Fighting Desperately...

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You know I was thinking this the other night...

Maybe just maybe the reason everyone wants FFXI or compares FFXIV to FFXI is because FFXI might have been their first major mmorpg that they spent more than just a couple months on. Their first online mmo experience is kinda like your first partner. We were young, she taught me things, blah blah blah. So now you've grown a little and maybe grown up entirely still hoping to get that in which you got from FFXI and realize its just not there anymore. ; ;

FFXIV will never bring you the excitement FFXI brought you since your first is always the most memorable. Now not to say that FFXIV will never bring you the fun and happiness that FFXI did but you can't hold it to the same standards or expect the same feeling when you got your first 75 job or in my case finished COP.

FFXIV is fine now, its becoming a real solid game with a few things to iron out in 2.0. I played Guild Wars II beta for 8 hours and uninstalled. MMORPGS can be exhausting and time consuming. I guess I'm getting older and getting over it. Maybe just maybe some of you guys are feeling the same and don't realize that it isn't the game, it's us lol.

The new generation of MMORPGS players like the WOW clones and the innovated crap thats coming out with crazy achievement systems, in game micro transactions and 1000 mounts with 50 dungeons that each has their own token system and a content finder so you never have to wait long. Us FFXI players enjoyed the 4 hour LFP sessions on DRG, we went soloing, farmed NMs, talked with LS, crafted, ran back and forth from the AH to the MH in Whitegate for no reason. When we got DRG to 75 we felt like we just got the world's biggest chocolate chip cookie.

New gen players wanna do abyssea and get a full set of relics...old school we didnt care if we only had 2 jobs at 75 we did our best at them. New gen want a full set of Moogle/Ifrit weapons before patch comes out. Old school we would never imagine a full set of ANYTHING!! Full lolGod set could take months and full Homam/Nashira yeah ok... Need I mention Salvage?

This post has gone on long enough, I'll continue to play FFXIV cuz I'm a geek FF fanboy and I'm sure in the next couple of months or even years XIV will evolve into something amazing. I'll tell you one thing though if 2.0 fails I'm done with MMORPGS for good.

Unless FFXVIII comes out lawl...