it was a bad idea in the first place. as an avid Final Fantasy fan ever since i played VI, It's heartbreaking to see what has become of the series.

Why not? Wasn't XI their most profitable game? It's just too bad that they stumbled out of the gate with this one. At least the game is shaping up better than it was at launch.

After playing the beta myself though, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was just another generic mmo. Idk, maybe I need to be higher level to get more out of it.

Hope it get's fixed, it's easily the best mmo i have ever played

Are you playing it on PC or PS3?

I'll be writing a review sometime in a couple weeks. Thus far I can say that i'm terribly disappointed with A Realm Reborn. It's riddled with mediocrity, and it's quite evident from lack of time, and poor design decisions.

As a longtime Final Fantasy online player, this is heartbreaking. (This has nothing to do with the server errors. That stuff happens).

Good point. Although I've heard them say many times that the reason they went with P2P is the amount of content they can bring to the game without having to worry whether they'll make their money back or not. In F2P games, typically the developers need to constantly add new things that you can buy with real money in order for it to be profitable. I think a reason like that is valid. P2P and F2P offer different experiences and maybe SE just felt that the P2P experience was the way to go for a Final Fantasy MMO. If the game doesn't turn out profitable, I'm not sure I could say it was solely due to P2P, rather there wasn't enough value and support to justify going that route.

I agree about DQX though, that was pushing their luck.

The main problem is server side, not the gameplay. The servers cannot handle the loads/requests of all the users at one time due to spikes in server activity. This is only in the NA/EU data centers, Japan data center is unaffected because their population is lower compared to NA/EU regions.

Overall, for the time that I get to play in the early access, its the most fun mmorpg i've played yet. I can't wait until they fix their server congestion problem.

Already have the PS3 and PC versions. I will upgrade to the PS4 version when its available

Yes it is.

True. Even I'm into the MOBA scene even though I don't play them! xD One of these days when I get a PC I probably will since everyone I know and their mom play these games. It probably doesn't help that they are completely free to play either...

currently speaking, it is successful thus far, that's why it's having the server issues (More people than expected, a lot of the worlds full). Online centric games always have problems at launch. I think they should have had more worlds and limited the amount in each world, except for friend invites.

That said, as with most MMO's I've played (I've played EverQuest, FFXI, TOR, Guild Wars). I still find it a bit boring, not as boring as TOR, I know it becomes more interesting the farther you get, but yeah. The world, and art design is beautiful, and music is fantastic.

The lack of VA's is a bit dissapointing, maybe there are more spots with more I would like to know, I'm not counting on it.

I'm limetree if anyone wants to add, I'll start a new character or something and join a world. I'm sort of waiting til they get their server issues through, to spend much time on it though.