Abyssea shouldn't be extended, honestly.

[Karbuncle]

This could have been said in the other thread just as easily without creating a new one mocking the old one. This is the kind of stupid childish thing that is spamming up these forums.

Edit: Old content sucked.

Must be real fun sitting with 17 other people going after the same item as you once every 21-24 hours, hoping today you would beat the bots or today maybe you'll get the HQ to pop if you maybe claim it over the others bots, and maybe get that 1 drop you want to maybe win lot over the other 5 people lotting on it that day.

Or how bout salvage? Maybe the NM you've killed 109 times before will load that 25 body you want?

I don't know the hard-on people have for sadistic drop rates and terrible design that was old content, WOOOO 24-72 Hour NMs! who doesnt love waiting 3 Real life days for a Pixel to pop? There were maybe 1-2 good events back in the old days and even those were flawed due to terrible drop rates.

I'm not asking for more Abyssea-Easy Mode, I'm just saying we need to stop praising old FFXI like it was the best sh*t ever when endgame back then was nothing if not tedious.

There were some redeeming qualities, but again, most of the events that were fun to do were plagued with such terrible drop rates that once the fun wore off, you were still doing the event 2 years longer than you wanted too because you didn't have your drop yet (looking at you DYnamis)

[Juri_Licious]

I know! We need to go back to the days when most jobs couldn't even get an invite for exp! That was fun!

Who says this has to be about EXP?
Also, I know! we need to go back to the days of Abyssea in which most jobs can't even get party invites because procs!

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Once again, they could add something different than Abyssea and it'll still be good.
And who said i'm praising anything? I'm saying some old areas could use some work it's a fact.

You already got this humongous selection of Abyssea areas and things to do, and you're not satisfied?
I feel the type of players you are kinda got what you wanted with FFXI. Let's try adding something new besides Abyssea.

[Elexia]

This could have been said in the other thread just as easily without creating a new one mocking the old one. This is the kind of stupid childish thing that is spamming up these forums.

Pretty much this.

Also, I've played FFXI since 2002, I lived through "Old, Superior FFXI". I'm sorry but "new" FFXI is what will keep people playing and actually bring in more people. If Abyssea was such a bad system or "ruined XI", why did Dynamis get the Stagger system?

Why did Voidwatch?

Why will Limbus inevitably get it?

Why will Salvage no doubt get it?

It changed the game for the better because it gave the players absolutely 100% more control. Before you went to mock my topic basically, do realize if you actually read, I was referring to extending the story of it because while it is complete, so was Rank 1 - 10 and the Vanilla storyline and they closed some plot holes with the first 3 Add-ons.

Abyssea has a storyline, but it's really disjointed that we get the idea, but it has no "meat" as with these ones, the meat was getting gear.