Final Fantasy XI or World of Warcraft

I have both and i prefer ffxi over wow for several reasons. While wow is more action oriented and thus more fun for a lot of people, it is also extremely easy and most of the time you dont get that gratification of completing a quest as you do in ffxi.+ i got to lv 40 in 2 weeks:( and i know alot of poele who made it past tahtalot sooner than me. The only way to make wow harder is to join a pvp server, but then u get the lv 60 rogues who camp towns and gank lowbies, which is never fun. on the good side of wow though u can join raid groups and have massive battles against horde or alliance players, and most of the classes are fun to play. I would recommend wow for a person just getting into mmo's or for poeple who like pvp, but other than that i would go with ffxi. Now ffxi is a more traditional mmo, so in that since it isnt as action packed as wow is, and it is much harder. Because of this it requires actual tactics and strategies in early and later lvs. While wow reccommends teamwork, ffxi demands it, as much of the quests are impossible to solo unless you are a much higher lv than the monsters. ffxi is also much more unforgiving which is why i guess people get turned off by it. if say a warrior vokes at the wrong time during a tough fight, the healer will most likely end up dead, and in turn the rest of the party. it requires more precision and cooperation than wow, which is why i think it is more rewarding when it happens. but it also gets frustrating when someone gets your party killed by aggroing 2 monsters or not using the right abilities. so in this since the learning curve is higher and u wanna make sure u know what you are doing. and also you can be any class withough having to create a new character which is good for people who arent sure what they wanna be. downside is though that they charge for each character created, and as stated before it isnt nearly as action packed as wow. but overall it is much more rewarding to the player, and thats why it has so many dedicated fans.WildArms567

well, i don't thnik it's better overall, but then again im a FF fantasy, hard not to be biased towards FFXI, but WoW has got nice character movement, for example if there's a ledge, the character would just jump down or summat, but in FFXi, you'd have 2 find another way down

the bit when u die in Wow also seems better, the whole being a ghost thing is kwl, dammit, now i lost my train of thought, and cant decide which is better

If I could afford to play MMORPG's (I play Guild Wars, but what can you expect from a game that hasn't got a monthly payment? Crap on crap.), I'd probably play FF XI, I've heard WoW isn't very good, adn this is from a friend who has had experience with it.

But all the classes in XI really seem enjoyable, especially that Puppeteer class in the upcoming/newest expansion. Makes me want it even more. :cry:

I've never played any of those games.Soulja_West

well neither have i, but considering the reviews.....

Well, Let's see. I have played both games for 1+ year, with about 85+ days played on FFXI and 75+ days played on my WoW main character. I would personally recommend WoW, if you don't have much time to play. Because you'll be spending A LOT of time on FFXI, and I mean A LOT. First of all, once you reach level 10+ you'll need to form a group in order to progress any further in the game, something that isn't always easy. I've had to spend 6 hours on forming a group once, and I'm not kidding! However, usually it doesn't take that long to get a group together. In WoW you can solo all the way to 60, which is quite nice if you don't have time to sit around and hope you'll be able to form a group. On the other hand, you'll get to know more people in FFXI since you have to group all the time. Atleast it took me a while to get to know anyone in WoW, because I didn't really group much before level 60.

When it comes to endgame content, I believe WoW has more to offer. In FFXI, I believe, you can pretty much only hunt HNMs and stuff (correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't make it to endgame cause I played so many different classes), which are basically strong monsters that require a big group of players to take down. WoW offers a lot of exciting 20-man and 40-man instances, where you'll be fighting lots of epic battles against exciting scripted bosses. If you're not really into PVE, you can also try out the battlegrounds to kill other players.  

I think both are really good games, but I would personally take WoW over FFXI any day. The leveling in FFXI simply gets too boring, well it did for me, anyway. I would highly recommend casual gamers to go for WoW, since it doesn't require nearly as much time. The endgame instances in WoW does, however, require some time though.