Anyone tried FFXI with Innerspace?

[Ardef]

To play, or not to play FFXI; that is the question-- for me anyway. FFXI hold a special place for me for a couple reasons. It's a game I always wanted to love, but couldn't because it's unsoloable with hideous time sinks. And, while, it's become a bit more soloable it still has many time sinks of which traveling isn't the least.(which I hate-- I hate when games use, slowly, running around as a time sink).

I've wanted to love it because I like it's graphical style, (most) of it's gameplay systems-- I just think the numbers are too harsh, it's lore and the fact that it broke my EQ addiction even though I originally only played FFXI for 6 months when it was released. In fact, FFXI is EQ 1.5 as far as I'm concerned.

I doubt many people here played EQ in it's heyday but if you did and still pine for it occasionally; don't try it. It's a horrible mish-mash of half completed and/or abandoned systems and wildly varying graphical quality. Try FFXI instead. It feels a lot like a Japanese version of EQ... Because that's exactly what it is.

Oh, and I don't think I quite emphasized the power of broadcasting macros to other windows from a single window in FFXI... I can play 4, and could play 6 (a full group), characters as competently as individually controlled characters using a Dual Shock controller. This is partly because FFXI allows old-school macros(/cast ... /cast. ... /cast) and because the combat in FFXI is much slower paced than in WoW.

Oh, well. Enough of my rambling.