This game is not worth wasting money on... It's worth investing money on. Seriously, like all MMORPGs out there, you're monthly fee is likely alot less than any video game rentals you take out at the store. Also, you can make that kind of money in 1-2 hours at your regular job, or mow the lawn for your parents, or clean the house, or whatever.

PTing is forced very early, which is a big beef for alot of people, but we all keep doing it and we all keep having fun. Later on, like around my highest lvl job of 49, it can be a real pain sometimes, but that really all depends on what jobs people are looking to add to their PT at the time, who is actually online, whether or not you become accustomed to the remarkably simple translator and pay a bit of attention to etiquette, ect.

I don't know, it's difficult to compare a game like this to others, since it's so unique on so many lvls, but if you're not prepraed to commit a serious few hours to the game when you load it up, then perhaps the game isn't for you. For one, you could always troll around more forums and read people's pros and cons on it. Allakhazam's WoW forums spring to mind if you'd like to get the opinions of others from a more con point of view... although again, that's still like comparing apples to oranges.

Myself, after a whole year in the game, I've met a slew of wonderful people, I've had some good times, some bad times, and overall I've been entertained. I feel my time in the game coming to close in the near future, but it has definitely been worht it. Even if I hadn't have kept my subscription after the initial month that comes with purchase, I'd still have had no regrets about dropping the cash on this game. For me, it would have been worth it just to have said "I checked it out, I have my own opinion."