Will you return to Final Fantasy XI?

[Kiroh]

No, I will not return to XI. I'm not going to explain why or go into the details of why I left, my reasons are not up for discussion or debate, but I can say right now I am never going back.

[Xatsh]

What did they screw up with Abyssea? My interpretation of Abyssea is that it's making a dead game playable, for long after its death.

Reasons why abysea killed the game.

1) FFXI completely lacks content atm: Atm outside abysea, and void nms things there is simply nothing worth doing. (Issue: around 20,000hrs of content in the game has been negated)
2) No sense of reward for anything, FFXI just gives you the best crap without putting in any work for it.
3) Way to Fking easy... you think WoW was easy to level up and at endgame... you need to play FFXI now. 1-90 in less then 48hrs, best gear in the game in less then a month. Everything that drops something worthwhile can be duoed...
4) Removed the need for a linkshell, atm the best way to advance is small group. This was the opposite of what FFXI's endgame was all about.
5) Negated everyones work from pre-abysea. Spent 3yrs getting a relic, top endgame gera... too bad a weapon that can be gotten in a duo/trio and armor you can solo in about 2 weeks now completely outclasses it in every single way.


FFXI's population before abysea was around 400k... 6 months after abysea around 190k. I think that very well speaks for itself. SE tried to make it better for the casuals and in turn destroyed the very thing that was holding the population on the game together for years and years.


Atm FFXI is beyond repair, they would have to roll the servers back to last June to get alot of the players back... but then all the current players will quit for having a years progress removed.... All in all they screwed themselves with XI, they designed it so it would die out for FFXIV.... well they better hope they pull XIV around or both their FF mmos are going to die out.

[Victor]

Reasons why abysea killed the game.

1) FFXI completely lacks content atm: Atm outside abysea, and void nms things there is simply nothing worth doing. (Issue: around 20,000hrs of content in the game has been negated)
2) No sense of reward for anything, FFXI just gives you the best crap without putting in any work for it.
3) Way to Fking easy... you think WoW was easy to level up and at endgame... you need to play FFXI now. 1-90 in less then 48hrs, best gear in the game in less then a month. Everything that drops something worthwhile can be duoed...
4) Removed the need for a linkshell, atm the best way to advance is small group. This was the opposite of what FFXI's endgame was all about.
5) Negated everyones work from pre-abysea. Spent 3yrs getting a relic, top endgame gera... too bad a weapon that can be gotten in a duo/trio and armor you can solo in about 2 weeks now completely outclasses it in every single way.


FFXI's population before abysea was around 400k... 6 months after abysea around 190k. I think that very well speaks for itself. SE tried to make it better for the casuals and in turn destroyed the very thing that was holding the population on the game together for years and years.

I'm not doubting you, but I'm curious as to how you can be sure the population dropped from 400k to 190k?

[TheRac25]

even if that number wasnt just pulled out of your ass you cant blame abyssea completely
there was something called ffxiv and oh a little thing called a server shutdown

[KaiKatzchen]

I left FFXI for FFXIV and I don't regret it... will I return? No... it's not the same game, it's not the same feel and many of my friends who continued to play it after I left ended up leaving because abyssea ruined it.

FFXI is not the game I played that I loved. Gonna stick with FFXIV for now, at least it has a possible future.

[TonyMontana]

After what SE has done to FFXIV no way in hell ill reward them by paying a sub for an almost 10 year old game.

[Jennestia]

XI is a dying game as well atm.

Unless SE fixed everything they screwed up with abysea... there is simply no reason to go back.

While Abyssea made everything easier, they didn't screw the game up with it perse -- they actually salvaged it. It's just they're pretty much stuck in making abyssea styled content from here on out.

[kaboro]

What did they screw up with Abyssea? My interpretation of Abyssea is that it's making a dead game playable, for long after its death.

They made the game playable for more casual players, unforgivable. We all know mmos should be only playable in full and perfectly organized groups of pro players, for all the rest it should be unplayable. I mean why did they allow casual players to be able to achieve something in game? SACRILEGE!!! I ragequit right there ....*sarcasm off

[Seikninkuru]

not unless i was paid a gruesome sum. That game sucked donkey dik.

[Jennestia]

not unless i was paid a gruesome sum. That game sucked donkey dik.

Sucking donkey "dik" must be a lucrative business to generate billions upon billions of yen in the span of 4 years