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doesnt deliver for a pc player

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I desperately wanted to like this game, I really did. The only other MMORPG like game I played was Guild Wars and I loved that. I didn't get World Of Warcraft cause I love final fantasy and thought it would be a good time. Wrong. This game is for one and only one type of person. You are able to play the game itself for 5+ hours a day. I'm serious. It's that hardcore. The control scheme and menus were totally opposite of user friendly. You have to switch to the compact settings for the game to be even remotely playable. The graphics, in a word, suck. I have a top notch PC(6800gt, amd64, all the good stuff) and the textures were grainy, the character models were undetailed(in game that is) and the environments very bland and uncolorful.

Now for the topic that needs its own paragraph.....grinding. I can write the storyline in one word=grind. ALL you do until level 20 is grind grind grind! It gets old! Very Old! It takes forever to gain levels if you have a real life outside of the interent. Square enix is basically giving a big middle finger to noobs because of the horrendous grind factor.

One thing that really bugged me was the population on the servers. I didn't find a real person on my server till about an hour in, and that person was in the same boat as me. Don't expect the same game that FFXI was at launch 3 years ago. Now, the game is for top level players. And the top level players do not have any tolerance for noobs.

Unless the thought of grinding in horribbly rendered environments while trying to figure out controls excites you....please...don't make the mistake i did of buying this game and regretting it!

FFXI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I havn't been so addicted to a game like this since Diablo II!

Not worth your time, fair but negative review.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a fair reviewer of games, and this game is extremely time consuming. Once you gain experience and levels you will be forced to go on a death march just to get to an area worth your time in fighting. It can take as long as 45 minutes just to go from your home base to an acceptable location. There are no personalized mounts, so you must use paid mounts that are only available around level 25 or so and after doing a quest that again is about an hour walking time away. They also charge you on a monthly basis rather than a cycle. For example if you activate your account on October 31st you will end up paying for the entire month of October without a pro-rate. You will then be rebilled on November 1st. I for one re-activated my account on October 19th, 2005 and cancelled on November 1st. I was charged $25.90 for 12 days of game play. If you plan on re-activating a character, you should consider doing it at the beginning of the month. If you are new to the game, they will pro-rate you for the month after your free trial is up. Please note that they also take down the registration servers at the end of the month so you cannot cancel on the last day of the month. This is very shady of Square-Enix to do although they do tell you in advance. This is still not acceptable. Square-Enix also charges $1.00 for each additional content-ID (used for each character), the competiton typically allows for multiple characters for the same monthly cost. The auction house does not have a search feature and you will have to go through each catagory 1 at a time and forget it being in alphabetical order, it is randomly assorted and painful to navigate. After 2 years of this game making its debut, the graphical glitches such as grid seems on the terrain are still evident and it feels as if no content has been added. The company only creates added content for extremely high levels, so if you didn't get in the game back then, it is very difficult to work your way to the top since the starting and midrange realms are desolate. You are required to be in a party most of the time and just trying to gather a party can be a painstaking task. The PlayOnline client is awkward at best and will require at least 5-6 clicks just to enter the game. FFXI has had more down-time lately, constantly DDoS'd (Denial of Service from rogue people purposely trying to tax the server by hitting it with massive bandwidth attacks. Basically you cannot log in) and they do not reimburse you in anyway like Blizzard does (they offer extra playtime for free to the end of your billing cycle). If you are going to pick a MMORPG to play. Go with WoW. Hands down!

Please read this review. You have to read it to save $20.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: June 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ever install a game and KNOW you wasted your money? How quickly did you know?

Twenty Minutes.

This applies to MMORPG players. This game sucks. Hard.

~Itsy bitsy newbie areas. (read as a 20x30 foot) area.
~Clunky Interface, no context menus (no right click on PS2 IE no right click anything on PC)
~Graphics Suck.
~Button clicking the same spell for 4 levels.
~Quest NPCs (or quests) are difficult to find.
~Complete Silence playing an online game (Courtesy of the PS2 players).
~No player customization outside of gear.
~First Mission you get isn't possible until level... 10? maybe, I couldn't stomache another 20 past level 5 minutes.
~Can't pick your logon ID or password, so write these down, you'll need them to cancel.
~Can only have one character or pay more monthly. So you only see 1 of the 4 towns at first, or you got to wipe your charater and re-roll.

I've played, EQ, EQ2, DAoC, WoW, SB, EVE, Horizons, and FFXI is so crappy, I can sum it up with a short story.

Its True.

You buy Final Fantasy XI, and give the buddy pass to a friend so you can both start the game at the same time. A CATCH! You can't play with them because your on different servers, and the only way to pick a server, is to purchase a World Pass (they cost 1000 gil, the in game money, god knows how long selling items at 14 gil each as a newbie), and type it in at character creation.

Some Choices
1) Beg the server for money. Very cool to teach folks to beg early on. (I did).
2) Create a charater and make 1000 gil to buy a pass, and be X levels ahead of your friend.
3) Create a charater and make 2000 gil to buy two passes, delete your character and start again to be same level.
4) Both play seperately making 1000 gil each to buy your own passes.

Those other games I mentioned, you can both... CHOOSE the same server.

I know I wasted $20, but a friend at work plays this, he bought me a world pass, and I begged the server to buy one for my friend. I'm gonna give him my WOW account with a 60 undead shadow priest and 800 gold. I've never heard stories of folks leaving WoW for FFXI.

PS. Folks Posting reviews with level 75/37 characters are biased. Just a TAD.

Don't buy if you've ever enjoyed another modern MMORPG

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

T. Haske summed it up well. I've played fewer MMOs than he did, but I did play, and I'm still playing City of Heroes / Villains.

This game is the clunkiest thing I've encountered in a long while. Installation goes through more hoops than other MMOs, and changing in-game options requires exiting the game and launcher, and the config app doesn't even tell you this, but just exits silently unless you exit everything. There are numerous other examples of the developers seemingly going out of their way to make the game incovenient to use.

When I finally got into the game, creating a character was nearly impossible, since the characters were animated, doing all kinds of nonsense, and I couldn't choose the character's face because I couldn't see it, as the character just goes through animations that look away from the camera. Changing to a simple character screen through the config application made things better but all you get is portraits, which still don't all look at the camera, and can't be rotated. Haven't seen another game as bad.

Then I got into the game proper. It takes a while until your character can even move, and when I got there, I had no idea how to move. The default control scheme is different from any standard (except FF standards). It's possible to change to WASD control, but even finding how to do that took quite a bit of reading in the manual. Even then control was cumbersome, nothing like a keyboard movement and mouse view that I'm used to.

After that I really didn't feel like trying to puzzle out other parts of the game. Couple that with pretty old graphics and some other annoyances, and I see no good reason to go back to this game.

All in all, I think this game is a waste of money. It's never trivial to get into an MMO (at least for me), but this one is much harder to get into than all the others I've tried.

Don't get it if your new...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was very good for about a year after its release, but now it is awful for new players. Because of the way you can play any job on the same character, the game isn't bad like EQ where you can never find a party, there are always parties in newbie areas except because they are almost all vetereran players that have tons of gil they are way out of your leage... FFXI isn't a very skill based game. for most damage dealer classes you just click auto-attack and you could leave the keyboard for most of the battle and nobody would notice. So the thing that makes a player good is his or her gear and because most of the people that play are veteran players they have enough gil to get very good gear without lifting a finger while you will have to spend hours and hours making enough money to equal them. all the vet players want to fight extremely strong monsters for maximum exp gain and can do this because their gear is very good and if your gear isn't great then you wont even be able to touch the monster. This becomes more of a problem as you get higher level. Everyone will demand that you have increably good gear so that they can fight very strong mosters, but alot of this gear is VERY expensive. Once you reach around level 50 alot of parties will be more than happy to kick you out if you don't have very good gear and the only way to get this gear (if your not already max level in one job) is to spend many, many hours making money. this really takes all the fun out of the game. Another thing is that because of the job system you have to level a "subjob". this isn't a bad thing, but again, vet players will tell you you HAVE to have a certin subjob so you will have to spend alot of time leveling a job you don't want to play. and because you need gear to level your subjob you'll need to spend even more time making money... The game very quickly become nothing but spending endless hours making gil.

If you are willing to spend over a month (literally) just making money (which isn't at all fun) to satisfy the vet players so they wont kick you out of exp partys, and level up jobs you don't want to play, then by all means pick this up. otherwise, don't waste you money or time on this.

Can't put it down

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of Final fantasy back when it first came out. I have always enjoyed playing the RPG type games. Now that I have been playing this one I am totally hooked on it. In the game there is a precaution to not spend so much time in the game and to not forget your family, friends,school and or work. Now that I have played it for a while I can see why they put that in there. It is very addicting game and very fun to play. The thing I like about it the most is that if for some reason you are disconnected you will start where you were disconnected and not at the beginning of some zone or something. The graphics are great and I enjoy even the music even though its a little childish. There is never a dull moment in this game you could literally play it for years. The only thing I don't like about the game is the fee. I can't stand to have to pay something on a monthly basis but its the only game I really enjoy so its worth it.

Final Fantasy 11 Plus Expansions review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

All in all, having played the game before,,this game still rates high in my book. The expansions add a new depth and quality to the game that was somewhat lacking from the previous version. If youliked the game before, you'll fall in love with it all over again. if you're just getting into it, then you'll get lost in this game for a long time...^_^

Hard Work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good: Great story. Sense of accomplishment at higher levels. Good graphics. It's Final Fantasy. Immersion in another world. I liked it.

Bad: Costs a lot to get started. Difficult to play. Confusing interface. Can't really solo past level 15. Additional characters cost $1/month. My wife didn't like it.

Conclusion: I played FFXI for a year until World of Warcraft came out. Now my wife and I play Warcraft together.

FFXI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

FFXI has alot of challenges, you can always find something to do. Great community is this MMO as well. This is definitely a team orientated game.

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