The History of Final Fantasy XI/2005

==2005 - Xbox 360 Version Announced, Conclusion of Chains of Promathia==
In 2005 it was announced at E3 that the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI was under development. The Xbox 360 Beta test of Final Fantasy XI started in December, the same month the console was released.
No expansion packs were released this year, but the conclusion of Chains of Promathia's main storyline was released, as well as significant new content added with version updates.
Jan. 1st, 2005 	    Birds of Happiness visit Vana'diel 	    Birds of Happiness visit Vana'diel 	
Jan. 1st, 2005 	A family of six birds - Bird of Wonder, Bird of Peace, and four Birdlings were released on Vana'diel. This event was much like the year before, where trading items to the birds granted temporary buffs.	 	
Jan. 19th, 2005	    Al'Taieu's first appearance! 	    Al'Taieu's first appearance! 	
Jan. 19th, 2005	During an Intel-sponsored corporate presentation touting Intel's Centrino chipset, Square Enix staffers, demonstrating the microprocessor's ability to handle heavy applications, brought out Final Fantasy XI highlighting a new area called Al'Taieu.
At this point, this area was highly discussed in the Chains of Promathia storyline. This confirmed that players would be able to travel to the celestial capital.	 	
Feb. 11th, 2005	    Valentione's Day 2005 	    Valentione's Day 2005 	
Feb. 11th, 2005	The first official Valentine's Day event, dubbed "Valentione's Day" in Vana'diel, took place starting on February 11th. 
Character's created before February 4th, 2005 were delivered a Inferno Crystal to their mailboxes. This was done in order to use in synthesis to create signed Love Chocolates/Truelove Chocolates for that special someone.	Mistake Delivery?
As this was the first time that people received campaign/event items from "==MHMU==", many thought it was a mistake from an unknown person and returned the items. 	
Feb. 14th, 2005	    First Largescale Banhammer 	    First Largescale Banhammer 	
Feb. 14th, 2005	Over 800 accounts which repeatedly violated the PlayOnline Member Agreement were permanently banned from PlayOnline.
The violators were not RMT, but instead they were actual players who would form groups to monopolize the hunting spots of NMs. They also repeatedly performed harassment and MPK actions against other players.	The official announcement for this ban used the term "Grief Tactics". This caused players who thought that others were monopolizing their experience monsters or NMs to begin calling GMs more frequently and on a whim. Some of these calls were warranted, but many were unnecessary and petty.	
Feb. 24th, 2005	    Opening of Al'Taieu & Fishing Changes 	    Opening of Al'Taieu & Fishing Changes 	
Feb. 24th, 2005	
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{| width=100% style="border: 2px dashed red; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #eae9e9" 	New Features & Content
*Further Chains of Promathia missions were added, along with opening the Al'Taieu zone.
**Calm Before the Storm(7-4) thru Garden of Antiquity (8-1)
*The region Lumoria was added, but is not subject to Conquest, so it was not added to the Region Info screen.
*ENM Battlefield system was introduced.
**Level 30 Cap:
***Simulant
***You Are What You Eat
***Playing Host
**Level 40 Cap:
***Bad Seed
***Test Your Mite
**Level 50 Cap:
***Pulling the Plug
**Level 75 Cap:
***Bionic Bug
***Follow the White Rabbit
***When Hell Freezes Over
***Brothers
***Holy Cow
***Sheep in Antlion's Clothing
*It is now possible to skip event cutscenes for battlefields that have already been cleared. (Event Skip)
*The Artifact Armor Storage System was implemented.