@JJOR64 said: " Go with WoW if you want a good MMO. "FFXI is a good MMO, it just requires a whole lot of commitment, and an ability to work together with people on just about anything, but it rewards you for it quite nicely. But to the OP, if you want the honest opinion, I think it's pretty late in FFXI's life cycle to try starting fresh, unless you join ...

As someone who has been playing for almost 7 years, I can almost assure you that, at least from what has been seen so far, not too much from XI will be carried over to XIV in terms of the battle command system.  Where XI is very heavily menu based (due to being designed for someone using a PS2 controller), XIV appears to use the, now MMO standard, "hotkeys". This ...