Final Fantasy XI, also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), originally developed and published by Squaresoft and then published by Square Enix as the eleventh main installment of the Final Fantasy series. Designed and produced by Hiromichi Tanaka, it was released in Japan on May 16, 2002, for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows-based personal computers in November of that year. The game was the first MMORPG to offer cross-platform play between PlayStation 2 and PC. It was later released for the Xbox 360 in April 2006. All versions of the game require a monthly subscription to play. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Huber, William Humberto. “Fictive affinities in Final Fantasy XI: complicit and critical play in fantastic nations.” In DiGRA Conference. 2005.
Ross, Sandy. “Playing the market and sharing the loot: Consumption limits in a virtual world.” In Digital Virtual Consumption, pp. 152-166. Routledge, 2013.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Bainbridge, William Sims. “Individual Incentives for Investment in Gameworlds.” Virtual Sociocultural Convergence (2016): 187-209.
Rosario, Robert AM, and George R. Widmeyer. “An exploratory review of design principles in constructivist gaming learning environments.” Journal of Information Systems Education 20, no. 3 (2009): 289.
Other games in the franchise
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (2)
Final Fantasy IV (3)
Final Fantasy IX (2)
Final Fantasy VI (2)
Final Fantasy XI (4)