On Present and Future Collaborations with our Premium Site Members (07/21/2006)

Some time has passed since we have established premium sites in all FINAL FANTASY XI regions and formed a network among them. Now, we would like to roll out one of many great ideas we have come up with together to make the FINAL FANTASY XI community even better than before.

Until now, our development and community management teams have addressed issues culled from the premium site forums on a one-to-one basis across all the individual FINAL FANTASY XI service regions. From now on, we will be carrying this out across all premium sites in all regions, simultaneously.

The exact question-and-answer process will go as follows:

1) Premium site managers put together a list of questions based on the content of their forums.
2) Each regional community management team reviews the content, and then passes the results on to the headquarters in Japan.
3) The development and community management teams in Japan select some of the main questions, and obtain the answers.
4) The completed question-and-answer sets go back out to the regional community management teams, who then provide them to all premium site managers worldwide.

The FINAL FANTASY XI community is an absolutely indispensable part of what makes this game so much fun. Before, we had a site-specific individual approach where we took questions from premium sites and then released the answers back to those individual sites alone. The new approach we have put together will make it easier for individual sites to keep up with the community as a whole, and will provide premium sites with more opportunities for community interaction as well.

Of course, aside from our new premium site approach, we have many other items to discuss: plans for the future of FINAL FANTASY XI (for example, raising your own Chocobo), interviews, and several other plans on the drawing board that are so new the ink is still wet.

Stay tuned for more!


FINAL FANTASY XI Community Management Team