Back in the good ole days

[Kieron]

No one can miss taking 1 year(s)+ of scheduled events just to get a black & crimson-colored hat with a feather on it. If you do in fact miss such torture, I feel sorry for you.

[Luvbunny]

Are you kidding? I miss overlapping damage every day. People exiting kazham only to die on their chocobo before the zone could even load was the best thing ever.

Or the days of beast master MPK with linking mobs, the train of mobs that end up murdering everyone near zone exit, the fact that you have to spend a good 1-2 hours making party, 30-40 mnts to get to camp and to disband within 30 mnts or even on the way to camp when your rdm, bard, whm, pld or ninja got murdered cuz forgot to use sneak invisible... So many good old days crap that literally will make you quit ASAP.

[hiko]

No one can miss taking 1 year(s)+ of scheduled events just to get a black & crimson-colored hat with a feather on it. If you do in fact miss such torture, I feel sorry for you.

I'd rather spend 3h every 3day doing scheduled event than spend 1h/day in jeuno /shouting without getting enough people to do anything before i have to log off some days

[Winrie]

At least back in the day there was actually things to do, not stand around do overplayed empryean weapons, solo dynamis or shout hunt for voidwatch for crap. Old days yes please.

[Nala]

right because having a large linkshell make a relic for you and then stealing the bank, getting your close in game friends all the gear first under the old big linkshell system, 21-24h world spawns with a once a week king spawn would blow over real well with every one that isn't in high school still (read the entire player base now a days), having to solo any job that wasn't "optimal" for exp parties (looking at you blm), linkshell to linkshell griefing tactics for hnms like serket or nihd, remember pre block aid? cure spam the tank to get them to turn and spike flail the alliance.

yall need to get over yourselves, there were aspects of the old that were kind of fun but ultimately the game we have now is better, the dev team just needs to pull thier heads out of their asses where endgame is concerned.

[Dazusu]

having to solo any job that wasn't "optimal" for exp parties (looking at you blm)

Black Mage for the longest time was optimal and necessary for EXP parties.

but ultimately the game we have now is better

As for the rest of your post, sucks you had sucky Linkshells that required hours like a day job. Not all of them were like that. (Not all of them were corrupt either) - I agree with you to a point though, a lot has improved (the reduction of 'grind' and the almost removal of the 'claim system' for end-game content) - but the sad thing is that a lot of what made the game has also gone. Including the majority of the community which incidentally happened since we got this "better game". Go figure.

But yet again these angry (delicious I might add) replies prove that people who don't share your opinion will also oppose your opinion - just because they're always right and can't comprehend that not everyone enjoys the same thing as them.

[Camiie]

At least back in the day there was actually things to do, not stand around do overplayed empryean weapons, solo dynamis or shout hunt for voidwatch for crap. Old days yes please.

If you don't like standing around then I don't see how the old days were so appealing for you.

[hiko]

If you don't like standing around then I don't see how the old days were so appealing for you.

because old days was only camping kings?

[Sparthos]

People still snorting cocaine and reminiscing about 'good old days' that are nothing more than the figments of the imagination?

Old XI was terrible outside a handful of things that sadly ran their course like Nyzul, Salvage, Besieged and some lowbie EXP. Missions were also awesome but most people never did them so it's not like anything has changed on that front.

[Luvbunny]

What is gone is the sense of hopelessness without the help of a large linkshell, and the sense of dependency to others to do almost every single thing in the game. GOOD RIDDANCE!! Except a few events such as Legion and Voidwatch, which can also be done as pick up groups, we now liberated from the shackle of always needing tons of people to get things done. All you need is a solid group of friends 2-8 would works fine. Now you have tons of options to do with small groups (even duo or solo + alts), abyssea made a measured progression a nice possibility. New dyna lets you do your own farming without the need of large LS. Everything is great now, all they have to do is to adjust these new events and use abyssea as bench mark for future contents and get rid of the 0.1% low drop rate and crazy grind of magian weapon trials past level 90. And doing some jobs balancing, tweaking existing content so it feels a lot less of a grind, and focusing in creating fun, accessible, enjoyable and addictive content. The old days are dead for a good reasons, and for the small minority, the options to "go back to the old days" are still there, you just have to find others who also wish to go back and re-create that dynamic.