[CoLoCo] FFXI Finally Works on WINE

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

The absolute #1 reason why I haven't converted this machine 100% over to 
Ubuntu is the fact that Wine wasn't able to run Final Fantasy XI.

FFXI is an MMORPG for the PS2/PS3 (60 & 80GB only w/PS2 Hard Drive 
Supported installed from PSN), Xbox 360 and Windows PC and is 
essentially 5 full Final Fantasy games rolled up into one.  Its a very 
hard game, so if you like really-easy MMOs like WoW this game will beat 
you, kick you when you're down and steal your wallet.  It is NOT for 
casual gamers.

Anyway, Wine can now finally run FFXI.  About dang time!!!  There are 
still issues, its ranked as Silver borderline Gold on the Wine AppDB, 
but it is now installable and playable.  I'll will be eventually 
checking this out once I allocate more space for Kubuntu.  I have a lot 
of files I cannot get rid of in my NTFS partition so I won't be able 
give Kubuntu more space until I offload them somewhere.

If this works then the need to keep XP on this desktop goes away and 
I'll be converting completely to Ubuntu.

FFXI on the WineHQ AppDB
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2739

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