Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Agreed with this, I think.

I just wish retail FFXI was like the private server FFXI community.





I do agree that FFXIV's problem is too much instancing. FFXI - modern retail FFXI - problem is that Trusts exist and so people won't party with new players to group and level. They have no reason or benefit from doing so...so no one does it. Or no one did when I tried to get into it a year or so ago.

Having seen what FFXI was like in its prime, I can understand why players would have liked it, but it sadly ISN'T that now.



I tried to play it last year and everyone said "Get some Trusts and level. Once you're high level, then talk to us and we'll play with you once you're geared up and ready to do real content".

I left the game fairly quickly because it defeats the point of an old school MMO to me to do everything solo. And that seemed to be true on all three of the active servers that I tried, Asura being one of those. I also tried it on that private one that came out recently and people were a lot more active and doing stuff, so that seemed nice, but I'm not sure how much investment I want to put into private servers that could go down at any time...

I think it really depends on the people you meet in FFXI, like I have met assholes and met people who won't take me because I'm a Dancer, it's just getting the right LS to meet people

also as someone told me: Get a job that you love, and get a job that will help you get into parties. So I went with WHM which helped me a lot get gear for my Dancer and Thief

trusts is an issues but I enjoy it and how different are all the trusts are and not homogenized