From what i am seeing, Lindy, you are the brick wall. We have different viewpoints yes, but for me at least i dont say WoW sucks with no redemption at all, at least FFXI is not Everquest type of talk. Most of the people that left FFXI has that kind of attitude from where i see on other forums, and somewhat glad. Just because you dont like it and find "flaws"(which there very well be to you), doesnt mean we find the same "flaws" and see them the same way. Maybe you can see that too. Just because you dont like blue and find it a flaw, doesnt mean that i cant like blue and find it something great.

Everything is flawed in some way if you wanna put it that way(and it might be true), however is the "flaw" enough to make you stop playing the game and make it a "bad" game? Thats up to the individual, and you cannot put that as truth. EQ is good, but flawed. FFXI is good but flawed, WoW is good but flawed, GW is good but flawed. But does that mean these are bad games now..? Not necessarily depending on the person.

The Warcraft story to ME is very weak because they used the previous games as a crutch IMO. A game that starts their story without any previous games seem to generate a much more...creativeness and originality so to speak. I mean they can easily make FFXI with a story from a previous FF game and expanded upon it, but the fact that they did not and tried something totally different to me seems much more admirable and have more hard work.

Every instance has a background, has a reason, and has missions within it that follow a story.

Every race has a background, has a purpose and reason.
This is the same in FFXI, every race does have a long history if you read it and do quests, and everything has a purpose and reason too, PvP has a backstory, Dynamis(some of that instance 64 man raid), and other stuff also has a backstory and history that flows within the world too. The Vanadiel Tribute(the newspaper) is also a great thing to read to learn more about Vanadiel.

Oh and lets look at your generally "great" argument Omecle, which is "You don't like FFXI so you think it's very flawed", well the same thing applies to you, you like the game so you don't think it's very flawed, if anything you're more biased than I am because you're playing it and I'm not. You say the game doesn't "suit" me so I don't like it, well the reason it doesn't "suit" me is BECAUSE it's flawed.
On that same note, if you turn it around, you are MORE biased than any of us because you ARENT playing the game. Because you arent playing the game, you obviously feel that there is more flaws than there isnt unlike us and will obviously focus on that because you arent playing. You say the game is flawed because it doesnt suit you, yet at the same time you dont like it therefore its flawed, but however does that apply to me? To the guy around the block? Anything considering what you said can be a flaw if you dont like it, and we dont have to like the same things. And frankly that would be scary if we did.

I do not believe Omecle EVER stated that FFXI has NO flaws. He stated a few if someone went back and read his posts. However are those flaws as bad as what Lindy has stated? I do not feel so, and it is greatly exxagerrated(or maybe its just the sarcastic way that he posts that has that "its the truth" connotation through it), and we stated our reasons why we still like that game.

Anyway..*tries to chip the wall*