ok for people thinking of buying this game for ps2 i strongly advise you to read this 1st
ok 1st off you must dedicate crazy amount of hours into this game starting from lvl1.its insanley hard.it takes a really hard time to lvl up a job,wepon skills,cooking skills,craft skills ect...people always use to ask me when will this game get fun.its sad to say around lvl 60 is were the fun starts and trust me that is pretty deep into the game.there is so much to say abouth this game so i am not going to type everything out.but let me tell you the basic positive sides and negetive sides.
Negetive-
takes a while to form a party,no chocobo=long ass hike,dieing at a high lvl is frustrating due to the fact u lose over 2k exp(which is alot...mayb an hour or 2 hours lost of battleing depending on how good your party is)very addicing-will have you up all day and night playing(trust me!), if you dont have a ship pass you better pray the destination is near a teleporter with the crystal in hand,alot of people over camp certain notorios monsters(monsters spawning at a certain time droping something valuable)
Positive-
very friendly people,they have linkshells(which is basically a clan),good amount of job classes,tons of spells,armor,wepons,exct.,great lookin gear,every holiday they hold special events at your town letting you win great prizes,they have cool races of people(human,galka,elvaan,taru)you can take boats,ships,chocobos,or just plain run around,this game maps are huge(very very very very very hard to know were everything is at)
i say overall to get this game,but just know that you will have to put alot of time into this game to get anywere(and playin non stop all day every day will not get you there...trust me ive tryed that and almost ruined my life in school)
i have now quit this game and decided to finish off school.i have kept in touch wit many of my ffxi friends.i use to play as a paladin on the server lakshmi i was a human that went by the name Omnislash.if you know me keep in touch!
i hope ive answred some of you questions and i am sorry for the miss spelling.i am in a rush lol, any questions email me-TheMessiah113@Yahoo.com
thank you!