@MrGOH: I tried Cure, didn't work. I tried Esuna, didn't work. May as well put the crying beast out of its misery...

@KixCereal: See, for me, even with all of FFXI's glaring flaws, I still had glimpses of amazing fun with FFXI with my cousin on the US launch. It had its moment, even at the very beginning.

@Cheese Addict: I think it came with the Collector's Edition.

@drauger: Yeah, we're in the same boat! I remember the good old days when I could BARELY wait to play the next Final Fantasy game, and when I finally got a chance to do so, it was bliss. Nowadays, it's torture.

@MrGOH: How about Death? No sense in prolonging the inevitable, even briefly. Just kill it now...

@Jilkon: Yeah the game was pretty much the same thing as the open beta: Terrible.

@Xenoveritas: Yeah I'm feeling the same way. Thanks for extra month of free slave labor?

@INB4DUKAKIS: Ya, I don't really see what it's supposed to be because the font they use is variable width, which doesn't work for ASCII art. :-\

@truthtellah: Ha ha. I hadn't noticed! I've been too enraged about Final Fantasy XIV. Maybe I need to visit a massage parlor, or EVEN a "massage" parlor.

@ChadCalhoun: Yep. They sure are. :) And boy, does it feel more like work each time I think about it.

@truthtellah: Here here. :) I hope and hope it happens. Sadly, I don't take Square-Enix to be the type to bend over backwards for its customers like, say, an indie development group might. SE's too corporate now. But, we'll see.

@mespme: (￣▽￣)ノ＿彡☆バンバン！!

@INB4DUKAKIS: ASCII-art fail with a non-monowidth font...

@Whyspir: God, I kept watching it, hoping it would go on forever...

That sick-ass generic Nintendo box art style will live on forever. :) Great stuff!

Apparently they also reside in San Francisco, if you know what I mean...

@Ash/AP: The original words were "chore" or "painful task", but marketing got to it before the press release.

@DJ Schway: Dude, same here. I got the alpha/beta music rip and started pumping myself up for the experience, then I started playing... I tried to deny it. It was "okay". Then it just wore at me, damage over time slowly taking my life away. I had to get out.

@CHW: They had to DOUBLE the Fantasy hoping that people would overlook the reality that is such a terrible game...

@CHW: They had to DOUBLE the Fantasy hoping that people would overlook the reality that is such a terrible game...