Will there be additional Abyssea type zones?

[Juilan]

Id rather have new stuff that requires honing new skills in the game and taking job dynamics to a different thought process and maybe something that i can actually level my bst using charmed pets. Give me new Jorm type monsters that you need multiple people to pay attention rather than a cure bombing mage.

[svengalis]

This will not end well.

Although I kind of like the sentiment of keeping my Atma, I don't know how much I would like more Abyssea.

If they increased the challenge of future Abyssea type events I wouldn't mind though.

If you think Abyssea is not challenging try going in with no cruor or atma buffs. I agree with topic creator. I would love if the game continued down the Abyssea path. I to have two accounts because of Abyssea.

[svengalis]

What? You think we should just up the dosages of our medication, while they dish out more hypnotic repetitive trash for us to be enamored, whilst being sucked deeper and deeper into a garbage pit?

Open your eyes for once, it wouldn't hurt to take a look at what's really happening. They're spoon feeding the babies, while making little airplane noises so they can feel special. Abyssea is quite literally a SIMS Shopping Mall, only with fanatics camping out in front of stores (??? NM pops) to be in line for the next trendy outfit.

And if you think I'm crazy, then you might just be right. But not as crazy as what this thread is asking for.

You sound like your mad cause all the noobs can get the good gear now. I will never understand why people get so upset cause everyone can get the good endgame gear now if they have the time to do it.

[svengalis]

Why do people say Abyssea is more repetitive than older content?

I'm sure you've had to do several Byakko's in a row, and the same can be said for almost all old NM's.

Abyssea just adds epeen DMG, selective jobs, and a time limit system.

I can never uderstand how anyone can say any one video game is repetitve. They all are especially this one no matter what you do.

[svengalis]

I don't know what you're ranting about and I don't much care.

What I meant by the inmate's running the asylum crack is that I think it was a simply horrid idea for SE to want communication and ideas from the general player base because most of the ideas given here are horrible and just plain suck. Especially the ones that seem to be asking for an old-style grind and old style drop rates that have been driving players crazy for years. Seriously, get bent.

That's why you have to come into those threads and counter them. I don't want to go back to killing a NM for months just to get the drops I want from it.

[Rie]

svengalis, can't you just reply to all the posts you'd like to reply to in the same post?

[Runespider]

Id rather have new stuff that requires honing new skills in the game and taking job dynamics to a different thought process and maybe something that i can actually level my bst using charmed pets. Give me new Jorm type monsters that you need multiple people to pay attention rather than a cure bombing mage.

How did you find the content they added last update, the non abyssea new stuff? I would rather more stuff thats good and proven successful than new stuff that might be pushed out by the old dev team/ideas that ends up sucking.

At the time the old type content was good (talking about Salvage etc) but that stuff won't fly after Abyssea anymore, even moreso given that all the best endgame content they made previously was done by a small portion of the playerbase while Abyssea is pretty much for everyone. It wouldn't even cost that much to Abyssea..ize some other zones, the terrain is the same..the monsters pretty much the same, the abyssea mechanics engine is there.

If you want challenges they can be done in Abyssea, make zones or mobs where you can't use brews or even make a handful of god tier NM's that are really tough, even with all the crazy buffs.

[RaenRyong]

What? You think we should just up the dosages of our medication, while they dish out more hypnotic repetitive trash for us to be enamored, whilst being sucked deeper and deeper into a garbage pit?

Open your eyes for once, it wouldn't hurt to take a look at what's really happening. They're spoon feeding the babies, while making little airplane noises so they can feel special. Abyssea is quite literally a SIMS Shopping Mall, only with fanatics camping out in front of stores (??? NM pops) to be in line for the next trendy outfit.

And if you think I'm crazy, then you might just be right. But not as crazy as what this thread is asking for.

What is your character like? I have a hard time believing it doesn't suck.

[Glamdring]

I hope Abyssea is not expanded. That whole !! proc thing is an abomination. The fact that I'll be able to take all my 90's to 95 in about an hour each when they put in the next lvl cap is simply stupid.

Unfortunately, they brought that stupid !! thing in with new content and even expanded it to the old. I'm at a loss to figure how !! improved Dynamis as an example.

I'll grant you, I never liked how once a certain way to beat ___ NM was published only that specific job set was welcome and no attempts at beating it in any other ways would even be attempted-the cookiecutter approach. But in this day and age where everything is just a matter of "put on your god gear, add 3 Atma and just solo it"? I also fail to see how that's an improvement.

XI is ultimately a strategy game with some elements of randomness to make for challenges, or at least it was, and that was its appeal. Abyssea has none of that. The only questions are satisfied in a week-the time it takes for everything's drops to be found and published. Revampped Dynamis is a little better-it'll probably take 3 weeks for all the !! triggers to be published, the same for Voidwatch. In fact, the only legitimate puzzle I've seen from SE in a year is "if that's all Deluxe Animator does, why bother?"

[Elexia]

Your entire post contains misinformation. Its not PS2 limitations, PS2 HDD has TONNES of space left. New expansions and new zones ARE possible. Read the expansion threads that have been created.

Your post contains misinformation.

PS2 Limitations aren't 100% regarding HDD space, it's regarding actual memory allocation and XI iirc is nearing it's zone cap that the PS2 can handle, it's why we won't see the North, South, West or Far east lands more than likely, but instancing zones (e.g Bastok Markets, Bastok Markets [s] etc) seem to do well. So I'm expecting city abysseas soon.

Make it happen, SE.