FFXI's Abyssea

[ThePatriarch]

Elitists trying to suck the fun out of everything.

I found Abyssea to be a great thing. Farming for stuff was fun, though admittedly much easier than previous content.

I think people bitch mostly about how absolutely easy it made leveling up. It's ridiculous that people claim this destroyed anything.

It ruined the game, per say, because for the ones of us who played FFXI in its prime, everything took work. Everything took time. You couldn't get to max level in a week, it took normally several months. There was a feeling of achievement.

Back then, some content was difficult, with the level cap being at 75. Abbyssea allowed the players who didn't want to put the time into FFXI when it was time consuming, come in and level up in days. It allowed new players to come in and experience the game in easy-mode, after the greater majority of veterans left the game.

I wouldn't say it ruined the game, as most of us who enjoyed it in it's prime had left by then. Abbyssea just let the people who want easy MMO's and like being spoon fed enjoy the game.

I sincerely hope that in the years to come FFXIV strays away from easy mode and requires it's playerbase to invest time and work before they are able to reap the rewards of endgame content.

I understand that the current generation of gamers enjoy easy mode, and having things handed to them.. but MMO's are made to be time-consuming, and require work to get to the upper-tier content.

ramble ramble, this will fall upon deaf ears