What an opinionated and judgmental post. ._.

I won't even touch the most recent FF games-or touch on them.

As for 2-a HUGE number of people are saying it's crap compared to the first. A lot of people have just as bad or LESS stable connections, the pvp is terribly unbalanced, soul memory is killing co-op, poise is utterly screwy, the weapons barely vary in use aside from damage, and the 'difficulty' is as often synthetic difficulty as actual challenge like the first. Even the people who defend the mechanics aspect religiously admit that the story is junk compared to its predecessors.
After that last post, though, I'm not going to continue in this conversation; you're apparently rather hostile about it, and I'm not going to hang around that. I won't be back in this thread.