[To the Devs] We need content like in FFXI called Abyssea

[rtpsoulx]

I will tell exactly what will happen should they implement anything from FF XI. People will complain. They will complain about the XIV team reusing old content and that they cannot come up with anything original. Even if it were to be a humorous tip of the hat towards XI people will complain about reusing old content.

This is true, but i would like XIV's version of sky XD that'd be fun, i believe there's the Floating City of Nym? or something.. really pretty and wish i could go there.

[Enkidoh]

You can easily go to the Floating City of Nym - it's just a ruin with floating parts northish of Camp Overlook in Outer La Noscea (the zoneline across the Thalos in Upper La Noscea also zones into it). Mobs are around level 30-35ish there, so a level 50 would have no problems.

[rtpsoulx]

You can easily go to the Floating City of Nym - it's just a ruin with floating parts northish of Camp Overlook in Outer La Noscea (the zoneline across the Thalos in Upper La Noscea also zones into it). Mobs are around level 30-35ish there, so a level 50 would have no problems.

well yeah you can see the floating houses an what not but you cant ~actually~ go there/explore it <.>;

[Zumi]

Lets add the content that cost XI 60% of their subs... good idea.

That is a prime example of what not to do.

Many things that should be taken from XI... abysea is the last thing that should be.

It was the 3 years of no new endgame content from 2007 to 2010 that caused the game to lose subs. When Abyssea came out I saw a lot of people came back to FFXI because they wanted to finally level up their characters past 75. Once empty LS that had like 2-5 people on it was full again at about 35 people when abyssea was out. There was a surge of returning players when abyssea was launched due to the fact we had no new content for 3 years, that is what caused a lot of people to quit.

[Gaddes]

I will tell exactly what will happen should they implement anything from FF XI. People will complain. They will complain about the XIV team reusing old content and that they cannot come up with anything original. Even if it were to be a humorous tip of the hat towards XI people will complain about reusing old content.

Well over half of FFXIV's beastiary are nigh-identical FFXI monsters, so they've already been implementing FFXI into FFXIV.

[Altanas]

Years upon years of Dynamis was far more enjoyable than even a week of Abyssea.

[Malamasala]

XI was all about playing the RIGHT job.

I played Summoner as main. Sky had no drops for me, Sea had ONE drop from the ix.drg, which the LS never fought because others tried to farm it for the drop so the LS just bought pops instead to save time. Einherjar was useless unless the entire group was Summoners, and there were no drops. Salvage was specifically designed to force you to need every single slot unlocked to become average, so you were not allowed to go there, also no drops. Exp groups never wanted you as anything else than last resort healer.

Every Summoner player I knew quit long before Abyssea because how SE didn't give a crap about the job. Abyssea actually made people play the job again, because it went from "Nothing useful" to "Atma actually can let you get stronger". So from no progression to vertical progress limited to a single zone, it was a huge improvement.

Then they went to VNM and let avatars get +3 attack... yea, it was back to being useless again. Only saving grace where the VNMs who spammed AOE damage so much you had some benefit from having disposable pets. But you don't kill things by being good at dying.

[Accolades]

Abyssea killed FFXI for me. So I'd rather not see it in any form or way inside FFXIV:ARR

Its better then doing these dungeons over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I cant understand why people like doing that and why people just want more dungeons.

[Kewitt]

I liked Abyssea, But pre abyssea I had 5 jobs at cap and post abyssea I had 17 at 99 when I quit.

Because it was so quick to get cap I ran out of stuff to do.
Also all content pre 75 was so easy there was nothing to do.
Then Seekers came out and I lost all my skills on how to play normally I never got into it.

[Kopuno]

No, god please no. Played XI from NA release til that god awful expansion pack dropped and destroyed everything great I love about XI. Please SE do not make me un-sub AGAIN!