I realize that I have spent a long time telling everyone to take advantage of the price drop of FinalFantasy 14: a realm reborn but i realize after a few months of playing that this is not a good idea for most people.
As someone that has played MMO's since almost when they started to exist I can say that this one does a great job of luring you in. It does a great job of convincing you that something great is coming later, and then nothing changes.
This game, although adored by many is a simply stupid: You must run (unnecessarily) from whatever place to whatever other place ) in order to eventually accomplish some sort of quest thing that only results in you getting another quest that results in you likely getting the exact same thing given to you gain.
A vast majority of what you do will be one alone and even thous the reddit is absolutely filled with fanbois talking about how I am wrong about this I want you to understand that all of these fans are top level and doing things that you can not possibly do until you have played the game past it's horribly boring exterior.
I mean you will have to do "snatch quests" for 30 levels and that is just before i gave up. What this means is
- go get this
- bring it back to such and such person
- they give you something new
- take it to one of the other people involved in the silly chain
- maybe fight something incredibly easy to kill that you could only lose if you were asleep
- take whatever item and return it to the person that told you to do this thing in the first place.
Terrible. And that is what happens over and over and over again. It is not fun! Who TF ever thought that something like this would be fun?
Basically i want to tell everyone to NOT take part in this game. It is not a good game, there is not an active community, there are a few nice things to see from time to time but overall this game is just terrible and part of the reason why it is being phased out is because I think the management is very aware of the fact that people know it is not good.
I certainly hope that no one started to play this game because of my initial descriptions. While I still believe the music and animation is fantastic,.... this game as a whole is just terrible and certainly not worth spending a monthly fee on.