The Quintessential RPG and Gaming Community is Back
By Dh, April 25th, 2012
From 1997 to 2002, before there were wiki's and billion-dollar social networking sites, Final Fantasy Online was one of the most popular Final Fantasy fan sites on the Internet. Featuring a plethora of information on the series' game titles and an interactive discussion forum, Final Fantasy Online boasted a thriving community. However, as times and the Internet have changed, the site and many like it have slowly faded from existence. Although a finite number of members kept the discussions going, the site itself hadn't been seriously updated in nearly a decade. As of December of 2011, the vBulletin forum software running on the server succumbed to a hack that effectively killed the only remaining active part of the site, stranding the last remnants of the community.
Hence, we are proud to announce the launch of Final Fantasy Society, a rebirth of the Final Fantasy Online community. This project is a revitalization of a community that includes RPG and gaming fans alike, giving them a place to stay connected through. As we say goodbye to our former home, we will not forget the rich history of Final Fantasy Online and will populate our news archives with some of the great featured written works and unforgettable April Fool's jokes over the coming weeks.
Along with the ever-so-popular discussion forum, Final Fantasy Society will offer gaming news and information. We're still building various areas of the site, but we encourage you to join us for the ride. You needn't have any interest in Final Fantasy, RPGs, or even games in general to participate. There's plenty of inane banter to go around.
We are extremely grateful and appreciate the community's continued support and look forward to another ten years of hearty debates, conversations, and shenanigans.
| | Evancool
05.03.2012 7:35am
Dh, buddy! Glad to see life given back to the site. I thought it going to see tumbleweeds forever. Funny thing, I was thinking to myself the same thing a few weeks ago, that fan pages were slowly becoming extinct due to wikis and social networks. I hope you'll retain the ffonline.com domain, otherwise I'm sure someone will get a hold of it and use it spread the word on shoes and sexual tyrannosaurus pills.
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| | Lews
05.03.2012 4:41am
Looks great. Glad to see the spirit of the FFO community still lives on after so many years. My first online family... so is this like a family reunion?
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| | Blaine
05.02.2012 7:16am
I found myself browsing a gaming site this evening on the recommendation of a friend. This inevitably led me to search for any news pertaining to Final Fantasy on said site. After listening to a couple tracks from the FFX soundtrack it dawned on me I had not been to FFOnline in some time. I was disappointed to see that there was no activity, but a post just over a week ago in the forums caught my attention, and voilà ! Long story unnecessarily longer, I'll have to thank my friend for the gaming site tip as it led me here, a community I'm glad to see up and running again. Congrats, and I hope you're here for another decade plus.
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| | Shinchi
05.01.2012 9:47am
Amazing work, after so many attempts to get it done.
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| | Big Tall
04.29.2012 12:53pm
About time we're proud to announce something!
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| | SuperSquall
04.28.2012 6:23am
How awesome is it? So awesome.
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| | Turhaya
04.27.2012 2:46am
Oh snap we're doing it live! What a homecoming.
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| | Dr Squirrel
04.26.2012 7:11pm
when's the ffx section getting finished
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| | Lucent
04.26.2012 1:17am
The site's front-end looks great, too. It's amazing to see how the color scheme of the site from so goddamned long ago still holds up, even if tweaked just so.
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| | Lucent
04.26.2012 1:16am
Finally.
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| | Karrian
04.25.2012 11:57pm
Everything is looking great, I'm glad to still be a part of this community!
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| | Rinoa
04.25.2012 11:03pm
Long live FFO!
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| | Scribe
04.25.2012 7:37pm
My boner has an erection!
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| | kirbenvost
04.25.2012 6:12pm
YEAH DAWG, WE BE BACK.
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| | FenixDown
04.25.2012 5:32pm
Cool. Coolcoolcool. Thanks for everything you've done (and continue to do), Dh!
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| | scnix
04.25.2012 5:07pm
Yay!! Everything looks awesome! Great work Dh! :D
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| | amaron
04.25.2012 5:04pm
Beta test is over!
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| | Testament
04.25.2012 5:03pm
Thanks, Dh.
...and a happy rebirth to all.
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| | Colinp42
04.25.2012 4:46pm
Woo-hoo!
And this page is one of the few passwords that I can always remember right off the top of my head - that's how I prioritize it!
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| | Crux
04.25.2012 4:13pm
Thank you, Dh. This looks amazing. I still can't believe we moved onto this site a short while before the hack struck.
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| | Sanna
04.25.2012 3:28pm
So awesome! Gonna spread the word now that we are open for business. :D
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| | Catastrophe
04.25.2012 3:17pm
Holy crap! A news page! Shweeet.
And we're live! Shweeeet.
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| | Nelfichu
04.25.2012 3:15pm
Awesome! Good work, Dh!
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| | Amer
04.25.2012 1:05pm
Thanks, Dh. Everything is looking great!
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| | greenyxi
04.25.2012 12:56pm
Glad to be a new part of the community from the get-go. An amazing amount of dedication and effort has been put into building this place, so I'd like to thank Dh and anyone who was involved :)
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| | Kaiser
04.25.2012 9:48am
Good to be back :)
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