Yes

(Put it on disc though, I want to read the manual for the PS2 new expansion while using the bathroom. )

Cljader1, FFXIV of 1 year ago wasn't really good, but the FFXIV of today (and for the last 8-9 months) is beyond awesome. Don't listen to those that started playing and quit before all the recent changes, their opinions are no long valid because the game they remember doesn't exist anymore. These aren't minor changes, the entire battle system was reworked and there has been a ton of content added, so much that nobody can make the claim that they have done it all. The achievement system has expanded the amount of things to do to the point that some of the achievements won't be accomplished by anyone before 2.0.

If your friends say they accomplished all the content in FFXIV, they are lying to you. Do they have all the relic weapons and every achievement? I doubt they have the 500K seals achievement (I don't think anyone has that yet) and the ridiculous gil achievements. I seriously doubt they did these things in FFXIV, and that's just the hard stuff, there are countless of other things to do and there is new content released frequently so people always have stuff to works towards. I play both and I can tell you that I have MUCH more fun in FFXIV, cause it's doesn't waste time like FFXI does (camping NMs with horrible pop times and horrible drop rates, it becomes unfun the second you have to wait hours for something, only to have it claimed by someone else or, most likely, the drop never dropping. Not to mention finding parties to do anything that isn't new or recently revamped is the biggest waste of time. Since there's so much to do in FFXI, there really shouldn't be sooo many time wasters, that's where FFXIV wins and FFXI fails.)