Quote Originally Posted by OJtheLIONKing View Post
Here's something I don't quite get that I see a lot of people mentioning: what exactly is the "full adventure experience?" .
Do you not know what an adventure is? With FFXI you start your adventure as a nobody, literally, NPCs don't know you, people don't know you etc. You have to do quests to build fame which will cause NPCs to start recognizing you (even adjusts pricing as you get more famous, you know, how in real life people give celebs discounts and etc?) and you even start making a lot more friends as you are MUCH more likely to run into people on the same mission etc as you were (back in the day.)

Fast forward you do the missions which introduces you to the world and underlying issues you didn't know existed before (unlike most MMOs spells out everything for you the second you start the game) and you get thrown into having to actually explore places, learn your way around areas and even start seeing the tiny details that made the world of vana`diel seem like an actual living and breathing world.

People who said they played FFXI..did you actually play it? I bet a lot of people who said they did play it still didn't know the moon changed colors with the day or that the rolanberies in rolanberry fields changed colors with the seasons. Though some people hate seeing others enjoy themselves in a game they didn't, and will cite "nostalgia goggles" etc all because they prefer games like this.