I promise you that I would love this game had I played it. I'm sure that it's done very well for a MMORPG, but as an avid Final Fantasy fan, what I enjoy most about the series is the single player aspect. I love being able to boot up FFV anytime I want, or any of the other games.

Sadly, I can't do that with XI. I have to pay a monthly fee, and is anybody going to be playing XI 10 or 20 years from now? Probably not, which mean the game has no replay value.

For those reasons I just look at 11 as this eye sore that I'll never be able to play, and I can't in my own mind consider it a part of the series proper. I'm just wondering why it wasn't called Final Fantasy Online I, with XIV being called FF Online II.

And I recognize that the series is always changing and that each game is different. I absolutely love that part of it. I'm just a bit depressed that this game is something I will never be able to experience or replay.