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		<title><![CDATA[Words of the Mind]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[So what are you playing?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Resident Evil 5 demo! Which is completely rad, and people need to shut up about the controls already.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (SephirothBeatrix)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Final Fantasy XIV: FFXI-2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=97&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SE just had a press conference at E3. So as to not clog up the other thread, I'll paste it right here!

EDIT: Made prettier.

Q: What are the ties to Final Fantasy XI, if any?
A: While you may have noticed that some of the same type of races appeared in the trailer, the world of FFXIV is different from FFXI. The reason that we made the races similar to the FFXI races is so FFXI players could choose a similar type of race in the new game. For example, in movies, you might have an actor that plays many different roles. Please, think of it that way.

Q: What happens to Final Fantasy XI now that we're moving to FFXIV? Are you going to phase it out or continue to publish new content for XI? How will the development team be split?
A: XIV does not take place in Vana'deil. The development for FFXIV started 4 or 5 years ago with primary ideas. Development started a few years ago, while FFXI was still being supported. FFXI will continue to be supported. There is another year of content planned. There are no plans for the near future to stop development on FFXI.

Q: What influence have games like World of WarCraft have on the development of FFXIV?
A: As with WoW, we want to aim a bit for the casual user. However, we don't want to make a copy of WoW. We believe we will have things that are unique and will stand out from that game.

Q: Will combat be more action oriented or turn-based?
A: We cannot talk about the battle system at this time.

Q: FFXI has evolved a lot over the years, especially in the areas of player accessibility and the ability to solo. Will you carry over features like level sync and other features to FFXIV?
A: Yes. All of the knowledge and experience we gained from FFXI will be used in the development of FFXIV. At the launch, we intend to have content for solo players as well as large-scale battles. We want a wide-variety from the start.

Q: Are you planning a simultaneous worldwide release or will it be released in Japan first?
A: Yes. At the launch, this will be a worldwide simultaneous launch on PS3 and Windows PC. English, Japanese, German, and French versions released at launch.

Q: Will all servers be worldwide or split by territory?
A: The current plans are to have worldwide servers that are cross-platform and cross-region. We will do a beta test and look at the balance and player experience. We want to look for a good balance between region and cross-region play.

Q: Will you be taking feedback from your FFXI users?
A: Yes, we still get a lot of feedback from our FFXI players and will continue to take feedback as we move into beta. The game will change as it goes.

Q: Will you try to move players from XI to XIV or will they be separate communities?
A: It's up to the community themselves. We envision users that will hopefully play XI one day and XIV another. They will be independent, but users are free to play both.

Q: Are there plans to localize the game in Spanish?
A: Currently, there is no Spanish version in development. We'll consider it if enough Spanish-speaking users demand it from us. Getting good translators in Japan is hard, but if there's enough demand we will consider it.
Q: How can users transmit this demand?
A: We will conduct marketing research.

Q: Is there any special element in the MMO genre that you will improve with this game?
A: Our plan from the beginning was to make the best Final Fantasy game available. That is our vision for XIV. Then we thought, how can we make the best FF game and we came to the conclusion that it would be an MMORPG. It was decided to make the best FF first, then led to the decision to make it an MMORG and use that genre.
Penguin_Prince: However, we are trying to implement a lot of new systems that other MMO's haven't used in the past.

Q: Why did you decide to make a new game rather than continue to evolve FFXI?
A: It all comes down to, originally, FFXI was designed for the PS2. It then moved to PC and Xbox 360. A lot of people have asked for a port to the PS3. With an MMORPG of this size, you have to develop new content. Porting to a new technology would take a lot of effort. Instead, we decided to use that time to make something new.

Q: Yesterday's trailer that was shown, was that running of a console or was it pre-rendered?
A: There were parts that were pre-rendered and parts that were running on the in-game engine.
Q: Is that the quality you're aiming for? The scene with the Galka fighting, is that what you're aiming for?
A: Yes, that is the part that was running in-engine.
Q: In that scene, we saw many parties and many enemies. Is this the new focus: many parties fighting many enemies?
A: I cannot say too much, but we hope to have battles that are many vs. many and many vs. one.

Q: What would you like to emphasize with this game? What is different from FFXI?
A: For FFXIV, the keyword that we've been using is "The Growth and Development of the Character." We will have the same type of storytelling and high-quality graphics. We also want to expand and create new in-game systems. The player can grow & develop in a more natural way without putting too much weight on the player. We will expand the job system to make it fairly different from the one in FFXI. Another very important concept that takes a different direction from FFXI, for FFXIV we want to make it so the player can choose to play solo, in a party, 40 minutes, all-day... there will be content for ALL of those play styles and systems for all of those play styles.

Q: On the beta process, will current XI players get in?
A: As with the actual release date of the game, we don't have a concrete beta schedule yet. We will have a beta and look forward to more information about then shortly.

Q: Will FFXI characters be portable to XIV in any way?
A: The game is completely different. There will not be any XI character transfers to XIV. However, the character design is familiar and XI players will be able to create a similar character. We will NOT be using PlayOnline, but friend lists will transfer over.

Q: If I'm new to the MMO genre, why would I choose FFXIV over other games?
A: We believe that players will fall in love with the world & story that we have created.

Q: I've been seeing information that the title is free to play, is this true?
A: No pricing has been decided at this time. It is still TBD.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Lord Nick)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Final Fantasy XI]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I will have time to play this again someday, I swear.

My current goals are:
MNK to 60
[i]DNC to 30[/i]
Get more inventory space
Rank 7
[i]Promy runs (Holla and Dem)[/i]
AF gear
[i]1mil gil (100k to go)[/i]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jeanine)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Screenshots (image-heavy, duh)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=77&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[THE TOPIC LIVES ONCE MORE. I've been pretty lax about screenshots lately (heck I've been pretty lax about playing lately) but! Fear not, my friends, there are still ridiculous screenshots hiding on my hard drive. Let us begin!

[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090102203618a.jpg[/img]
oh my god what's that doing in there

AHEM
So last time I left off just as Navayan entered the fray, and eventually we toddled on over to Heaven's Tower to get...
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090215143334a.jpg[/img]
MANDRAGORA HAT YEAHHHH. I've used it once. This makes me sad. I love the costumes so much.

Anyway, I did some puttering around, levelled PLD, levelled DRG, did a little Campaign...
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090209170025a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090228191237a.jpg[/img]

I also helped out some friends! :D ...with varying levels of success. In this first image, Tele had me run ALL THE WAY OVER TO uh somewhere. It was far away. And it turned out the box was there, so then she had to run ALL THE WAY OVER THERE TOO and then she got her AF gear. :D
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090209230909a.jpg[/img]
I also helped sponsor some BCNM stuff, which was AWESOME and SUPER EXCITING. See how exciting it is?!
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090313001215a.jpg[/img]
No no I kid, it really was crazy. I thought ya'll were gonna die.

But mostly I have been enjoying Besieged! I love Besieged ridiculously much. Tele loves it too, she gets lots of skillups because I still have that hilarious tendency to, well...
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090308012625a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090217194154a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090322205604a-1.jpg[/img]
...admire the natives, I guess you would say?

While we were hanging out in Al Zahbi, Tele and I started discussing the potential love triangles among the Serpent Generals! Our highly esteemed and fail-proof process to determine these relationships was based on what direction they seemed to be facing. I swear Najelith is staring at Galadar. In fact, when I want to see if Galadar has been captured I go over to her:
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090325190612a.jpg[/img]
And then of course I had to check out the object of her theoretical affections. HOLD ME JACK I'M FLYING
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090325174323a-1.jpg[/img]

And lastly, most horrifying of all... The moment Telethiel introduced me to fishing.
[img]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/Swordage/ffxi/Vya090307175859a.jpg[/img]
OH GOD THE HUMANITY I CAN'T LOOK]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Saturnine13)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Pokemons, let me show you them]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=150&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My brother is in the mood to play Pokemon, but we have discovered our Silver and Gold no longer keep save files, and I can't play my Red anymore because my Game Boy died. So what Pokemon set should me and bro get to play together?]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Geo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Final Fantasy XIII]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=145&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[big][sparkle]GLORIOUS.[/sparkle][/big]

And I'm barely into Chapter 4 :D no spoilers here pls.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jeanine)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Katawa Shoujo]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=88&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[url=http://katawa-shoujo.com/]Katawa Shoujo![/url] If you've ever wanted to try a dating sim, this would be a good one to try: pretty art, great music, English-language, and it's free.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (cutepiku)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hokuto Musou]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=143&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[They did it. They really did it. Koei decided to go from pretty boy warriors with weapons to Chris Benoit-esque juggernauts with fists the size of Haley's Comet.

In a more serious tone now, the gameplay looks a bit slow. Maybe too slow, considering the gratuitous amounts of blood, violence, gore, and blood that the original Hokuto no Ken series is so well known for, but I have to admit the rendition of the attacks from the original series is the best I've seen out of all (which actually isn't very many) the action games of Hokuto no Ken.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (6RiverStynx)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Magic: The Gathering]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=142&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My coworkers are applying subtle pressure to get me into Magic: The Gathering. I'm resisting, because I suspect I would like it rather too much. :\ I think I'm caving though. Who else here play?]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Lord Nick)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cross stitch ideas]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=122&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What would be some cool characters or scenes to do in cross stitch?

I don't promise to complete any idea offered up here, since cross stitch takes so long I gotta be picky about what I start, but I can do a lot more ambitious and interesting stuff in cross stitch I could never do in beads.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Saturnine13)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce for PS3/360]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=138&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have 3 things to say about Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce, coming out soon for PS3 & Xbox 360:

1) 4 player
2) co-op
3) online

Bro wants to know who's playing with us. :D]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Kelissa)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Which job class are you?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=60&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Which job classes you like best?

While I always go for paladin-types first, I usually end up a healer or support job, because... no one else I know does, I guess? I know in that FFTactics Words of the Mind Brigade I made, I had to be the healer because no one else wanted to be. [small]I should remake the brigade on the PSP version.[/small]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (SSX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Online Multiplayer Sticky]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=65&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Post your DS friend codes or gamertags or PSN IDs or whatever you have here. Let's get something going. 

Gamertag: tonystigma
DS: Offline until I get a usb dongle, don't think many people here play online? Be interested in a Pokemon Diamond/Pearl trade or battle circle.
PC: can't run shit, don't try

As far as 360 games, Castle Crashers, Left 4 Dead, or Rock Band would be fun, I have Marble Blast Ultra but no one I check seems to play that. It's a great platformerish game >.> It just gets REALLY FUCKING HARD as you go on. 

ahem sticky ;D]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (SSX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Video Game Resolutions 2010]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=133&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What games do you want to play and/or finish in 2010?


Games Sitting Around Waiting To Be Finished:

Persona 4 (soooooo clooooooose)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (it's big for a downloaded game)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War (so I can see the new ending)
Dynasty Warriors 3: XL [100% completion] (5 YEARS AND COUNTING)
...And like 70 other games.


Games I Haven't Touched Yet:

Fatal Frame IV
next Final Fantasy
Bayonetta
Left 4 Dead 2
next Castlevania]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (SSX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare]]></title>
			<link>http://www.poyzn.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=120&amp;action=new</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Right, I'm a huge fan of this game.
Totally. Awesome. Period.

Great online gaming too.
=)

Apart from some of the players camping, and rage-quitting because I'm a girl, it's good XD]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (SSX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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