What I just don't see for this game is that most of the MMORPG are rather fighting games, or open ended games. Now FF games have a story line and so forth. Will this game be an open ended game or will it stay on the original track of the rest of the FF games? This is why I see FFXI being able to flop. Now don't get me wrong this game could revolutionize the game industry as some of you said but who wants to pay 50 bucks for the game...and then 5 or 10 every month just to play the game? So instead of spending 50 bucks on a great game your going to end up spending about 80 to 90 if the game has a story. Also if the game is open ended then you could use infinite amount of money on it. So will FFXI only contain leveling up and beating different lands or will it have a plot to the game? Sort of like EVE, all it was was a game that you tried to level up and gain money. If this is all that the new FFXI has to offer then it is to my belief that this game will be more of a flop than a success.