To: Mr Akihiko Matsui

[Razaroic]

No, that's not what it means.

You're being contrary for the sake of being contrary.

You don't play many MMORPGs, do you?

[Eyeballed]

Elexia, are you the same Elexia from the FF14 boards?

[Elexia]

Elexia, are you the same Elexia from the FF14 boards?

That I am.

[Eyeballed]

That I am.

Oh joy!

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There is nothing in the world stopping people from leveling up the old fashion way. After trudging thru several jobs to 75, I love Abyssea. Merit parties, skill up parties, they are still around just in a different format, but that doesn't mean you can't do it the way it was "Back in the day". There is time to do several things at one time rather than trudge thru day after day, same ole same ole. Some people just don't like change, but now you can have your cake and eat too, old way new way.

adding a p.s.
Not everyone has hours and hours per day to play, Abyssea and other new places has allowed the player who doesn't have the time to get a head and have fun. Isn't that what gaming is about, Fun.

[Rosina]

Ok this is nuts.
First off, i find it funny no one noticed few spelling issues a few of these posts, hypocrits much?

Secondly, please take the time to read and consider a person post because going balls to the wall and fling insults, or comment saying nostalgia or rose tinted glasses. That is prety rude.

As for my thoughts. I have playing ever 30 mmo/mud. I've played WoW Aion, mabinogi, maple story, PWI, and many many more. What FFXI had pre abyssea was the best that I've personally saw. None of thre mmo I've played came close to what FFXI offered me.

FFXI USED TO have great teamwork no matter what you did. Sure there was trouble areas, but that was all on the players not the game. I never had an issue getting to join end game shells. Heck, I was a 70 rdm in dynamis. Then a 75 monk, my gear was crap. I did sky, again crap gear but as long as I listen no one cared. You had to work for what you had to do. Thats was the joy of playing. You had to put effort. No one does that anymore.

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[Rosina]

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Honestly before abyssea was out, ffxi community was the most open, showed great effort, and proved time and again that people was great no matter how they played. Sure people had "perfered" styles. Thats normal. Do what you can, but mostly have fun. As for lotting rules... that just how things had to be at the time. Drop were rare, getting gear took alot of effort. Gil wasn't as easy to come by. The only ones who had a hard time in this game was the lazy, "noods" who would b--- and moan when stuff wasn't handed to them.

As for going afk for free exp.. THAT should be fixed, that is pretty game breaking and it just poves the laziness of the players. If you guys can build 18 man parties for gov/aby you can build 6 man parties. there is obviously enough people, plus ther is level sync.

As for the comment "i have a job and a life I can't play this all the time" thats no one choice/fault then your own. You choose to have a family and you choose to have a full time job, (text limit)

[Elexia]

I've played quite a few MMOs as well so I'll give you a gamer protip:

Those who say "rose tinted goggles!" or "nostalgia" are the ones who've only played 1 MMORPG ever or find it the cool thing to hate on FFXI just because. No one who has ever played more than 1 MMO for a certain amount of time would say it's nostalgia or failing to see the truth because the truth of the matter is, FFXI even though used EQ as a base for MMO systems, was one of the best designed MMORPGs out, especially for when it came out. No other MMO had a tangible storyline that you could actually progress through, it's usually implied.

I've played upwards of 10+ Mud/MMOs for at least 2 years at a time and none have come close to what XI accomplished in it's prime, whether you like or hated it you can't deny what it's done.

So people can fling around "rose tinted goggles" and "nostalgia" all they want, those who've played more than 1 MMO will know it's not nostalgia at all talking, it's simple fact of the matter, MMO gamers these days hate to work for anything, they hate putting in time and effort, this is why a lot of people hated Abyssea for example, not because of nostalgia for the old, but because it just trivialized playing an MMORPG.

[Rosina]

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you choose to play an mmorpg on top of that. No one is forcing any of that on you. I used to play ffxi for 2 hours a day because my family had to share the ps2, and the internet connection as routers at the time cost to much for us. I still got ALOT done under 2 hrs a day. I knew and know a ton of people who had jobs and familes who played ffxi. You guys act like the player base was only 12-18 years old. I knew and know players up in their 40s. They still got stuff done. It was called "planing ahead" get up with your linkshell or your friends and plan a day you can be on, a time you will be on, and just do the stuff then.

This is an mmorpg, there is and was no need to rush the game. All you need is patience. And you will get stuff done. You also do not need wiki to play this game. Just ask around in game and people will tell you stuff. Yesterday, a new guy from my LS needed help with fame. He was gonna log on wiki, I say why bother and gave him a list of easy to do quests, from each city (TL)

[Rosina]

(TL)
telling hime what he needed to get, and the location of the quest giver. What would have taken him probable 30 min of reading, took me 5 min to write. If you ask the right questions you will get the right replies.

I do not hate wiki, but if I can save someone a trip I will do so. But i do hate how the player base on the forums find wiki as the FFXI bible, basicaly acting like "if its not on wiki its not worth doing, if its out dated on wiki its not worth doing". Why play a game based on what an open free forum says?

I also do not hate abyssea, i think the content is fun. I like how the world was set up. I like the lore of said world. What I don't like is how lazy and anti social it made the playerbase. You rarely see vets help newbies... people get what THEY want, then are done with said stuff. That wasn't like that in the past. People generally stayed in the LS for years till they moved on to a new mmo.

Thats my 2 cents.. sorry for the multi posts, but ps3 does have a limit.