Since no one seems to have posted yet: Final LB fight

[Concerned4FFxi]

I don't see a problem with people being stuck on this fight for a while, thats the whole idea of a limit break. Test of skill at playing your job in a party.

I was just going to say something similiar to this but what you said I liked better. because, really, how hard is it to get some help? You might not get it when you want it, but if you really want it you will find the help eventually. There's tons of things I did in this game and got it by shouting for people to team up or for help because nobody in ls or friends wanted to help or were available to help. There's times, when I did every nation's rank 10 before they became uncapped for 5-1 and 2-3 that I used the search function and sent /tells to everybody on the server that was rank 2/5 until I got a party together to beat the mission. There's people I've helped catch up in COP, in order to get me further.

YES, some people are gonna be stuck at 96 for awhile, but it's no capped COP, don't even compare it to that. If you can't shout for help because you don't have a ls or friends, and are not willing to wait to get help and have to have it ASAP then go pay a merc. Come on, by the time any noob or veteran hits 96 they should have one or two friends by that point, maybe this will force people without linkshells to get one and start being a little more social, it is an MMO. If your on Bismarck and can't get help and I see you shouting, I will help when I'm not busy and if I'm busy i'll send you a tell and say, "I'll help when I'm done are you gonna be around?", just like I always have been and will continue to help others.

[Concerned4FFxi]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, SE you finally did something right with a challenging 99 cap and you made it gimp that fast because of the whinners, what complete garbage. I'm totally going troll now. Complete waste of my time, thanks for caving to the pansey players, and to ALL of you players that cried about this cap you can go play in traffic.

[Unleashhell]

The problem I see is that all the people that are new to the game (within the last 1-2 years) are spoiled by lowman Abyssea. Where strategy has long since vanished from FF11. SE made the game so easy the "casual player" can enjoy some kind of accomplishment. That's all fine and I understand that is important to all the casual players. Unfortunately FF11 is NOT Abyssea. It is PART of FF11.

You also need to realize you are playing an online multiplayer game. This wasn't meant to be a solo game. It was meant to do things as a group, where you make friends, come up with strategies, and accomplish certain goals. Having a group fight at the end is perfect for the last limit break.

As I stated before I would have rather it been the Taru AND Maat in the BCNM together verse a pt of 6. So what that the BC is a party fight. Do you think the other 1-3K players on the server are not going to be doing the same fight as you are? They will all be shouting in Jeuno making parties. Will people be mercing spots? Prolly, but is it forcing you to accept their ridiculous prices? no... If people still to this day cannot find a LS that helps its members or friends to accomplish the LAST goal of leveling your jobs, you are playing the wrong game. This fight should be epic in difficulty.

[ShadowHeart]

yes for the first 1-3 weeks and what about 6 months from now when all the hardcore and elitists have run it?

[Unleashhell]

Get friends?

[thania]

ummm, BLU, DNC, and SCH already have raep'd their sensei's...

dnc was laila : what about lilisette or a mayakov special appearance lol ?

blu was Raubahn : a new fight vs raubahn where he will release his final soulflayer form ? or Azima from campaign battle

sch was Gunther (Schultz ) : this one isnt easy but it could be Maruna-Kurina the sch freelancer hero we can see in campaign battles

some ideas for other jobs :

sam : tenzen ? noillurie ? gilgamesh ?
drk : zeid ? Duskraven ? Fonove ?
whm : pieuje ? ferreous coffin ?
rdm : Rainemard
warrior : volker ? Xonia ?
corsair : Luzaf
puppet : asphmau
monk : maat ? degenhard ? prishe ?
black mage : shantoto ? ajido majurido ? Kayeel-Payeel ?
summoner : karuha baruha
ninja : Kupalu-Harupalu ? lion ? Kagetora ?
thief : Putori-Tutori ? Nanaa Mihgo ? aldo ?
paladin : trion ? Kilhwch ? Cerane I Virgaut ?
beastmaster : Choh Moui ? Lhu Mhakaracca ? Rongo-Nango ?
bard : Terounalivet ? Lewenhart ?
ranger : Elivira ? Ghebben ? Perih Vashai ? Semih Lafihna
dragoon : Dzhau Yaam ? our own wyvern ? Achtelle ?

Square-enix could even make it a big event for the community and make us vote for our favorite opponent for each job. and after that prepare quests and last fights according to our votes

[Concerned4FFxi]

The gimping of 99 cap proves there will be no more challenge to this game EVER. Forget a new dynamis type challenge, if ONE BCNM can't be a challenge then all hope is lost for any add-on bein g released. SE can release all the new content they want, if it doesn't challenge the player base then it's garbage.

This is the last straw for me, I won't go so far as to say goodbye or that I'm canceling tonight, but I will say that as soon as my friends are done playing this game then so am I. I pay $31.98 a month for this game, last time I checked, that's two character's and six mules total. I'm repurchasing Microsoft's online thingie, it's been so long i forget the name of it because I haven't renewed that in a year because I play only this. I have a friend or two on my friendslist that didn't dump me after I stopped playing fps for over a year and this only, I'll have to go play with them a bit more and on here a bit less. This is my first, last, and only MMO.

I knew a few years ago that if my account got hacked I'd be done this game forever. It took me two harddrive wipes for me to never pick up Oblivion again. You want players like me who eat and sleep FFXI to play don't you? I don't play any other games now besides this one, and before this I was a hardcore FPS and I played alot of different games. From FPS to fighting games, I've always been a gamer. NO, no you do not want me to play 11, the beauty is I can let me account go inactive for 4-6months and just pop in to say hi, I won't lose my caharcter. And really, that's all it is, losing my character, losing my friends, because it sure isn't about the game anymore. There's nothing to llok forward to, since the new WS compete with empyreans, half the empyreans I was going to farm are pointless now when I can spend that time doing something else.

You want casual players, but they don't have 2 accounts, or six mules do they? Were did all the relic owners go, you know the ones that had 6 relics in 09? You took forever to come out with a new expansion and when you do release content you make it such a joke by making it easy. WOE, there's a prime example. Auto-rr anyone? Because heaven forbid you have to bring a reraise-earring to an event anymore. I can't even remember the last time I BOUGHT a re-raise earring, I think it was before dynamis became revamped. Because I rarely die anymore, I just carry the one re-raise scroll around. Vw gives temps every HQ proc, theres my rr scroll replacement, abyssea has auto-rr atma if I'm tanking or DD, and I don't play WOE now that its no fun.

Oh, and If I die without re-raise and can't get a raise immediately, I just homepoint, because with VW warping and outpost warping and abyssea warping I can get almost anywhere in no time on any job. Accessiblitly is one thing, but making everything super easy to do is disgusting.

I know where the future of this game is headed and I can't conitunue to act like I'm not worried. I know you don't care what trash is served as long as people play and pay, but from a business standpoint, nobody is going to quit because 99cap is hard, but I promise you continuing in this mindset is killing the game because you are offering NOTHING of value to serious gamers.

You are painfully pointing out that all the negative posts about the games future are right. When all your new player's become veterans like myself, are they not going to have similiar desires of challenging content? They will leave, but you don't care because you think they will go play FFXIV, but there's many MMO out there. i guess you think it doesnt matter at this point because every year you can stretch 11 out till it dies is another year of profit you didn't bank on and by then 14 will be the trump card so who cares if you run this game into the ground and just hand up easy content until it dies.

Your future add-on for eleven will fail, because the people making it are also making VW, WOE, and now gimping the 99 cap fight. I'm not the only person on here screaming for a challenge. The relic owners that left years ago were begging for new challenging content after years in dynamis and their crys fell on deaf ears as well, that's why they left.

[scaevola]

the cutest thing about that post is the steadily-declining spelling and sentence structure, as the poster inadvertantly examines his or her own life in writing it and gnawing regret eliminates focus

[Concerned4FFxi]

the cutest thing about that post is the steadily-declining spelling and sentence structure, as the poster inadvertantly examines his or her own life in writing it and gnawing regret eliminates focus

LOL. And what have you to offer besides trolling me?

I'd also like to point out that I dont give a crap what you think, my post here is for the DEV, because i love the game so much I'm hoping an honset examination can change their mind. You obviuosly don't give a rat about 11 and it's people like you that SE seems to be listening to.

I will use your trolling as spring board to further my own agenda though, which is to restate the once challenging aspect to final fantasy XI and how not having any challenges is killing the game, so thank you troll.

As I mentioned, nobody is going to quit because the cap fight was too hard, but I am quitting because of the game being too easy. Like I said, I'm not quiting today, but once my friends are gone I'm out the door. Also, in my previous post I haven't played another game for over a year, that is changing too. I'll check the forums reguarly, but when I have free time and my friends are not on I won't be playing 11 as much. First game I'm going back to is Halo 3 on legendary mode, I need to finish that game. I hope, SE, your not as thick headed as that troll, because something should be going off in your head, the fact that I haven't played anything but 11 in about a year, and now I'm playing other games should worry you. If a hard core 11 person like myself is, after over a year of not playing anything but 11, decides the game is losing everything that interested them in the first place then that's a problem I pray you address.

Until today I was also going to apply to PFA once I got a better headset (mine has feedback and as a postcast host I don't think that would work). You see, the current hosts from Pet Food Alpha don't play XI anymore. They log in occasionally, and keep their accounts because they invested alot of time into the game and their characters. Pet Food Alpha is the longest running podcast for 11 that I know of, and they are looking to replace themselves. Why, I'm not sure. Perhaps because they don't play as much, or not at all really if you listen to the show and this could mean they want people who are into the game to be able to speak about the game like they used to. Or maybe, they've moved on and want to leave PFA in good hands, the next genetion of XI hosts and players, etc. My point is, why play the game, or attempt to host the show when empyreans/relics/mythics, are just as good as some chessy merited ws? Why bother? I play because the game was fun, but what fun is there when there's nothing challenging? I mean, the new WS are almost as good as an empyrean, lol. So really, why grind one out?

So I'll play when my friends are on, I still like the game, I'm just not in love anymore.

P.S> to the troll, did your parents teach you to be mean to others, or did you learn to behave that way on your own? Were you beat up as a kid and picked on as a child, did the cool kids make fun of you? It's ok if you were, but maybe someday you'll change, probably the same day SE decides to return the challenge to XI - never.

[Cahlum]

Since SE have yet again failed to realise what the player base wants and caved into the abyssea generation. I at least hope that they take Thania's suggestion into account as it would be fun and rewarding.