I want to play *This* game

[aveyond-dreams]

Vana'diel is my home

Same. Now that all's been said and done for XIV, I'm left with a world that holds very little left for me. The same isn't true of FFXI though. San d'Oria and Jeuno feel more alive to me and Limsa with it's...statues gathered around the aetheryte. My main class Summoner has a full host of summons to call upon and my other favorites like Blue Mage and Scholar don't suffer from the design limitations that plague them in XIV.

[Ransu]

well FFXI is less grindy than before, but I started FFXI three years ago and Im kind of mad at myself I didn't start this amazing game first than XIV, the jobs are amazing with each their own image instead of a carbon copy like XIV jobs and i love how deep the combat system is and doing skillchains or magic bursts with your fellow team mates to do more damage than filling up a mindless gauge do do one limit break which is always DD doing

Also I'm not stuck with the boring ass sicons every expansion, I get to meet new people in every expansion and yeah I will see familiar faces like shantotto or Lion but they don't overstay their welcome like the scions do ( looking at you Ystola, or the male twin)



is FFXIV even considered a RPG when all the RPG elements are like gone from the game? it's more of a dress up, second life, night club social game like IMVU

anyways I'm having a great time with XI, Vana'diel is my home

Modern XI is trash though... You haven't experienced true XI till you played in the CoP/ToAU era. Even then though, I wouldn't call XI's combat "deep" when all you do is stare at the screen watching auto attacks 90% of the time. Do people even do magic bursts anymore? That entire design died during the games peak as spamming TP burn parties were way more effective (my LS could down Kirin in 30 seconds. It was kind of stupid)

[MikkoAkure]

you'll basically live in a wiki, and that's just scratching the surface. It's not for the faint of heart. :3

A wiki?! Back in my day we just had a Prima guide that said that Humes make good ninja because they look good in pajamas.

You had to rely on more seasoned linkshell members on how to do things and wild rumors would spread on the Valkurm Dunes about the spawning criteria of the Sea Horror and tales about ferries dropping off 20 dead bodies onto the docks of Selbina.

Altana save you if you DID want to play ninja because you would have to camp for hours for a rare NM for you BIS head, feet, body, and hands for many levels and even if you fight off the horde of treasure hunters for the claim, you’re not guaranteed the drop (though I think they fixed that?). All your spells cost items to use and the scrolls themselves sold for millions of gil.

Abyssea wouldn’t be a thing for years and you had to grind goblins and beetles in increasingly exotic locations for hours in order to level up.

The devs probably don’t do it anymore, but they gave no hints on how to do anything and would regularly punish players for playing jobs or fighting bosses “wrong”. They were surprised but eventually supportive of things like SAM becoming a DPS when it was made to be a tank class or NIN becoming a tank when it was meant to be a DPS, but on the other end they nerfed manaburn parties and all the BLM became RNG because they didn’t like that. Or when a group of people became physically ill fighting Pandaemonium Warden wrong for hours upon hours and they nerfed it after bad media coverage.

I wonder if they ever made Puppetmaster worth playing. I don’t know if it was meant to be a solo class because it seemed sort of like it but their own power was weak, they had a C in their main weapon type, and BST was much better at soloing things. It never seemed to have a role in a party either. I got it up to level 60 or so I’m the hopes it would get better but it didn’t really and I got nervous about spending time and effort on something that people might not even invite me into Dynamis on so I abandoned it.

[Yuella]

I wonder if they ever made Puppetmaster worth playing. I don’t know if it was meant to be a solo class because it seemed sort of like it but their own power was weak, they had a C in their main weapon type, and BST was much better at soloing things. It never seemed to have a role in a party either. I got it up to level 60 or so I’m the hopes it would get better but it didn’t really and I got nervous about spending time and effort on something that people might not even invite me into Dynamis on so I abandoned it.

They raised Puppetmaster's H2H to A+

[TowaIsBestGirl]

Prima guide

What the utter heckleberry fin, now I feel old. It's been ten thousand years since I last heard those words....

[StarRosie]

What the utter heckleberry fin, now I feel old. It's been ten thousand years since I last heard those words....

Oh I can one-up this. Back in my day, we got tips and hints for games from things like Nintendo Power! And Game Informer! Which arguably wasn't that big a time jump. Since NP started in 1988, Prima Games in 1990, and GI in 1991.

Suffice to say...this joke has made me feel ancient because god...1988 feels like it was 75 years ago, not 35.

[TowaIsBestGirl]

Oh I can one-up this. Back in my day, we got tips and hints for games from things like Nintendo Power! And Game Informer! Which arguably wasn't that big a time jump. Since NP started in 1988, Prima Games in 1990, and GI in 1991.

Suffice to say...this joke has made me feel ancient because god...1988 feels like it was 75 years ago, not 35.

Nintendo.... Power? You dare invoke the Deep Magics to me? I was there when it was written!

Doesnt this apply to everyone on here?

I know you've gotten a lot of responses already, but I would certainly posit that it does. Everyone wants to see content that appeals to them, and it just so happens that some are inevitably going to feel neglected by what is released. Such is simply the unavoidable way of things, I should think.

[Jkap_Goat]

Anyone ever have an ex call up out of the blue years later to say "I'm doing great btw. I met someone. I'm soo happy."?

sounds like someone is salty, someone mentioned FFXI, and I responded

jealousy is really bad, just go do those old roulettes and just stand in lower limsa all day, lol and have fun with that " relic grinding"

[Celine_Aurora]

As the topic title states, I quite literally want to play this game. As in FFXIV.

You do not.

You want to play "A FFXIV based game made by aveyond-dreams for aveyond-dreams".

[Saraide]

You do not.

You want to play "A FFXIV based game made by aveyond-dreams for aveyond-dreams".

Doesnt this apply to everyone on here?