[CoLoCo] FFXI Finally Works on WINE

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Last time I played FF was FF VII for the original Playstation.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney
<thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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