Buying the game.

[Rewyen]

People making useless posts to complain that other people are making useless posts about other people making useless posts are the best and make me smile.

[Cursed]

Ok the topic of this thread is titled; Buying the game. I'm going to go on a limb here and assume you're talking about Final Fantasy XI cause we're on the forums! Don't do it... don't buy the game until we all see Square Enix fix the game.. Ahh hell just go buy Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning you'll be more happier! There is also a Demo on "Origins"

Quoted for Truth.

[Avelonia]

I would definitely advise you to give up your search and play something else, unless you like torturing yourself as a hobby.

[Andreja]

FFXI is still fun. I'm still having a good time with it, though mainly because I still haven't done allot of the content yet. The people who keep on making those negative posts are only the vocal minority that make it appear to be a crappy game, while the silent majority love the game. There will always be a vocal minority that bash the game on a regular basis no matter which mmo it is, so don't be deterred by the haters here that have no better use of their time than to bash the game. It's allright to give constructive criticism, but just bashing FFXI just for the sake of bashing it doesn't help anyone. If you hate the game so much there's the door behind you. We definitely won't miss you.

[Malamasala]

SquareEnix is sadly a terribly poor company when it comes to MMOs. Even with a test server and feedback forums, when people say "Moon based Fenrir pacts do not work in reality" they reply back "Sorry, according to the lore it has to be this way, we can't adjust it just to make it fit into game mechanics".

So even when they know about problems, they choose to ignore all customers to run on the ideas that their storyboard boss have written up. Classic Japanese company perhaps, where you can't say no to your boss opinions, even if you know there are 100 000 people who disagree.

FFXI in itself still has the potential it had 2003. It is just that it isn't run by a company that listens to what their customers wants. Sometimes they make attempts, where they ask "What augments do you want?" and then they give you the options of picking +15 axe skill on ice staff, or +3 MP on your ice staff.

I'm kind of sad that I'll probably quit this game before it becomes enjoyable. It looks very likely that 2017 is going to be the year that FFXI really shines. Assuming anyone is left and hasn't given up yet.

[Saefinn]

Whilst SE are terrible at listening to its player base and makes a lot of poor decisions, it's still a fun game and I'm sure not everybody who plays is playing out of hope things will get better or because they're addicted. There's a lot of content in the game so for a new player there's plenty of things for you to do and endgame can be fun too if you don't become too involved in it, as in waste hours upon hours of repeating the same taste to get gear you want.

I've played other MMORPGs and FFXI is my favourite, I even quit FFXI and even decided to try WoW as some of my friends play it and it was boring in comparison. I think it's a shame FFXI hasn't grown in the direction it perhaps should, but still there's enough content to keep you going for a while, if you don't like it after that...well you don't have to continue with your subscription.

[Zerich]

FFXI is still fun. I'm still having a good time with it, though mainly because I still haven't done allot of the content yet. The people who keep on making those negative posts are only the vocal minority that make it appear to be a crappy game, while the silent majority love the game. There will always be a vocal minority that bash the game on a regular basis no matter which mmo it is, so don't be deterred by the haters here that have no better use of their time than to bash the game. It's allright to give constructive criticism, but just bashing FFXI just for the sake of bashing it doesn't help anyone. If you hate the game so much there's the door behind you. We definitely won't miss you.

i think it's called "addiction"