If anyone plans on picking this up(i27 in MBK is importing the US version soon) you can find me in "Tonberry" server. It's Japanese server filled with aussies and americans. And the ping is proper, around 150ish on my TOT connection. There is no server restriction BUT just note that, when you make your account, put "US" or "Canada" as your country of residence(even if you are from Thailand) otherwise a US version cd-key will not work. And similarly, if you pick up a EU or JPN version use any EU country or Japan, respectively, for your country of residence. This is cause the game isn't available in Asia, other than Japan, and the cd-keys are region based. After acount is made, you can play in any server you want from any region. And I doubt Sq.Enix plans on opening it to Asia either. They seem to not like rest of Asia a lot.

Does this game suck? I know the last one certainly did...

Unfortunately, nope. Doesn't suck a bit. Check out some of the gameplays. And nothing compared to the last one, according to players...

I am a huge fan of the FF series, sadly I do not do MMO's so will not be playing this one. Actually last FF I played was 12, which I found.... good.. not one of the my favourites from the series.

I'll agree with that, as big a FF fan as I may be...12 didn't live up to it sadly