Honestly the game was fun, but what killed it was that you had to form parties to do ANYTHING past level 10. Not that being in a party isn't a cool thing, but having to sit ther for hours looking for a party that was your level, wanted to do what you wanted to do, and needed your job was annoying. I got sick of wasting half a day waiting to play the game and I quit. Being in a link shell with some friends can help, but it still can be a pain to form a party. Also, I got to the point where I had seen just about everything in the game (minus one ultra high level area), and had pretty much done everything I wanted to do. The problem with the high level content is that it's locked up by some ultra uber link shells. It's not like WoW where dungeons and monsters are instanced, the whole server shares everything. When I found out that all the best monsters were camped 24/7 by groups of people who took turns waiting for them to spawn, I gave up. It just wasn't worth the hassel.
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I knew some players in WoW that used to play FFXI. Their complants mirrored yours. That it was hard to get a party in later levels. Another was Japanese, American, and European players were in same server. Now that sounds cool at first. The problem was the language barrier. That just made getting a party bit harder.