How can you guys stand to play this game anymore

[DarkViper]

I am sorry I tried to delete this post but I coudn't do it please forgive me I was raging hard at the time

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Awkward!!

10 character limit.

[Arcon]

Awkward!!

10 character limit.

What's akward is that "Awkward!!" just needed one more ! for the 10 character limit. Since you already had two, one more wouldn't have hurt.

[DarkViper]

OK Ive gathered my thoughts a bit and rage mode is off. What I wanted to say is that I am finding it difficult to understand how everyone is so content with the game in its current state. I stopped playing about two years ago when I learned that our shiny new expansion that was going to extend the game into a new era by extending the level cap turned out to be well i don't even know what to call it. I want to say it put the game in 'easy mode' but really it has put the game in 'drone mode'. Now instead of playing a game that requires skill, dedication, passion and a community, I'm playing a game where you run back and forth in a cave smashing the crap out for easy prey monsters. Or sitting around in jeuno waiting around for 18 random ppl to join in this massive alliance we we go and kill more pathetically weak monsters and get even more exp. /sigh

I miss the days when you would show up to a party and ppl would see ur gear and be happy that you were a part of the team. Now its like you get to the party in mad gear, but does anyone really care? You having good gear might marginally speed up the process but your gaining exp so fast that it doesn't even really matter. In abyssea you are like a faceless ghost in a crowd of ppl who are just spaming ws and spells with no thought to resource management, hate control or ability timings.

Its just so sad to see FFXI in the state that its in, i really want to enjoy this game because I have spent the last 2 years trying to find another good MMO but there just isn't one.

[RAIST]

you don't HAVE to live in abyssea.....just saying, there are other things that could be done.

Take breaks here and there to do other content low-man just to experience a little more thrill again. Take a small group after the old gods, CoP/ZM/TAU/WotG story lines and Nyzul/Assault, slap together a 4 man level-synch and other stuff like that. It's a blast to be able to do some of that stuff without all the pressure we put on ourselves in the past.

[Camiie]

OK Ive gathered my thoughts a bit and rage mode is off. What I wanted to say is that I am finding it difficult to understand how everyone is so content with the game in its current state. I stopped playing about two years ago when I learned that our shiny new expansion that was going to extend the game into a new era by extending the level cap turned out to be well i don't even know what to call it. I want to say it put the game in 'easy mode' but really it has put the game in 'drone mode'. Now instead of playing a game that requires skill, dedication, passion and a community, I'm playing a game where you run back and forth in a cave smashing the crap out for easy prey monsters. Or sitting around in jeuno waiting around for 18 random ppl to join in this massive alliance we we go and kill more pathetically weak monsters and get even more exp. /sigh

Just wait. You'll eventually get back into fights where people drop like flies and loot drops like a helium balloon. Yes the paradigm has shifted with XP, but you can still find mobs that you can XP off of the old fashioned way if you so choose. You just have to do what you did back in the day and go find the camps. Good luck getting anyone else to go, but the option is there for you.

I miss the days when you would show up to a party and ppl would see ur gear and be happy that you were a part of the team. Now its like you get to the party in mad gear, but does anyone really care? You having good gear might marginally speed up the process but your gaining exp so fast that it doesn't even really matter.

I dunno about anyone else, but someone could have come to camp dual wielding 2-handed Relics wearing an Armadaberk and I still wouldn't have thought they were any more special than the guy in a Hauberk with a weapon off the AH. I'd rather have a good-natured "gimp" who got me less XP per hour than a self-absorbed, gear obsessed jerk for example. I care more about the person behind the character than the character itself, but hey that's just me.

In abyssea you are like a faceless ghost in a crowd of ppl who are just spaming ws and spells with no thought to resource management, hate control or ability timings.

I guess you don't know much about light management in Abyssea. I guess you don't know about proc systems when dealing with NMs. You don't sound like you've fought very many of the higher tier NMs out there. Some of them are a heck of a lot more complex than the wyrms of old.

Its just so sad to see FFXI in the state that its in, i really want to enjoy this game because I have spent the last 2 years trying to find another good MMO but there just isn't one.

Sadism and masochism just don't sell as well as they used to.

[Vivivivi]

I have a blast playing this game. I think I heard someone sum it up: It used to be that you xp in parties and do events in alliances, and now (with the exception of void watch and legion) you xp in alliances and do events in small groups.

I have a small static shell of about 6-8 people and we do a lot of Abyssea stuff, and Dynamis, and Nyzul, and it's still challenging but not impossible, and a lot a lot a lot of fun^^

[Savlyn]

If you quit two years ago that means you either a: didn't get to experience Abyssea at all, or b: experienced it as it was brand new and deemed that you didn't like it. Both of these are a problem. Abyssea is actually a lot of fun. The exping gets old fast, but collecting gear, getting stronger, and being able to do this with a few friends (1-3 instead of needing an alliance) is amazing. Abyssea still has a lot to offer in terms of gear and there is almost always something that you could be working toward. Abyssea gear is a progression system, as opposed to VW and Nyzul which is a luck system.

That being said; after two years of doing Abyssea, it does get boring. I have quit the game for time being, but expect to be back when more things are added. If Abyssea hadn't have come out, I would have left this game long ago and not actually enjoyed playing and acquiring gear for the past two years.

[DarkViper]

If you quit two years ago that means you either a: didn't get to experience Abyssea at all, or b: experienced it as it was brand new and deemed that you didn't like it. Both of these are a problem. Abyssea is actually a lot of fun. The exping gets old fast, but collecting gear, getting stronger, and being able to do this with a few friends (1-3 instead of needing an alliance) is amazing. Abyssea still has a lot to offer in terms of gear and there is almost always something that you could be working toward. Abyssea gear is a progression system, as opposed to VW and Nyzul which is a luck system.

That being said; after two years of doing Abyssea, it does get boring. I have quit the game for time being, but expect to be back when more things are added. If Abyssea hadn't have come out, I would have left this game long ago and not actually enjoyed playing and acquiring gear for the past two years.

I left then for the same reason that I'm struggling to stay now.
Because playing final fantasy seems like a chore when it used to be something that I dreamed about every moment I was away from it.

[Eric]

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