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Ok Im sure you all are gettin sick of people askin you questions outside of EQ2. But...FFXI has been my first MMORPG and I am having fun but only really cause of my friends. Anyway..I may be in the market for a change. Ive read a ton of stuff bout this game and read previous posts about FFXI players comin over and never lookin back. I was wonderin if there is anyway to try this game b4 making a purchasing commitment of 50 bucks plus account fee? If you can give me any other reasons to play or stay feel free to let me know. Sorry for the FFXI Sig.

This wont work because you need to have the activation key to start the subscription.. your best bet is see if a friend of yours would let you create a character on his/her account and play around with it for a couple of days (if you can get them to quit playing to let you decide) or just watch.. im a FFXI vet and to tell you the truth EQII is better IMHO. (allthough from what i've heard Square is finally taking action towards getting rid of gil farmers and putting a stop to IGE's Gil selling).

Last peice of advies is buy it try it out.. if you dont like it see if some one else would like to take your account for the cost of the game. (not totally legal but that way your not out your 50 bucks)

Thanks guys. Yea Im not a 60+ yet and I would like to be but I have a room mate who is a 70+ whm and it looks cool but somewhat repeditive aswell. You do the same **** over and over. I may have to try this game out. I dont want to play a game less I can play it hard.

Hey Reeve! /wave

It's 15 bucks a month

If at all possible, I would recommending testing the game past level 12 if you can get the chance. The IoR is a ton of fun, and the ton of quests in Qeynos levelled me quickly to level 12, but then the game subtly changed. And, I think it is in the nature of MMORPGs to be repetative at higher levels, no matter which game you go to. That being said, I am one who left FFXI to wait for EQ2 and WoW and I will never go back to FFXI again! (and I left even before the gil-botting problems were common discussion on message boards).

KRAZIEDActually Sony sent out a 7 day trial key yesterday for people that havent tried the game. The only problem is you need someone with the game to install it and then you enter the trial key. I wont be usingm ine as everyone I know is already playing. So if you want to try something new and you know someone with the game Id be happy to give you my trial key as a former FFXI player to another ;)

Edited, Sat Dec 4 09:41:44 2004 by Pindakaas

This is just MHO, but I thought after about lvl 60 in FFXI, that is when the fun stopped! lol

Most MMOs, at least to me, get very un-fun very quick when you hit the true grind. I am not one to play these games just so I can be elite. I play them to see new things, explore, meet new people, and have fun getting new spells/skills when I level. When you reach upper levels, you have basically seen the whole game, so there is no where to explore any more, you are probably in a static party, or in a high level Link shell (like a guild) since it can be very hard to put together a high level pick-up group, and that is mostly when you meet people. Also, you will not have much more leveling to do, so not many new spells and skills to play with.

That is why I changed games. I'm sure the time will come again with EQ2, but it is very fun for now^^