Why I quit FFXI.

[Jazeridan]

Vagary, delve and dynamis D requiring 3 people to enter. Sortie, everything new is exciting but it quickly became tedious, boring and absolutely hate doing it. Tired of shouts of people or just one person constantly selling an 8 hour session of leveling for 5 million gil on every server just to be sold back to the same people who bought this service for real money. Tired of game day waits for every damn thing and sometimes earth day waits. Long cut scenes of a story I don't care about. Not enough space for anything even with 8 wardrobes not to mention paying for those wardrobes. Almost 30 dollars for a subscription is absurd. Tired of people scamming people on materials needed to upgrade gear. Etched memories being sold for 50k a piece is absurd. No need for people to group cause its far easier to write a script within you gearswap if using windower or your lua using ashita to fully automate your characters to do anything you want. Tired of insane crafting reagents almost unobtainable in this current era such as cashmere cloth. Sick and tired of SE not allowing people to play there game with ridiculous restrictions.

[Pixela]

Nonsense, you played this game for many years and all these things were there all that time.

Whatever reason you quit (that you don't want to say), had little to do with those things.

Best of luck in your travels, the game will still be here if you wanna come back.

[Zehira]

No need for people to group cause its far easier to write a script within you gearswap if using windower or your lua using ashita to fully automate your characters to do anything you want.

I am glad someone finally said it. That's the main reason I was playing FFXI for last few years. Once you learned how, FFXI is no longer a game you used to play many years ago.

After the 20th anniversary, I can accept that SE doesn't want to do something big because players are breaking the rules all the time.

[Alhanelem]

"far easier" if you want to pay for 3-6 accounts, sure. But many of us aren't willing to do that.

But the whole point of an MMORPG is playing with other people. Why is everyone so averse to doing that?

[Zehira]

Why is everyone so averse to doing that?

Because you can't afford your time playing both XI and XIV.

XIV is a lot easier to play with other people, XI became their solo game.

[Pixela]

Ironically, although you can play with others easier on XIV it has far less meaning and they might as well be purely AI.

When you do group on XI, it's actual human interaction because you have to put effort in and people will talk to you.

This isn't banging on XIV either, all modern mmorpgs are the same.

I remember playing another game with all the bells and whistles of party building, I played a tank and I spammed dungeons all day. Talking 6-7 hours of it, I played with so many different people and it was near instant match.

At the end of the day I felt completely and utterly depressed in a way I had never experienced on XI in 15 years of playing, I had "played" with literally hundreds of people and it meant nothing. It was souless, and I felt awful when I went to bed.

It felt better to solo all day than go through this charade of "playing with people" when nobody talked, you would never see them again and there was no social interaction much at all other than hi bye and gg.

What's that saying, "in a room full of people and still alone" that's what it feels like to "play with others" on a dungeon finder game.

[Kalimairo]

"far easier" if you want to pay for 3-6 accounts, sure. But many of us aren't willing to do that.

But the whole point of an MMORPG is playing with other people. Why is everyone so averse to doing that?

Because everyone is multiboxing.

[Pixela]

Because everyone is multiboxing.

No, trusts exist.

[Sp1cyryan]

Because everyone is multiboxing.

I'm not multiboxing.

[Zehira]

Since SE is serving two MMORPGs, they aren't helping XI that much. That can pressure players to lose an interest. I think as Yoshi-P has stated somewhere their employees don't care if they are getting paid they don't want to work on this game.

Good luck with helping SE community reps who have little to no knowledge of the current state of this game. You know more than me. I was kind of impressed to see SE isn't taking their time to read the in-game reports since over a month.