For FFXI players

[Mack]

Does anyone else feel this game lacks the magical feeling of XI and accomplishment. I have 3 lv 50s and not one came within a hair of how happy i was back in 04 to hit 75BLM. Also when i was lv 20 and first made it to jeuno after a long epic run from sandy, man nothing compares to the adventurous and spine-chilling felling walking through the zones leading to jeunos enchanting music. I'm still trying to figure out if I lost interest in FF or if this game just lacks the content to make it magical. Does anyone else feel the same?

Its this game. I loved FFXI for many reasons, I don't know what they are any more, but FFXIV hasn't given me that same feeling at all.

[zaviermhigo]

are we using sith as a cuss word now, that's wizard.

I believe only your first mmo gives you "that" feeling. Other ones after, tend to disappoint.

[Kiroh]

Two years from now a 16 year old is going to be lucky enough to find Square's timeless classics on the PlayStation Network. After playing through them he is going to want something, anything else by this company. He will find FFXIV: Collection for $19.95 and join his first MMO.

He will get all the "feelings" "friends" and "sense of accomplishment" that FFXI players attribute to their game but in reality got from their first true MMO love affair.

8 years from now that kid is going to be on the FFXIX forums bashing the crap out of it, asking why the friends, feelings and accomplishments are now missing from the genre.

FFXIV might be great some day but it sure as Slth won't ever bring back fond memories of days past.

Sorry.

I don't think this is entirely right. Some of what I enjoyed about XI was that it was new, but new doesn't keep players around for 8 years. They did something right with XI considering it's still even running that goes far beyond the simple thrill of playing a new game.

But I also admit that XIV, despite it's short-comings, does (once in a while) remind me of that feeling. Especially when I log on and jump into a Behest just to end up in a group with 3 or 4 other people from the party for the next 8 hours. I don't know what happened, I don't know where the time went, but suddenly I'm rank 22 and I've made 4 new friends that I had a great time with. I just love happy coincidences.

The point being that XIV definitely has the potential, but right now that's about all it has to it's name. It aggravates me to log in and see them squander that potential, but there's no denying it's there.

[Commat]

Dear Kiroh,

Great points and /sadface for the unfortunate truth of paragraph three.

I am aware that the game has to be good to draw people in for years but unfortunately many people stay in MMOs long after the good feelings, adventure and fun has left them. Hell, i have done it. Friends and obligation are a part of MMOs for me and years pass before some of us are willing to let go.

I also think its neat that you pointed out that, yes in fact, new games can suck us in again. I just, right now, have no reason to believe that the high will be as sweet or the time as long.

Just my unneeded two cents.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

FFXIV has given me many different feelings for a game I have never had, yet some of the same feelings of excitement I get from playing any new MMO. I stick with the game because the game is good enough and has infinite potential to be what I thought it was going to be from the start.

[OneUp]

FFXIV should've given the same, if not better feelings that XI brought, and it's very sad it fails to do so in most areas. Even though we got XI a year later, XIV had all of XI's years of experience on how to make an MMO and make it with charm; along with all the previous Final Fantasys. Looking ahead 6 months from now when we are a year into XIV, will that charm be there or will we still be remembering XI so much more fondly?

[Peregrine]

Two years from now a 16 year old is going to be lucky enough to find Square's timeless classics on the PlayStation Network. After playing through them he is going to want something, anything else by this company. He will find FFXIV: Collection for $19.95 and join his first MMO.

He will get all the "feelings" "friends" and "sense of accomplishment" that FFXI players attribute to their game but in reality got from their first true MMO love affair.

8 years from now that kid is going to be on the FFXIX forums bashing the crap out of it, asking why the friends, feelings and accomplishments are now missing from the genre.

FFXIV might be great some day but it sure as Slth won't ever bring back fond memories of days past.

Sorry.

Yup. If FFXI popped your MMO cherry, you'll never get that feeling again. Enjoy what you can without looking to regain a high you once felt a long time ago. It's not going to happen unless you sustain head trauma and forget it all.

This is all that's left. It's only magic if you don't know how the trick runs. Now you know.

[ereskigal]

it seems many ppl on here wasn't here for JP or NA release of 11, or they wouldn't be compare 11 to 14 b/c 14 is way ahead of 11 was at this stage. 11 didn't get better till COP released, ROZ was nice but it was just that nice.

[gifthorse]

They felt like crap, they hated it, they complained, people can look this up. Google FFXI first year, or something like that, its the 21st century people use them fingers, those JPs were pissed, believe this guys post.

That's why they made global servers, to fill all the vacancies left by JP players who quit.

[Timotheus]

Your comparing XIV to a game that had allready been out a year prior to you ever even thinking about touching it.

I wonder how the JP community felt when there were only 8 zones for the whole game. Hell land-mass wise even smaller than XIV. NM's didn't exist for a few months "sound familliar" and job were super unbalanced and Sub-jobs didn't exist.

Player from JP PS2 release here,
your information are sadly, mostly incorrect.
There are already 9 region(around36 zone)+all 4 city at the time of May02, with 2 more (northland) on Nov 02, Subjob existed since release as well.

There is no achievement comparable to arriving Jeuno or getting subjob(took me 3 months) in FFXIV, at least, for me.