Quote Originally Posted by Tamoa View Post
Hey, no need to apologise - and either way I'm sorry too, I probably came across as a bit of a bitch in my first post. It's just that sometimes the amount of posts on this forum, asking SE to gimp everything to hell and back (in my eyes), gets really annoying, and I took your OP as being one of those posts.

I understand it can be frustrating being a new player, when the vast majority of the player base is miles ahead of you. And I totally agree that SE needs to make this game as enjoyable as possible for all kinds of players, both hardcore and casuals. But by comparing today's FFXI to pre-abyssea FFXI, I'd say they've come a long way towards succeeding in that. I don't approve of all the changes they've made to the game, by all means. But I do believe it's easier now for a new player than it ever was before.

We all get frustrated with this game at times, for one reason or another. For years my biggest problem was being EU, because finding EU linkshells that successfully did endgame events could be a pain in the backside. So for example, I never did Einherjar until 3 years ago, when I joined an endgame linkshell on Pandemonium which while being mainly NA, still tried to do Einherjar at a time when their EU members could participate. Same with salvage, I didn't actually do salvage until well after the infamous salvage bans in January 2009.

Anyways, I'll stop before this post gets too long. Just don't give up, keep your eyes open for shouts, and you'll get there.
I'm brazilian and my english isn't enough to do proper arguments against your posts XD I'll just send you a tell to "try" to explain you my point of view