are they any good? looks like non-onlines ones? i mean great story etcetc? would maybe like to play one with friends, but im pretty sure the story of any of them would suck :/

14's story is being completely remade and will be released around november or so, but i play it for the mmo playstyle and community/linkshell (guilds)

11 was imo one of the greatest games ever made. I am not an ffxi fanboy per say either.
The battle and party mechanics were perfect for real strategy implementation. Everyone was a real role player in their job. There was no running around frantically murdering.
It was so fun putting together tight knit groups of certain jobs and seeing if you could accomplish something.
At its peak, gil sellers and cheating hnm linkshells ruined the fun but I think that's mostly done now.

I seriously loved that game and I need to stop talking about it before I get sucked in again haha.
My ONLY problem with that game was that things such as traveling and setting up certain missions took too long. It could take a half hour to get to your location and even longer to find the jobs you needed.

If the damn Japanese didnt steal my account I would still be playing.
Customer support told me I have to get some form filled out and notarized at secretary of state to get mg account back...kind of a joke... So I can't play unless I buy someone else's acct I guess

My advice: become a RDM and try to solo everything in the game . Look up videos by Avesta on YouTube. He's the best final fantasy player to ever play hands down. And he played on a playstation so no ridiculous extended macros like us PC users had. I have timers telling me when spells read off and auto recast..he has none of that and is leaps and bounds better than anyone

^ Traveling isn't an issue at all anymore. You can get nearly anywhere in the world in the matter of a few minutes(based on how you have your homepoint setup, and how many Outpost and other Warps you have unlocked).

The only thing though, people don't party in the original zones anymore. It is VERY VERY rare, like extremely rare to see anyone party old school style after level 30. That unique part of the game is pretty much gone. Basically people just solo to level 30, then join an abyssea party and leech to 99. Really sad, the development team killed their own game in that regard. There is tons more end game, and things to do at max level than ever before... BUT the game would be sooo much more dynamic if the developers didn't kill the regular party dynamic. It's so sad.

I'm not even kidding, the chances of getting a 6 person party to level up like normal is pretty impossible.

isnt final fantasy 14 pretty much dead in terms of player count, why are they continuing development?

This post was edited by PotLimit on Jul 15 2012 08:20pm

they are remaking the entire game pretty much. hopefully 2.0 will be the successful release that they wanted to have back when they initially released the game. the game is doing much better, but yes - the population is not there really.

not that dead, still a good number of people playing it, it's more like final crafting xiv than final fantasy xiv though.

So how much better do you guys think 2.0 will be? Right now I get a little too bored playing. I leveled blm to max and currently deciding if lvling some crafting and/or a few more classes to max would be a good investment for 2.0.

If the game continues to get better as it has been each patch...2.0 and beyond should be very successful and fun

Xi is better imo.