Gaming Mistress, At Your Service

After my first epic drop last night, I tried to log in to see if the shining beauty had sold.

Much to my (lack of) surprise, the whole Shadowburn battleground system is down, killing three out of the five servers I’m on, including Lightninghoof, the one where the pretty shiny epic is sitting on the auction house.

So now I am forced to look for upgrades to my main character while I wait for Blizzard to, ahem, get their “Shiv” straight. At least she’ll look good in the end.

First order of business:

Figuring out which is better: Final Fantasy XI (PC, PS2. Xbox 360) or World of Warcraft (PC, Mac)?

Before I continue, someone out there is going, “Why not Everquest or Lord of the Rings Online?” Why you ask? Because FFXI and WoW were the first MAJOR MMORPGs and still are the top ones. Plus you never hear anyone say, “LotR Online is better than FFXI/WoW!”. And if you do, you should slap them. Repeatedly. With a large blunt object.

Anyway, we’ll break it down by what each game has to offer. (more…)