Get rid of abyssea

[rog]

If it were not for abyssea, more people would come back. I know i would.

[rog]

Except that quote of his Miiyo used which is longer. He describes being mpk'd, losing hnms, and the like. It's so blatantly obvious; no sane person would say that FFXI used to be fun because of these things, but rather in spite of them.

That was not my point.

[Novax]

Before abyssea you worked for what you wanted be it dyna drops to salvage drops, which yes took quite a while but that's where you get the sense of accomplishment. Maybe that rdm af2 hat didn't drop 2-3 runs in a row and then it finally does and you have to lot against another person, you get the adrenaline pump when you lot and bam 31 ; ;, your competitor lots a 29!!!! Omg you win! Story for everyone of your friends.

Abyssea: go in for 30mins and get 2-3 +1s a few hours and get 25/50 more emp items, it's all gimmie gimmie gimmie as someone said before. Now that abyssea is so easy and you get things so fast people want everything to be as easy.

[rog]

Before abyssea you worked for what you wanted be it dyna drops to salvage drops, which yes took quite a while but that's where you get the sense of accomplishment. Maybe that rdm af2 hat didn't drop 2-3 runs in a row and then it finally does and you have to lot against another person, you get the adrenaline pump when you lot and bam 31 ; ;, your competitor lots a 29!!!! Omg you win! Story for everyone of your friends.

Abyssea: go in for 30mins and get 2-3 +1s a few hours and get 25/50 more emp items, it's all gimmie gimmie gimmie as someone said before. Now that abyssea is so easy and you get things so fast people want everything to be as easy.

This man understands. When everything is so easy, there is no sense of accomplishment.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Abyssea is not bad, it just needs to be adjusted

[rog]

Abyssea is not bad, it just needs to be adjusted

Maybe, it could be adjusted, in theory, but as it is now, it is definitely bad.

[Dazusu]

The game was better off without it.

Completely agree.

[Bubeeky]

you know Rog...your "real ffxi" isn't lvl 75...it's lvl 50 max, only rank 5 of the cities available, and only in japanese, only the original six jobs available...that's "real ffxi" because everything else was an expansion of various degrees, just like Aby

[rog]

you know Rog...your "real ffxi" isn't lvl 75...it's lvl 50 max, only rank 5 of the cities available, and only in japanese, only the original six jobs available...that's "real ffxi" because everything else was an expansion of various degrees, just like Aby

No. Level 50 was never intended to be the permanent cap. Nor was rank 5 meant to be the end, or only 6 jobs. The level cap, max rank, and most of the jobs were decided a long, long time ago. It is silly to change it after all this time.

[Korpg]

So you think we should just forget about the last 8 years of the game? Real ffxi cannot be played without fafnir, or kirin. They are essential parts of the game. And of course the game was meant to be played at level 75. For 8 years, it was designed around level 75. Changing that now simply is not right, and ruins the original game.

Getting the best gear is supposed to be hard. What sense of accomplishment do you have if you can get all the best gear, including empyrean weapons, etc, in a few days? We need to go back to the challenges of getting things like adaberk, ridill, etc. We shouldn't just have everything handed to us on a golden platter.

Wait, real FFXI cannot be played without NMs that are 21-24 hour pops that were botted by most RMT shells known to existence so they can make money off of a fantasy game to people who does not even know what to do with a ridill except "swing at things because it makes me look like I bought my account." There is a reason why most of the player base did not do HNMs, and that is because most people do not find it fun waiting for 3 hours on a pop so your linkshell leader can get the gear that he wants and after he gets it he will just either jump server or "schedule" other events so you cannot get the same gear unless you buy it from the same leader so he can buy the newest bot to try to outclaim other bots so he can sell the money items for his new computer screen and "girlfriend." (Sorry for the run-on sentence)

There is a reason why SE did Abyssea. There is a reason why gil isn't worth the same as it was a little over a year ago. There is a reason why nobody sees anymore RMT /ts (and not because of the chat filter, although that did "help).

Abyssea has been the best thing to happen in this game in a very long time, and I for one am glad that SE did something right and capitalized it quickly. Here is to Abyssea!