Dear developers,
Dear Readers
I have begun my adventure in this game in 2004 i was a mere child at the age of 13, i was hearing rumors and talks with from my dad's cousin about this game Ever quest that he used to play, and how he owned a credit card to play it, i was eager to play an mmorpg,
than i bought a Video game magazine that showcased FFXI beta and another Magazine about screenshots on the new up coming summoner job, and a video of a dark knight with a summoner in Japanese don't remember exactly where clearly remember a bald hume summoner in the pictures tho
when i just recently finished FF4 ps1 i was so Excited to play FFXI i knew i would play it without owning a credit card i had the gut feeling i will! My middle aged uncles were NES/SNES fans of square they even had Japanese cartridge's Yes we had them even in the middle east, They helped me set up my account and payed for it for around 6 years before they quit entirely i even met a cousin that passed away in 2012 through FFXI i did not even know HIM! i remember he told me he was from the same country as i am i was so excited and i told him my name he got so mad ! and called his mom
(my mom's sister) To tell me it was wrong to do that! i was only 12! in my first V dunes party some dude said he was 24 i was like OMG UR TOO OLD TO PLAY THIS GAME little did i know.
iv always was subscribed to this game from 2004 iv had many accounts not just one, this game its my child hood but lets ignore all that its all personal lets talk about the current game in a constructive manner shall we?
Power creep.
The power creep is huge for the returner or new players, there is no guidance at all and The big wiki Guide 1-119 wont help them to play end game with their desired job or even mid tier content, Because u know what? alot of people have a dual box mega geared geo or corsair and bard, so their only option is to force them play these jobs,
The difference with gear has become a gigantic gap for new players, Abyssea was the medicine it helped people solo duo weapons in a timely manner without spending alot of gill, it just needed time it was simple and it was fun to help others too, when you had nothing to do and out of void stones for VW, for example or when you were locked out during that era of the game, thats just an exmaple i dont want to talk about the 75 era because lots of people get mad thats just 1 point.
Environment
The second point when your in abyssea you are Still interacting with the world not just mindlessly poping u are farming pop items farming key items its interactive its fun, while in the other hand we have Escha zitah Ruauan and resinjima "vomit pop mechanics" and your not running back and forth to npc to pop area it feels Stale as my mind right now. Lets go to ambuscade its even worse than Resinjima the only reason people are doing it is because of the materials, ur entering an instance OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN A SQUARE LIKE ARENA Rotating jobs, its nice to have but its not fun when its a catch up wait,, its no longer a catch up since all of us do VD1 now see what i mean Developers? This game was an adventure, the adventure is gone but my hopes are still high we might have something like that with the new mission leading to something?
The Balance
Black mages dead
Ninja and Tanks : Clunky why would some 1 inv me over a REMA DD? or a REMA tank people would want me tank on pld even tho i have all rema unless i do my own omen groups ( iam main ninja),
oh wait rune fencers are better paladins. Everyone who thinks The paladin update fixed the job after the ruamaoko video is DEAD WRONG. you literally DO NOTHING ON paladin other than juggle hate and enmity + spell interruption sets, u barely do anything outside of attornment which does 1500 damage only these days in high end game content, and for the love of GOD LET US PALADINS SHIELD BLOCK FULL TP RETURN WITH STONESKIN WITH FULL EFFECT, Give us a trait to get a 20% damage taken too so we can gear swap ws and not die too no 1 wants to attonment we are forced Too HELL OR just outright Buff it, and ninja i dont want to go there...
Job points
Most returners and new players want to experience the party /exp/jp system, again or for the first time but its so hard for them to do so, because of the power creep and the power required as a new fresh 99 with decent gear. no one wants sub optimal Capacity points hell i became friend with one twitch streamer for the past 8 months and he has not even have 200 jp yet, because of the power creep and he plays 4 hours a day what the hell? i helped him earn 100 once and he is still stuck with it he had to level cor see what i mean?
The World
The world feels Dead as i stated above everything well mostly is instanced based and not very interactive am not asking for anything innovative just do stuff you have done in the past.,... and odyssey is still stale i know they are trying hard enough.
The Cheating
People are literally cheating with automated lua gear swaps due to how fast the game has become too, please do something about it too.
all I want to say is that final fantasy 11 is still the greatest online game to me, in fact i would not have written post about the the problems that currently resides in this used to be expansive mmo.
Please fix the state of the game square please.
Do you want this game to stay a memory of what it used to be?
i am tempted to play on eden but i just cant and wont its a private server.
Excuse my English and if there was anything foul.