In my opinion. FFXI was more time consuming than difficult. It did take a great deal of commitment and you did feel accomplished, but it took a lot of time. I never had a moment in FFXI that I would consider hard, except for maybe the Maat fight.

I loved FFXI and I played it for a long time, but I'd rather not have my time wasted. Just because you can get to 50 fast doesn't make it bad. It's wasn't harder to get to 75 in FFXI it just took a lot longer.