Where is the "never before seen content"?

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Didn't play XI; didn't have a computer good enough and was still on dial-up. Played other games that kept older armor relevant. I suppose that works for some games, but didn't XI also had gear that took literal years to farm? Now THAT sounds like an uphill climb as a fresh player. For how XIV is set up (IE: not a massive commitment to play and doesn't require constant upkeep), something like this really doesn't work. I get the appeal and why some people would want it. I'm glad XIV didn't adopt it. But hey, we're people on two opposing sides of what we enjoy.

I feel we're playing two different games here. Structure, you mean like content patches or things like in game environments? If you mean environments... yeah... you and I are playing two different games.... The video links to 1.0, uploaded in 2010. No idea what 1.0 even had in it at that point.

I do know XIV 1.0 and XI had the same teams.

No, that was in regards to specific type of special weapons that was meant to be super hard to obtain, they where meant more as trophies. A skilled and knowledge user with a second best or 3rd best could outperform them (like PLD shield regarded as "best" a gear change happy user could hit the caps it bought, it had to be buffed to have more of a reason to obtain because of that. Basically a PLD shield allowed you be "lazy" more then improving your performance to great degree) and in a lot of caster classes they where complete junk as far as performance, WHM, SMN, BLM, RDM (endgame group content it was useless) so on, brd was another highly ranked one. (Oh I should explain brd was a pure buffer job, highly demanded, so much so they had strats around dropping and inviting 3 brds to be rotated in and out parties to "zerg rush" hard content, cor also played a part in this. relic horn allowed +2 buff to all songs, this was big early level 75 as no instruments buffed ballad back then. it became to loss its usefulness as more and more stuff was released, again equip changes making it obsolete. Later upgrades made it useful again, I do not think a +4 ballad instrument exists. Also the new abyssa relics from my understanding was more preferred letting a brd put up 3 songs (fully upgraded allows 2 more songs over base, totaling 4)

Also I know grinds, I do not mind grinds, clearly, I actually earned one of those weapons in question. Those things where so infrequently earned back in the day, the user base made a database of sorts of who owned what, I think something of the likes of 120-150 players across all servers had one before FFXI entered easy mode. What I hate is a repeated treadmill of reskined content.

But that is before abyssa, now you can get them solo in a shortish amount of time ( wouldn't know exactly, I am not apart of new FFXI)

1.0 vid was only there to show the copy/paste the terrain they did, that is how the structure of progress feels to me now for ARR+, copy and paste, over and over, nothing new.

One thing i want to add to this, I first played ffxi on (at the time) outdated computer, on a modem. You would get lag jitter ofc, it was not perfect but honestly? it reacted to lag MUCH better then this game does.