I stopped playing because:

1) I could not find a decent group of people to party with for experience. The few good experience parties i got in were Japanese players mostly. I could never find anyone looking for a party with the search feature.

2) I do not like the limitations of the guildleve system. I believe they could have improved guildleve having them scale in difficulty as you go instead of limiting you to 8 per day. That way people would eventually be forced to party to complete harder "quests".

3) I did not feel immersed in the story. They could have more cut scenes or less for all i care but it seems to me that what is happening in the world was not made apparent and was just a dull buildup. I know SE is capable of a more thought out story line than this one.

i know allot of you support the armory system and i don't hate it BUT ffxi has the best class/job system i have ever seen in an mmo (and i have played quite a few). How could they scrap that and start over? I dislike how you can't switch from gladiator to conjurer and instantly have all attributes correlate with the new class.

inb4 flame
there are many things i like about this game but that is for another thread