossus and the King Behemoth, Roc and Sniper were all under attack by the people of Vana'diel. People crowed the poor moogles who worked over time porting people to the front lines. As we waited everyone was swapping stories of what we had just seen and fought.
The battle was so intense and so chaotic that even the Game Masters participated IN the battle. The GMs took ON the form of high level Summoners, Samurais and Dragoons and more. IN what seemed like A few moments the event was over. It was hard to say just what had happened. Everyone had an amazing story to tell. Some say the Behemoth King had fallen and others denied such an event. The only thing for that everyone could agree ON was that the last three hours were some of the best times the Cactuar server had seen.
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(Source: IGN)
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