Quote Originally Posted by Roja323 View Post
THe problem is the general populous isnt able to 'let it go'. Thats why there is reforged AF/RELIC armor, R/E/M weapons. This is the only mmo i have ever played that keeps the same gear you got 12 years ago relevant for the sake of 'but i spent so much time back then getting it why shouldnt it be relevant today'.

Seriously, every other mmo works on the system that each expansion works like this:
Current level / i level (99 / 119)
Group gear is i 109/ raid gear is 119

Expansion rolls around, new level/ilevel (105/i125)
New group gear = 117, new raid gear = 125 (*note that new group gear is comparable to old raid gear, but not as good, but better than old group gear).

They tried to not upgrade old gear into ilevel gear, and people flipped a shizlle when their R/M/E wasnt the best weapon anymore. Now if there was an ergon for every job and that was the new i level version of an end game weapon, i think it would be more in line with every other mmo.


The ffxi model is:
increase ilevel, add new trials to old equipment! Keep using that 5 year old bp with new trials!
So basically, every other MMO, a new gear update comes out, you toss the old stuff after getting the new stuff. So nothing is really valuable at all?
Maybe thats why FFXI has survived, and on a sub model at that, when few others can but the almighty (crappy and stale?) wow.

FFXI makes you feel like getting that gear, however old the original was, was actually worth something, that it was an accomplishment, which is why so many got into FFXI I'd wager, because getting somewhere made you feel like you really actually DID get somewhere.

I still treasure my kikoku long after I got it, even though I moved to a different character, because that was a major accomplishment for me. Sure some have multiple relic weapons, but for me, just having that one, is worth more then all of them. I imagine other people feel the same way about a lot of things they have.

So naturally, players will have a cow when that work is trashed for no reason (other mmo models), when that isn't how FFXI works.
And personally, I'm quite happy with FFXI's model, I really like it, and I hope they continue on the same path.