FFXI Crossover Event - No Crab Mount?

[MrTherm]

SE. You make me sad. Maybe i'm jumping the gun on this one but I was highly looking forward to the crossover event. As a veteran of XI, I can honestly say that I am highly disappointed with the crossover event. While I do understand that you are doing it commemorate the new patch, it does anything but hit my nostalgia button.

Most of the people I still talk to agree with me that 75 cap was XI, and it died and/or became something else after the cap was raised and most of my memories are from that era. One of which would be leveling from 1 to 75 on pretty much nothing but clippers/snippers/crabs and their many forms. With that being said, I couldn't think of anything more worthy to commemorate the event with a crab mount. Among other things.

Other ideas I heard from friends was glamour/hair from NPCs such as Prishe, Naja, Tenzen, Lion, Aldo, or several others that where big parts of the game from start to finish. Shantotto /laugh emote? There are tons of things that come to mind. Not someone that was just recently added to the game. The reason? granted I don't know the numbers, but it seems like most of the people that still play XI, only play XI and most of the people that play XIV, don't play XI.

Please don't assume I'm saying this event is bad or a waste of time by any means. I doubt it will be. Its just that I hope you do more events like this and plenty of crossover events. I love that you added M.abj tank set, and the Ares set. I hope in time you add Homam set amount others, even if its just glamour.

[NovaLevossida]

This event unfortunately is just a promotion for the last update FFXI will get rather than a celebration of its entire existence. I would have loved to see a crab mount, seen Prishe and Maat walking around, and even have a joke fight against a trio of NMs like Bubbly Bernie, Valkurm Emperor, and Leaping Lizzy. Unfortunately it's just a promotion rather than a celebration.

[Skivvy]

Well, to be fair, I'm sure they're putting out this content for their current customers who have been supporting them all these years while the "75 cap" crowd bailed. Also it may spark some interest in old players to see how the XI series ends. In my mind, it makes sense that they would stick with more current content this time around. We already had the Shantotto event for your nostalgia, time for something new.


And personally, if they're giving us a mount - I'd take my old goobbue-mobile in a heartbeat!

[Alahra]

I fear the crabs in FFXI far too much to ever risk making one into a mount. I worry that my Smallshell minion is plotting to kill me already.

[NovaLevossida]

while the "75 cap" crowd bailed.

To be fair, it's far less that the old crowd bailed and a lot more that SE changed the game into something so vastly different than what the game previously had been before Abyssea. We hadn't really seen an MMO change so drastically since Ultima Online had its Age of Shadows and changed from what it was into something wanted to be Diablo.

[Skivvy]

To be fair, it's far less that the old crowd bailed and a lot more that SE changed the game into something so vastly different than what the game previously had been before Abyssea. We hadn't really seen an MMO change so drastically since Ultima Online had its Age of Shadows and changed from what it was into something wanted to be Diablo.

OK, and how many years ago now did the game make that drastic change? Should they just ignore all their new content that the developers have worked hard on to feed old nostalgic players?

[Tilgung]

To be fair, it's far less that the old crowd bailed and a lot more that SE changed the game into something so vastly different than what the game previously had been before Abyssea. We hadn't really seen an MMO change so drastically since Ultima Online had its Age of Shadows and changed from what it was into something wanted to be Diablo.

The changes to XI weren't nearly as drastic as you make them out to be. Content was more accessible and removed the need for alliances by making each individual character/job vastly more powerful than they were before. A fantastic move, because gathering 18 people for outdated/one-time-only fights took stupid amounts of time, even during NA Prime Time.

The problem that followed was they utterly annihilated all of the old (but still mostly useful content) and it went to Abyssea only until Voidwatch, Legion, Neo-Nyzul Isle and another difficulty tier for Salvage was introduced. And they then proceeded to demolish most of those with Seekers of Adoulin Content which.. isn't as diverse as the days of old. Dynamis, Sky, Sea, HNMs, Appolyon/Temenos, Nyzul Isle, Salvage, ZNMs, Beseiged, Campaign, SCNMs, KCNMs, etc etc.

[NovaLevossida]

OK, and how many years ago now did the game make that drastic change? Should they just ignore all their new content that the developers have worked hard on to feed old nostalgic players?

If you read what I wrote, I actually said to celebrate its entire existence, not just one portion of time.

The changes to XI weren't nearly as drastic as you make them out to be. Content was more accessible and removed the need for alliances by making each individual character/job vastly more powerful than they were before. A fantastic move, because gathering 18 people for outdated/one-time-only fights took stupid amounts of time, even during NA Prime Time.

They basically killed the exp parties in favor of leveling in a way completely devoid of any thought, invalidated all of the years of horizontal progression endgame, and funneled people into groups of "try to hit it with the right abilities and spells" as a replacement for all of those unique and varied events. I don't know how anyone could reasonably say that wasn't drastic.

[Azazua_azura]

This event unfortunately is just a promotion for the last update FFXI will get rather than a celebration of its entire existence. I would have loved to see a crab mount, seen Prishe and Maat walking around, and even have a joke fight against a trio of NMs like Bubbly Bernie, Valkurm Emperor, and Leaping Lizzy. Unfortunately it's just a promotion rather than a celebration.

bubbly burner and valkum emperor are in ff14 1 is a fate boss mob, and 1 is a renamed B rank hunt mob.

Leaping lizzy mount... YES!!!

[Azazua_azura]

To be fair, it's far less that the old crowd bailed and a lot more that SE changed the game into something so vastly different than what the game previously had been before Abyssea. We hadn't really seen an MMO change so drastically since Ultima Online had its Age of Shadows and changed from what it was into something wanted to be Diablo.

THIS pretty much what happen in ff11 was abyssea made everything irellivent over night, we talking about groups who have been doing dynamis for 5+ years having wasted their time. People just running nyzule isle wasting their time.

then they added dungeon tome books Grounds of valor (think repeatable hunt log) which trivialised leveling people would form anb allience in what 70% would just afk and leech leveling. They unsyced all story content and the player based pretty much said, just cap ur level and solo the story. Players then started to leech endgame content, it wasn't so much the raise in level cap it, it is what ended up happening the cap when from 50 in FF11 launch to 75 in FF11 zilart and stayed 75 up till the last released expac prior to abyssea. we talking a good 7 years or so. The community pretty much became even more hostile then it was. So there was more or less a mass exodues to ff14 1.0 after that. Or ppl just quit mmo perioud