[[ Why do we miss the old FFXI community ]] What made it special ??

[Scamperoo]

I played FFXI for 11 years, it made me laugh so hard sometimes tears would roll down my face, it made me so frustrated that I threatened to leave and never come back, it made me rage so hard I threw my controller (once or twice), yet I have never loved a game more nor met so many wonderful people, it will always be, to me, the best mmorpg ever made. And every so often, even though the servers don't have that many people and most of my friends long gone, I roam around Vana'diel and savor the memories.

[realmreborn]

I played FFXI for 11 years, it made me laugh so hard sometimes tears would roll down my face, it made me so frustrated that I threatened to leave and never come back, it made me rage so hard I threw my controller (once or twice), yet I have never loved a game more nor met so many wonderful people, it will always be, to me, the best mmorpg ever made. And every so often, even though the servers don't have that many people and most of my friends long gone, I roam around Vana'diel and savor the memories.

Well said Sacrificial Chamber tarutaru

[Bizniztyme]

I don't think the FFXI community was any more special then any other gaming community, it's just that it's special to the people that were able form friendships within those communities.

[DomoNeeko]

The reason the community seemed controlled or toned down or friendly was because the population was a mix of languages, especially Japanese. When it was released for NA, there was already a year old Japanese community settled on the server. NA players tried to blend in with the back-then legacy players so it seemed friendly. However, that's just a fog, a mask, to the natural attitude that are from NA players. Given the natural evolution that is a fresh game, fresh server, you would see the same crap you see now. So don't fool yourself about how the game itself affected the community. It didn't. It was the already established community that affected the rest going forward.

[Pandastirfry]

LOL...what?

People were doing all those things in 2004. I don't know what game you were playing, but run throughs and having a WHM healer outside of the party happened WAY back at NA release.

Um... That's what I was saying.

[Zenairis]

I don't see what the problem is a lot of the old FFXIV community is still here, most of the people I knew from 1.29 are still here. There are just many new players =)

[Amberion]

Allakhazam rarely has any drama, if you look at the ARR forums, it's nowhere near as toxic as these forums.

Might be true, but that forum pretty much mirrored my experience with the game.

[chococo]

I don't mind that this game is different from XI, there are good and bad points with that. I won't be playing it anymore though, but I think the biggest issue I have is that there are no alternatives, every game is like XIV ARR is and those of us who enjoy something different can only go play 10+ year old games.

kinda like smartphones, new ones come out really quick and get old really quick too. Dime a dozen.

[chococo]

Another community-lacking and elitist-promoting design of XIV is the raids. Even within FCs, people are forced to group up with a small circle of "friends" cos they need to statically do raids in a group. So you end up having several circles within an FC. New players joining the FC would also have to wait for 7 other new FC members to get together and form their own static. Which may or may not suck. (a basket full of "lesser" apples will just decay faster compared to a basket of juicy apples plus one or two lesser ones)

FFXI allowed all LS members to contribute, whether be it switching in and out, or team to clear adds and stuff. No one is shunned from participating. This is community building. Having an arbitrary FC but in fact there's 5 independent coil groups within it doing their own stuff is not.

An LS member was asking for a tank for WP yesterday in LS. A tank raises hand, and the person forming was asking if he/she can speed run. Tank said probably not, then there was silence. Then the person forming the party resorted to finding a tank through DF.

[PwinkLogical]

ffxi > ffxiv mainly because of the community and also if you were a jerk you were known throughout the server.