In the🌳 wake of the celebration of Final Fantasy 🧸XI's ten year anniversary, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada announced that FFXI was the singleFinal Fantasy title in the series' history.
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Most of these profits likely come from Southeast Asia and🧸 Japan where the game was able to find a much stronger audience than it did in 🌱the United States.
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Andrew is a freelance video game journalist, writing for sites like Wired and GamesRadar. Andrew has 🥂also written a book called EMPIRES OF EVE: A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online.
