I played FFXI for awhile and my GF made me grind for her in Ragnarok Online. While I have no issues with the mechanics of an MMO except that it often feels like the mechanics exist for the sake of themselves rather than achieving some overall goal, but I could apply that to most modern RPGs as well, I never could get into the social aspect of it. Waiting for people, relying on people, dealing with people who take the game too seriously or not enough, it just got incredibly aggravating and I don't have the patience. My other issue is that I never got far cause I could never fully commit to these games, in time it would take me to get anywhere with these games, I could have played five others and I already have a backlog of games yelling at me to catch up.

The friend who finally convinced me to play FFXI is now trying to get me to play XIV and while I feel the game looks very promising and fanservicy (which is what I wanted out of a FFMMO) I just keep thinking about all that time I don't have which would be needed to play that game.