The Decline of FFXI: Forums, Gameplay and Nostalgia

[Olor]

HOW ABOUT ADDING DIFFERENT CONTENT FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT PLAYTIME AND INTERESTS? NO? THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR AMIRITE? lolz

There is tons of content for people with different playtimes and interests. If unbrewed shinryu battles are so important to you why don't you just have at it?

Also Crabknuckle treats everyone here pretty respectfully and you're comments were totally out of line. Just cause you're butthurt doesn't mean you have to get personal.

[Anewie]

There is tons of content for people with different playtimes and interests. If unbrewed shinryu battles are so important to you why don't you just have at it?

Also Crabknuckle treats everyone here pretty respectfully and you're comments were totally out of line. Just cause you're butthurt doesn't mean you have to get personal.

How this, Lets just agree to disagree. That's your opinion on the content. Unless you would like to go into detail and explain what content thats appealing outside abyssea that appeals to anyone? You think there is so much content, I'd love to hear it. Last a checked, only abyssea offered new gear. Maybe I missed something? I'm open to correction! Please, feel free.

INB4: kings, salvage, einherjar, nyzul, assault, campaign and besigied are still so much fun and offer so many nice rewards! Leaping Lizzy and Valk Emp. are still so much fun too!

[Olor]

OH. I see - you want the devs to use resources to make NEW content that only 10 per cent of the playerbase can enjoy... if that is the only thing that will make you happy, then you will probably be soley dissapointed by MMOs from this day forward - given the fact that developers like making money and I am pretty sure most of us who like to pay to play MMOs are not into paying full price for a game where most of the best content is utterly inaccesible

[Anewie]

OH. I see - you want the devs to use resources to make NEW content that only 10 per cent of the playerbase can enjoy... if that is the only thing that will make you happy, then you will probably be soley dissapointed by MMOs from this day forward - given the fact that developers like making money and I am pretty sure most of us who like to pay to play MMOs are not into paying full price for a game where most of the best content is utterly inaccesible

If you took time to read my posts, I said the player base would enjoy anything not abyssea related, but dont back track. I'm very curious to know what exact content you're talking about.

OK, please, explain what you mean. What besides HNMs were inaaccessable to you and so many? Can you go into detail? Again, king gear was put in a bcnm. What was so inaccessable besides that? Last i checked the toau/wotg HNM gear didnt make up even a fraction of the gear the several others INSTANCED-ish events such as dyna,nyzul,assault,salvage,einherjar offered. That stuff was inaccessable for you?o.O

[Akujima]

That stuff was inaccessable for you?o.O

I was just going to make the same post you did lol... But yea... I think we're going to see this same trend non-stop...

It's like saying, "The 3rd floor of my apartment is inaccessible because it has stairs and not an escalator".

Ridiculousness

[Anewie]

I was just going to make the same post you did lol... But yea... I think we're going to see this same trend non-stop...

It's like saying, "The 3rd floor of my apartment is inaccessible because it has stairs and not an escalator".

Ridiculousness

ITS TOO HARD! IT'S GONNA TAKE TOO LONG; ;! CAN SOMEONE NERFE THE APARMENT BUILDING SO I CAN GET TO MY HOMEPOINT?; ;

[Olor]

Hey, it's cool, I don't have an epeen to defend here. Yeah, actually Ein. Salvage etc. was inaccessible to me. Still is, lol. I am at level 66 now and it the highest I have ever been. I played for a year and a half and didn't even get to 50 before. I've gotten to see a lot more of the game on my new char in a month than I saw in a year and a half on my old char.

I am sure if I had played another two years on that 1 char, I probably would have gotten to access some of that content. But in the meantime I was paying for content I have STILL never even seen. That's not really okay.

It's fine if you want to make fun of me for my lack of progress or whatever, but the original XI was designed to be a horrific time sink that only rewarded the most hardcore of hardcore players. It's too bad that you believe that things taking a eon to complete = hard and having endless hours to spend doing that = skill.

I have never even been to Abyssea outside of one (crappy) leech session on my DNC and doing the quest to accumulate stones, so I don't have any especial complaints about it/love of it. That said - the way XI is now, where I can get to 66 in a month versus spending a year and a half to not even get a level break, is much better and sensible.

At the moment I think XI rewards time put in without punishing people who just don't have the time to put in - a lot better than it ever did.(Although I think it could still be better)

I am not, nor have I ever been, in the position to do scheduled events on a video game. If you think that having to treat a game like a job to access content is "accessible" - well, you might need to get to know your local dictionary better.

[Aureus]

Hey, it's cool, I don't have an epeen to defend here. Yeah, actually Ein. Salvage etc. was inaccessible to me. Still is, lol. I am at level 66 now and it the highest I have ever been. I played for a year and a half and didn't even get to 50 before.
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It's fine if you want to make fun of me for my lack of progress or whatever, but the original XI was designed to be a horrific time sink that only rewarded the most hardcore of hardcore players. It's too bad that you believe that things taking a eon to complete = hard and having endless hours to spend doing that = skill.

How would you know, you've never done any ffxi endgame.

You're making judgments based on how you HEARD ffxi used to be, not how you've experienced it.

[Olor]

Um... actually... the fact that in two years of combined playtime (over 3 chars) with "vanilla XI" (pre-aby) I never got over 50 - I can make the statement that the game was a horrific time sink - not even including endgame.

[Akujima]

Hey, it's cool, I don't have an epeen to defend here. Yeah, actually Ein. Salvage etc. was inaccessible to me. Still is, lol. I am at level 66 now and it the highest I have ever been. I played for a year and a half and didn't even get to 50 before. I've gotten to see a lot more of the game on my new char in a month than I saw in a year and a half on my old char.

I am sure if I had played another two years on that 1 char, I probably would have gotten to access some of that content...


...I am not, nor have I ever been, in the position to do scheduled events on a video game. If you think that having to treat a game like a job to access content is "accessible" - well, you might need to get to know your local dictionary better.

Alright so there's two definitions of that word. But try not to take this as an insult, is that one definition of the word is for the handicapped. You may have not played Abyssea much, or have seen oldschool content, but it's quite literally a handicap compared to bygone days.

I played FFXI for years man, years. I had LOADS of fun on FFXI, I met amazing people, made amazing friends and loved the unique battle system that had so much depth it was scary. And I still didn't get to do everything in it. I'm upset that when I finally was able to actually ENTER Endgame 75... They announced a level increase, completely making all the content I never got to experience, worthless. So can you see where I'm coming from?

I did Sea once or twice, I never did Salvage or Einherjar and I disliked HNM (alot of people disliked HNM, but a few loved it). But as much as I didn't play alot of the endgame scenarios, there were still many choices for me, such as Sky, Dynamis, Limbus, Nyzul Isle and Campaign. All in themselves having decent rewards and being fun to mess around in with friends.

The difference between now and then is that there is basically one thing to do at Lv90... Abyssea. And it's not even remotely difficult. If Abyssea is one thing though, it is rewarding. But I'm not into being spoon fed like a baby... Not my thing.