Final Fantasy XI Online - PC

This was the first attempt of SE's production of an MMO. Many people were saying FFXI would never be popular as an online only game. They were wrong! FFXI and SE's PlayOnline services are still up and running 11 years later. Recommended for anyone looking for a game that makes you work to achieve your goals, and a vast world on the brink of war!

cannot say this game is super-fun & interesting, as of yet; only because, tho, came packaged as NEW!!! did come w/ 4 out of 5 discs-for game play!!..HOWEVER, THE MOST FUN PART!!.. DISC WHICH HAPPENED TO BE LEFT OUT -- MAIN DISC--(PLAYONLINE VIEWER DISC).. luckily, after couple hours of searching ONLINE for PLAYONLINE DOWNLOAD, were able to get game purchased set up on computer!!.. UNFORTUNATELY, GAME STILL CANNOT BE PLAYED; BECAUSE NECESSARY CODES NEEDED FOR INSTALLATION/GAME PLAY.. INVALID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..**soo, even tho, price was great; getting EVERTHING TOGETHER/SETUP can cause a headache!!**

Speaking as a RotZ veteran, the game has gone to crap.

I've played this game for about 4-5 months now and here's what I've discovered it's very repetitive. There are seven major things you can do in this game leveling, crafting, fishing, making money, quests, and missions. All of which can only be done independent of each other so you cannot level your character and make money at the same time effectively, thus all seven things consume a lot of time. Leveling takes the most time expect to sit at your computer for 3-5 hours before you gain one level that encompasses "forming a party", "getting to your destination to level" and finally "actually getting experience points". This game is a very "Party" oriented game almost everything you do with the exception of "crafting", "fishing", "making money", and some "quests" requires you to be in a party. The rewards in this game are few but great, but this game makes your work for it at times you will hate this game and find yourself cursing in chat at this game and other times it can be very fun. This game requires a lot of skill, there is a lot of depth to this game down to the phase of the moon, time of the day and day of the week can have an impact on what happens.Major problems with this game is "gil sellng" ("gil" is the currency used in the game) or in game money selling since this game is so money oriented and you don't get a lot of money for doing quest or missions there are people from all around the world that sell in game money for real money as sad as that sounds it's true. It has a big impact on the game for one inflation things are crazy expensive because the "gil sellers" camp all of the monsters that drop valuable items and sell them in the game for "gil" and in turn sell that "gil" for real life money. Now remember these folks are getting paid real money to play this game so they can spend 24 hours a day 7 days a week doing this. You might be thinking these guys can't be everywhere but they are believe me they travel in groups of 3-5 and all they do is kill things and sell them at the auction house for gil and sell that gil to people for real money. Is the Square Enix doing anything to stop people from selling gil online NO to date there has been no official word or progress report as to how Square Enix will remedy this problem. Another problem in this game is population the areas in this game are too small and sometimes it can be very crowded and very competitive for that monster you need to kill for experience points sometimes you will wait 5-10 minutes because all the monsters have been taken and you need to wait till they spawn again. Is this because there are a lack of servers no, when you leveling your character you need to go to specific places and sometimes there can be more players than there is room this is a problem on all servers.Is this game for everyone NO if you can't afford to sit at your PC for 3-5 hours at a time forget it cancel your order now because you will just be wasting money. You won't get anywhere period. If you think this game is just hack and slash forget it cancel your order now and save yourself some money and aggravation. This game requires alot of attention to detail inorder to advance and have fun.

The game is still going on. Its a fun time sink. People get serious about the game, their money, their armor.What I've found is a lot of ex-con's hang out in this game (not joking). I have no idea what the attraction is. Maybe it is all the crude language, or the ability to con others out of their stuff and sell it to others. Yes, there are college kids playing and a few casual players, but mostly the gamers here and unemployed, unmotivated and predatorial.You have to go online to play and could play alone online, but to get the most out of what the game offers you need the help of others.Children should not be allowed to play this game.

played long ago

Install takes forever. Completely lost interest.

I have a lot of opinions so let me just list them plain and simple.This is not a bad game, but it is essentially a playstation 2 game on your computer with all the good and bad things that come along with it. Let me begin with the bad so we can end on a high note.- horribly low resolution graphics. Everything looks grainy, with the distance looking horrible - just a bunch of moving squares that make you sick. The textures are lower res and look terrible upon getting too close. So PC users, welcome back to the long gone days of big square pixels that have been gone for so long. I'm sure this game looks great on a tv from ten feet away.- the navigation of menus and chat don't appear to have been changed either. And the manual mentions nothing about being able to use a gamepad which would be much better suited to the task. So yeah, just imagine trying to play a typical final fantasy game with a mouse... its not fun. And to bring up menus which you would normally do with a button you push things like "-" or "Ctrl I". And these menus and chat windows all take up an absurdly large ammount of the screen because of the low resolution. There is no transparency option, and there are only about eight window backgrounds to select from... no of which are subtle. And you cannot type in numbers with the keyboard. You have to use arrows to select how much gold to bid at the auction house.- There is a lack of races, and variation in the races. Everybody is going to look about the same for the most part. There are ten different faces to choose from, of which nobody will ever really notice the difference in real gameplay- There is no guild support. There are no guilds in town for character classes. And there are no player guilds. This is a huge mistake imo, as it makes players have even less control over their world, and is going to significantly take away from the late game. Yeah, you can use your linkshell or whatever, but why not just put in full guild support like most people would want- Lack of zone chat make for a very solitary experience, and the fact that nobody wants to group. Zones are overcrowded, there are too few monster spawns, and monsters do not spawn often enough. Noob zones should be swarming w/ monsters so noobs can lvl up and get out. Noob zones are swarming with players.- Its just not that fun. The game feels sluggish. Movement speed feels slow. Characters can only manage to swing at a monster every couple/few seconds. The difficulty in leveling up - it feels equivalently slow as everquest - makes combat boring as initial characters have very few skills so every battle is almost identical, and slow at that. Some dungeons would certainly add to the game as well. If they are there, great, but I haven't seen any. And if its one of those things that you have to wait until higher lvls to do... well I am sick of rpg's that are suppossed to get "fun" once you reach x level. They should be fun from the start. This feeling of being a great adventurer is not helped by the fact that you are killing bunny rabbits, worms, sheep, and such. I have played several characters up to lvl 10. So I'm sure there is better stuff later, player grouping, and more fun, but would it kill them to make the beginning of the game fun?- Steep learning curve. Useless manual. Playing the game essentially requires accessing 3rd party websites for information. Stupid quests and abusrdly difficult quests that could never reasonably be completed without help from the web.The goods- Its final fantasy.. come on. Graphics are creative and the monster models are good.- The towns are filled with npc's which makes for a good feel as opposed to some rpg's with vacant towns. The towns are also large.- Save points near many exits of towns so you don't have to walk forever.- Its a hell of a lot better than many other mmorpgs... but not good enough for me to play anymore. I guess I'll get back to waiting for Blizzard to finish WOW.There is just nothing in this game to draw me in and hold me. The game feels very static and sterile. I guess its just like playing your typical final fantasy game only it moves much more slowly, combat is not as fun, and there is not any story line, or atleast one that moves quickly enough to care about.Frankly I just don't think pc users will put up with the shortcomings of a console designed game. If it were made for pc and slimmed down for the playstation that'd be fine. But the other way just doesn't fly, because pc users expect a lot more than this.