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Final Fantasy XI is still going strong with its unique fantasy IP and has added some new features alongside the release of the Wings Of The Goddess expansion this month. Square Enix has also updated their retail offerings for all three platforms with the new Vana’diel Collection 2008 featuring all but the latest expansion for the game with the original game for new players. One of the new features of the MMO is the ability to open up your Mog House so friends can enter and check the place out. Don’t know what a Mog House is? Hm, how can I explain it?

Instead of a bank and mailbox in FFXI you get a Mog House for storing items and receiving mail, including auction house payments and shipments of items that didn’t sell. The house is watched over by a Moogle, a cute and pudgy little imp-like creature. Why do you need a Moogle? Because you can also do things like grow plants, which require daily attention and, when fed crystals you can earn in combat, can produce some special things.

Back when I stopped playing FFXI they had started adding mannequins that let you keep multiple sets of armor stored and on display outside of your in-house storage chest. This is important for the game’s job system, which basically lets you take your one character and switch between character classes normally found in other games which, if memory serves, is also only able to be done at your Mog house. So you’d switch from a melee-focused class to a spellcaster and want to switch to the nice mage-related armor and item set. Having mannequins showing off the armor was nice, but they didn’t come cheap. The quests to get them weren’t an all-or-nothing affair. You’d be questing for parts of the mannequin, and buying them at the auction house was exceedingly expensive.

At any rate, being able to bring people into your Mog house to socialize is a nice feature that shows Square Enix is still beefing up the game for their user base. They’re not sitting by in the face of other MMO’s success, either. They’re sporting an updated New Player Guide on their website and releasing complete collections of all expansions in a single box for all three platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS2) called the Vana’diel Collection 2008 to get new players up to speed with all of the content at the same price the original game used to sell for.

Source: FFXI Newsletter 23 and FFXI.info.