Personally, I have never played FFXI, but I grew up with the franchise and played every single mainline title as well as a good bunch of spin offs.
This game is a loveletter to the old Final Fantasies, and it scratches an itch that Square didn’t manage to scratch for a Long Long time.
I started playing around 10 days ago and I have around 60 hours in the game, still feeling like there is a loooooot more content to discover. And it’s not like I force myself to play it. My body and my mind gravitates around the game a lot when I’m at work or so.
I highly recommend the game to anyone who likes turn based rpg‘s with class systems and a lot to discover.
It has the potential to get on my top 5 final fantasies list, but I have to play more to say for sure.
Beyond that, whenever I have a question, the devs are there to answer everything and help me.