Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

How do you rate it, say, compared to GW2/WoW/Maplestory/whatever?

Hmm... It's pretty high up there due to the amount of things to do in the game, and how easily accessible those things are at a fairly low level. There's a very linear progression in the storyline that the game takes advantage of by walking the player through all of the different systems the game has using that storyline, making the game very easy to get in to. The game always has a sense of direction and you're not just thrown into a scenario wondering what to do, like in say MapleStory or TERA.