Newest interview (abyssea was a mistake?)

[Kimble]

I'd hate speed leveling if there was actually things worth doing mid game. Sadly, there isnt.

[Melraen]

I personally found Abyssea to be really boring. I started the game a few months before it arrived, and had just gotten to like the style of partying in the game. Then the parties were slowly disappearing... ; ; By the time my BRD was level 60 I caved in and went to Abyssea, even though I really wanted to get my first 75 the same way everyone else did. I was wary of levelling up so fast, but I kinda wanted to spent time with my LS friends, since I was always left out of stuff because of my low level.

Well, at first it seemed okay, but it became just spamming March, trying to land Threnodies, which got resisted most of the time then, >.>; and watching people kill stuff. Slowly. Oh Goddess, so slooooooowly. It became "Stand way over there out of the way everyone, (player) will tank it and (player) heal him/her."

I liked the idea of a different dimension or whatever it is. And I thought the gear was good, but I'm still trying to get a full set for BRD, DRG and SCH, which are my only jobs...That's prolly my fault because I had to stop playing for a while and everyone stormed through the content while I was gone. XD

But in general, I found it to be really boring having an alliance but watching a couple of people duo everything. Recently I've been going through all the CoP and Zilart stuff, and I wonder why Abyssea didn't have such an awesome storyline! Even doing the Windurst missions was much more fun, and I've started Bastok's now. I've been doing some sea and sky with LS friends, and to me it's a lot more fun than Abyssea... But maybe that's because a lot of stuff is still new to me and everyone else had been doing it for years!

Anyways... That's my noob-style opinion. =3

Edit: Sorry, this so didn't look so big in the reply box! o.o;;

[Aldersyde]

I laughed hard reading this newest interview.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/story.htm...16&storypage=1 The future looks so bright and rosey, aren't we all just so glad we got Tanaka back here?

When they have a success they deem it failure, this game is going to bleed players again soon. None of us are ready to go back to old FFXI now (taking years to get 1 piece of gear etc), and that is where we are headed.

Fun.

I'm not going to read 38 pages of pro and anti-abyssea arguments but I find it hilarious that they take the words of the complaining ffxi sado-masochists over the majority of the player base. I was going to quit before Abyssea came out, despite the excitement I felt hearing the news of the level cap rasing, because I couldn't take leveling a job to 99 the old fashioned way or playing sidegrade fantasy xi any longer.

Abyssea breathed new life into this game by streamlining the xp process for veterans that had done the same old shit before AND gave actual upgrades to gear. Voidwatch and similar content will snuff it out with horrendous, dare I say plain evil, loot distribution for mostly side grade and novelty item treasure.

[xbobx]

I am not sure FFXI would have survived without Abyessa, I saw so many old players come back after abyessa was released because the grind to catch up to other players wasn't as steep.

[Sparthos]

Don't worry, Walk of Echoes would have saved FFXI without that pesky Abyssean content.

[CrAZYVIC]

Here's the solution. Create a single (one will do) server for FFXI "Classic" and move all of the dinosaurs there, where the level cap remains 75 and they can live their endless MMORPG groundhog day. The rest of us can move on and not be bothered with shouts of "get off my lawn" when we walk past.

Will you come with me the Dinosaurs server ^_^? j/k

[saevel]

Don't worry, Walk of Echoes would have saved FFXI without that pesky Abyssean content.

Nahh definitely Voidwatch. People are so into having to "work" for their gear now. Before in that nasty abyssea they would get their item in only a couple of fights, such a tragedy. They were spared from the wonderful experience of fighting the same monster dozens of times with no drops. They definitely should protest being forced to endure abyssea and all their gear being obtained.

[Sparthos]

Devs: Abyssea bad, grind good. Me Tarzan, you Jane.

[Greatguardian]

This thread is much less fun with only people who have Brutal Earrings.

PPS: I've been a leader in an endgame shell for years, and while I'm antsy to get some real, scheduled, alliance size events on the board, I am in no way looking forward to world spawns, 1000+ NM grinds, and 0.0001% drop rates any more.

The Endgame community grew up. We can't all stay up till 4am camping fafnir like it's high school any more.

[Theytak]

Will you come with me the Dinosaurs server ^_^? j/k

CRAZYVIC I LOVE YOU <3<3<3