Quote Originally Posted by Alastor View Post
For you, my friend, it may have been easy, but I am not the only one to attest to the hours of sitting, waiting to play. Perhaps if you played a more desirable job you may have not had these issues, but whenever I played THF or MNK, I sat for a very long time.

Forgive me, but I played FFXI from 2004-2010, in which, I took a few months of leave. I was very active in the community on Sylph for a long time. You do not need to apologize to me for having what seems to be the greatest luck of any player I've ever encountered. When I started the game, I had many, many friends who played, and did not ever have a hard time finding a party. Even in the last few months of play, I was in a still-active linkshell (now on Titan) and we grouped together all of the time.

Regardless of both of our experiences, the same cannot be said for everyone else. I know many, many people who were turned off to the game because of the difficulties of finding a party. The learning curve on XI was pretty high for the average gamer. Not everyone has the resources or the time to waste in front of their computer.
I can't agree with this, I'm sorry.

After many years playing many different games, and some of them MMO, I must say that probably my greatest and happiest moments playing any game were on FFXI experience points partys or any other FFXI stuff (Quests/Missions/High end PVE...) were you must set up a party to accomplish.

There must be diversity on games, all of them can't be a WoW style where you can level up playing alone. I don't enjoy online games that promotes the solo style against the group one.

You needed sometimes a lot of time to find a party? Yes, that's true, but the system can't be perfect, and in fact mainly it was the people who plays the game who makes the system fails. You had hard times finding partys because 70% of the base player were DD, and the rest 30% mixed between tanks and healers.

And if you turn the jobs to be more hybrid so people isn't forced to play with some fixed classes there will be complaints about lack of uniqueness (like actually on XIV) .... so there you have it.

About the time needed to play this kind of games.... well, not all the games fits with everyone's live and this is a fact. But you can pretend to change the whole game just because it don't fits with your actual free time. Let others enjoy it, and choose another one, there are plenty of them.

And I'm sorry, I'm not being rude with this, this is only my point of view about games and everyone's free time.

And as Skykho said, I had also no issues almost everytime I tried to build up a PT on FFXI.

And btw, we aren't in a race. If I really enjoy the experience, I personally don't care if I need 6 months to level up a job/class or whatever to his maximum level. The hardest the way, the greatest the reward.

Sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes.