One Year Ago! - The thread

[Seif]

I remember being so excited I literally counted hours!

Now I'm trying to count months when it would be wise to start playing on regular basis so that I don't get burned out before the game gets good enough.

[IStolzI]

If this game isn't casual enough for you then really MMOs probably arn't your thing. DDs don't even pay attention to the enmity bar and then say "Enmity still broke" when really it works fine if you let me build hate before you start stringing Buffed WS like a DRK who uses every buff he has before a guillotine in XI.

It is very easy to hit capped xp with a skilled party, but its also easier to run around gangbanging mobs only 10 levels higher and still get very good xp.

It's also easy to solo doing leves and behests. This is boring to me, it's boring to a lot of people. So we grind with other people. If your excuse for passing on raptor partys is "I don't want to run around coerthas for hours on end" Then whats the problem with 8 quests nicely rewarding SP every 36 hours?

Some people will fight everything. And btw I know my linkshell is AT LEAST 10x more people on at all times then before the patch, so I would agree with that statement. There are still people who pop in and pop out yea, but I have a feeling with every one of these giga-patches that number will dwindle and the player base will continue to rise.

[Cairdeas]

I was got a key for the beta from Eorzeapedia. >.> But one of the kids in Gamestop gave me one of the Gamestop Alpha Keys

[DoubleEcho]

I remember release day for CE, and everyone in our group starting out in different areas with different linkshells (we had more than 128 to begin with). We all finally got together the first couple weeks and it was great fun finally meeting everyone in game. Then we all did a run around the world. We went through Gridania, then Coerthas, etc to Mor Dhona and some of our more...eh..."gifted" members decided to attack a Toxic Toad when they were R10ish. 15 newbies fighting a high level mob and then zerging back after dying, with one genius crafting in the middle of the fight.

They got it down about 1/4 of the way though!


Also Eft parties where you spammed Cures because it was the only way to get skill points, and/or everyone was trying to get in as many hits as possible. I still remember when they changed this and it was a godsend.

[Archadius]

Ugh... That "SP by contribution" thing was horrid. Try keeping a static party going with that system in place lol. I had a small static of 3 and at least one of us was ALWAYS playing catch up in our spare time thanks to random SP gains.

I look back a year and try to forget it ever happened. I even was on a cruise until Sept 22 and that ended up being a huge disappointment too.

Here's to a brighter future for FFXIV! *clink*

[IStolzI]

speaking of one year ago, does this mean we get anniversary bands?

[Captaindownsyndrome]

i recall my ls dieing it was 100 member strong on day one /bow his head in memory of his late ls Offtopic most left to play rift i tried get in to game but rift just lame, its like wow rape Aion and rift is there bastard child

[Wolfie]

I don't want to reminisce about that, it makes me feel ashamed that I used to defend the state of the game back then.

[DNO]

lol i love the people who are saying not muched changed or the game is anywhere near as bad as a year ago. lol its sooo funny.

I rememeber that day. it was fun to look around and stuff.

[darkstarpoet1]

lol i love the people who are saying not muched changed or the game is anywhere near as bad as a year ago. lol its sooo funny.

I rememeber that day. it was fun to look around and stuff.

it's worse than a year ago and yoshi is compounding the issue. it's bad when 2 of the 3 biggest ls's on my server are having to merge to have an active ls again. both of these ls's were over 50-75 active pre 1.18 and now are maybe combined that many if they are lucky. don't try to say all servers have increased in population because i can promise you karnak is not one.