You know a book is a Really good book when it elicits some kind of powerful emotional response from you (Hunger Games and Twilight were like that for me, believe it or not). FFXI isn't a book, but lemme tell you, most status ailments in that game produced a lot of emotional response from me...and verbal ones, to boot (and not necessarily Nice ones, either). That being said, it was an element that brought the game to vivid life, and made it more enjoyable, and I'd love to see the same level in FFXIV.