ff XI or WoW

[Frozen Phantom]

i know first hand that a few wow chars are dicks.... so saying isnt a shocker to me....

For christmas ill get FFXI and use its free 1 month to see if i like it...if i like it more than wow, then ill keep it...If wow is better ill stick with that

[~SapphireStar~]

WoW for me. Havent played it since July, but Ive had more fun playing it then FFOnline.

[bipper]

if you are 8 years old, you will fit in perfectly wiht 98% of WOW's population. So many freakin kids. Led me to leave the game. I now play RF online, which is a simple game, but fun to say the least.

[Dr. Acula]

I can't judge FF11 as I've never played it (I want to though- TaruTaru look SO cute! ) but with WoW, I've never had any problems with other players. Runescape has the most jerks in it, hands down.
But, mainly, if you're nice to other people, they'll be nice to you. Sure there are some dickheads there, but there are some in every game.

[Araciel]

just played WoW today....so far it's fun...but agreed most of the players are less than encouraging

never played FF11

[Freya]

I own both. I don't like FF11, it's hard to lvl, The changing of jobs bugs me, the community is rude, and you can't hop around. WoW is a lot easier and a lot more friendly peopl. Also a lot more people to call you a noob but there's the Jump button(if you can't tell already i'm a hopin' alliance character)

WoW all the way.

That's exactly the opposite what I hear from almost everyone, even WoW players. A majority of my friends play WoW, and every one of them agrees that the player base is full of dicks, idiots, and otherwise incapable people--moreso than other games, anyway. They play the game because they enjoy it and have their own group of friends to play with. They've admitted they wouldn't enjoy it if they couldn't play with people they know. My favorite thing about Final Fantasy XI is that I don't have to do everything exclusively with my close group of friends.

The only problem I see with Final Fantasy XI's community is that it's very elitist. Most experienced players don't have the patience for newbies, and they don't go out of their way to help anyone. I don't see very many people being rude to others, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there. They're in every game; some just have more than others.

Well at first i did have trouble with the community of wow but then once I started to learn about it I realized that I was a noob to it. The reason people are mad is because if you don't know what to do then you die and people dont like to die. Takes too much to repair.
On WoW i've had more higher lvls help me then I ever had in FFXI. They are more inclined to help it seems. Yet that can be from the more players. Though don't ask after 5, that's raid time. lol
One thing Wow has over FFXI, is that you don't have to grind for hours to lvl, then die and have to do it all over again. You get many many quests you can do, now not saying it isn't time consuming to do said quests, it's just more fun and a different approach than slaughtering everything.

[Rostum]

You don't actually lose that much experience points in FFXI when you die, maybe a few kills and you get it back (especially since they've done updates on that aspect), so that point is pretty moot now.

Also, I've found the community in FFXI much more helpful and friendly, than compared to the time I spent on WoW with all those damn kids. I also think the quest system can get just as boring and repetitive as grinding off mobs, but that's just me I guess. *shrug*

[Del Murder]

I only play FFXI, because I'm a Final Fantasy fanboy.

[Samuraid]

While I don't play either game (and no MMORPG games for that matter), I will say that this topic will likely have an overwhelming majority in favor of FFXI. This is a Final Fantasy forum after all.

[Coronet]

It boils down to one thing. How much free time do you have?

XI requires a ton of time as it takes forever to do anything. I played it for ~2 years during high school when I had a ridiculous amount of free time.

WoW is more casual. You can solo the game if you want and log in for 5 minutes and still get something accomplished.

My personal favorite? XI by far. That game is crack.

[m4tt]

Coming from someone who quit FFXI to start up WoW, I say it's more up to your style of play.

FFXI is a lot more demanding time-wise IMO. You can't just log on and get things done within 10 minutes. If you want to level you pretty much HAVE to party. And just finding a party can sometimes take hours for certain jobs. But that's just if your main concern is leveling. You can do other stuff, crafting, questing, whatever. The graphics are very nice, and the cutscenes really do add a lot to the story.

WoW is different. You don't have to depend on other people to do a lot of things. You feel like leveling? Go for it! I think every class can solo pretty easily. My main is a level 46 hunter, and I know they can solo well. And several people in my guild solo a lot, priests, warriors, shaman's, rogues. But there are quite a few things that need groups. Instance dungeons for example, and tons of quests are hard to do on your own. And something I heard a lot about when I played FFXI: The graphics in WoW are awful. Well I disagree. They are different than FFXI's style, but I like them. The pvp in WoW is a lot better than FFXI's pvp. And the fact that the horde and the alliance cannot communicate at all is really neat. One big downside though is that almost 8 million people play this game, and during certain times of the day it can be a hassle just to log in. If your realm is popular you could be in a que for 10-20 minutes. I know my realm, which is still pretty new, has somehow become the 4th most popular realm, and there's a que almost every night to log in.

Anyway, it's up to the way you like to play games. I prefer WoW's style.

[escobert]

Wait for Phantasy Star Universe, because that game will pretty much be what every Online RPG wants to be. It'll at some point beat up WoW and FFXI and take it's lunch money.

Guild wars is ALREADY that. just without the high levels and godly items. Everything else in guild wars is what the other MMOs want to be.

[bipper]

Wait for Phantasy Star Universe, because that game will pretty much be what every Online RPG wants to be. It'll at some point beat up WoW and FFXI and take it's lunch money.

Guild wars is ALREADY that. just without the high levels and godly items. Everything else in guild wars is what the other MMOs want to be.

I have yet to see an above par MMO. I don't think that your subjective views fit that of what the large scale companies want thier mmos to be. There are industry pavers, and I have yet to see one mmo get it right. At least, to the point that I am sold into thinking it is anything above par. WoW and RF online are both on my list at them moment, as being very fun games. DAOC was prolly the best pvp mmo I have played to date. Still, I give WoW the highest score wwith a 5/10 score. Mainly for its lore. Everything else is hooribly sub par.