Starting to lose interest in the whole game...

[Demon6324236]

Someone said the new content is near perfect, and i'm pretty sure he only had the drop system in mind.

Mostly, but really its flat out better in my opinion than most content we have been getting. I personally find it funny people complain about it being just Delve over and over for Plasm killing the same little mobs over and over again. Why is it funny? Simple, because that's all VW was and we ate it up for a long time, difference is the drops were horrid and unlike Delve you needed most of the Alliance to be competent for things to work out so you got any rewards at all, in Delve, so long as my party, not Alliance, party, does well, I can assure myself 2~3.5k Plasm from my group alone, if the others suck, I still got rewarded.

It has its flaws but I can understand why some people like it. Besides drop system, the new content is nowhere near perfect.

Without the best part, no, its not, but its better than what we have had in the past, certain things like Salvage or Meebles beat it in simply verity or fun because they are different, but I see this event to be very comparable with VW2.0.

I find it boring, too elitist and it requires too much time to gather people when you have to deal with random shouts.
Aby dealt with this in a perfect way, since fewer people were required to quickly enjoy the content.

I agree, so far as accessible content goes Abyssea was the best we have ever had, and probably ever will.

There are no quests, no missions, skirmish was made nearly impossible to access in the first place.

This is mostly true, the quests and missions are coming later on, probably what they are focusing on now so far as new content as Matsui said he wanted to stop making EG events for a bit. So far as Skirmish that was fixed at the same time that Delve came out, which we abused its flaw and made Skirmish pointless. So basically just like with Delve, Skirmish was fixed after the damage was already dealt.

Doing reives to get enough baylds for Naakual fight wasn't fun at all, and delve followed reive's footsteps in that repetitive playstyle.

For the most part, I agree, the only difference is that Delve at least is constant action for 45 minutes with a break then more action for 45 minutes, Reives were 5 minutes of action with 10 minutes between, which was worse in my opinion.

Exploring Adoulin's zones isn't fun either, because of the awful map design.

Mostly agree, I always find new areas fun to run around in when they look new, like Morimar.

It's a shame because there are some good ideas, but they made huge mistakes and got people sick.
A lot of things need to be fixed, maybe too much, and i'm thinking they won't bother with that much, as i bet they want us all to progressively quit for XIV.

Basically what I was thinking myself, and so long as RDM is in that game, I will definitely be there.

Happy 11th anniversary! The last one.
RIP

[Mayoyama]

I got invited to FFXIV beta phase 3... after only an hour of playing around, it glaringly made evident exactly why most people will move on from XI unless something drastic is done. I for one am 100% certain my decision to unsub this month was the right one. XIV has so many things XI players have been asking for for years.. and then some (NB not white knighting XIV.. just using it as an example of why XI is on a very steep downward slope).

Then again.. you know things are bad when even playing a game of solitaire on your PC is more entertaining than XI... lol

EDIT: Just saw the RUN merits and ya.. I rest my case lol....

Disclaimer: Not going to say any more on XIV just so I dont end up breaking some kind of NDA

[SqEnisfilledwithgeniuses]

I got invited to FFXIV beta phase 3... after only an hour of playing around, it glaringly made evident exactly why most people will move on from XI unless something drastic is done.
Disclaimer: Not going to say any more on XIV just so I dont end up breaking some kind of NDA

I got accepted to the PS3 beta as well. Just saying, FFXI is about to get smashed. Clearly SE has listened to requests and suggestions, they just put it in the wrong game.

FFXIV: A Realm Reborn
FFXI: A Realm Aborted

[Xantavia]

I have finally put my NNI/VW/Delve gear to good use. I am using it to help new players level faster in GoV and then rushing them through LB's. Otherwise this gear is what Karah mentioned, looking good while AFK.

Nice to hear that, but be careful. I feel like I've been burned numerous times helping new players. You help them get to a position where they in turn can assist you (nyzul and CoP mostly at the time), then they suddenly rush ahead and can't be bothered to return the favor.

[SqEnisfilledwithgeniuses]

Nice to hear that, but be careful. I feel like I've been burned numerous times helping new players. You help them get to a position where they in turn can assist you (nyzul and CoP mostly at the time), then they suddenly rush ahead and can't be bothered to return the favor.

^^^^^^^^^^^This.

Found a truly new player who had never touched FFXI before. Gave him 100k, brought him into my social LS. Helped him level, got him geared. Then next thing you know, he's sitting in Jeuno shouting about how worthless the LS is and how it helps no one, and not to join it. I'd rather afk in SoA in shiny gear with OP stats while I play FFXIV beta, than waste my time helping someone who is eventually just going to plant a knife in my back. The few ruin it for the many.

[GoblinTown]

I'd rather afk in SoA in shiny gear with OP stats while I play FFXIV beta, than waste my time helping someone who is eventually just going to plant a knife in my back. The few ruin it for the many.

...and in those many were lost those few who would have given back and would have been happy to call you friend.

[Mayoyama]

...and in those many were lost those few who would have given back and would have been happy to call you friend.

I can say with confidence that out of the plethora of people I've helped over the past 5 years, there's maybe 2-3 (max) I can still call a "friend".. the rest got what they wanted and pissed off, probably laughing their assess off they just conned yet another nice person to further themselves up the foodchain.

Either that or the big green envy boogyman with his peanut butthurt and jelly sammich would go stomping through the ls yet again and use it as an excuse as to why they should never have to help you back regardless of how many months you donated time to helping them get their gear up to snuff lol...

[sc4500]

FF14 is simply amazing and should play that , and play on ff11 when ever they got server maintence or on a dry spell for content for ff14 , but i hope they got a plan in place so they can keep ff11 running for another decade. Yet what they did for ff14 is a miracle and hope all of you can play it or try it. What all the ff11 fans and FF fans wanted in a mmo they made, If you can try ff14 really should and not just be like ff11 bored me so no more square mmos.

[Spectreman]

The new content is too easy for those who already had the best gear to achieve, soon they will be bored again. Yet it's impossible to be reached by others who were not lucky enough to be on the Abyssea train. SE doesn't know how to run an online game. Cattering to the hardcore, forgetting the casuals.

It's not the community fault that they only pick delve geared players for delve content. It's SE fault for creating an itemization system that makes 99% of everything useless and events that require so much precision to fight the amount of time required to get things done that makes players choose the best setups only for fights.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Found a truly new player who had never touched FFXI before.

As a general rule, I don't reach out to new players unless their title is something other than "New Adventurer" or "Mog's Master." I've found that to be a relatively reliable indicator of initiative and curiosity on the part of a new player.