We go through the dungeons to get tomes, money, so we can buy gear. We go through coil over and over to get tomes, so we can buy gear. Or hope a piece of gear falls out. We are limited to how much tomes (money) we can make per week, and how many times we can play the Coil Chest lottery.
Once we got our weekly salary and played our lottery ticket we are done.
We are now the working class adventurer, here to collect a salary, scratch a ticket, then retreat back to the adventurer's hall to chat with friends over a drink and savoury snack. The battles no longer interest us, we have memorized them so much we can do it in our sleep.
We are adventurers who thrive for action and adventure, but end up settling for a measly weekly salary and a lottery ticket.
I want to fight the good fight. I want battles and adventures where winning is its own reward. Where each fight is non-deterministic and the outcome matters not on if we forgot the next step in the dance or lagged. Where it matters on our guile, our wit, our ability to improvise.
Am I the only one who wants this?
Action is no longer our reward?
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12-05-2013, 04:51 PMAsiaineAction is no longer our reward?
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12-05-2013, 05:01 PMJinrya-Geki
It was awesome to have a companion in FFXI. The quest line you do for them made it even better. The last quest for the companion is to fight them one on one.
One of the few times I ever felt in XI that winning didn't need to have awesome reward.
I really hope we get to have companion npcs again. Not the 1.0 companion, one that we can choose what they look like, and name. -
12-05-2013, 05:10 PMHysteriorHopefully we can fight our retainers for doing such a bad work with our inventory and on the market boardsQuote:
Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki
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12-05-2013, 05:14 PMRi_riDamn, I'd love to fight that fight...Quote:
I want to fight the good fight. I want battles and adventures where winning is its own reward. Where each fight is non-deterministic and the outcome matters not on if we forgot the next step in the dance or lagged. Where it matters on our guile, our wit, our ability to improvise.
Until then... there I go spam heals on ADS and hoping other people never lag and remember every step of their dance... because my part is really just refilling the bars.
Oh, and feeling guilty, frustrated and sad because I took the laser. -
12-05-2013, 06:30 PMElvin:D:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hysterior
Woud be nice, but will never happend. At least not in a lot of years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asiaine
You can't create a game were people can't create mechanics for the fights. Maybe in the future with a lot of improvements in AI... But right now the most you can do is a fight with a lot of different mechanics and people having to choose wich they have to use in each moment. -
12-05-2013, 06:54 PMdiulalasing
What if everything become unlimited, but every dungeon has 1/10th of the reward it has now?
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12-05-2013, 07:04 PMTeon
I may be wrong, but TESO may fit you, accordingly to how they are promoting it (final version, don't post "i played beta, nah" )
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12-05-2013, 09:45 PMSteeledThat's so cruel lol. Yay for 100 WPs rather than 10, or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by diulalasing
Repetition of content != content.