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Final Fantasy's main problem is that unlike WoW it's grinding and grinding away on levels but once you finish leveling there "really isn't much left". No end game. Also there's "dealing with the 80% of the population that doesn't speak English since most of the population is Japanese".
This entire paragraph is a pack of lies. Yes, it takes longer to get to the level cap than it does in WoW, but that's because getting to the level cap in WoW is ridiculously easy. If you know what your doing you can take a new job to seventy-five in FFXI in about two months, but this is after you've been around awhile. Your first seventy-five will probably take six months to a year.
But the thing about leveling up in FFXI is that there are always things to do other than leveling. It's not all about the rush to level cap and then endgame like it is in WoW. There are many things to do before you actually get to seventy five. There are tons of quests, many of which have interesting stories. There are enough missions that you could do nothing but missions for a good six months, and for many of them you do not need to be at level seventy five to do. There is also the Artifact Armor quests which you can start at level fifty, which will net a you pretty decent or a fairly useless set of armor, depending on job. There are tons of other things that I could mention but I'll leave that for another time.
Now the claim that there is no end game is just ridiculous. FFXI has so many end game activities that unless you do nothing but play FFXI you couldn't possibly manage to do them all at the same time. Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage, Nyzal Isle, Einherjar, Sky gods, land kings, Sea Gods, and to a lesser extent Assault and a new Notorious Monster system just added a couple days ago, are just the one's that I can think of off the top of my head. Now I'm sure that since you haven't actually played the game yet that most of those names mean nothing to you, but I can assure you that there is a very active and extensive set of endgame activities to chose from.
As to most of the population being Japanese, I'm not even sure where this one came from. Yes, there is a large portion of Japanese people that play the game, but there is an equally large portion of English speakers that play the game as well. It really depends on what time you play as to which group you'll run into the most, but there is always a mixture. There are also large numbers of Spanish, French, and German players. Basically if you play during the hours of three PM and two to three AM Eastern, you won't have any issues finding people that speak English as their primary language.
Also, FFXI has what is probably the friendliest people you could ever meet in a game. It pretty much has to since the game is so focused on teamwork to get things done. You will need other people's help to get things done, this fosters a very friendly atmosphere. Yes, there are ********, those can be found everywhere, but they tend to get shunned. All we ask is that you make a legitimate effort to help yourself before you ask for help. This can mean many things. In the early levels of the game all it really means is a willingness to listen and to learn. Later on it means taking the time to know what it is you want to do, where you have to go to do it, and what your going to need to get it done.
Edited, Jun 13th 2008 4:42am by TurinAlexander