Final Fantasy XI is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Square as part of the Final Fantasy series. Designed and produced by Hiromichi Tanaka, it was released in Japan on May 16, 2002 for Sony's PlayStation 2, and for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers in November of that year. The game was the first cross-platform MMORPG and the Xbox 360's first MMORPG. The story is set in the fantasy world of Vana'diel, where player-created avatars can both compete and cooperate in a variety of objectives to develop an assortment of jobs, skills, and earn in-game item rewards. Players can also undertake an array of quests and progress through the in-game hierarchy and thus through the major plot of the game. Since its debut in 2002, five expansion packs have also been released along with six add-on scenarios. In 2006, between 200,000 and 300,000 active players logged in per day, and the game was the dominant MMORPG in Japan. Final Fantasy XI has a user base of around 500,000 subscribers, and the total number of active characters exceeds 2 million. It is the most profitable title in the Final Fantasy series.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops clashed with the French at the Battle of Albuera south of Badajoz, Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Albuera
1866:
The United States Congress authorized the minting of the country's first copper-nickel five-cent piece, the Shield nickel (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_nickel
1943:
Royal Air Force Dambusters embarked on a raid to deploy bouncing bombs on German dams in Operation Chastise during the Second World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
1960:
American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
1966:
Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeois elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
1975:
Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, Sikkim abolished its monarchy and was annexed by India, becoming its 22nd state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
hue and cry: 1. (historical) The public pursuit of a felon; accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase. 2. (by extension) A loud and persistent public clamour; especially one of protest or making some demand. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hue_and_cry
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. Instead of facing that fact, you persist in trying to convert all men to your own little sect, so that you can use it against them afterwards. You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place. You would rather let a child perish in ignorance than have it taught by a rival sectary. --George Bernard Shaw https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
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