Final fantasy xiv 1.23b server relaunch?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yeah that sounds about right, but if that was the truth in peak XI why didn't it immediately die? I started playing a couple of years after the game launched and made it just fine as a RDM, before level sync was implemented even (which granted, was necessary probably to people having a harder time like you seem to have had) But my joining late didn't stop me from having a blast.

And the GCBTW is a meme and so theres hint of truth to it, but you know well an MMO has a ton of different people and just like most of XIV isn't a GCBTW member generally XI wasn't without it's huge amount of helpful people either. You are always bound to run into some bad apples and then people stereotype the heck out of the game.

It didn't immediately die because it had a group that loved it, but it never really grew, likely because of the way the game functions. Unless you know people or have a group to play with, you can't get anywhere. I couldn't find a group to play with. I'm not saying I only played the game for 2 weeks. I spent 2 weeks specifically in the dunes trying. I played for more than those 2 weeks, trying to figure the game out and how to play.


I'm not trying to say XI is a bad game. But a lot of people talk up the community as always helpful and everyone who needs anything has people jumping to help, and that was not my experience. The game is touted as one that relies on a community to make any progression, but the downside to this is of you aren't on the in with that community, you have the experience I did.