i heard that this game was an epic fail upon release because they had servers down all the time.
i still do not approve of final fantasy mmo though. ff has nothing to do with this genre.
if you take away story from final fantasy, why to play it?
This is FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, the biggest successful relaunch of an MMO in history. Yes, the intial launch failed. Square Enix took it down, went back to work, and has released not only a better version of the original, but a better MMORPG than has been released in nearly a decade. And it is chock FULL of story with hundreds of cut scenes. In fact, when you run your first class, I recommend that you do not take ANY side quests. The main storyline is plenty for leveling and it makes you feel like an important part of the world at large. NPC's recognize you from your accomplishments and those that don't sometimes leave you wanting to say "You want me to do what? Bitch, do you not know who the fuck I am? I'm the motherfucking Ifrit Bane! You really think I have time for your little errand? Oh...you do....<sigh>...okay, where is this place at again?" Leave those side quests for your additional classes later after you have finished the main storyline on your first class. And yes, first
class not Alt. Your class is determined by the battle and crafting guilds you join and then you switch to that class by switching your primary weapon. Additionally you have certain class jobs you can take once you get to certain levels of 2 different classes. For example, I'm getting my Conjurer to 30, then going Arcanist to 15 so I can become a White Mage which pulls from both classes, but gets some job specific abilities as well. Oh yeah, you may not want to take a crafting profession. You start with one, then next thing you know you have 4 of them and haven't done any fighting for the last 3 days because you've been too busy gathering and making things
combat is fun only for so long. the main reason why to play any ff game is by far story and characters.
edit: of course thsi wont stop some people from playing this and doing the same thing over and over and over. mmos are just repetitive, and the lack of any story and character development makes it all worse.
You flat out don't have any clue as to what you are talking about here.