I've never been entirely into the MMORPG...
Let's chart your first lonesome week in Vana 'Diel. Your first few hours will be spent tentatively stepping out of your adopted home city's gates (Bastok, San d'Oria, Windurst, or Jeuno), before battling a few low-level monsters in an effort to level up your chosen job as quickly as possible while earning a little money to buy some armor. Battles are built on invisible dice rolls so there's seemingly little skill involved at first - simply a battle of your stats versus his.
Initially, you're weak and useless and you won't be able to travel very far without dying and subsequently lying hopelessly on the floor crying out in text for a passing mage to revive you. If no one comes to your aid it's a case of respawning back at town, losing a percentage of your experience and starting the process over.
Attributing a numerical value to this world is about as ridiculous as giving New York four out of ten because it needs a good wash. Sure, remove the other people and the resultant empty shell is clearly showing it's age. There's potential for lonely nights of wandering aimless and lost, grinding against the game's antiquated cogs and mechanisms for scant little reward: An aging face, furrowed brow, grey hair and an awkward gait. Two out of ten.
But overlay the living, breathing, bustling society that inhabits this land and mix in Final Fantasy's still compelling mythologies and there's no denying the potential for life-affirming, memorable and wonderful adventures filled with glimpses of real life truth, beauty and awe: A mature, life-chiselled face full of the confidence of having lived and won and worked out its place in life. Ten out of ten.
The truth of the situation lies somewhere in between, because even hardened FF fans can't escape the fact that this is little more than a solid, functional port of a four year old game. As potentially enjoyable as it is (if you put the hours in), and as much content as there is in this all-encompassing release (if you really put the hours in), things have moved on considerably in the MMO scene in the intervening years. 360 owners deserve a lot more than a re-re-issue for their money.