I Love This Game :)

[Dubont]

This is an MMO if something doesn't work a patch can fix that. Unlike offline games once its out, its out.

Unless that "offline" game is on the 360, PS3 or Wii...

[Flower]

I love this game too I may complain about small things but I will most certainly still be playing it anyway!

[Benji]

I just started playing again last week because of patch 1.17. The game has been constantly improving since beta, but I feel like it's finally almost in a good place. Once Companies and the new battle system come out this game is going to be awesome.

[Gramul]

I like this game. I see it as having incredible potential. The atmosphere and stylistic direction of the game is some of the classiest and carefully crafted handling of fantasy setting I have ever seen in a game, but I feel it was released far too early and it originally used far too many of the expected formulaic, over-structured, and linear style of Squares latest games. It is however improving. There's a lot more variety and it seems things will get even more interesting in the upcoming months.
And I do care what other people think about it because the strength of an MMO is its community.

[Miyochan]

I tried to play other MMO like Rift or Vindictus.. it fun at first 2-3 weeks but after a while it bored me for no reason ( same as I used to played WoW ) and I stop and cancel subscribe it before month..

But FFXIV, even I know it incomplete and need lot of work to fix.. but when I compare the system & graphic to mentioned games... I feel like FFXIV is far better than them.. like super-detail armor and weapon that no other game can do.

Right now I don't have inspiration to play FFXIV much but I still keep checking their update.. and I wish Yoshi-P team will overhaul the battle system asap because right now I feel no fun for fighting in FFXIV.... at all.

[Hiemdall]

Unless that "offline" game is on the 360, PS3 or Wii...

Very true, and patches/updates for current gen console games come out all the time. They are in the form of bug fixes, maybe more content. Not not the huge drastic changes that will be in patch 1.18...assuming the battle changes are in that patch.

[Pulseczar]

I've loved the game since launch—even its quirks.

[Lissandra]

I genuinely like this game. Seriously. I do. I started at launch with the mindset of playing for the long haul, and that is just what I am gonna do. I am aware of the many issues this game currently has, but they won't be things I will allow to boggle me down.

[Vanguard319]

I've been playin since the CE release, I gotta say, that the game is nowhere near as bad as the "elitists" say. It has it's flaws, but they aren't beyond improvement. I like the ability to party or go solo. I like the leve linking. I like that I can wear heavy armor as an arc if I want to. I still believe this game is better without auto-attack, there is no need to switch to a ffxi style job-system, and I'm not too fond of the updater.

Overall though, I have enjoyed myself quite a bit, enough that I don't log into xi much anymore.

[zaviermhigo]

I bought the collectors edition, played a week early, quit sometime about November, came back in December due to it being winter break, and quit again when school is in. This games not good enough to make me forget I have homework to do, which is actually kinda good i guess :/ I like this game but it wasn't my first mmo, and I've really given up trying to recreate the magic XI was, because its nostalgic to me, being my first mmo lol.