Quote Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto View Post
Different people have different priorities. What's 'superficial crap' to you is treasure for another. Minions, mounts and other rarities can go for 50+ million.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
When I say superficial crap I literally mean superficial.

In this game you don't need any of that to play or be effective. In FFXI you really did. FFXI is the old school way and a much much harder game. You had to have the type of high end equipment just to be effective at your level. Here you may only need it if you're doing certain types of content. There you needed it just to play the game or your experience there was going to be a painful one.

FFXI used a similar model to Everquest. When you died you lost exp. Everquest had the infamous corpse run so you had to run all the way back to where you died naked and collect all your equipent and then put it on, and if you couldn't get to your corpse before it disappeared you lost all your gear. To add insult to injury you could even lose your current level because you lost exp when you died if you didn't get a Res.

You have no idea how F'n hard that game was if you were not perfect or with the best gear you could get. I hear they lightened up over the years as more modern MMOs came out... but when I say the things you are talking about are superficial... I mean that. One you needed just to play... the other was optional extra you don't need.