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Worst Final Fantasy Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oh where do I start with this one. First off let me say I own this game and have completed allmost all of it and have achieved the highest level
obtainable. This game does not start off so bad. However once you get to the level where you need to make a little gil for equipment and get a party to earn experience points the whole game starts going bad very quick. On the money situation , years of explotation by child run sweat shops in third world countries has given this game an out of control economy of inflation. Most ways to earn money in this game are completly controlled by the "RMT" ,or real money trade, forcing you to buy gil on your credit card to get that equipment you want. You will face an endless amount of hackers and 24/7 "bots" standing in your way of making money and ever enjoying this game. There are "Game Managers" that are suppose to control this issue but most of them offer very negative responses to any report of offenders and rarely act. I have personally seen the same
botter in the same place for over 2 months now. If all this wasn't enough, there is the experience points issue. Most of the time while trying to get experience points you will have to wait for many hours to form a party if you can get one at all. Then , you have to hope the people you play with are competent enough to have an effective party.
If the boring redunancy of fighting the same kind of creature thousands of times wasn't enough.So all in all, do anything but buy and play this game.It is horrible.

Garbage interface, poor graphics and about as much fun as chipping paint

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 21
Date: August 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I tried a 30 day free trial. Took 30 minutes to load the online client and game. Then 20 minutes to pass through all the registration. Then another 2 hours to load the updates online. Upon reaching the game, the graphics were terrible. I mean, washed out with low resolution circa Playstation One - state of the art for 1999. I never actually bothered to go beyond the clumsy and awkward character creation sequence. The characters look goofy. The scenery is Final Fantasy style, and sort of obtuse. The interface is driven by a combination of mouse click, mouse wheel click, ESC key press, Return key press. Hitting the wrong key results in the mouse cursor moving to the far edges of the screen. The keyboard shortcuts are non-intuitive. The text size is huge and blocky and difficult to read. The introductory NP characters are completely annoying, and it's hard to scroll past their stupid, cutesy commentary. It takes 30 seconds to log out. I couldn't wait. What a mess. It's hard to believe the reviews this game received on the online gaming websites. I have to think that most of the positive reviews are being placed by shills. This game should be laid to rest. It should not be re-repackaged and sold again.

Horrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 42
Date: February 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is quite possibly the worst Final Fantasy game ever created. There is no way to describe the garbage that this game is. I am amazed that they would even put something like this out and make people pay for it. If it was free, I could see it, but to pay for a game as weak as this is ludicrous. The graphics are absolutely horrible for today's standards. The franchise doesn't make enough to bring the game into 2007? Free MMORPG's look better.

The character look stupid as all get out, and the controls are slow and sloppy. The interface and overall game play is far worse. The monetary aspect of this game is astonishing. You need so much money to even purchase the simple things. You quickly loose interest in the game after about three hours. This one was no fun at all.

The biggest stinker that Square has ever put out. Not to mention, you won't find many people playing this game which makes it equally unbearable. This will be one of those purchases where you will feel like you were taken after you open it. That's exactly what Square is doing with this one.

Snooze

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played a lot of MMO games, and I do mean a lot. I was surprised to find though, that out of all of them, many of which were free to play, this had one of the worst user interfaces I've ever seen. That coupled with the simple fact that the game is just quite boring, in reality I wasn't expecting a whole lot, I only bought it to round out my Final Fantasy collection, but I wasn't expecting something this bad either. I admit though, that I didn't last long because of how bad it was to me, and so my opinion shouldn't be seen as a remark on perhaps how the game may play later on, so long as you can last. Lets not forget the fact that it has one of the worst minigames in Final Fantasy history as well. Yeehaw.

not hapy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

couldn't get the registration codes to work with my Vista OS even after downloading the vista compatible POL. Still no success, not happy.

errrrr....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

it wos horabel the grafics wer terabel and the contols wer wers it wos just panefull 2 play :O not 2 menchon it tock like 12 huwers just 2 get it 2 werk...

wers game i hav ever playd

Paying for online play is BS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Was shipped fast.. if you have to pay a monthly subscription to play a game it isn't worth it with all the other games out there that don't charge.

Prepare for a lot of wasted hours

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am still in the recovery process from this game. For over a year I would spend 4-8 hours a day playing this game and even though its been a year since I've quit I still have the desire to go back and play more. The game involves hours and hours of sitting around waiting for everthing to work together so you can spend minutes actually fighting. When everything works together it is fun, don't get me wrong, but I assure you that everything working together is rare.

There is another problem with gil. It takes a lot of work, and I mean work, to get money on this game and to add to your troubles item and equipment are ridiculously overpriced. The time you need to commit to this game is again increased.

If your interested in buying this game to try it I will tell you what to look forward to: Hours of frustration as you wait. You wait for a party, wait for it to get organized, wait for them to find something to fight, wait for people to recover, wait for new party members because people leave. And after all of that waiting, what have you accomplished? Nothing!!

Strangly the game still manages an alure that will have you comming back to it over and over again hoping for the world but recieving nothing but frustration. It takes real commitment and sacrifice to play this game, more than I'm willing to give.

Moved on to World of Warcraft

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 37
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I tried playing Final Fantasy XI a few times since it came out for PC (2003, maybe?) and I had to move on. The first time through, things really slowed down around level 18. You need to do a very annoying quest to get your "subjob," otherwise you're useless in parties. Also, around level 20, you make a crazy long and dangerous journey to a big city to get your chocobo, which involves you sitting down at your computer for 5 to 6 hours! The game gets so ridiculous with the time required to do anything... And you can forget about going "solo." Quests didn't yield any experience points so your only way to level was to fight. Once you hit levels 10 through 12, doing that by yourself becomes extremely lengthy and tedious. Monsters that seem like a "decent challenge" will really mess you up... Fighters can take hits, but can't cure poison. Mages can do a lot of damage, but spells take time to cast and get interrupted. Red mages almost cut it, but don't have a lot of hit points... In short, if you don't have a good party, your experience points per hour will be terribly low.

The second time I played the game, last summer (it's 3/23/07 right now), there weren't enough people playing to even make parties! There were only about 2k people logged on to my server period. Before, there were nearly that many within shouting distance.

I went to World of Warcraft. It's possible to get things done in shorter periods of time, and not nearly as dependent on partying with others. Ultimately, FFXI had some good ideas, but World of Warcraft pretty much fixed all the problems I had with FFXI.

Not very good at all...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought into this, expecting a more cutesy version of EverQuest 2 or World of Warcraft but, unfortunately, the game just blows. The graphics are weird-looking and dated... the controls are REALLY unintuitive... the game itself is complex and slow. Yeah, I just didn't like it at all. Admin-wise, even setting up an account is overly complex and you can't seem to find the information you need. Case in point, I could barely find a way to cancel my account, two weeks into the first free month.

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