To: Mr Akihiko Matsui

[Eyeballed]

The fact you seem to think that "afk to exp" is the only way there is just shows that you have no clue what you're talking about.

It's entirely possible to get a party outside of abyssea, and still get 100k+/hr even with average everyday people, no 99 PLs involved.

Oh? How? And what makes you think I care about 100k+/hr?

[oliveira]

Not saying everyone is like this, but on average, non JP players (there's JP players like that, too don't think I am generalizing too much) tend to assume a self centered position and prefer to cater to solo play. That's one of the reasons the game was great on the beginning and so horrid after a few years. Everyone had achieved most of what they wanted, even the "chronic team players" had the jobs they liked leveled already. So new players would have nobody to play with.

Making it easier to level had a interesting effect of encouraging people in trying new jobs, recycling existing players and putting "new oil" on the game rusted grinder gears.

It all boils down to having or not people to play with in the very end.

[FrankReynolds]

We did that, or we got so angry that we threw the controller at the screen and hastily shut the game down and probably never turned it back on. That's what a reasonable person does when they accept defeat at something they're just no good at or can't be bothered with.

Perhaps you are just no good at or can't be bothered with FFXI? Why do you even have jobs left to level? It seems like groups were super easy to get and everything was fun back in the day according to you guys who have been around since back when FFXI was a real game. Why didn't you level them back then? I blame you for the death of the six man group. If you had done it back then, perhaps it would still be around today. Shame on you.

Someone who truly enjoyed the smooth fun exciting experience of a six man exp party should have had Maat's Cap several years ago and be onto bigger better things by now.

[Luvbunny]

Another day and another thread of "bring back the old school FFXI".... some people just cannot move on to the future and still live in the past. Old school is still in the game, with a much better revamped system such as level synch, double the xp, exp ring, plus FoV or GoV xp bonus. And yet so many of us do not do the old school way, because it is archaic, takes too much work, and only applicable to static party. Things change for a reason or two. If anything the new person in charge should really look at WoW and what made the game very successful and copy it with FF flavor and try to spins it his way. I think abyssea is one of the absolute best add ons they ever created in a very long time. My only wish is that people would just move on from abyssea and swore of it so that I can have the whole 6 zones for myself and never have to deal with competition at all

[oliveira]

Even though I dearly enjoyed the past of FFXI, bringing the old school game back at this point would mean quick ruin for this title.

[Eyeballed]

Perhaps you are just no good at or can't be bothered with FFXI? Why do you even have jobs left to level? It seems like groups were super easy to get and everything was fun back in the day according to you guys who have been around since back when FFXI was a real game. Why didn't you level them back then? I blame you for the death of the six man group. If you had done it back then, perhaps it would still be around today. Shame on you.

Someone who truly enjoyed the smooth fun exciting experience of a six man exp party should have had Maat's Cap several years ago and be onto bigger better things by now.

Funny you ask. What happened was I quit XI and deleted my character a few weeks before the release of FFXIV. Now I'm back. I quit that game only because you can cap a job in a single day and there is virtually no mid-game. Perhaps you'd be better off sticking to asking questions rather than jumping to conclusions.

[Luvbunny]

Yup the old school way is afk for 2-3 hours while LFG and come back to see that you still gain zero xp. The new way is afk on alliance party and come back to see you gain a few levels!! Who gives a crap about how you get your level, as long as you take time to learn the job and grind for your gears.

[cidbahamut]

I quit that game only because you can cap a job in a single day and there is virtually no mid-game.

There was never a mid-game in FFXI.

[Trisscar]

[Luvbunny]

Before abyssea came out, the developers got away with doing practically almost nothing with each content update. All they did was minor tweaks, and not much. Updates were few and far between and they pretty much have the attitude of "we are always right and the costumers are always wrong." Abyssea changed the game for the better, each content is fully realized, with tons of things to do and completely accessible for all. Not only that, the whole attitude started to change and we get more updates, more tweaks, and a bit more open discussion feel from the developers. Be grateful for the change for it lets the game evolve for the better.