Thread: Please help me understand why i should continue to play a repeat of 2.0?

This doesn't seem like the right game for you, OP. Or genre. I suggest putting the game down and finding something else to play. There are a lot of other games out there. Personally, I enjoy this game. That is why I play it. If I wanted to play a totally different game every expansion, I would put the game down and buy a different game every time an expansion came out. This game caters to its playerbase. Its playerbase bought the game with certain expectations. Changing those completely is silly, counter-productive, and not conducive to keeping their fans who actually enjoy the mechanics and format.

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

Reinha when Zilart and cop came out:
1. I didnt even have one 75 job was still working on that.

Because leveling in FFXI was a massive chore. There was absolutely nothing compelling about staying in one place for hours at a time and killing the same model crab/beetle/dhalmel/colibri over and over again. It speaks volumes that even FFXI doesn't do FFXI-style leveling any more.

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

3. Storyline was 10/10

I'll agree with this, but keep in mind that most of the expansions only had a fraction of that story available when they first launched. Wings of the Goddess took a full three years to get to its conclusion. Certainly none of them had anywhere near the volume of story that Heavensward had on release.

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

4. Questing in FFXI you where not someones fetchboy as it is in FFXIV.

This is a case of selective memory. I made a new character on FFXI in the month before Heavensward and played through Windurst, RotZ, CoP, ToAU, and WotG's storylines. There were many, many times when you had to go play fetch, usually involving something from the other side of Vana'diel.

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

5. Where many jobs in FFXI you couldnt have had all of them maxed out was almost impossible and difficult.

So... exactly the same as FFXIV?

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

6. Its an MMORPG stuff shouldnt be soloed the point is finding people that are willing to help you. I understand nothing like FFXI where 6 players must do stuff but atleast 2 or 3 people OUTSIDE of duty finder!

"There's nothing to do that requires 2-3 people except for the things that require 2-3 people that I've arbitrarily decided don't count!"

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

7. I laugh at your silly 5 new skills for each job when FFXI overwhelmed you with skills and jobs im used to a BLM having 40+ spells not 20.

How many of those 40+ spells did you ever use? At 75, how often did you use any of the tier I-III single target or tier I-II aoe nukes? Or any tier IV nukes except ice and thunder? Blind? Bind? Blaze/Ice/Shock Spikes? Tier I ancient magic?

Or, for a more reasonable comparison, since you mentioned new skills, let's see how many spells black mage got going from level 75 to 85, which was the first ten level increase that NA players experienced: Stone V, Water V, Stoneja, Aero V, Aspir II, Waterja, Break. That's seven, and only because it was a caster. Most jobs got a single ability at level 77, and that's it.

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

Beleive me I can go on.

You do realize you can still play FFXI if that's what you're looking for in an MMO, right?

Originally Posted by SkizzleofRagnarok

This whole accepting a quest opening map and seeing where it is right away isnt something from WoW?

1.0 had it also
And nobody claimed 1.0 as a WoW clone, if i remember it right



Like you can see in this journal window of a quest, there is a map button in the left lower corner that open up a map with the destination for the actual step of the quest

I never have seen the point of getting top level within a day or two, then sitting around twiddling your thumbs bored as crap for the next month or two. I'm still doing my MSQ and leveling up, and the story is just now getting really interesting.