Fighting Desperately...

[Xoo]

...with an ever-growing urge to just return to FFXI, get a much-needed nostalgia fix, and play all the jobs I used to love from Lv1 solo. This, just before I log out of MMORPG's for the last time. /melodrama.

There was a poll held a few months ago, and it revolved around the question, "What do you enjoy about FFXIV?" At the time, and unfortunately it remains the same, I had only one response: I like the graphics. Indeed, they are good and still amaze me.

Still, graphics do not hardly make a game. FFXIV, to me, just keeps becoming more restrictive, blurred, and just down-right not fun. I actually think I had more fun with the battle system as it was near release than the way it stands today. SE has gone overboard with Easy Mode in the form of Combos - with bright flashing circles that scream, "Click me to not suck"!! And I have every reason to believe it's just going to get worse.

I don't want what FFXIV is now and what is apparently going to grow up to be: Beyond Casual - A slacker's game made for slackers. It's really heartbreaking to think of all this game could have been, but I suppose it just makes better sense to milk the cow and market the milk.

No offense to any females out there, because I know you're all tough as nails, but I feel like FFXI was a 'man's game' - where you liked getting your hands dirty, and you came back from every adventure to Sand'Oria dripping with sweat and covered in blood. Effort: It builds the strongest character. Pun intended.

I wish some empathetic developer who was a true fan of FFXI would bring it back to us in some form. I don't need the brand to enjoy the game, by any means. I need mystery, intrigue, challenge, depth and adventure to fill a void that was left by some of my most fond and fantastic memories in gaming.

World of Warcraft, may you rot and burn in Hell.

[Antanias]

All because Utsusemi isn't in the game?

[Xoo]

All because Utsusemi isn't in the game?

I did laugh.

Honestly, probably so.

[Answa]

I think you're overreacting.

FFXI didn't really have any difficulty to it. It just took fucking forever to get anything done. Or to wait for an NM to pop so that some other team would claim it. Or to wait 72 hours to be able to go to Dynamis again so that your relic armor doesn't drop. I could go on.

[Vaer]

FFXI is a bad, bad acronym on this forum.

Well, unless you say it sucks.

[Xoo]

It's all about what I personally enjoyed and preferred. Challenge it may not necessarily have had, but if XI was easy, then this game is for mongoloids. No offense to any mongoloids in the community.

[ArnoMorley]

@Answa
Yeah I bet it was so easy you went 1/1 on maat on each job you fought him. I bet you went 1/1 on every CoP fight and alexander. Heck I'll bet you solo'd AV at some point. Easy game alright.

[Babydoll]

@Answa
Yeah I bet it was so easy you went 1/1 on maat on each job you fought him. I bet you went 1/1 on every CoP fight and alexander. Heck I'll bet you solo'd AV at some point. Easy game alright.

Good point..I agree lol. I doubt anyone went 1/1 with that stuff! I do agree with him though about the NM's and wait times...but the game was by no means easy.

[Answa]

@Answa
Yeah I bet it was so easy you went 1/1 on maat on each job you fought him. I bet you went 1/1 on every CoP fight and alexander. Heck I'll bet you solo'd AV at some point. Easy game alright.

Did you go 1/1 on Ifrit, Moogles, Aurum Vale, Cutter's Cry, Dzemael Darkhold?

I did 1/2 on Maat on SMN. I didn't care to get cap. I went 1/1 on almost all CoP fights, but mostly because I did it once all the strats were laid out; pre abolishment of caps, of course. I never gave a shit about AV.

I don't consider going 1/1 on fights being that they were easy. I just mean that there's a trick to everything.

The only things that were worth it weren't hard to accomplish because the fights were tough, it was mostly because the time requirements were ridiculous. *cough*Dynamis*cough*

[Xoo]

A better point, as far as difficulty, would be to ask: Did you cap all your battlecraft jobs in 2 months? Did you cap every class in the game in 5 months or less? Did you complete all the AF quests in 2 days or less?