FFXI fixed!

[Shoko]

I don't know what hardcore times you want to go back to. Before the level cap increase, you had what? Limbus, Sea, Sky, dynamis, kings, Salvage and ZNM? Which of those events was harder than VW? Or Neo Nyzul? Or even abyssea?

The hardcore past doesn't exist. Every end game event of old had the same result as the ones in game now. Get a bunch of people and do it every week and you will get the item. There was rarely if ever a question as to whether you would complete the run. It was always just a matter of repetition. You got +1 versions by paying more. Not by beating harder content. Billy the armadaberk warrior bad ass just paid 100 mil more than joey the mediocre adaberk warrior. He didn't beat an extra special zone that drops +1 abjurations, he just bought it from some lucky crafter. There was no +1 gear from salvage, and it had the same problems we have now. Where in you go 1,000 times and never get that 35 piece, but the dodo bird token treasure hunter thief in full af over there gets it his first run.

They have seriously run out of stuff. Asking for harder content is just begging for some infuriating new RNG based content that has no rhyme or reason to it and will not make you feel more accomplished for having gotten lucky. Best case scenario, they put in some event that only the leet can handle. The leet get gear and laugh at everyone else. Most likely scenario: They put in some crap like Neo Nyzul that is so random that you know its just luck and not skill, and people cheat until everyone has all the gear anyways.

If the "hardcore past" doesn't exist, then why does this thread exist? Why are there people in this very thread clamoring that everyone should be allowed the same gear that others can obtain from specific events? Surely it's not because all of the events are easy.

There was a certain point in this game that separated casuals from the hardcore. You can call it easy or what have you, but to the casual player, it was definitely something they couldn't get into for whatever reason, be it the time required to grind and obtain stuff, or just not being good enough to be let into an LS that got these specific items. Even so, some of those events can definitely be called hardcore events in terms of difficulty, by a casual's standards back then (Einherjar, CoP Dynamis, Salvage, Sky, Sandworm). They just weren't events where you could put on any sub par gear and expect excellent results, nor were they events where the casual could just jump in and put in work easy and be of benefit to their PT or Alliance-- they had to be decently geared and at least have an idea on what's going on.

Crafting is an entirely different matter at hand, esp when you speak of abjuration items. And yet, it leads back to one of my own previous arguments that I just stated-- there's nothing stopping anyone from buying whatever they want. They will just have to be well aware of the price they will have to pay to obtain.

If that is the case and everything is easy both in past and present FFXI, I must ask you this question. Are you happy with FFXI? If you are happy with FFXI as it is, awesome bro. If not, Why are you still playing if you aren't happy?

Neo Nyzul was actually a good idea at what FFXI needs right now in my opinion, but I agree that it was horribly implemented and randomness has too big a factor.