Quote Originally Posted by Ceons View Post
Yes, also add the sub job quest. The run to jeuno that took an hour when you were level 20. The 6 hour quest to obtain a chocobo license. The level 25 quest where you had to get a key drop from every cities enemy territory by beating on endless mobs for hours. The airship pass that you got only after completing several missions and becoming rank 6. (or coffing out 600k which was a lot of gil at the time since no mobs dropped money...)
The first zone you went to group in was 25min walk or more and the nearby village had no homepoint so if you died and had no raise you had to wait (or run) for 25-30mins till your group was together again to exp.

Despite all of this I did play XI for years and it was my first MMO and I had some great times...
Actually Selbina had a homepoint and they added nomad moogles in the recent years. Walking to dunes took 15 minutes too, but the chocobo quest is complete BS. XI had a ton of flaws and was extremely unforgiving but I still loved the shit out of that game.