Launcher is broken, and appears to have been for a long time. Square Enix does not care for the steam version, why should you. Playing the game requires exiting steam after logging into the launcher but before launching, or else the game black screens.

Technical issues aside, the combat feels average. There's just nothing to distinguish it from the experience offered by any other MMO. As well, the initial story is one-dimensional. The world and the people within it come across as surface-level. Characters are empty at best, and outright annoying at worst. I was genuinely shocked when the story used the groundbreaking narrative element of "foreshadowing," as at that point I truly felt that was beyond the purview of these writers.

Launcher is broken, and appears to have been for a long time. Square Enix does not care for the steam version, why should you. Playing the game requires exiting steam after logging into the launcher but before launching, or else the game black screens. Technical issues aside, the combat feels average. There's just nothing to distinguish it from the experience offered by any other MMO. As well, the initial story is one-dimensional. The world and the people within it come across as surface-level. Characters are empty at best, and outright annoying at worst. I was genuinely shocked when the story used the groundbreaking narrative element of "foreshadowing," as at that point I truly felt that was beyond the purview of these writers.