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How is FF XI
Hydra
Member Posts: 8
I was just wondering how the game play was and how much it cost to play. It's hard for me to find a good MMORPG because I'm gone 5 days at a time but I'm also home 5 days at a time so I don't wanna waste my money. Is there a free trail anywhere
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I like the gameplay, myself. It's involving and complex (I advise not treating as a race to the higher levels; you lose a lot playing it that way and you actually don't play as well), heavily group-oriented and there's no real PvP. It's $12.95/mo, with $0.99/mo more for each additional character you have (while you may want a mule or two, note that your main character can freely switch jobs, so you don't have to create a new character to experience another job). FFXI can require large chunks of time, but I would think your kind of schedule (away for several days, but there have several days to devote to it) wouldn't be too tough to work. A free trial was recently introduced by packaging a trial code into the new "Vana'diel Collection" package that just hit the shelves (the "share it with a friend and get him involved" idea). However, that's been out less than a month, so there aren't too many trials out there as of yet. First 30 days are free of a subscription charge, and the Vana'diel Collection is only $30 retail.
Chris Mattern
Note that it was that expensive because he bought the PS2 version, which actually comes with a hard disk for your PS2. For a PC, you can buy the just-released "Vana'diel Collection" which is $30 retail (I've heard you can already get it for $20 discounted). That gets you the Chains of Promathia expansion as well.
Chris Mattern
No, that price is high. The Vana'diel Collection is $20-$30, all the expansions included.
Chris Mattern
Once you are wow-ified there is virtually no way for you to enjoy FFXI. About 3 or 4 years ago it would have been a nice mmorpg but now it is way to laborious comparing to others.
It's a matter of taste. I bought WoW and FFXI at the same time and actually started playing WoW first (because I had bought the PS2 version of FFXI, and I couldn't play it until I got around to plugging my PS2 into my router). But once I started playing FFXI, it took up all my time. I still subscribe to WoW, but I hardly ever play it. As far as I'm concerned, once you play FFXI, WoW is too simple. There's no challenge there, no need to know what the hell you're doing. As someone who's played both, I prefer FFXI by a mile.