Yes, yes I know it's an MMO and technically the spawn the Satan (the bad Satan, not the good Satan of heavy metal, D&D and alike) but it was a massive £5 on Steam for the ultimate collection. And £5 to try the game for a month because I feel like it, not really a bad deal. As of yet, I don't really see myself forking out for monthly play time. Maybe if I get really hooked over the next month, maybe...
Downloading it took a LONG time. 8gig install over Steam. Fair enough, it's the game plus all the expansions and add ons, that sort of stuff adds up. So left that to run over night. I come to try the game... the PlayOnline launcher has to patch. Sigh, ok that's normal. That updates, then the sign up process is long and the menus load really damn slowly. Its almost like all the menu data is download every time. Just so odd.
The menus in the PlayOnline loader are not slick at all, menus within menus "fractal spreadsheet nightmare!" to steal a quote from Zero Punctuation. However, I do finally get signed up up and get into the FFXI menu. Which is just as slow and the stuff about game time, characters seem to have subnames just for no reason, like "ContentID" and again, managed to register my free gametime.
After that, I try to launch the game, boy that was a bad idea. 18,000 (yes eighteen THOUSAND) patch files to download. It took about 6 hours to download all the patch data. And this is with the combined ultimate edition as well! So that took another night as well.
Once I finally got playing, I found out a very hard lesson, the intro tutorial stuff isn't auto marked on your map or anything. So I didn't pay attention to the name of character that would give me my start up quests. I actually had to go and look up a FAQ to find our who and where he is! Possibly my own fault but still. It doesn't really seem that user friendly and really expects you to have read all the manuals etc. Nothing wrong with having to read the book but really, a little help.
I shall keep playing and see if anything really interesting turns up at least.
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