The Journey - Is It Still Wanted?

[charlemagne]

Most enjoyable thread I've read on here in weeks. I loved xi and still rank it as the best game I've ever played. Yes the journey to cap is too quick at the moment, but we also need to remember a part of that is because its a journey to 50 and not to 75.

[SniperRifle]

Didn't even read. I agree w/ the first paragraph.

It's been said to death, but for the billionth refreshing reminder that the original producer was a complete idiot to have Lv1-50 done in the same zone.

Now I suffer minor nostalgia from the pics.

[RahJah]

All of the wonderful adventure in FFXI is absent in FFXIV. FFXIV is just like sprinting through a really cool art gallary.

When stepping out of the nation into the wildland, it should be dangerous! There should be a 4th nation that we slowly progress to on foot much like jueno. Being able to out-run mobs takes the challenge of traveling. Furthermore, a travel without challenge is not an adventure. Adventure must have that danger component. The hazards should increase as you travel outward.

I would wager that the major majority of all of the people sticking around to play FFXIV through all of this mess are the ones that got hooked to FFXI. That is the only reason I am still here...

[Fendras]

My two gil:
I don't powerlevel. I worked my way up to 50 with a close friend at a fairly gradual pace. Now I'll be doing that all over again with a new but similar class. That's cool with me. My biggest complaint (which will be fixed in 2.0) is the fact that it feels like I've been in the same three places the entire time. Imagine if 1-60 in WoW took place entirely in, say, Elwynn Forest, Dun Morogh, and Durotar.

Exploration is a huge deal to me, and while I like this game, it's sorely lacking in that aspect.

[Sarchy_Warchy]

. . . Don't forget, XI was pretty mediocre in its first two years. . . and didn't have all that diversity. Give the devs time. By 2013 maybe things will be different.

[Charismatic]

. . . Don't forget, XI was pretty mediocre in its first two years. . . and didn't have all that diversity. Give the devs time. By 2013 maybe things will be different.

Yeah, actually it did.
Everything mentioned in the OP was definitely stuff you could do within the first 2 years... hell, most of it within the first.

You clearly did not play FFXI in the first 2 years, and when I say first two I'm talking Japanese release even. First 2 years of FFXI for us NA players had even more diverse content because CoP had come out and been fleshed out a good ways within our first two years.

[Bowen]

. . . Don't forget, XI was pretty mediocre in its first two years. . . and didn't have all that diversity. Give the devs time. By 2013 maybe things will be different.

Isn't the world supposed to end in 2012. Omg. . .
T>T

[weeble]

i love my grinds in ffxi, i loves the journey but some of the stories on the journey are a little extreme. mostly the one where they are killing so slow that people need to tell them to shut up and kill mobs lmao. his post was a +1 till that part. in ffxi i enjoyed the grind, i loved how every group was always a full new group of players ..loved that every grind in that game never really felt the same. liked convo's but speed was still always a factor, just cause you like it long and hard, don't mean you really need to literally slow down. even in this game i'll leave a group that is just talking to much too. if your talking and the mobs die b4 you hit them one or 2 times then lol ...that is called pl'ing too. and speed and accuracy to the top is just as important as the grind to some. i'd be the opposite and probably replace people like this pretty fast in ffxi. but again i still love the grind, maybe people like this are more for a vent group so you can do both correctly. either way i pray SE fixes the pl'ing problems and the speed to endgame. i'm not here to log in twice a week at the high populated hours of the day to do a few runs and log out. if i have no want for leveling new classes or farming things or repeating endgame for more then one class then this game will fall to the waist side like most mmo's do. the small population they end up with might be enough for some mmo's but i doubt for se. pretty sure they like shutting down or selling there failed mmo's.

[Birry]

i myself loved the grind to get all my jobs to r50 sneaking across the landscape to scout and find new mobs to kill or just farm on. Im glad i never experience this new ranking system because all i see in towns is ppl shouting for are PL parties. It doesnt take skill to get PLed and it just makes for a person that has no clue how to fully play a job and msot cant even pull their own weight in content like Ifrit or even in the darkhold. The new system we have now just reminds me of the SMN burn ots everyone killed to get into but ours is on some crack

Thats one reason i hope they add some new classes to play.

[Dreamer]

I care about the journey, but NOT the grind. They are in no way the same thing to me. You can make an experience with longevity that isn't a grind: for example, just look at any game outside the MMO genre.