Well, RPG's were actaully a Japanese game companies strong point. I have to agreee about the other asian markets games.

Now to me XI had alot more to offer then EVE, WOw and other MMO's. After beig nstornger in XI, games liek WOW were just mediocre, casual MMO's. It's fine for the Hyped, my friends play it younger crowd, but XI was mroe hardcore, indepth and had a MUCH stronger community effort.

Now many of the tiles,Minus WOW, are NOT American titles. European yes, American no. Actaully the devloper teams are mixed in race from many regions for higher end titles.

Some of the earlier strogner story writers of Final Fantasy are gone, but some from XI are back and working on XIV now. The sad truth is, the Father of Final Fantasy has moved on to his own company a long tiem ago. You can see his imfluence and the orginal style (turn based) in the title Lost Odyseey. I am jsut glad Nubuo is still doing music on both sides.

I have alot of Japanese friends, and they simply do nto feel that way. THey play many titles including other mmo's. Yet I stick by there side when you try to compare XI to wow. WOW was just.. meeeh.... We will have to see what another other asian title... Guild Wars 2, can really become. The closed beta has it's issues hince delays, and we don't want another Aion, or a free to play but put in money to get better stuff faster game.