Quote Originally Posted by Pixela View Post
Lets say you started playing today, you saw the game on steam and thought "looks fun!"

You log on after making your character, you know nothing and there is literally nobody around at all to talk to...since that is the reality of FFXI now.
See, when I want the answer to something, I use the wise and all knowing Google. Do a search on "Final Fantasy 11 help". What is the 3rd result? Or just Google "Final Fantasy 11" and look at the 5th result (not counting hits for shopping and images). When I was starting out in 2004, I had a linkshell to introduce me to some of the basics, but a lot of the more in depth stuff I found on GameFAQs and eventually Allakazham. Don't think the wikis were even around back then.

How do you know how to get the Eminence system activated since you don't even know wiki etc exists
The records of eminence system is the most clearly explained thing in the entire game. It's right there on your Quests menu, and it tells you exactly where to go to set it up.

how do you know how to get trust npc or even FoV? Try leveling without those 3 things solo to 99, see how long before you give up.
Trusts are a little opaque, but the entire Fields of Valor system is explained in the tutorial objectives and on the books themselves. If you read the text, it explains it.

But this whole "new player versus old player" thing is a false dichotomy made to give the impression that we have some sort of unfair advantage. Here's the thing; new content is constantly coming out and to a limited extent we all become "new players" every month. There are new Adoulin missions coming out in a few weeks that nobody will know how to do. Some people will figure it out. Others like me know how to research it. You say "new players can't figure anything out!!! This game is unfair". But if told about this free and easily accessible resource that will tell you everything you need to know, you say "oh that doesn't count".