For those who keep resurrecting that dead topic....

[Suteru]

As someone who has played since 2003, the game sucked back then. Spending hours and hours in sky for stuff you'll never get to lot on, hours in Dynamis for drops you'll never see. Spending millions of gil on CCB pumps, taking 15 tries to beat a single mission. You want the old ways back? Fine. Do Legion. Do Neo-Einherjar. Say people won't accept you because you're not well geared enough or have the right job? Guess what: It's that much easier to gear up.

I quit before Abyssea because I never got anything done, because of how terrible endgame was back then. I find the game so much more enjoyable at 99 now that I can enjoy things with a few people in a shout. And people whine about gilsellers selling spots to leech, would you rather have them competing with you in sky or undercutting the legitimate crafters at the AH?

Face it, the game is better now than it has ever been. Take off the rose-tinted shades.

[Sp1cyryan]

"Stop living in the past"
"Not this thread again"
"FFXI is 20 times better than it was before!"
"Lol, nostalgia is a funny thing"

Yet for those of us who really, know for a fact that pretty much everything about FFXI has pretty much been destroyed in the last few years, from the sense of progression, the now barely-existent community.
No more mystery, exploration, challenge, team coordination; topped off with the fact that the sheer mentioning of this simple fact brings forth droves of people complacent with the virtual chatroom they're paying for.
Lets all just make a mass exodus and find a new MMO to hop over to.
SE is too busy catering to this crowd, and really don't give a damn about us, which seems to be a minority of no real weight in comparison to the GoV hordes.

Whaddya say?
Rekindle that feeling of exploration and challenge with searching for new frontiers, I know I am.

To those who are aching to flame me in a weird quest for self-validation of your opinions, rest assured I'm not posting this to argue with you guys. Nor am I going around bashing FFXI for the sake of being an angry old man, babbling about dem good ole' days. I miss FFXI of old for well, the reasons those of us who do have stated countless times to your apathetic ears. (Well, since this is a forum, eyes.)

More so, I'd like to see how other people feel about just simply finding a new world to be a part of, and if so, which one?



(Pic added because I think it generally summarizes the feel of what I'm trying to express.)

Save some of those Q's for the alphabet buddy.

Your game is there and all you need to do is find it.

[Mirabelle]

Can we create a server for all these nostalgia freaks. Cap it at 75. Make them do only preToAU endgame. Then all 20 of them can be quiet and let the devs really work on revitalizing the game with new stuff, not dreary old school stuff.

[Mooshywooshy]

Can we create a server for all these nostalgia freaks. Cap it at 75. Make them do only preToAU endgame. Then all 20 of them can be quiet and let the devs really work on revitalizing the game with new stuff, not dreary old school stuff.

Im not a huge nostalgia freak but can I still join the server? That sounds amazing D:
I'd replace the theme music with the theme from Cheers and hopefully they'd just turn on worldchat.
Then if the 10 JPs were all "JP PT ONLY" to the 10 NA/EU we could be all "Hey man lets just get along" and theyd be all ... aiiight.

We could meet up in Lufaise and have picnics in our AF1, talk about the grand times we had collecting Fetich pieces, set up our next uhhh whatever that boss of Skys name is runs.

Then we could all meet up in real life and find out we're all dudes playing as mithra, and log back on later and it'd be all awkward. It would be

amazing

[Karbuncle]

You crazy Moosh ;o

[Faustenin]

Then we could all meet up in real life and find out we're all dudes playing as mithra, and log back on later and it'd be all awkward. It would be

amazing

You know, nostalgia is better when you remember the better parts dammit.

People seem to be citing me more for not liking the new FFXI, etc etc. But are neglecting the essence of what I was trying to say with this post.
This isnt me complaining about the new XI. Am I unhappy? Yeah, we've all been over that topic.
This topic is meant more for those of us who are dissatisfied, and simply trying to say "You're obviously unhappy here, but it's not going to change to suit your tastes, stop bickering and arguing, and just find something better."

If you don't like a restaurant, are you going to keep eating there and complaining about how the cooks cant properly temp your steaks? No.
You give it a few shots, and if it still cant satisfy you, stop eating there.

[Ragmar]

Gimps love new FFXI because of easy mode (HP/MP/stat buffs, atma/atmacite, temp items (fools/fanatics), brews, VW weakening items, Embrava, weakness triggering which stuns the mob for 30 sec and can be repeated indefinately refilling temps allowing you to completely negate one form of damage type or another. I mean at 75 we got a TP wing ... with a 30 min medicated effect that made it so you could not use another. Um we had potions ... think vile elixer +1 was best at 75? 300 HP/MP isnt it? Rare mind you so you can only hold one, rare also in that they were not readily available and nothing to put them right back into your invintory. Our absolute best buffs were from BRD 2hr. HNM didnt pop and give you 20 temp items which were refilled every 30-60 seconds. Show me a post abyssea mage who has true gear sets for Idle/HMP/precast/fast cast/potency/accuracy/convert/devotion/sublimation/healing skill (even knows the difference between potency and accuracy and where each applies). Show me 1 and I'll show you 100 who have an idle and cure/nuke set at best.

At 75 cap it wasnt just 5% of the server who really understood their jobs and the game like it is now. HNM(only challenge was getting claim)/Limbus/Sky/Sea/Ein/Dyna/ZNM/Nyzul/Salvage were all easy there is no doubt, but it wasn't easy for everyone. There were plenty of gimps at 75 cap. The difference is they didnt make progress. They either learned or stayed gimp unless they were being carried by an LS leader. You didnt see relics running around in RSE like you do now with empy NINs in pink. I never saw a lvl 75 Apoc DRK in the lusaint hauberk set. I do now in perle. There was a serious difference between a good SAM at 75 and a bandwagoned SAM. You werent even getting an invite to an event at 75 if you werent geared to a certain standard that was much higher than todays.

Gimps will read this and disagree, thats ok the game has become designed for you. You should enjoy it. I enjoy it because I can help my friends and dont need 17 others to get them good gear (capped haste sets with AF3+2 atleast and decent WS sets). I can grab 3-4 buddies and we can make empyreans with ease. Every now and then I run accross a noob who knows they're a noob and I get to help and teach them instead of having to watch them struggle to do things in an alliance my buddies and I can trio.

[Ragmar]

Bottom line though it isnt about nostalgia (I got off on a tanget there).

[Karbuncle]

I don't feel like its worth going into detail, I can tell you're Pants-On-Head at this point because your opening sentence seems implies anyone who likes new FFXI is a gimp, Or that somehow terrible gimps didn't exist at 75. (There's about 11 Threads on BG that beg to differ)

Which means it would be like shouting at a wall if i tried to pick that apart, and the RL Card would probably be used somewhere in the third reply.

[vienne]

I miss the old days. While i can live with the changes contentwise, i have more problems with the community change. i miss doing big events with a dedicated ls. although i've never had alot of free time to explore everything in this game, every week i looked forward to doing dyna and jar with the shell, and seeing arcon die 15 times during one run working together towards one goal, be it for me or for someone else in the shell, thats what i miss.
changing MMO's isnt an option for me, i'm sure the problems people think to have on here will be the same in other MMO's. think i'll just wait it out and keep my hopes up that SE will add some content which suits me.