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I really didn't like it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't mean to be offensive but I really didn't like this game at all! When I bought it for getting all A's on my report card I installed it right away. I soon realized the graphics on the box were about 10x better that the actual graphics. I didn't get the control system at all and was extremely dissapointed!

Final fantasy ends here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Square proved that they didn't learn anything from the streak of horrible final fantasy sequels that came after final fantasy 7. Final fantasy 11 attempts to give you an online multiplayer experience, and succeeds in giving you the most irratating experience of your life.

In this game you begin having to kill random little things outside of town in order to gain enough experience to have any kind of adventure for your 40 bucks. The adventures consist of hours of walking, lame morrowind esque fights, and people saying "take this to some guy in some area you never heard of".

Often a set of options will pop up when you had no intention of bringing those options up, and those options interrupt whatever else you were doing at the time. Options like "chat" and "inventory" that are brought up even though when wanting to manage either options you could do something completely different. Simply typing anything on the keyboard allows you to chat, bringing up the menu allows you to view your inventory.

Pay 40 bucks to run around a bland wilderness, and look at everything else in the world you could have spent the 40 bucks on.

Another thing, I live in an armed forces pacific address. The morons at square didn't include this, so I had to lie about my billing address in order to register. Why they even bother asking for a billing address to register with them, when you can just lie about it and register anyway is beyond me.

Square can now be ranked with other horrible video game companies like Eidos, and The Adventure Company.

total grabage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game might have been good for its time just as FF before it..however I feel that this game lacks everything that made the FF series so famous...FUN. I had more trouble trying to figure out how to modify the graphic preferances and how to navigate my character than actually trying to figure out how to play the stupid game. And come on now..most fo the characters in the game look just outright retarded...but hey If you want a good game then play World of Warcraft or Elder scrolls 4...

This game sux

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: August 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately there was no free trial of this (for good reason) so I had to waste $25 to buy it. Final Fantasy X and X2 graphics were better (heck even FF7 on some aspects). The usual battle system everyone is used to from the series (turn based mostly) is non-existent here (sad that they just copied off every other MMO). Overall other than the names of some items in game and the game itself (potion, megalixir, etc.) it just didn't feel Final Fantasyish. If I could rate it a negative star I would. The good thing that came of this is it made me search for another MMO and led me to Saga Of Ryzom, unlimited free trial and best game out at the moment.

MMOs are the devil

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: August 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have absolutely not desire to play this game, now or ever. I purchased it for my Final Fantasy collection only.

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.

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!

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.

This game isn't worth buying.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played many MMORPG's on the internet, and by far, this was a huge let down, I've played all the version's of Final Fantasy, and loved them all, Until I baught the internet edition, What a huge let down.

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