[HELP!!!] I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!

[Nethermancy]

So you joined FFXI after the second expansion pack. Let's have a look at the first year of FFXI.

- May 16, 2002: PS2 version released.

- Aug 8, 2002: Rank 5 Missions (including the Shadow Lord fight) were implemented, but with the level cap at 50, no one had beaten it.

- Sep 12, 2002: The level cap is raised to 55. High Level Notorious Monsters, such as Behemoth, are added to their respective areas.

- Nov 7, 2002: PC ver. released.

- Nov 26, 2002: Level cap raised to 60.

- Apr 15, 2003: Rise of Zilart preparation update. The level cap now became 65.

- Apr 17, 2003: Rise of the Zilart goes on sale.

- May 16, 2003: Final Fantasy XI Completes 1 Year of Service


And sky didn't even come with RoZ, it came out two months later. So basically, not one thing you loved about FFXI was in the game in its first year. That game was bare bones in its infancy. I would argue that we have far more content than FFXI did after 7 months. I started XI shortly after CoP was released, so like you I had a ton to do, and content lasted until the next expansion. But ARR hasn't had a single expansion yet.

so i should leave and never come back then is what yoru saying? because what it sounds like is that...

FXIV will only have a small amount of "Relevant" material at "Level Cap"... where FFXI's horizontal progression added tons of "Relevant" content..
FFXIV is designed to Replace chunks of content, invalidating what came before...
FFXI took 2+ years for it to reach the point where i joined...
FFXIV should not be played until 2016?

You can indeed buy an item to skip everything not related to the latest expansion but if you had read the interview regarding it you would know that they chose a price point for it to discourage someone going ok just skip all this and devalue it... as for the helms I didnt know but upon looking into it I guess they are but even then I am not exactly zomg must have ugly heads. It doesnt affect my gameplay and honestly if it takes off, seeing as this game is copying the success from other games, do you think it will be long before this game follows suit ? isnt that kind of the thing with vanity slots ? its successful how can we make money off it ? I am not exactly sure what your issue is with WoW or why saying go back to WoW is an insult its not like its a bad game, its good enough for this game and hundreds more to use it as their template.

As for race change faction change world transfer this game already offers them so I guess you can enjoy playing your already F2P game in disguise (please see the extremly long thread about buying fantasia)

i think the price point is very fair... either pay 60 dollars to skip all the content you have done already on every alt.. or pay 15 dollars and spend a week or two leveling the new alt to 90 possibly finding out you dont really care for the character...

Because WOW was one of the first to do these micro transactions in a sub model. The name change and such I hate as I stated but it is in every mmo now so nothing I can do. Like I said when they follow suit with instant buy a high lvl char I will quit. Thats my problem with WOW on top of the lore breaking every chance they get(I was big into the wow lore) buy a high lvl char. I dont wanna go more into it so we both dont offend someone and they report and we get a ban, and this forum has no pm feature for some reason so I will agree to disagree.

I identify with my characters in every MMO i play/played because i love thier names ( when SWTOR force merged worlds and i had to rename ALL of my characters they lost my buisness forever, have not been back even to try F2P mode)

so before WoW offered "race" and "Name" change services i literally Deleted characters to reroll them different races.. their service was a much needed breath of fresh air for people like me that enjoy RP in an RPG...

as for the "Instant 90" i think its fekin Awesome... because now i can jump in on Old characters on Old dead servers ( tied to other servers because thier lack of recruits for guilds and a viable Auction house is why the servers died... and are now tied together with Xrealm Guilds and AH's) and skip the OLD AS DIRT content that is completely invalidated and chewed through over and over by myself... so i can jump right in and play on that server like i had never left!! Long Live Bruticus, the Destroyer! (of little gnomish toes!)
and his queen Ravage, the All Tauren Steak Chef Extraordinaire! HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOOO WoD

We may have to though I will say I am also playing FFXI though not anywhere near as hardcore as I used to. I dont wish failure on this game its simply not what I personally am looking for in an MMO.

im starting to feel the same way, i wonder what it will be like in 2016.

[Yurimi]

I would say if FFXIV is simply using this as an intro to the game and slowely ratchets things up in time I may one day get back to being "interested" in it but with it as it is I would not recommend this game personally. I am hoping that as time goes on things like "pushing buttons being stressful" wont be so much of an issue and the game will evolve into something great but until it does this game is and will continue to be a 30-45min romp once a week for me and I cant justify paying $15 for 2-3hrs gameplay just like I cant justify spending $60 on a brand new game if it has anything less than 10hrs of gameplay in it. For some they find more in this game than I do and for that I can applaud them and wish them the best but if you are unable to enjoy yourself all I can say is cancel your sub and if you have attachment just keep an eye on it maybe at some point you will find a reason to resub (I did to WoW after being gone 2 years and XI after being gone over a year so I wont rule out that I will be playing this game at some point again)

[Nethermancy]

guess the majority of replies is "go away"
a few 'i dunno mang im iffy myself"
and a couple "OMFG DIS GAME SOOO GUUD! DUN GO"

guess ill see you guys in 2016 if this place is still around... (SWTOR had everyone screaming "Dis nevah be F2P Evah!" at the start... now look at it.)

[Roris]

(SWTOR had everyone screaming "Dis nevah be F2P Evah!" at the start... now look at it.)

It's funny because ARR forums are really similar to theirs with the same exact same kind of posts almost word by word blindly over defending the game along with people submitting actual feedback to improve the game but rarely get listened to, but I guess that's just common for all MMOs since TESO and Wildstar get the same kinds of posts too on various sites.

[Nethermancy]

It's funny because ARR forums are really similar to theirs with the same exact same kind of posts almost word by word blindly over defending the game along with people submitting actual feedback to improve the game but rarely get listened to, but I guess that's just common for all MMOs since TESO and Wildstar get the same kinds of posts too on various sites.

remember when that one forum post was made linking to an "Anonymous EA employee post" about how the company was going to push F2P and that the game was going to the crapper? i do.. i was like "nah dey wunt do dis, goway troll" then 2 months later when EA announced F2P i was like "damn i just resubed.. next time i listen to my gut and leave ASAP" well now my gut says " NOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA RUNWAY!"

[Odd]

so i should leave and never come back then is what yoru saying? because what it sounds like is that...

If that's how you interpret what I wrote, then probably.

I was just pointing out we have way more content in ARR after 7 months than FFXI had in the same time. So your comparison is unfair.