7/10

The game itself is beautiful and lovely with a story that starts slow, but thats how SE rolls. They start a story slow and ramp it up like a snowball rolling down a mountainside, getting bigger and bigger as it gains momentum.
Character designs in terms of story and background are diverse, even if the models are lacking a little bit. Some of them have a serious case of the giraffee neck.

If it was just the game by itself, with the content coming out as planned every couple of months I'd of rated the game higher. But theres other things.

SE has dropped the ball alot and responded with some bad decisions.

When the servers were having issues and people stayed logged on day and night in order to avoid 1017 world is full because of tiny population cap on the servers, SE didn't put in countermeasures until AFTER they expanded the servers. The AFK timeout didn't get into the game until after the servers were expanded, good going SE.

Then the response to RMT. They do a blanket ban that catches alot of players that never had anything to do with RMT. Suspending them, and then after deciding they were innocent, taking away a massive majority of their gil. Personally I think they did this because they were getting worried people can afford their large housing immediately at release, but thats tin foil hat theory. Anything else makes no sense whatsoever. Unsuspended their accounts after finding out they're innocent but still take away most of their money, lolwat? Seems very heavy handed and garners a serious amount of distrust between dev and playerbase.

The serious lack of communication from Square Enix. This is the big kicker. The only forum communication I see is from the tech and bug related threads in the Bug Reporting and Tech Support. Thats it, as well as their website info is just lack luster in what they say.