Quote Originally Posted by Tyla_Esmeraude View Post
I started playing FFXI like 2 years after NA launch and I never felt in a threadmill trying to catch up to the veteran players back then. I eventually did. I guess it was the horizontal progression that allowed that. The pace was more calm. In FFXIV it's another story though... If I stopped playing for a few months I'd fall behind very fast. lol I mean look at Alex, within the first day there were the "Farm. Know the fight. Not a learning party" already, on party finder...
There are so much gated content in XI, what are you talking about...? Sea, Aht Urgan, any of the basic 75 content outside of maybe Dynamis and HNMs, ZNMs, Salvage, Odin. You guys seriously remember FFXI in a totally different way than I do.