Final Fantasy XI has an Oprah Moment...

I give this game the end of the fiscal year -- March 31, 2014.

The next stunt for the XIth Anniversary is...

EVERYBODY GETS A RIDILL!!!

EVERYBODY GETS A RIDILL!!!

EVERYBODY GETS A RIDILL!!!

EVERYBODY GETS A RIDILL!!!

Yep, straight out of Oprah...

I mean, you can choose something else, and there are some interesting choices on the list, but the fact is that FFXI is giving away (for free, to anyone who was an active player from October 1 to November 30 -- at any time in the timeframe) a choice of one of the following:

50 of any one set of the seals except the new Sacred Kindreds
25 Sacred Kindreds
3 copies of any of the new "Rem's Tale" upgrade situations (upgrading artifact armor to ilevel situations)
50,000 of any expansion's main "conquest currency" -- Conquest Points, Imperial Standing, Allied Notes, Bayld
50,000 of any one guild's points

Undecennial Ring

Nocturnus Mail
Nocturnus Helm
Nightfall

(Fiat Lux)

Seveneyes
Hauteclaire

(Khaimara's prize drops - were Level 3 Mog Bonanza Prizes through 2010)

Algol

(Cerberus' prize drop -- was also a Level 3 through 2010)

Hofud
Valkyrie's Fork

(Einherjar Odin I prize drops -- these were Level 1 GRAND PRIZES in 2010)

Suzaku's Sune-Ate
Seiryu's Kote
Genbu's Shield
Byakko's Haidate

(Each Sky God's main prize drop -- Byakko's was a Level 2 in 2009 and 2010)

Joyeuse

(This was a Rank 2 in 2010.)

and... RIDILL...

(The worst offender of all.  This was a LEVEL 1 GRAND PRIZE SIX MONTHS AGO!!)

Yep, they're done.  I give it about three more months into the first of the year to give XIV a bit more time to ferment.