ffxi should not be this easy

[DerianX]

Also would need sky warp to be reliable, which a new player will not have on his first week.

I dunno. I started a new character a few months ago. After SE took the level caps off everything I decided to get her sky and sea access.

Sky access took about 6 hours to duo with my main character. Sea took about 3 days, and most of that was all the running around and wading though cutscenes.

[sc4500]

No there not making it easier there just catching up to what all mmo's have been doing in last decade, exp level is just #'s, to make people feel good about them selfs.

If they would listen to fans 6yrs ago this never would been a problem on fast leveling, they could spent last 5 yrs working on getting are charaters more customized beside merit points.

Were have same gears different stats, same jobs different stats , clothes look different , and rest the stuff , but some where square took a break to make ff14 .

What there doing now is good thing allow old players come back and play the game and new players come back and enjoy them game.

Hopefully way it going were going start to see more customized characters and gears and gameplay and they can start to concetrate on just the end play of the game and give players who been on game for last decade some props to the new players.

Need game base , there once was over 2.5million on this game before chain of prom came out dropped to 300k, there just working on getting some them back. PEACE

[rog]

there once was over 2.5million on this game

No there was not <.<

Also, you missed the point.

[Bhujerba]

half trolling technique, I see....
same technique that alliancecore uses..first line/paragraph is a complete troll, but 2nd is kind of valid idea/concern, this time though, its the same subject..


anyway, I have to disagree, for me the new FF is still challenging and fun, with low man, and even when its easy its sure beats the hell out of not being able to experience it at all.

same thing with COP i missed the challenge which mind you, I crave for, but its something like this (for me):
100% Challenge * 0% experience = 0% fun
while
20% Challenge * 100% experience = 20% fun

20 > 0

[Huevriel]

I firmly believe SE decided to make the game "easy" after this incident:

http://petfoodalpha.com/2008/08/how-long-is-too-long/

Before that, the game was full of challenges. For those newcomers who have joined within the past few months, I've already seen many of them quit because "there was nothing else to do. I got all 90's. I don't wanna wait for 99. etc etc"
God-forbid they try anything "boring" like crafting, gardening, fishing, pankration, or anything else that's not leveling.
Yes, this enrages many of the veteran players. Especially when you need to explain where Aht Urhgan is to a level 90, but it's just the way things are.

Try curbing the anger by teaching lvl 90's how to do skillchains and magic bursts. Or take them on a tour to places they've never been before their entire leveling experience (like Garbage Citadel, The Elshimo Island, or Fei'yin, or Halvung).

Eventually the majority of players will have less than 15 days on their "Playtime" before quitting.

[Runespider]

They nerfed the game when they released FF14, nothing to do with news stories. Although I liked Abyssea the stuff that's coming out now is cheap and the future content looks really dreary. If you make stuff fun like Abyssea you have to throw out more of it and the new stuff is horrid and done on a shoestring budget.

It's very easy to see their plans for FFXI, the reasoning and timing of the major changes are obvious, ultimately their grand scheme will bite them on the ass with so much other competition out there but they are still going to truck on with it.

[rog]

half trolling technique, I see....
same technique that alliancecore uses..first line/paragraph is a complete troll, but 2nd is kind of valid idea/concern, this time though, its the same subject..


anyway, I have to disagree, for me the new FF is still challenging and fun, with low man, and even when its easy its sure beats the hell out of not being able to experience it at all.

same thing with COP i missed the challenge which mind you, I crave for, but its something like this (for me):
100% Challenge * 0% experience = 0% fun
while
20% Challenge * 100% experience = 20% fun

20 > 0

The first paragraph was used to illustrate a point. Not sure if you know what trolling is.

And fyi, the point of suggestions is to make improvements. You do not need to choose between what we have now and not playing at all.

[Komori]

Everyone who complains about the game being too easy should just go ahead and quit, or bring leeches into shit just to level sync to make shit harder so I can stop hearing a broken record.

[Akujima]

Everyone who complains about the game being too easy should just go ahead and quit

Because that's exactly what SE wants people to do.

[MarkovChain]

It took him less than one day to reach level 90.

It's impossible you are trolling. I count at least 15-20 hours of running around to do all the level cap quests.

level 50 caps

runing to jeuno to from a city : 15 minutes on a chocobo but you don't have a choco lolz. 30 minutes on feet.
Farming 3 rare items in the surrounding zone = 3 hours at least (papyrus anyone ?)

level 55 caps

getting to xarcapard : you need to run from jeuno to sandy then rangemont then beaucedine and xarc then kills. It will take at least 3 hours.


level 65 caps : you need to travel to the 3 strongholds, do a long quest to get accesss to the ??? in each boss areas. It will take at least 6-7 hours because you travel mainly you foot, and there is a lot of running.

level 65 caps : hope you got some KS lolz

level 70 cap : you can't win. This is why rog is trolling as usual. You would need to cap all of your skill first which takes something around 20-30 hours. Then farming and kill maat, knowing that you suck because you are undergeared underskilled ad probably chose the wrong job. I'll be kind and give you one hour.

orther caps require nothing but exping in abyssea.

I count 44 hours

You have to add time to get 1-30
time to get 30-90

You are really bad and it's time mods ban you for making trolling posts.