Quote Originally Posted by LiaShan View Post
In WOW/FFXIV2.0-3.0, people are blaming each other, because "you don't know how to deal with the boss mechanics/you haven't watch youtube."

In FFXIV1.20-1.23 you will make some best online friends ever,
I heard that FFXI is even better "your team wiped in a enemy stronghold? your FC(linkshield) will gather a group to rescue you"
people fight & die for you, and you give your life(character^_^) to others too.
it's brotherhood. such gaming experience is amazing, I've never experience this before until I played FFXIV 1.2x (I didn't play FFXI, it's sad)

It's not something like "Oh you play so bad, you wipe us, you are wasting my time, I will leave now, I just want the loot/tomes ya know?",
in this regard ,FFXI/FFXIV 1.20-1.23 is 100 times better than WOW.
Um, no. This is not true at all. In FFXI you were expected to have every step of every quest and/or dungeon researched before doing anything, no exceptions. If you didn't hold your weight, people would kick you, and that's assuming you got anyone to help you in the first place. It's possible this was less common, because if you weren't good in FFXI you never got far enough to do any content anyway. That's not a good thing, by the way.

Basically, you're comparing having a static group of friends to playing with strangers. You can still have a static group of friends in FFXIV, but playing with strangers was nearly impossible in those old games. Again, this is not a good thing. Don't romanticize anti-player game design.