Many have criticised Final Fantasy XI for being nothing more than a money grabbing scheme, cooked up by the crooked cash-mongers at Square Enix. Let me be the first to tell you that all these accustions were made under false pretenses. This game is the shining polaris of all MMORPG games, and offers more tasks, more quests, and more side-missions than most regular RPG games. This game is unique, it's immense, it takes place in THE largest online world imagineable, and everything takes place in relative real-time, with a combat system that will have you addicted more than any other FF game ever could have. There is easily thousands upon thousands of hours of gameplay, all of which will offer something new, and there are very few cases where things get repetitive. If anything, this game should be be glorified as it is the most immersive, most elaborate, and best community driven MMORPG to ever grace a console or a PC. This game does require the Ps2's HDD, but at 99/149 bucks USD/CDN respectively, the game is pretty much free with the purchase of the hard drive.