FFXI Players

[zylo1010]

Ffxi was my first MMO, played till mid wotg. Still miss old ffxi. Tried going back a few times but it's not the same as it used to be.

[Krokov]

I'm playing FFXI right now as I wished I played FFXI during it's Prime, but didn't have the money to get a decent PC/PS2 and internet at the time

Asura is the biggest server right now but the community is very toxic, especially a person named Spicyryan.i would avoid him

But I'm enjoying ffxi slowly. It's sad becuase I've been playing this game for months and just playing with trusts and it get lonely, I'm level 86 dancer trying to get to 99

That character sounds familiar. I'm sure I've heard of em before.
I'm sad to hear that you haven't had a great time with the community But there are those that are nice and to help you out someone asked me I would help them out I am also on Asura.
If You're ever on again look up Krokov see if I'm on just give me a tell I'll help where can.

[MistyMew]

Still subbed from the start
Enjoy ffxi, too many good times to quit. It will always be my fav.

[NefarioCall]

I played FFXI from 2004 - Present.
From 2010 I was also pretty invested in 1.x (which I loved)
Been on FFXI less in recent years but I still love to come back to it once in a while.

[lunar_seraphim]

I have many good memories of FFXI. I played from NA release until about 2009 when I went away to college and couldn't keep up anymore. I met some of my closest friends in that game and even after quitting, continued to keep in touch until we started playing XIV together during the PS3 beta. After meeting them in person for the first time at the first Fan Fest I moved across the country to live with them! So it's all thanks to XI haha!

[Kogasan]

I played ffxi for years. But when are came out I switched to playing this game. Oh and I met my rl husband on ffxi as well. Ty SE for making ffxi. It really helped me in my life.

[Luluna]

Thanks everyone for the really nice replies! Lots of nice memories shared. I will never forget when I got to level 50 with my Husband I was like what now? we where complete noobs..i asked somebody and he said "Go ask Maat" I am like who the f*&^ is this Maat? he must be lying. The shame haha I soon found out who Maat was >.<

[Zeonx]

Cousin said Bismarck was the best server ever.

he retired and played this now he was a well known name of bismarck even mentioned in legendary players on Allakhzam for helping a lot.

He tried to make a thread about FFXI and what servers people came from to re-connect old friends who might of left ffxi to play here but a moderator locked it and said to focus on people here and now which I thought was weird.

because it didn't break any rules and it was about FFXIV and FFXI that's why I thought it was weird it was locked.

[Dzian]

Keep telling yourself that, You dont know my age, therefore you dont know my generation therefore you dont know my opinion on the game peaks . Cleared Divine Might battlefield on ranger at Lv70 after 7 pickup groups failures with kiting strategies(7 pentaspheres) by making my own alliance consisting of 16 black mages (including japanese players) time nuking half blizzaga/half thundaga to prevent resists,|BIG BOOM|battlefield cleartime record back when sky was the top end game. Not going to explain to you more of my gameplays but you speak like if I was not there while I was.

Ps: If you want old experience then make friends, reinvite old friends, level sync, do not use trusts, so on so on. Game is still there, and the way it works its mechanics also.

Almost sounds like the reason you prefer it now is because it's a cake walk ever since they upped the cap from 75.

Which ironically is why a lot of people think its worse. Because easy ain't fun..

[Saidosha]

Played most since NA launch until about deep into VW era shortly before Adoulin's launch. There was some good, there was some bad, but I know I tend to groan whenever I see the 75 cap purists try to strongarm their opinion on why the game was better, oftentimes during the CoP era. No thanks. If I really had to peg XI's biggest problem overall, it would have been that they had no concept of really rewarding players equally. Needed a specific drop from a niche NM? Best hope you have enough other people who want it, and if they got it first, pray they suddenly didn't start being "busy" or just ignoring you for future attempts when you still needed your turn. I generally say the fact you had to have player-run point systems and the like for most of the game's pre-Abyssea life just affirmed how terrible the reward scheme was. Of course, life felt pretty good during Abyssea, itself. Most NMs were popped, and rather easily. They didn't need alliances, or hell, even full groups if you were good. Atma offered some interesting ways to tweak jobs that you simply couldn't through existing gear. It might not have pandered to the super ultra elitist endgame raider sort, but I've never been of the mentality that any game shouldn't do that by virtue of numbers of return on investment from the devs. Making the game harder, if that's what you sought, had more of a freedom in trying with smaller parties or different job combinations instead of being so cut and dry with DPS checks or very niche formations. Unfortunately, some still don't like that, even years later.

Anyway, I largely wrapped up because the Voidwatch era was a poor attempt to try and get back to those "good old days" with alliance content, complete with atrocious drop rates and niche encounters. Just didn't have it in me to gather 17 others for repeated pops, hoping none left partway through or that it didn't turn into a disaster on the harder ones if PUGing. It wasn't about playing with friends anymore at that point. It was just filling slots with bodies. I've played off and on since then, usually during the free times, and have managed to complete Adoulin and about all one can do without jumping into the new endgame with Escha stuff. Far as I can discern, it's pretty much still the same problems repeating, too, just not as bad as VW era. Only now they went more full tilt on things like gear augment RNG. A third iteration of Dynamis also gets a hearty laugh from me, because that crap was terrible in its prime.


But yeah, I'm not sure why people are crapping on XIV for dailies and stuff when XI had them with event lockouts/JP midnights/gameday changes, too. And things like that also contributed to it being so hard for people to find help on things since attempts needed to be preserved for statics/linkshells. To me, XI is still a lot of wasted potential from SE, but at the same time, I'll generally say it's better now than it ever was. Just need to put some legwork in to modernize a few things like cross-server interactions/matchmaking and it'd generally be a game I could tell people to play through all the story content then see how you feel from there. At the very least, that could get a couple months out of a fresh player that plays a good bit. Any iteration of prestige weapon grinds they've come up with are still butt, though.