Hardcore, easy mode and the XI veteran

[Aenarion]

I played XI from day one of NA release and never once had to put up with less than 7k/hr. There is a massive difference between not being able to get it and trying to camp on top of someone else and expecting things to happen. Player error does not count as actual statistics

Maybe someone else can chime in with their experience then, 'cause it certainly seems like me, the OP, and just about every FF11 player I know were playing a very different game from you.

Unfortunately for your claims to Eve's being more challenging there is the slight problem of it not being the same genre. Yes it's in MMO but other than that it shares literally no traits with FFXI or XIV or any similar game. You can't compare the challenge level of a third prson vehicle shooter to an RPG. It's like saying Street Fighter is Harder than Call of Duty. There are literally no compatible aspects of their combat mechanics.

Except that Eve is no more of a third-person vehicle shooter than FFXI is a third-person hack-and-slash game, but you'd know that if you actually knew anything about Eve. Besides, you were the one throwing out statements like "...any other MMO ever made", not me. Perhaps you should've included qualifier like "theme park" MMO instead :P

The only major difference between Eve and other fantasy theme-parks outside of aesthetics, is that Eve is a pvp-oriented sandbox, while the theme parks are, well, theme parks. That, and the combat system is about 238472397 times more complex, though if you go down to its core, not all that different from any other MMO's - you activate different modules (abilities) which have various affects on you or your enemy, and you attack with your weapons, with results determined by a RNG after factoring in different factors such as range, weapon attack power, defense rating etc.

[Exni]

Maybe someone else can chime in with their experience then, 'cause it certainly seems like me, the OP, and just about every FF11 player I know were playing a very different game from you.

No, just you and a few other casual inexperienced players in this thread must have enjoyed wasting your time. Kiote is spot on.

I'm going to call BS on 90% of this post.

I call BS on 100% of your post.. it doesn't even sound remotely true. On those FEW kills you mentioned of even FEWER fights in XI... Screenshots or it didn't happen..

AV was unkillable..? Fail much? Stop claiming XI was just a timesink when you clearly didn't even finish half the content. I'd be surprised if you cleared even half of what you just claimed.

Then you went on to claim WoW was more challenging... LOL! Your done.