
Originally Posted by
Catmato
Sorry, just realized I never answered your question! Silly me.
If you click on Forum Top on the top left of this page, it will take you to the "top" of these forums where you can find an index of all of the various forums. Down the right side of that page is a Dev Tracker. A Dev Tracker is a list of forum posts from the "Devs", or people representing the developers of the game. Posts from developers are one of very few sources of official information about this game, another being Playonline.com. As my writing this, the bottom entry in that Dev Tracker is a link to a post titled "Announcing the January Version Update". That post is the source of the information that this entire thread is based on.
Remember: if somebody, especially multiple other people, seem to have new information about FFXI that you are missing, its best to check for information from the devs that you may have missed, instead of just assuming that people are making things up or jumping to conclusions. The Dev Tracker and playonline.com are the two best places for this.