Which server has the old school ffxi feel?

[Ashthra]

You're not likely to find the 'old school FFXI' feel on any of the servers for multiple reasons: 1) the servers are far more sparsely populated than FFXI was in its prime, 2) soloing is viable, thus lowering the need/want for forced interaction (and let's face it, shouting for PTs is what most interaction wound up being), and 3) many of the players here are very old hat at the game, and may not share the same...enthusiasm for the game that you do currently.

Having said that, Selbina is pretty populated and social.

[CptGrimlock]

To OP,if your looking for a social shell you cant go wrong with seraphim on mysydia.they are not recruiting atm but if you can get in it would be well worth your time,the site appears to be down atm but here you go http://www.seraphimls.com tell em I sent you.

[Mireille]

I started playing on Selbina a few days ago and even though I actually see people running around and doing stuff " which is a shockingly nice sight coming from a dead server " it just don't have the old ffxi feel yet. IDK maybe i should give it a few more days or even maybe look into joining a social LS ( If I can find one )...

Mysidia is a resonably well populated server with a good set of NA/EU players. It doesn't feel like Whitegate in XI's heyday, but you would find a lot of people with decent social skills to play with. Realize that a server merger is coming in maybe 2 months. Yoshida said after 1.21 which is due end of Feb. You don't have to reroll, and they said that they want people to be able to select what server they are merged to kind of like a mandatory world transfer instead of a merger. You can just play on Selbina for a few weeks, and if you enjoy the game when they merge hopefully you can pick where you get dropped. If you come to Mysidia send me a tell, and I can point out some decent linkshell leaders. We do have one or two groups that come over from Bismark too.

[Dragon]

WoW some JERK (excuse the out burst) decided to make Modz Bismarck all of a sudden. Naturally I was the only Modz on Bismarck being their was no last name combos so it wouldn't make any sense for someone else to make that name unless they seen me post up earlier about probably making it. ugh I knew I shouldn't have posted thinking about doing it until I did. Kids I swear.

/comfort... I'm sure they'll pay eventually, once it's found who did it.

or does it go by the first name? Does it allow multiple first names but with different last?

Both. You can use any variety of first/last name combinations.

[Dreamer]

Social, chatty people is not something unique to FFXI - it's a hallmark of any healthy ingame population.

[HayaHime]

You will never find it on this game. To many losers that want this game to be like WoW

+1

To make this game better and feels more like FFXI we need Tanaka-San to save it from Wada and Yoshi -.-

[zaviermhigo]

Day one go to uldah, and shout looking for ls if you don't already see an ls. Its crucial. I'm not currently in an endgame ls right now and my fun has significantly decreased, I'm looking for an ls right now and hopefully I can find one lol, without one the game is lonely as all hell.

The tanaka argument is so dead its not even funny.

[Murugan]

+1

To make this game better and feels more like FFXI we need Tanaka-San to save it from Wada and Yoshi -.-

Right... because Tanaka's original vision of the game was just like CoP/RoZ era XI!

• No actual battle content during storyline (let alone group content)
• Centered around Guildleves (daily quest system like WoW etc.)
• Surplus to keep "hardcore" players from making casuals feel like they were progressing too slowly
• The original class design
• Completely broken overpowered abilities, in a completely open armory system that made everything in the game soloable
• The original XP system
• The original enmity system
• 15 person groups with absolutely nothing that was tailored to demand a group half that size

Yes... just like FFXI. Damn Yoshi for changing those things to make it a casual WoW clone. I guess you didn't actually play at launch to see how little Tanaka cared for anything people enjoyed from FFXI being implemented here.

[Mamba]

Sorry totally off the topic, just wanted to respond lol

The gist of what you wrote boils down to was "Of course WoW was popular, it was made to be popular."

What a shocking concept.

What you're expecting is for SE to reverse their position on what XIV is meant to be and create a game for a niche market. They made that game 10 years ago and still is online.

Was FFXI made for niche market? I never actually knew that... For me anything that makes profit is infact profitable.
I also don't think that having certain style of a game (Yes, I am comparing FFXI to WoW) can be compared with marketing campaign. I am sure SE could have done with some marketing for FFXI back in the day as well, I don't know why they didn't, but I am sure more people would have bought it and loved it.
I am from Finland and didn't hear of FFXI until I moved to UK and found the game by chance in a game shop a few years later from it's European launch - and loved it from day one. Had I known about it from an add before, I would have most likely tried it and loved it even sooner.

And advertising will only get people in the door. It takes fun and worth while content to keep them from leaving.

You might be surprised to see how many people sign up for things that turn into "habits"

Success is success, no matter how anyone tries to spin it. WoW may be the American Idol of MMOs, but in the end both products are fulfilling their purpose; to make their creators money.

Companies need to adapt to changing markets and evolve if they expect to survive. Splurging on a product then reducing it to a niche market that would never recoup initial investments just makes no sense.

XIV needs mass appeal.

I agree with this, I think for FFXIV to survive they really need to turn the grumpy face back to a smiley face... and somehow make the people come back to admire the finished product and then hook on it.

After reading your post and "entertainment provided to the mass, no wonder everyone played it" wich to you is a bad thing, I can only think of white shiny knights.

I never said entertainment provided to the mass was a bad thing, you completely missed my point. I actually enjoy shows like American Idol myself (would I pay to watch it? --- No)
I know millions of people live and breath WoW -So, Blizzard did something right, maybe SE should look into that but hopefully do it with style rather than: "Oi, I am Ozzy Osbourne and I am a death knight of WoW!!!"

[Fey]

You should go to east shroud (nine ivies region). That's the only part of the shroud that is really open and looks like a huge forest, though you still walk narrow paths

9 ives is for past level 40 though isn't it?