Wow, that is beautiful!!! No complaining about /random on l33ts! Thats just nutz. Anyways, I have been an EQ player for a long time. When Final Fantasy came out (I had been having a rough time with EQ cause of my work and all my friends had gotten way ahead of me so it was like I was all by myself at that point) I decided to start playing....and I didn't get very far..I didn't have too. What to say is, I liked the graphics very much, they were superior to EQ obviously, and the actual character /emotes and fight movements were far superior to that of EQ. The Auction House was another wonderful incorporation to that game that I really liked, no rolling into the bazaar and lagging out cause of 200+ people, or having to leave your account on all day to sell stuff (not that much of a hassle but still sucked). But, no matter how many people disagree/agree with this, Final Fantasy to me was a complete hack of EQ, not in a bad way either, it was like they were trying to correct all the problems with original EQ and add some of their own content, new ideas, instanced raid mobs and so on. But I quickly got sick of Final Fantasy for 2 reasons mainly....runtime and exp was a drag to me, it just seemed to take forever. Second, newbies...OMG, I hate to sound elitist about all this, but because of the mad amount of people who were completly inexperienced with MMORPG's in general seemed to greatly out-number the experienced players, and begging, one of my all time most hated thing for someone to do, was more than a common occurence on FFXI. In the end, the people who were playing the game ruined it for me, and when PS2 connected to the PC servers, the game went down the crapper IMO. The many times I tried to explain skill chains to people....ahh yes I picked up on that rather quickly, I researched as much as I could about that game and all that went in to it, but people just couldn't seem to understand, and places like the dunes was a nightmare. I was more than slightly astonished at how friendly and helpful the Japanease people who were on the American servers at the begging (the high lvl ones) went more than out of their way to help people for hours at a time in most cases to camp things such as Magik'd Skulls or whatever for the multiclass quest and various other things that people asked them to help them with. I'm not apposed to helping someone in need but I rarely go out of my way for hours at a time to help people constantly......call me unfriendly, oh well, so I'm not =p I don't know though, with the way FFXI at the time, I quickly got disheartned with the game, and made my way back to Everquest, and it was like a relief when I started playing EQ again. Not to mention, I love doing quests, and FFXI doesn't get close to holding a candle as far as content is conscerned, which is understandable, EQ has been around for quite some time with 9, I think expansions out now, the last 2 with mad amount of content. Regardless, though, I am more than ready for EQ2. Not just the graphics are far superior, but from everything I've heard so far my expectations just keep rising. They have gone out of their way to fix the many deficeincies that EQ has to make it a more enjoyable online experience, and the fight sequences, I must say, tickle me to death everytime I see them on the various video clips that are out. I almost find it hard to believe that they are even like that LOL. Oh well, I'll stop now.