The only other MMORPG I have played and can compare it to is Ragnarok Online... a game which I thoroughly enjoyed while I was playing it. Yeah, FFXI blows that game away. The visuals are amazing, the locations are gargantuan, and there's so much to do. You have no idea how shocked I was to see a cutscene occur during my first mission. I dunno, after RO I just wasn't really expecting that sort of thing in an on-line game. I love it and hope to be playing it for awhile.

My biggest gripe is setting the whole thing up. Ugh. Clearing six gigs of space for it was enough, let alone installing five discs, registering everything, and downloading a huge patch. It took me a bit to get used to how stuff worked, too, but after I had stuff figured out I got addicted. Eh. The lack of an onscreen map kind of annoys me too. I'm lazy. Going into a menu, selecting Map and going through the marker list until I find my party is a hassle. Waah. :rolleyes2