Playonline Linkshell Community

[PiNG]

Global producer Sage Sundi has announced some information for regarding Linkshell Communities. Square-Enix will be opening a new BETA program for "Linkshell Community".

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The Linkshell Community will be hosted entirely on the PlayOnline website and is a place for all linkshells to have a place on the internet to call their own. The system features community standards like message boards, a central location to discuss internal topics and a place to post events and even pulls in your in-game character data directly to the site (job levels, synthesis levels, etc).
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More updates will be posted later.

-PiNG

[Mikh07]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

cool, but is it going to be free after it comes out of beta?

[Balfree]

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Woot! Been waiting for something like this for quite the while now D:

[Darkhound]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

Very very nice.... I CANT wait for this to go live

[Drive]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

yeah I can't wait either, this can be very helpful especially with finding mission and synth people(oh noes).

[Kolid]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

Went a little, too fast there, PiNG. Here's everything, off POL:

The FINAL FANTASY XI Linkshell Community Beta Version is a new service that will be available to adventurers in the very near future! Now you will be able to communicate with your linkshell members from any location with Internet access!


Community Support Tools

Many tools are provided by the Linkshell Community to support the groups that adventurers have formed within the world of FINAL FANTASY XI. For example, members of a linkshell will have access to an exclusive message board, as well as an up-to-date list of current member information. The Linkshell Community will also provide a linkshell search function and a list of recently formed linkshells for each individual World.


Official Game Data

The character profiles displayed on the linkshell member lists will be directly connected to in-game data. Character information will be automatically updated at regular intervals, making it unnecessary for players to manually adjust their profiles. In addition to job levels and synthesis skills, other information such as current titles and mission ranks will also be displayed, allowing members to easily recruit for missions and plan events for their linkshell.

We will continue to add many more useful functions as the Linkshell Community evolves.

The Linkshell Community is an official SQUARE ENIX site;, however, please be cautious when registering your information on other FINAL FANTASY XI-related social networking sites. We hope this new service will help bring a new dimension to your life in Vana'diel!

It seems to really cancel the effect of linkshell forums, in a way. Not bad, though, but I'd like it if you can set it so that Guests can't go in your LS's forum, without permission.

[kiffkin]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

WAR 50 with no sub? SE are teh gimp. Guidec's a bit eager too - that'd better be a mule they're posting from .

Seriously though, this looks pretty interesting. Many ls's already have their own websites/forums so I'm not sure how POL and external sites will be integrated. Hopefully this wil be more that just a forum site and will be able to host pictures/other media clips. Being able to join in ls chat while not being in game would be nifty too (as long as it's not a full screen thing).

[Balfree]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

Gilselling linkshells will be exposed? XD...

[pearlsea]

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This looks realy cool, now it will be even more easyer to organise stuff with my linkshell :D. Im sure to do more BCMN missions and NM now. my ls was having some problems with organising promy runs so this will fix it for sure.

[ikkleste]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

it says access through the pol website. it's be nice to see this accessable straight from pol as well, handy for our PS2 brothers and sisters

[KamuroIshigami]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

They should work on putting rankings or allow the change of LS leadership change instead of this.

[mostruash]

Good decision!

[Omniblast]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

Aww Friday's update was this beta... I was hoping for merits & job changes. I guess that will be next week. *waits in anticipation*

[Murphie]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

They should work on putting rankings or allow the change of LS leadership change instead of this.

Agreed. This is still kind of nice (a bit late for this kind of thing, really, but still nice), but I'd prefer it if they were to add some more structure to the linkshell system.

Then again, I guess a lot of Shells have just made their own system so SE signing off on it wouldn't change anything anyway.

I like new stuff though, so it's still kind of neat.

[Bishop]

Re: Playonline Linkshell Community

Lol, sounds like xbox live gamertags. but yea, like someone said above, rather have the ability to switch ls leaders