I'm done with this topic after this post, its just gonna end up page after page of wow bashing and I usually don't involve myself in the bashing of other games. I'll reccomend WoW to people but I'd reccomend FF over it ONLY because of personal experiences.

In all the time I played WoW I made lots of friends but thats it, they remain "WoW Friends" outside the game they mean little to nothing in my RL. In FFXI however I have made great RL friends, I've went to a RL wedding between 2 of my long time FFXI friends and the EGLS we ran with, I've been to NY and spent a couple days hanging with a friend from my social LS and his family. Hell I even have friends in China(not RMT) and Japan that I planned to visit next year.