 Great Buy | | Review Date: January 25, 2008 | | Reviewer: Xonic, Oceanside, CA | | Great buy! Great Online game. I have been playing since 2003 and I have not been everywhere in the game yet. One of the best MMO's on the market to date. Thousnads upon thousands of players play. You will have no problem finding someone to play with on FFXI. The in game mentors are very friendly & they help you learn the game. This game haves more depth than World of Warcraft. I recommend this game to anyone that wants to get into a solid, stable, and developed MMO. |
Great game if your going to start ff on ps2. | | Review Date: December 25, 2007 | | Reviewer: Javier Bonilla, | | This is a great way to start the ff saga on the internet, and if your about to start the game its great. Its also really cool if you just want it for all the 4 expansions for the price of one. |
Easy to get lost in another world | | Review Date: January 31, 2009 | | Reviewer: Thula7, Minneapolis, MN | Final Fantasy XI online is an MMORPG worth investing in. The graphics are beautiful, the jobs are diverse, and you can choose from four different races of inhabitants. The cities are fully functioning with Mog Houses for the players, where you are assisted by a Moogle, auction houses from which you can buy practally anything or sell any unneeded gear, and many NPC inhabitants from whom you can gather information or take on missions.
It is easy to get lost in this world of Vana'diel in your efforts to escape daily stress or just immerse yourself in the game play. I play a mithra (cat person) with my main job being thief. The game play is fun and the developers have made it easy for incoming players to level quickly on their own. There are still many fights that take an alliance of 18 or more people to take down, and there is the possability of getting better pieces of eqipment from these fights. I would highly reccomend finding a linkshell (an ingame community of players who have similar interests and goals in the game) to get help with learning the ropes and eventually getting through the missions and higher level fights as you progress.
My only complaint (and the only reason I didn't give this a 5 star rating) is that many of the higher level fights take soooooo long. For example, as a thief there is an item highly desired called a swift belt. To get this, you have to fight in one area for an item to spawn the enemy that will drop the belt. You then have to go to the other area where you trade this item to ??? to get the mob to spawn. Through out all of this, you are also fighting other mobs in the area, due to agro or just to clear the area. You cannot solo a swift belt run and so many of the alliance may also have/need the item to pop the mob. Then there is the possable disappointment, as this is not a 100% drop. I was on the computer for eight hours, (I know, insane.) And no, I did not get the drop. It was that moment of revelation (that my life off the computer is much more fulling) that decided for me. I play the game as I want to but I refuse to spend more than four hours at a time/ ten hours a week on the game.
So, enjoy it. I do, really. Just take it all in moderation, it is after all, just a game. |
5 in 1 Start-up | | Review Date: April 16, 2009 | | Reviewer: Evan Bescan, Cleveland, OH | | Buying this release of FFXI for the PS2 allowed me to get everything in order on a newly formatted HDD. The price is a little steep since the other versions of this exact release are much cheaper on other systems. Overall it's nice to be back in Vana'diel. |
HDD requred for PS2 users, PS3 fixed w/system update 2.10 | | Review Date: December 4, 2007 | | Reviewer: Jon M. Davies, Winston, ga usa | It was really nice of Square Einx to release the original PS2 installs again after 3 years of not having them in print. This allows new players to come into the game by installing the game on a PS3 now that system update 2.10 has fixed the install issues with backwards compatible models of the PS3. Models like the 40 gig, the new 80 gig and the 120 gig will not work with this.
I'm really updating my review because of the new PS3 firmware update. The game itself is great and it works even better when you have friends along. The Wings of the Goddess expansion is included and so far it has some potentially fun features(although it takes SE awhile to add everything). The best feature off FFXI over other MMOs is the ability to swap classes on the fly with few penalties other than the fact that all of them start on level one.(you can be a lvl 30 warrior and a lvl 30 WHM on the same character...no real need to make more characters like oh say...World of Warcaft!)
This collection really great for new players and I hope to see you on my server. Be warned that these disks will not work on the thin models of the Playstation 2 since you can't install a Hard drive in them. Other than that used PS2 hard drives are available on ebay...just make sure you get the HDD utility disk! |
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