Finally European Release!

[Starv]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11eu/index.shtml

Don't know if it has already been announced, although I doubt it has. :D

[Glades]

Finally! :biggrin:

[Razz]

å??　ONRY!

[Thoronas]

10 bucks says someone mis-interprets thats symbol. :rolleyes:

[MonoxideChild]

*waits for "OMG, Nazi!"*

[tazirai]

å?? = manji

means fylfot its a grammar symbol.. but ALSO means swastika

when used solo sometimes its an insult to a person....just depends on context.

[KuroiOokami]

Originally posted by Razz
å??　ONRY!

LOL

[voodoo]

yeah, but, any european ff fan worth their salt would've already imported it from the US >.>

[Russta]

Originally posted by voodoo
yeah, but, any european ff fan worth their salt would've already imported it from the US >.>

Hell, I fucking hate all the Final Fantasy games (except ten) and even I imported it, Japanese version at that.

[Dark-Cress]

Originally posted by Razz
å??　ONRY!
lol
I kept seeing those on the tourist map when I went to Japan.

But a swastika faces the other way, like this: (Yes odd pic isnt it)
http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/faculty/ryost/stereographs/WWIIsources/nazistamps/swastika.JPG

[Apoc]

lol dude when I went to a jp shrine like 3 days ago there was this hugeå?? right in the center of it and I was like :eek: and then I looked around and they were every where lol.

[Lily]

So very glad I got it before european release. ;x

[Taoist]

OMG NAZI!

[Gokulos]

Its too a symbol of fire,flame etc....

[miffycat]

Since there is mention of the swastika, here are some simplified info of it.

The infamous swastika which to many ppl is commonly known as the mark of the Nazis thanks to Adolf Hitler. This led to the general belief and assumption that the swastika is a symbol of death, murder, war, madness and all things bad. In reality however, this isn't really true.

Long before Hitler decided to adopt the swastika as the symbol of his war, the swastika symbol has already existed generally as a religious symbol symbolising all things good, mainly Buddhism and Hinduism to my knowledge. It is also in history that there exist a counter symbol of the swastika known as the sauvastika aka Manji.

Taizirai is correct on the part that the counterclock-wise swastika is commonly known as Manji. However, one must realise that the manji is not the swastika. Its arms are in a counterclock-wise direction as opposed to the clock-wise direction which is the swastika.

I am not familiar with the true meaning of the manji/sauvastika but thanks to Hitler, sauvastika has now become everything good which the swastika use to be known as. Few religious bodies would really dare to adopt the correct clockwise swastika as their symbol to avoid getting themselves into serious problems. Even where i live, the "good" swastika is now generally recognise as the counterclock-wise symbol rather than the true clock-wise symbol.

[Etra]

Kinda sucks for the Europeans who waited for the Euro release...just one more expansion after Promathia till the game is relatively completed. <.<;

(Reason why I think there's one more expansion after Promathia: They can't do much else with the game especially after they already said Vana'diel is completed with Promathia. Not to mention SE also said in their overview of Promathia's storyline that the story is almost completed.)

[Thoronas]

Eh? I seem to recall hearing there was two more expansions. :confused:

[Rodin]

Yes, the swastika was actually a celtic cross used in ireland hundreds of years before hitler came to power in Germany. Now the manji is a symbol of good luck in buddhism. Remember it was on the pokemon card that a jewish kid had, but it was ended up being taken off. The kid didn't know about the diffrences. The swastika always bends to the right. The manji always bends to the left. Please don't make a big deal about this. I can't believe they took it off of a pokemon card because someone didn't know what certain symbols mean.

[Elsurion]

this whole discusion about nazi onry is just like a huge Kindergarden.

Go grow up a bit and then come back. And yes, if you ask here in Europe about the symbol, some say it's comming from the American Nazis.