Thanks, Devs!

[Anapingofness]

Man, the FFXI brainwashing is strong in this one.

So eloquently put... I need to remember this line for when people get on their soapbox of 'FFXI WAS TEH GREATEST MMO EVAARRRR!!!!!11111oneoneoneone"....

-feeds cookie-

[HeroSamson]

So eloquently put... I need to remember this line for when people get on their soapbox of 'FFXI WAS TEH GREATEST MMO EVAARRRR!!!!!11111oneoneoneone"....

-feeds cookie-

FFXI was the greatest MMO ever, so many great memories, I have played many MMO nothing compares.

FFXIV is great but it could be 100X better, that's why FFXI is the Flagship game and it was on ps2 which runs on old tech but expected old games usually beat out new graphic games.

[maxthunder1]

Man, the FFXI brainwashing is strong in this one.

Wait where did FFXI come from? I never once mentioned it.

Also doom and gloom really no its reality, why do you think there is a cash shop? The cash shop is there because the game isnt doing as great as it has been made out to. The content is boring no matter what you wish to think or believe. Dungeons really they are a joke they teach nothing, they dont pose any real threat, same with the open world there is no real threat it is zerg everything. Thats why we have such a horrid community because of how easy everything is.

What needs to be done is 1st change all dungeons to open world dungeons than remove the duty finder (no more cross server play) keep party finder once this is done players will know have to be responsible for their behavior. Instance dungeons should be for some things not every damn thing in the game.

Leveling should take longer than it currently dose and the class and job quests should be difficult to teach players how to play job and or classes. A game can be fun as well as provide education in how to play it. Currently this game dose neither.

So we have vertical progress but yet we have no horizontal for gear or weapons it is only one way, there is very little wiggle room to make your character stand out in combat (vanity dose nothing).

Dev's waste so much time on making vanity items and gear yet they have forgotten how to make content. They are more concerned with policing the community vanity and giving in to the demands of the layer base to make things easier. Just because some players can not complete the content right away or it takes some longer dosent mean they wont complete what ever it is they are trying to do.

This is why game have become stale and boring, its all a rush to the top and they forget get that it is about the journey.

[Shougun]

Wait where did FFXI come from? I never once mentioned it.

Also doom and gloom really no its reality, why do you think there is a cash shop? The cash shop is there because the game isnt doing as great as it has been made out to. The content is boring no matter what you wish to think or believe. Dungeons really they are a joke they teach nothing, they dont pose any real threat, same with the open world there is no real threat it is zerg everything. Thats why we have such a horrid community because of how easy everything is.

Cash shops can help pad a loss but the existence of a cash shop does not necessarily mean a game is doing poorly. WoW is drowning in money and it has a cash shop (not that I like cash shops).

Boring is an opinion, kind of funny that you say that no matter what peoples opinions are they're wrong.... I do wish the open world posed more risk but hey according to SE they listened and the expansion has a bit more risk to it. Having done a lot of DF content I don't think the dungeons are too bad for that, maybe PF could use some difficulty to reward scaling options though. Large (diverse) population anything is bound to look bad to the glass is half full person - one person in the party is a jerk, whole party is stained.

[Namasu]

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[hallena]

Man, the FFXI brainwashing is strong in this one.

What brainwashing? Making things easier change nothing because those who give up on atma will give up on novus
those who can't kill T5 will give up on T9
The only thing making stuff easier is change the first few words in the daily X is too hard thread

[Anapingofness]

FFXI was the greatest MMO ever, so many great memories, I have played many MMO nothing compares.

FFXIV is great but it could be 100X better, that's why FFXI is the Flagship game and it was on ps2 which runs on old tech but expected old games usually beat out new graphic games.

I played FFXI as well. I spent over 9 years in that game and the memories I've formed in Vana'diel are something precious to me.
However to say that FFXI was the greatest MMO ever is an exaggeration. FFXI, at its peak had issues that never got addressed. Even now some of those issues maintain.
Despite the many memories that I have in FFXI, I refuse to look at it through rose colored glasses.
Just because something is imperfect doesn't mean that I cannot care for it.

[CrystalRainbow]

I just hope they increase the rate of alex by the time I start working on my 2nd weapon.
55/75 and it's burning me out doing expert everyday/hunts/maps.

[CGMidlander]

FFXI was the greatest MMO ever, so many great memories, I have played many MMO nothing compares.

FFXIV is great but it could be 100X better, that's why FFXI is the Flagship game and it was on ps2 which runs on old tech but expected old games usually beat out new graphic games.

The PS2 version of FFXI was the most gimped thing ever.

[alexhatesmil]

Making things easier change nothing because those who give up on atma will give up on novus

Being able to receive Alexandrites in several ways (most of them being controllable by the player) is a far cry from battling the RNG for Atma drops. Hunts, dungeon runs for Soldiery, maps. Atmas only come from grinding FATEs.

And anyway, increasing the Atma drop rate has done nothing to change the Animus book/Alexandrite/light grinds. It's still going to take a casual player months to get a Nexus.