Sorry, this one's kind of another cock tease. I promise next will be back to normal with Antica!
Anyway, two of the older guides came with DVDs. They have stuff like BCNM guides and area descriptions and CoP sneak peeks (people in full AF fighting in Promyvion) and so on. I want to subtitle the interesting stuff some day, but for now you get these promos.
I thought it was interesting to compare with some of the excitement we get seeing promo material nowadays. Like when Aht Urghan was announced and people were like "Holy crap! That was Odin at the end of the clip, did you see that?" and then started 50-page flame threads on KI about whether it would be summonable.
It's neat seeing those kinds of things from back in the day. Like watching the Dragoon do Wheely Thrust, or Summoner pop out avatars... I wonder how psyched people were for it. Or how much people speculated over the little flash of Dynamis...
The original promo is just funny since the game obviously wasn't even finished at the time.
Original Final Fantasy XI Promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7kC5Ewst5I
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Final Fantasy XI: The Rise of Zilart Promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhRfyQ_-Y0
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Hopefully, you find these kind of interesting to watch. If not... oops