FFXI is the worst MMORPG I've ever played.
This is coming from SquareSoft's number one fanboy. When I was 13, I wrote them a letter asking what language they wrote code in so I could learn.
* You can't pick which server to join on startup - you are randomly placed on one.
* One character per account (PERIOD), unless you want to fork over more cash
* Forget soloing, you must group in this game.
* EQ Int casters: forget all the fun stuff you ever learned in EQ. There's no kiting in this game. Position self in front of mob and whack away. First to lose all HP loses.
* Be ready to take massive amounts of painful exp loss deaths. When you die, you must either hope someone is nearby to rez, or take the loss. There is no corpse to drag around asking for a rez, you must either decide to take the loss or wait 60 minutes in the hopes a white mage walks over your corpse. Waiting is lots of fun...
* Mobs lack intelligence. Severely.
* The interface is clunky .. very clunky. In the US, it's a straight port from PS2->PC, but they forgot that PC != PS2.
* Patches are every 3-4 weeks, and normally take 6 hours .. DURING US PRIMETIME. Joy.
* Signing onto the service is more painful than pulling teeth. I won't explain it all, just be ready to memorize 8 random alphanumeric characters as your "station name".
* I see no PvP or RP-preferred servers
This game probably won't last past the free month trial for me. If you are playing, look for Merth on the Bahamut server. I have no clue how to do a /who all or a ;tell server.name in FFXI, and probably won't stick around to find out.
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