Fighting Desperately...

[Enfarious]

Thanks for conforming.
Business is not, never has and never will be logical.
Thanks again for conforming.

Are you bored?

Anyway, Gukswar, yes right on and thankyou. What you just said should be what everyone thinks. It won't happen but I'll join in your line of thinking.

Xoo, also too right, too many people want the "end" before they experience the journey, but you left out the whining about it all being over when they get there.

[Xoo]

Okay, so, I've been back ingame about 3 weeks now. I've got my Bounding Boots and a level 27 RDM that's been all solo due to the fact that traditional grinding is all but gone. I don't mean people opt for something different/faster. I mean mobs in the old camps have been reduced to a fraction in number of what they were, making it impossible. SE has pigeon-holed players into doing it the easy way, and only that way - or else go it alone. As I go it alone, I'm noting all the off-beat zones that still have a decent mob count so I can possibly make a group and take them there later on down the road.

[Duelle]

I think you're overreacting.

FFXI didn't really have any difficulty to it. It just took fucking forever to get anything done. Or to wait for an NM to pop so that some other team would claim it. Or to wait 72 hours to be able to go to Dynamis again so that your relic armor doesn't drop. I could go on.

This. And he put it in a much nicer way than I would have.

OP is wearing pink nostalgia goggles. "Struggle" is something I see enough of in real life that I don't need more of it in a game I'm paying to play. I just want to work towards something and get it within a reasonable amount of time. FFXI was the antithesis of that way of thinking pre-Abyssea.

World of Warcraft, may you rot and burn in Hell.

This was not really needed. If it hadn't been WoW, it would have been another MMO, but someone was bound to change the standard by which MMORPGs were designed. That and WoW has more challenging fights than FFXI ever did. So no, U.

[Enfarious]

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Your sig, it's so...right. I actually quit playing rdm back in 04 when I got told, "You can't melee, go stand in the back w/ the rest of the mages." I hung up rdm and all the other mage jobs and didn't touch them again for 7 years.

[Xoo]

This. And he put it in a much nicer way than I would have.

OP is wearing pink nostalgia goggles. "Struggle" is something I see enough of in real life that I don't need more of it in a game I'm paying to play. I just want to work towards something and get it within a reasonable amount of time. FFXI was the antithesis of that way of thinking pre-Abyssea.
This was not really needed. If it hadn't been WoW, it would have been another MMO, but someone was bound to change the standard by which MMORPGs were designed. That and WoW has more challenging fights than FFXI ever did. So no, U.

If you didn't like the damn game, then why did you play it?! Like I say, and what amounts to that final statement, is FFXI had its fans, and WoW had theirs. Suck it up and face the fact that there were people who actually preferred what FFXI had to offer.