Return to FFXI

[Marael]

Sorry, not me. The newest expansion for FFXI ruined it for me. It took everything I enjoyed about FFXI and tossed it out the window for a boring as hell item level grind that is even more repetitive and soul-crushing that the one in XIV, and utterly invalidated every single other thing in the game that came before it. I tried to keep up with it for a while, but I just couldn't get into it, then a massive amount of players started quitting, making it even harder to get anything done and it just isn't a fun game anymore. If you want to give it a try, go ahead, but for me, I think my FFXI days are done. I'll always remember the fun I had with it before Abyssea and Adoulin, but I can live without the crapfest they turned it into.

[Shirai]

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This counts for me as well.
I've played and enjoyed FFXI for close to a decade, but the changes brought forth by the latest expansion completely ruined it for me.
Within a single update all the content they had carefully preserved, tweaked and updated over the years was made completely irrelevant and it got replaced by something that was fun and challenging at start but later on became no more than a grind of the same thing over and over.

I look at the FFXI forums once in a while to see if anything new has been added that's worth my time and attention but the only reason I would go back there is for nostalgic reasons.
Which in the end will likely leave me disappointed and asking myself why I resubscribed.