June 2020 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Taruitis]

You wanna combat RMT?? Put some GMs in zones. If we as player can spot a bot, I bet you can too! Taking actions that hurt actual players(such as sparks) does not fix or hinder RMTs, I am sure they got enough Gil with their 18 accounts per person... or maybe the 1000 job shouts per minute, or maybe the pay to win everything shouts... or the crafting bots that have been in the same zones for 2+ years running the same path... or the Dynamis bots that have been there 2+ years... or the AH pricing that seems to magically inflate by large amounts... jail these bots, temporary suspensions, and continue to do it. That will ensure SE still gets the monthly paid subscription $$$, and players will have access to content!! Amazing how simple it is(I know there is a little more to it than that). But I am wasting my breath, it’s not rocket science so you can make changes that impact the game positively for the player base... you have only had years to try and come up with a solution... if you can’t monitor RMT any better than this then you should just stop trying... it’s beyond ridiculous how bad they have become. Quit sugar coating these little changes and get on the offensive! End of rant.

With love,

Taru

[Beastorizer]

I am noticing a reoccurring theme here Matsui; you have a vision.....which you force down the throats of the players.

For decades, BST was able to use ready or sic from the yonder. Even though BST like myself battled at close range, you wanted to force feed others to do so. Everyone hated it.

RMT was an issue for decades. Players and RMT always shared the same source of gil for the most part. Now, you once again force feed your vision upon the players.

Disclaimer: NO DISRESPECT MATSUI.

However, I feel like if you were in charge during the early 2000s, you would have force fed NIN as a elemental wheel DD instead of a tank as players were playing Ninja as......

I have no issue making money, or really fighting as BST (Unless my little bunny gets lost in a crowd and I cannot see it to come closer in attempt to use Ready....Which is why I like/want bigger pets...), but you gotta stop the force feeding man.....Disrupting players is not the answer to everything.

No shade, disrespect, just the opinion of one man.

[Venat]

MATSUI please remove animation lock on abilities. Most "power up" animations are exactly the same. It would improve the pace of combat and animation lock bloat.

[Pixela]

If you want to stop RMT you would be better off addressing the reason people BUY gil in the first place, not addressing ways the sellers get it.

Job points are way too hard for newer players to obtain, yet for players with a REMA they are too easy. You need to implement boosts for players to get job points for the first 100-150 (at least), it's so difficult right now that they just give up and buy Job Points from Bots who kill Apex monsters in seconds.

I understand you want a time sink, but it's not working. People are buying 500 job points for 10m gil, which is very little. I like getting my own job points but the amount of work and time it takes to get 500 means even I'm tempted to just buy them.

[Sirmarki]

Job points are way too hard for newer players to obtain, yet for players with a REMA they are too easy. You need to implement boosts for players to get job points for the first 100-150 (at least), it's so difficult right now that they just give up and buy Job Points from Bots who kill Apex monsters in seconds.

and there is me wondering how I got to 75 in the old days, when solo got you 15xp per Easy Prey kill.

Only reason why people allegedly buy currency is because they can't be bothered, lazy, and would probably cheat in all other games anyway given the chance.

[Pixela]

and there is me wondering how I got to 75 in the old days, when solo got you 15xp per Easy Prey kill.

Only reason why people allegedly buy currency is because they can't be bothered, lazy, and would probably cheat in all other games anyway given the chance.

You can buy 500 job points for 7m, I can make 7m in a few hours. 500 job points would take me weeks, it would take someone far less geared than me months.

The only reason not to take the quick route is if you have the knowledge that you are ruining the game for yourself, but most don't understand this until it's too late. This is probably the 2nd source of players buying gil right now, just goto the apex camps and see how many idle players are there.

It's so bad now that it's rare to see someone without master stars, they wanted job points to be a long grind and at the start it was fine but they made it so long and boring that people now don't do it at all and bypass it. They messed up because they never re-visited it, it's ok to have a grind but it needs to feel like you're making progress. I've seen people taking 10-15 minutes to kill one apex monster, that's not meaningful progress when it's 1.5k job points to cap.

It's so bad at this point that it's rare to see apex parties at all now, it's easy to just farm the gil.

If they want to address RMT they need to make job point acquisition less awful, or people will just pay more for the gil no matter how annoying they make it for sellers.

[Atomic646]

returned for the "ffxi return to vana'diel" thing after 2 yrs to this bs.. yeaaa. really screwed over everyone BUT the rmts. nice job SE... glad I quit in late 2019 now, hopefully the servers get shutdown soon on this spaghetti code game. trash