Quote Originally Posted by indira View Post
have you even played this game??

bots are all over the place already. people already BS through content buying & selling wins thats a monopoly to FC/LS's. more content & places to do things outside an instance is always better. you cant always find a group /shout, you dont have to wait 30min+ like the DF.

"Instancing the dungeons ensure a fair risk/reward balance." thats a lie you enter instance then one guy decide to AFK, or another guy drops party due to raging. already was a post about someone mad about losing a need/greed. there will always be good and to everything.

I've played both games, I can tell you the power RMT has in FFXIV is a tiny fraction of the problems FFXI had up to the Chains of Promathia. Prices are affordable for gear all the way to 50, materials needed for crafting don't bankrupt me either. It doesn't matter to me that bots teleport between gather nodes because I'm able to gather without interference. If I need to kill monsters for important quests I don't have to worry about other players killing everything because of the instance. When I explore the dungeons, I actually fight the "random encounter" monsters (trash pulls) instead of relying on sneaking past all of them. Running away in any previous FF game was an offense punished by lost GP and less experience to fight the bosses with.


Unlike HNMs where the giant linkshells or hackers controlled the claims and the loot, instances ensure I earn the gear; level synching preventing me from cheesing away all the challenge. Fights also no longer depend on me bringing specific classes to use 2 hour abilities it win (oh wait, we didnt win that time, wait 2 hours to try again!). Likewise I don't need to rely on what were overpowered through use of money classes (Ninja tanks and ranger damage). Yes "some" people sell titan hard runs, but I got my relic weapon from what was a shout pickup in Mor dhona, my attempts learning the fight likewise cost me nothing and didn't require me to be sitting in town until I got everyone wrangled. If someone AFKed in a FFXI group it was even more devastating because replacement could takes hours instead of seconds the DF gives me, not counting the 20 mins that could be spent in travel time. The Solo dps DF queue could be long, but at least I could craft, gather, or open world EXP while I waited, queuing with one tank or healer friend makes the wait pretty fast.

@Doo: people buy gil, but so what? The best that gets them is fast travel and some nice crafted gear that I can get the same or better at any level. FFXI I needed to pay 300k gil at level 20 to get leaping boots to be "party worthy".