Friendships and accomplishing things.

[VoiceMemo]

Well the game is very top heavy. Look at lvl, it's a means to an end. Rare does anyone congratulate on 75 like early on in the game where it could take years to get to 75.

Most people have statics, so you don't tend to meet new people anymore, since statics can do everything in house.

[Stompa]

Well the game is very top heavy. Look at lvl, it's a means to an end. Rare does anyone congratulate on 75 like early on in the game where it could take years to get to 75.

Most people have statics, so you don't tend to meet new people anymore, since statics can do everything in house.

Yes, statics are a logical and efficient method, especially for time-restricted events. I wouldn't criticise anybody for deploying the statics method.

My point in the post, and the thread title, was a broader and perhaps esoteric point.

Everybody has a personal unique set of reasons why they love FFXI, and obviously there is overlap and common ground.

The main reasons why I love FFXI, are in the thread title, friendships and accomplishing things.

My concern is that, in the dystopian lonely new era of Pay-To-Progress, new players are missing out on those important and enjoyable aspects of the game.

Worse still, many of them probably don't know that an earlier age even existed. They might assume that it was always <This way.> when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

I love playing FFXI in 2021, there's lots of fun things to do, so this isn't a complaint thread at all.

I just hope that new players won't feel isolated, lonely, and bored, if they are drawn into the Pay-To-Progress system. That system seems like a Meat Grinder to me. I think it is a terrible thing to happen to a player.

[Lortheron]

Game kind of lost it's way with Raphsodies of Vana Diel and the way they try to trivialize the original (and best) game content.

[Lortheron]

Well the game is very top heavy. Look at lvl, it's a means to an end. Rare does anyone congratulate on 75 like early on in the game where it could take years to get to 75.

Most people have statics, so you don't tend to meet new people anymore, since statics can do everything in house.

That is the FFXIV excuse. Not acceptable if you ask me. The game should try better, much better, to keep original content always relevant.

[VoiceMemo]

That is the FFXIV excuse. Not acceptable if you ask me. The game should try better, much better, to keep original content always relevant.

How would you keep original content relevant? Some of the missions are 10+ years old. Leveling is so easy now you can get from 1-99 in a matter of hours. The game is no longer the grind for leveling as it was. All the major roadblocks for REMA weapons have been removed. Anyone can obtain a REMA, just how long it takes is the difference.

[Kalimairo]

How would you keep original content relevant? Some of the missions are 10+ years old. Leveling is so easy now you can get from 1-99 in a matter of hours. The game is no longer the grind for leveling as it was. All the major roadblocks for REMA weapons have been removed. Anyone can obtain a REMA, just how long it takes is the difference.

They can just Create abyssea zones all over again in unused Zones, it so easy to color pallete swap minus Abyssites since people hated solo abyssea, on top of that they could even add Seekers of adoulin VW, or a new Open source dungeons like garbage Citadel ETC in older maps they could tie it to new lore its so easy to accomplish that i think, and add New Nation quests maybe ILVL nation Rank 10 gear with those new / vanilla zones dungeons? Like ilvl version of the golden parry bastok hands for example stuff like that would be interesting

[VoiceMemo]

They can just Create abyssea zones all over again in unused Zones, it so easy to color pallete swap minus Abyssites since people hated solo abyssea, on top of that they could even add Seekers of adoulin VW, or a new Open source dungeons like garbage Citadel ETC in older maps they could tie it to new lore its so easy to accomplish that i think, and add New Nation quests maybe ILVL nation Rank 10 gear with those new / vanilla zones dungeons? Like ilvl version of the golden parry bastok hands for example stuff like that would be interesting

But this is not original content anymore, it is NEW content. Sure it reuses old zones but it would do totally different things.

[Lortheron]

They can just Create abyssea zones all over again in unused Zones, it so easy to color pallete swap minus Abyssites since people hated solo abyssea, on top of that they could even add Seekers of adoulin VW, or a new Open source dungeons like garbage Citadel ETC in older maps they could tie it to new lore its so easy to accomplish that i think, and add New Nation quests maybe ILVL nation Rank 10 gear with those new / vanilla zones dungeons? Like ilvl version of the golden parry bastok hands for example stuff like that would be interesting

There are many interesting ways to make new and old players of different levels interact without killing the joy and challenge for either one (low, medium or high level, playing together), level syncing is one of them... also there are many ways to keep old areas full of players of different levels and old content always rewarding and relevant so that old players help new players and receive proper rewards (but then, the original content has to have the option for proper level syncing so that everyone has a challenge while doing it and don't just steamroll trough it, epic fights should remain hard and epic forever, be it doing with trustes or high level friends, no matter the level). Even FFXIV does a better job at this than FFXI : (