No i didnt mean your gil was bad or anything like that, its plausible to see people maybe give that out to a stranger but other people might misinterpet it, i mean no harm by that and i indeed saw what you did when i came back from AFK looking at LS chat logs. Dont worry but other people might think zomg he got the gil dishonestly and stuff.

I dont think you even played deeply enough in the game. While yes a part of the game is forming a party and getting experience points, that is far from the main focus of the game. You need to do missions. Where you fight bosses and get a cutscene of story. What you described about PSO is there in FFXI, you just either have to get the friends to do missions for you(since the story is after all optional if you want to see it or not. Some ppl just dont care about it, but i do and i value it highly) or you need to get the level to take it on. And thats why some people level too. Those screenshots excluding the first one i put up there were mostly quite long, after a boss battle, and breathtaking.

LB i cant read what you type on the first part of your paragraphh@_@ i honestly cant...but i can make out something about pvp, and seriously ballista is more fun since i dont like pvp to be central in a game like so many other MMOs out there. It really makes people wanna gank and kill one another more, you dont really get that here. Really brings the jerk in some people out.

GRaalonline is a good game if you get involved with the guild community.If you don't get active in a guild or make a guild and go throughte whole guild world thing on graal then you'll just find yoruself playing crappy events and hanging out being bored with 60 other people.
Even FF is like that, what makes MMORPGs great are the people in your guild, and the generally atmosphere and community there. O_o Whats the point?

edit-also I agree with kaiser that even when you do the missions it jsut takes so long and oyu do spend hours upon hours of lvling it ins't until lvl 40 when you can actually have a sense of balance on this game..Also he is bringing up the issue of players actually RPing a storyline.
Besides the later CoP missions which are hard, how are these very long? Most of the time you just gotta read up on what you need to do, get the acquired level that you can help out(like mission 5-1) and then plan a date for people to go. It can be easily done if you take the steps to do so.

Players ARE actively RPing a storyline whenever you do missions. You are always roleplaying yourself. O_o Tried doing the Neck piece armor(forgot name) in Sandoria? Its really engaging Quest(not mission), and also the missions in Sandoria give you that sense of being a Squire helping out the nation, while in Windurst you get the feeling you are just a low adventurer finding out something big in the land of magic..I dont know bastok since i never did missions there yet but i honestly dont know what you are talking about.

People sometimes complain about how some missions are easy(espcially with high lvl help) and when they get something hard they bitch about it. They complain that its not deep enough the story when they havent even progressed far enough or they dont even care about the story but the items obtained like Airship Pass or Sky access. :rolleyes2

Politics aka Drama is not necessary in MMORPGs..-_- We have that enough with certain people as it is, but really a more close community is best like FFXIs.

LB i really like you to make FFXI then if its so half-assed, seriously are you going to figure out all the mathematical formulas for Accuracy or how much fish bites? Or have to listen to people bitch about how their game isnt perfect when every time they make patches with job and changes they need to think of the world impact it might make? Seriously you dont even know what you are talking about..if you want half-assed, talk about Ragnarok Online or something like that, that whatever changes are there, the developers dont care and the balance is whacked.

If you mean roleplaying as your own character, go ahead, you CAN if you really want to. NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU! Seriously no one is! Anyone can roleplay whatever their character is on an MMORPG! You dont need missions or anything to roleplay! Do whatever you like! You honestly can.

Static for you i can agree with. But for me, looking at the ever flucuating economy is enough for me to think..its more than static