Final Fantasy XI - Crazy Boss Story

Yesterday, I was asked by my dad if I ever heard of "Pandemonium Warden".  I had no idea what that is or "who" it was.  I was actually thinking of a DotA character that looked like a Panda and would occasionally crack a joke about his brewing beer abilities or his self such as "I've got Pandamonium".  Appearently, it's a new boss monster on the Online game "Final Fantasy XI" that was added in the newest update patch.  I never played the game before, but I've played enough online games to know that some boss monsters may take a while to beat sometimes; however, my dad told me that the article he read off of Yahoo reported that a group of players tried taking on the Boss and spent 18 straight hours fighting it before they decided to stop.

The players that played for those 18 hours started getting sick and passing out.  I decided to do a bit of research on it and there really were articles about the infamous boss "Pandemonium Warden".  I apologize to those players that suffer, but I found it amusing that Square-Enix would even do such a thing as to place a boss monster like that in the game.  The quote I see appear all over the internet came from the guild leader of "Beyond the Limitation" and it was quoted:

"People were passing out and getting physically ill. We decided to end it before we risked turning into a horrible new story about how video games ruin people’s lives…. None of us doubt that Pandemonium Warden can be killed. We just call into question exactly what the development team thinks is reasonable from human beings".

I guess they didn't go "Beyond" their "Limitations" but they were very persistant to fight for 18 straight hours.  Can you imagine?  Constant clicking and shouting over the mic to the guild members "we can do it, we can do it!"?  I love playing videogames, but not so much as to dedicate my life to it.  So the point of this article is for me to tell you (mainly my friends that play online games) what my father told me after he read that article "don't you ever do that".  I love epic battles, not epic fails.....