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Final Fantasy XI chains of promathia

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game which I bought is an expansion pack for an online role playing game. This online role playing game has to do with management skills as well as people skills. Its a never ending game that is very interesting plus frustrating. Like in real life one must team up with at least six
people to complete a mission and quest but at the same time one must choose a career in order to make money to survive. It is great demanding yet challenging to the mind.

Classical . . . Now I Have 99% Of This Final Fantasy Collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Quality is a name for this RPG game, a masterpiece.

Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia Expansion Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing expansion for the Final Fantasy Online game. It has the best story line, in mine and many others' opinion, and it grants acces to many important areas and items. To be very honest, this expansion is a must for Final Fantasy Online players.

Promathia Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great Game... Exelent expansion to what could be called the greatest massive multiplayer game for any console and maybe even PC

The new world of Vana ' Deil, gets even bigger

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 100
Date: October 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The world of Vana ' Deil gets bigger in this new expension pack.

Chains of Promathia features new regions to explore, frightening new enimies to engage in cobat, and an mystery to confront.

See ya'

For my husband.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Thank you. My husband is very happy with the game purchase for his birthday.

Final Fantasy XI ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This just has to be one of the best online games ever created and the best game in the Final Fantasy series. If you like RPG game then ckeck this game out with great graphic and game play is awsome. I'm a big fan of this series and I can see elven has gone a long way.

Final Fantasy Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This add-on to the original is needed to complete several quests, and adds new adventures. You already know how much fun the original is, this adds new jobs, as well as new items, and it is needed to get your ticket to Khazam.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: September 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Game was everything I thought it would be. However, they should let people know that only one person can use this game because of the coding. (It can't be shared). Also - why did Amazon raise the price $5.00 over what it was a week earlier?

A solid expansion, although a bit disappointing...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Chains of Promathia is a fairly solid expansion released by Square Enix for their Final Fantasy XI MMORPG. With this second major expansion (Rise of Zilart being the first expansion) for the series, SE (Square Enix) attempted to introduce several new missions and quests that may be attempted by low/mid-level players, increasing content and play for the more "casual" players. Note: There are no new job classes nor did the level cap change with this expansion (Currently at 75)

In addition, several additional enhancements were added to the game, some of which are still being uncovered through scheduled patches that SE has implemented these past few months. The Adventuring Fellow quests and NPC were added to aid a player in their journeys across Vana'Diel and made possible for exploration in areas where soloing might not be a good idea. This feature and many others are currently under full support by SE with new quests and events being added almost on a monthly basis.

Of course, with all the new content and additions, there's also the downside. Several job class balancing problems were not addressed in this expansion and subsequent patches still have not fixed them (Only the job classes of Rangers, Summoners and Dragoons saw major changes over the past 6 months from the date of this review) Furthermore, the missions have proven to be more difficult than first expected and many players did not believe the reward justified the horrendous amount of time (In terms of equipment procurement, gil and hunting of several key rare/ex items) This sentiment is still being echoed today even by veteran players who are just now getting into the higher level (Uncapped) areas of CoP and are encountering impossible to beat NMs (Notorious Monsters) and incredibly difficult missions.

The expansion does warrant purchase that can greatly enhance a player's time spent in the game, however. Most notably is the inclusion of several new areas which can be accessed without the special missions (Bibiki Bay and Ulegrande Range to name a couple) Bibiki Bay in particular is an experience hunting ground that has become widely popular with many players and most players I know will suffer greatly if they do not have these areas installed to go to with other players.

In short, the expansion is good fun with a group of trusty adventuring friends, but casual players might get turned off with the prospects of spending hours upon frustrating hours to put together a pick up group of strangers to accomplish many of the quests and missions in this expansion.

If you're new to this game and looking for the PC version, I highly recommend the DVD edition of the game, in which is contained both the core game as well as both of the expansions in an affordably priced package. For continuing or returning players, the price is not prohibitive and while much of the content might go to waste on casual players, it is still recommended for the more routine experience outings.

In my own experience, I did not find this expansion as entertaining and fun as Rise of Zilart. However, I rated this release at 4/5 out of consideration that while I may not have found it as enjoyable, that my situation is not entirely due to the fault of SE and that while this expansion certainly has its design flaws, for some players out there, especially for those "hard core" players, this expansion will no doubt provide them with many more hours of play and content to keep them busy until the next epansion (Due to be released sometime in April 2006)

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