Quote Originally Posted by Katlyna View Post
Thanks Pikster and that is a really neat link. Someone poured a bunch of work into that website holy heck. So many articles. Takes considerable time to write that much up!
That was actually the work of the old FFXI development team - it was an official supplement to FFXI, in that it was actually accessed via the FFXI client PlayOnline Viewer or the website and essentially was a FFXI-lore dump and news source (remember this was in the days before Facebook and Twitter - there wasn't even an official forum for FFXI at that time). Eventually SE scrapped it in favour of just posting information on the main FFXI website, and eventually added an official forum (at the same time as they added one for FFXIV 1.0 as well), as the Vana'diel Tribune was obviously just too time consuming and costly to produce.

I still loved it anyway, as it really brought Vana'diel to life and made it seem like you were reading a Vana'dielian newspaper through your character's eyes.