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The world is Square

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Square-Enix, in their most diabolically evil move to date, has taken their already addictive game elements from the FF and forged them together with that most vile of habits, MMORPGs. May god (or whatever diety they may pray to) have mercy on their souls. This game is the most comprehensive MMORPGs I have played, and I have played quite a few, DAoC, EQ, and T4C to name a few. The sheer variety of things to do is frankly mindboogling, and we are only 1 day away as of this review from a major expansion called Chains of Promathia which this site inexplicibly does not have availible for preorder. But I digress. This game will gobble every moment of your free time then belch and ask for more. Those looking for a challenge will find battles to be exciting and quite infuriating at times, with the imminent threat of death always waiting. To those of you who quake at the idea of leveling down I say this. There are worse options SE could have gone with, loss of money, loss of items, even loss of stats are all possibilties any MMORPG must consider as a deterent to being kamikaze. They have even thoughtfully included certain spells in game that can lower your exp loss to as little as 1%. Those who enjoy more domestic pursuits and/or ways to support their expendatures in game will find a wide array of skills, ranging from relatively undemanding skills like fishing, to more time consuming skills like goldsmithing. In short (as if those words have meaning at this point) go buy this game, enjoy it, and if you see a lvl 51 rdm by the name of Flintyoungblood, give me a tell to say hi.

BEST GAME EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: April 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! I play for about 12 hours a day. I play 18 hours on days I have off. Thank you god. I have now found my true calling in life.

Too bad it's so bad...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Besides FF10, this FF is just the worst of the series. It's also a terrible MMORPG. If you want real MMORPG, check out Ultima Online. It is actually reasonable on the quests. As with FF11, you have to level up to extreme levels just to ride chocobos, etc. The quests are boring and tedius. This is not for MMORPG, it's not even really for hardcore FF fans. FF is better single player, and I suggest starting at FF6 (known as FF3 on snes) and work you way up.

I love this game, BUT...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all I do not own this game, but my brothers friend has brought it over lots of times and I am very impressed with it. Im not a big FF player and the only ones I really liked were FF I&II (Zelda is my playing field). I was never crazy about how long the games were or how when youre trying to get somewhere you keep running into random villans and that for me just got plain out annoying. I also hate leveling up all the time (zzzzz). Anyway, I LOVE this game. I love meeting people and chatting with em and helping each other out and stuff. That to me is the fun part. Plus the world is HUGE!!! I mean it takes forever to walk from one place to the next and 15minute boat rides (with some cool monsters that may attack on youre voyage). If I were to get an online game Id get this. I like the fighting style better (you can fight if you want to but you dont keep running into random villans when you dont) plus its not that, you attack, they attack, you attack stuff. You just attack or run away. Anyway, awesome game and I am not a gamer by any means nor do I spend much time playing games. The only games I really play are the Zelda games but this is a rare gem. I would buy this game in a heartbeat BUT...

This KILLS the whole game!!! Ok... first of all, the game is like 50 bucks. Before you can play it you have to have this special software that also costs like 50 bucks. Download takes about 4hrs or something.. thats not a big deal really but anyway... Then you get a month free before they start chargeing 13 dollars a month. If you dont wanna be tieing up the phone lines, you better have DSL or something cause youll get hooked and block all your phones. Another 30 dollars or so. Ok, so most of that Im pretty ok with. Ill pay 50 dollars for a good game. Ill get thier dumb online modem thing. I already have DSL so no problem there. Ill even pay 13 bucks a month WHEN I FEEL LIKE PLAYING IT! Well, that right there is extreamly high but it is pretty worth it... except that say you dont feel like playin anymore so you stop your subscription. You have 3 months to come back to your account after that or they delete EVERYTHING. Ok not so bad... just start over... NOT! If those 3 months expire, you also have to BUY THE GAME AGAIN! Why? Cause those greedy pigs just think about money and the way its set up, you cant sell, exchange, or play on someone elses machine with the same disc after you have downloaded the game on your modem. So once they delete everything, they delete your game too so now you gotta buy the game again and re-register.

That is just stupid! I am not a hardcore gamer and I dont really feel like sitting on my @$$ all day on a dumb video game anyway so for me, this is just not worth it. Especially if my game is useless after I stop playing. I like the online stuff but they really need to do something about the costs and set up cause that is rediculous. I have a couple war games that are FREE to play online. Also, with every online game, they need to have an offline version.

Anyway, if you dont mind sitting on your butt all day and coughin up lots of dough, by all means get this game. However, if youre not a BIG gamer, pass on this. Its just not worth the cost plus if you stop playing you just have to go buy the game again the next time you wanna start back up (if you let the 3 months expire, which in my case would be very likely to happen).

If this game was like free to play online or something or a little cheaper, this game would have gotten 5 stars. But because of all money that goes into keepin this thing going, I gave it a 2. They can do better than this but with how much money theyre making off this system, I doubt things are going to change.

The worse game tryed in years

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all Square soft seems to be unable to create a PC game. I believe they spend too much time trying to figure out how to make players life miserable.
They didn't though it would be a good idea to burn a new CD but it would be better for you to have a 1 hour patch on a T1 connection ( 56K modem this should be around 3-4 hours ). If you are lucky because their connection S... and you will certainy have to try 2-3 time before you patch ( 48 hours on DSL for me ).
This isn't a windows application, if you receive an AIm the game crash, if you want to look at your email the game crash, etc... if the game isn't in focus 100% of the time, you are out.
It's impossible to choose your server if you do not buy a world pass, if you want more than 1 avatar you have to pay extra.
the Play Online service is ridiculously complex and painfull.
I won't pay the subscription, I won't pay the zillion extra cost needed just to have a fun experience.
Square Soft just lost a huge fan with that greedy crap.

Amazing!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Best game ever! I play about 10 hours a day. I love it and can't wait for more expansion packs.

dubbery
citizen of Bastok
Level 40 Paladin, at your service

This Game is the Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game so much, it's so very addictive. You'll waste tons of time playing this. It doesn't really work on a Laptop with an integrated video card... unless you tweak it.

One of the most boring games ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this game is so bad it's pathetic, I don't know why it's so popular.

Well, this was the first MMPORPG I've tried. One of my best friends is totally addicted to this games, he's put in something like 3000 or 4000 hours of play time in the last 8 months! 3000-4000 hours! He's got a bunch of high level characters, but probably hasn't done much more than half of the possibilities. He basically works, then comes home and plays this game, which is his life. It's hard to get him to anything but work and play this game. I'm a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series, and watched my friend play it sometimes. I had my doubts after watching him play it, but I gave it a try so I could spend a little time with my friend in the virtual world. It seems to be like heroin for him, he often calls in sick to work, and doesn't spend hardly any time with his friends and family. I'm getting worried about him.

I liked the other Final Fantasy games due to their interesting stories, lovely graphics, and variety of monsters. The fights got a little repetitive, but the story and variety of spells and attacks kept the games interesting. I'm also a huge fan of RTS games like warcraft 3, turn based strategy, and the Grand Theft Auto series.

Well, anyway here's the pros and cons.

Pros:
Pretty decent graphics and music, a lot of variety of terrain(which takes 20 minutes of walking to see a new area).

Lots of different options and things to do (99 % of them are boring and extremely time consuming though as I'll go into)

Cons:
You can't sell the game once you register it (it says so on the box at least) most games, if you don't like them, you can at least sell them on ebay, not this one, what a rip-off! They'd get plenty of profit from their monthly fee, even if they let us sell used copies. $30 down the drain!

Takes 5 hours to install, and 5 gigs of space on your hard drive!

Extremely time consuming, it takes forever to walk anywhere new, like 20 minutes just to go to an area with tougher monsters than where you are. You spend most of the game just walking. Some jobs can teleport instantly from place to place at higher levels, put you're talking hundreds of hours to get to that level!

While theres a lot of things to do, most of them are very boring, like fishing, you sit there with a pole (which you have to equip instead of your weapon, often requiring a 20 minute walk back to your "house" as you have a very limited number of items you can carry, switch to fishin gear, and free up room for what you catch), plus you have to wander all over the world to find different items and earn money to get the fishing gear you need, and the only reward is sitting there for hours with a pole, and being able to sell your fish for small amounts of money. Similar deals with making items and cooking. Very boring, very easy, just requires lots of patience.

Quests and missions are lame, and have very small rewards. No experience earned for completing them, how lame!

Almost no variety on monster graphics, they use the same graphics and give the monster a different name and toughness. I encountered maybe 9 different looking monsters in an area that took 30 minutes just to walk across!!!

Monsters are easy to beat, almost no strategy involved, takes a few minutes to figure out the best fighting strategy but very time consuming to fight!

Most jobs aren't very playable solo, it's slower to gain levels solo, and it takes forever to find people for a "party".

Potions are extremely expensive, impossible to afford at lower levels. So you have to constantly rest! In most RPG's potions are cheap, so you don't have to constantly rest or go to a store!

It takes forever to level up, like about 2 hours if you're lucky, and that's for the first 12 levels, it gets much slower the higher you get, and that's not including the time getting money for better equipment, which is essential for not dying against tougher monsters that you need to fight to level quickly. Monsters almost never drop money like in almost every RPG, so you have to constantly run 20 minutes to the nearest auction house to sell items, and you can only auction 7 items at a time, which often take days to sell. You're basically forced to buy game money with real money(which is against the rules), or beg higher level characters for money, or to do crafts or fish, mine, cook ect. . . which are all extremely boring and time consuming!

If you die you lose a bunch of experience, and are sent all the way to your home point, which is usually far off. Unless someone nearby has a raise spell, in which case you're still crippled and useless for 5 minutes or so.

This review is getting too long, I could rant forever about this awful game, but obviously some people like it, so it's opinion I guess. You need lots of free time for this game, it's not a game you can play an hour a day and accomplish anything. I think I pointed out how loooong everything takes enough. Be careful of addiction, this game is probably ruining a lot of peoples jobs and marriages, friendships, ect. Maybe it's because it takes so long to do anything.

I'm a fairly heavy gamer, but I also have a girlfriend, a job, college and a life, and if you want to get anywhere in this game, you can't have a life.

Lots of fun and then none

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first this game is very involving and very fun, but then you start to get into the higher levels and you realize something that is stated as "Easy Prey" can easily kill you. Also, every group camps out at the same place. So if your in a group of 6 and are lv 25, you can bet there will be like 5 other groups of six camping the same ol' spot. Also, this game is not enjoyable at all. It's not even a game, it's more like a full time job. Trying to gain levels is like trying to convince waiting for your hair to grow. Also, once you have spent 2 hours gaining 500 exp (its is 5600 exp to gain a level at higher levels), and then die and lose 700 you will be very angry. This is when you look over at the clock and realize you just spent 2 hours to lose 200 exp, wow that's fun!!! So, ignore all the other positive reviews of this game cause it truly is horrible. Also, I have been a fan off the FF seris until 10. 10 sucked, so did 10-2, and so will 12. In fact Square Enix sucks, Square needs to break away from Enix and start making quality games like FF7 again. Anyway, if you have no ambition and want nothing more than to sit in front of a computer all day then please get this game. If you would rather enjoy yourself get a normal RPG that has a plot, not an MMORPG.

Best Online Game Made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everything of this game seems perfect. The game is ment to be hard because when you start something in anything it never starts out easy. Everything takes time in this game. The more you level the more can happen. I am a level 18 warrior/level 9 monk and the doors are gettin ready to open for me. Graphics and sound are perfect too. The missions are perfect. I never wanted to get into an online game cause they were boring until this game. It changed me. I forget my friends and go on this. They understand.

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