Considering FFXI till FFXIV 2.0

[Elexia]

As far as I'm concerned, FFXI is too expensive for what it is in the MMO market of today.

Yet it has the most content for the price especially when you hit cap you don't even need to rely on people to do the older content, more content than Tera for a few dollars less as well, but that's going F2P too. "Old MMO" means nothing when new MMOs are constantly failing in comparison.

[Phe]

re-installed it because SE didn't send the F*KIN EMAIL!

didn't regret it and i think its my choice either until ARR (if beta is good) or until the next FFXI add on :P

just try it out. i mean you can quit again if you want.
i was quite surprised there was still >3k people online on weekend Oo

[Tomoken]

Ive been playing XI on and off again since early spring 2012 after a break from it when XIV came out. Honestly it's changed a lot but for the better. linkshells no longer require your soul and most heavy camped nm/HNM have been turned to popable. Dynamis is soloable and with a few month hard work you can call yourself a relic holder(and do the work solo!). Emperyan relics are actually doable now too. My husband made his almace within a month with two friends of ours and now is working on kannagai. A lot more is solo-able or small groupable and people gather in jeuno to seek events. The nice thing is the game can still be challenging and abysseas actually pretty fun now that im over the original rage of everyone being high leveled.

Ive totally fell in love with beastmater, the new merit weaponskills are reallllyyyy nice some of the gear is like dzzammmnnnn...(and actually good looking now) They made ele stave's a synergy meld that allows you to make them into one staff called a prism staff, you can now delivery box rare/unique gear and seals to mules on your account and there's these noobie/lowbie exp alliances off books that allow people to level low to 99 so its not so hard to do. If you were a cook im telling you jug pets and pet food. thats where the money is^.- or soloing dyna and selling currency... or selling brews. Either way though different from the FFXI i used to know its taken better steps forward, not backwards as I had feared it did.

So I started a 14 day free trial on a separate account just to re-get my feet wet before considering reactivating my original account, and so far it's been very dead (still only in the single digits of level). At what point do I start doing these alliances for leveling, and where/how?

[Darkhaund]

If you are up for some good story. you can definitely try this game out

[Forgo]

me and the wife are playing ffxi when we are home together. its alot of fun now just two ppl can duo stuff, though we still get into parties sometimes but bring able to duo the rank and other quest (af) makes things easy for us

[Hestern_Nestern]

My first MMO was FFXI as well. I played it until around the same time you did but I have never reached level 75 lolx. I finally reached level 40 with the new ease of leveling (I joined originally mostly for the social aspects and the final fantasy feeling).

At any rate, I got back into FFXI recently and I've fallen in love once more...no other MMO has been able to make me feel the way FFXI does.

Right now I am taking care of my little-wittle chocobo-wocobo Restless Dream. <3 <3 RD and me...we go out for walks, I tell him stories, I watch over him, repeatedly, which apparently takes a lot of energy from him but logic is no barrier for me and my chicky. <3 <3 <3

I also do some farming here and there...I've actually learned how to do that effectively. It took me all this time ha ha but I've got it!

o_o I'm more of an explorer. Don't laugh at me.

I'll probably quit once FFXIV: ARR comes online.

[ChiefCurrahee]

As far as I'm concerned, FFXI is too expensive for what it is in the MMO market of today. Even if I have fond memories of FFXI, there is no way I'm going back on it unless it goes Free-to-Play. FFXI is more costly than what FFXIV will cost me (Legacy)... I'll try SWTOR, GW2, Tera, Rift, PSO2, and many more before paying too much per month for an old MMO.

To each thier own, but if 9.99 a month for a crap ton of content is too expensive, esp after those 5 games you just listed... I hate to see you fret over the menu @ Mcdonalds.

[RoyalSibby]

I for one, Don't recommend going back to XI. Ever Since Abbysea was release the Community became a shithole. Unless you have about 30$ for all of the Abby Packs you aint gonna get in shit. All people care about is Abby and hunting for AF3 and trials.

[Rhomagus]

To anyone here interested in trying XI again. We have a large linkshell started up on the Phoenix server. If you check this thread here you can get in contact with anyone on the list to get a linkpearl.

We seem to have a persistent twenty+ people on at any given moment. Weekends hit upwards to thirty.

[Tomoken]

To anyone here interested in trying XI again. We have a large linkshell started up on the Phoenix server. If you check this thread here you can get in contact with anyone on the list to get a linkpearl.

We seem to have a persistent twenty+ people on at any given moment. Weekends hit upwards to thirty.

I was originally from Kujata (I think it's Valefor now) so more than likely I'd be returning there, but I'd consider it!

Also... on another serious note, I did a lot of PLD back in the day. All I've been reading is that both PLD and DRK are shit and there's now a such thing as "Melee WHM" that even proves more useful than the two. Can you confirm/emphasize on that?