[dev1012] Revamped Monster Placement - SE has officially lost their minds

[Volkai]

there are still low level players?

Yes.


By the way, high level monsters aren't such an issue, because the zones with new monster placement have Grounds of Valor tomes, which means you can spend 5 (or was it ten?) tabs to get sneak+invisible so that you can get past them.

[Sama]

They realised about 18 months ago that 14 was not going to be an instant success and they would need to hold on to the ff11 players until it was ready, as such they made everything very easy and gave people very powerful equipment that is great for holding people's attention short term but not long term.

Think about it, we all played 11 for so long that we all now grown up; myself played 11 for 9 straight years and I will NOT have another 9 year to play 14 so moving from 11 to 14 is a NONO and SE needs to realized that.

For those kids who started 11 for Abysea you know they will quit very quickly because the fail to be part of the pre-abyssea ffxi which was the real fun/memorable part.

Whatever SE is planing will definitely not fit most of us; either they make a FFwow for those kids or else they will lose both 11 and 14 players because they fail bad on the abyssea-11.

[ShinChuck]

SE, lost their minds? I'd much rather play the XI of today than the XI of this time last year, I adore the new team.

[Volkai]

SE, lost their minds? I'd much rather play the XI of today than the XI of this time last year, I adore the new team.

Ehh... I wish they'd actually made a story out of the new Fellowship NPC level cap stuff instead of (apparently?) making it all through Magian trials. But that's a fairly minor quibble overall. They're doing great stuff as far as game mechanics and systems go.

[Sama]

SE, lost their minds? I'd much rather play the XI of today than the XI of this time last year, I adore the new team.

That's all because people get to level 1-90 in 2 days and they call themselves 'endgame player' when they don't even know where the airship agency is in port jeuno.

On one hand yes it's cool I get to level my DRG; one the other hand, omg, FFXI is gone.

[Volkai]

one the other hand, omg, FFXI is gone.

It is? What am I logging into? It certainly looks like FFXI.

[Wenceslao]

It is? What am I logging into? It certainly looks like FFXI.

No it doesn't look like FFXI anymore, it does look like a testing beta for some new MMORPG game T.T, really, scenarios, jobs, and citites are all the same, but the mechanics and other stuffs are gone, the other day a lvl90 BLM was asking me how he could get the airship kazham pass, do you think this is sane? or even normal for a lvl90 player?, i have no doubts many of the players enjoy leeching, opening coffers in abyss and that, but what happens when its at the cost of not exploring the vast world we have, if you played before abyss, you should know that this pass is got by trading the 3 low-lvl beastmen strongholds, sure i had no problem in telling him how to get and the second question was: Im from Bastok, how i Reach Giddeus?, i had never been there... And as well if you played Final Fantasy XI before abyss you should know there are some camps that sux, others are quite enjoyable, but in the end you used to visit many places, learn hoy to deal with mobs, with certain threads, you used to grow up as a player by dying, experimenting, having fun on some events (like ballista, garrison, BCNM, etc), now we are living in a FFXI like world with no sense, maybe I'm old fashioned and can't understand this new abyss era, but i keep playing this game because of the old content, sure I do abyss to, if i want to keep going, i have to move with the game, but SE should give some extra attention to low level camps, or to rise lvl cap to enter abyss to show the vast world we have, btw i don't thing no new players wants it or SE, anyway Its goos to know you still think this is FFXI ^^ because i feel like a stranger in a world like FFXI, hope this feeling changes soon.

[Alpheus]

Yes.
By the way, high level monsters aren't such an issue, because the zones with new monster placement have Grounds of Valor tomes, which means you can spend 5 (or was it ten?) tabs to get sneak+invisible so that you can get past them.

Not in Ranguemont pass. Gotta drop stealth to go beyond the door to where the high lvl mobs are and there's no book till you hit Glacier zone-line. Otherwise yes I'd agree GoV does tend to take care of stealthing issues via tabs. Shame it had to have problems in a critical zone like Ranguemont.

[Raxiaz]

SE lost their minds when they decided to make FF14 an MMO, shifting all of the focus onto that game, instead of making well thought out expansions and tweaking/fine tuning FF11... Properly.

PS2 limitations.

[Sama]

It is? What am I logging into? It certainly looks like FFXI.

Some FFaby and some FFwow?