They've thought of everything to make this game harder and longer to do anything!
Story is ok. Controls is NOT user friendly. You will meet a lot of people because the game forces you to group up after level 15. (The Dunes for those who knows what I'm talking about.) Items are ok, but it will take a lot of time and effort to obtain. Graphics at the time when it came out was just right, but can't compare to other MMORPG's out now. Tech support is non-existant. Fee's are about $15 a month plus $1 for every character you make. If you quit the game, you have about 3 months to resubscribe until your avatar gets deleted for good. And if you do decide to come back and play again, too bad, you have the buy the game again full price! (learned this the hard way).
Installation n updates of expansions and patches took the whole day to do. You will need about 5-8 hours more after that to get used to the environment, controls, talk to city NPC's and be ready for your quest.
The economy is shot to hell now I believe since people have been buying gold to progress faster in this game. There's not that much gears in this game and at certain levels everyone starts to look the same.
What else can I say? If your a hardcore gamer and love the FF story and the way the japanese designed the UI then go for it. Prepare to spend a lot of hours grinding. If your a casual gamer like me, who has school, work, family and a girlfriend to feed then don't even waste your time with this game.
After a year n a half of on n off playing, I finally quit the game, only to find the itch crawling through my back in 2006. I had to buy the game all over again and once on, realized that there is barely anyone to level with. Everyone got on to WOW. So I finally quit and tried WOW.... playing WOW made me realize how much I wasted my time with FFix.