Well didnt its first outting flop hard? I think after that people lost a lot of interest. And I dunno, something about the FF universe just isnt appealing enough to me in an MMO type of way. Like I enjoy playing FF games every now and then, but something about the worlds just doesnt feel "natural" to me. There are many fantasy based games, most notably World of Warcraft, and as fantastical as they seem, the worlds feel cohesive as if they could actually exist. In FF games it never feels like that to me, the worlds just feel like giant stages where a show occurs and they are torn down as soon as you turn off the game...I dunno how to explain it.
With that being said, i was a huge fan of FFXI and spent countless hours playing it on PC. This was a pre-WoW MMO and as such was extremely difficult. I mean the difficulty difference between WoW and FFXI was similar to the difficulty difference between COD4 and Battletoads for NES...that crazy. But I loved it to death, I loved the importance of group work. Yes it sucked that there was pretty much no solo content in the game cause the basic enemies were tougher than WoW dungeon bosses, but if you got into a group, just fighting combat and teamwork was so satisfying! And lets not forget how you could delevel lol. Nothing like starting a sessions level 40 and ending it level 35 lol. Good times, good times :P
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