Is Final Fantasy XI Still A Thing?

[Ruisu]

It's pretty terrible now, plagued by Tanaka's ideas and drop rates as bad as Darklight and Militia Trousers. Maybe since Matsui picked the game back up, it'll be less shit, but I'd wait for the new expansion before bothering with anything.

I wouldn't say it's too late to get into, since someone can PL you 90 in a few days or so, and then you can solo the missions. Endgame is very lacking, since they decided to increase the level cap from 75-99 in roughly one year with little content to support that jump. But you can explore a lot of the locations in XI, since that's what made the game so great.

Obligatory THIS IS THE FFXIV FORUMS NOT FFXI FORUMS post.

[NefGP]

It's pretty terrible now, plagued by Tanaka's ideas and drop rates as bad as Darklight and Militia Trousers. Maybe since Matsui picked the game back up, it'll be less shit, but I'd wait for the new expansion before bothering with anything.

I wouldn't say it's too late to get into, since someone can PL you 90 in a few days or so, and then you can solo the missions. Endgame is very lacking, since they decided to increase the level cap from 75-99 in roughly one year with little content to support that jump. But you can explore a lot of the locations in XI, since that's what made the game so great.

Obligatory THIS IS THE FFXIV FORUMS NOT FFXI FORUMS post.

That's been my hope as well, since Matsui was the lead designer behind Abyssea, which for all the griping people do about it, has been the most fun I'd had with the game in years. Too bad he's back in charge of XI now and if he hasn't already will likely be replaced on the XIV team - I can't see him working 2 MMOs at once.

Did they ever say who our new battle director would be?

[Duelle]

It's pretty terrible now, plagued by Tanaka's ideas and drop rates as bad as Darklight and Militia Trousers.

Voidwatch is pretty terrible.

But you can explore a lot of the locations in XI, since that's what made the game so great.

Except they've since added those mobs that are lv105 that con Tough and Incredibly Tough to lv99 characters. Because SE couldn't leave well enough alone.

You can solo CoP.

Up to "One to be feared", maybe. I had to three-man Tenzen because I couldn't kill him quickly enough.

[Alhanelem]

I bought Final Fantasy XI way back in 2004 when if first released. I played it for around 2-3 weeks before moving on to other things (I was 14 then.)

Anyways, I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV for a little while, and now I kind of want to play Final Fantasy XI again, for whatever reason. I recently bought the "complete collection" that has all of the expansions for XI thus far, but it's been 9 years (whoa!) since it started and there have been so many expansion packs I'm wondering if it's too late to start playing XI at this point (the storyline has already been played out, everyone is level 50, etc.)

What do you guys think? Is it too late to start such an old game? Do you think Square Enix neglects XI now, or when XIV 2.0 releases? Is it even worth playing?

If any of you are still playing XI, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

Level 50? the max level in XI is 99.

It might be an "old" game, but they're releasing another expansion. it still has life in it. The games are coexisting rather well.

[Jeronlmo]

"It's pretty terrible now, plagued by Tanaka's ideas and drop rates as bad as Darklight and Militia Trousers"

Terrible now? Because of Tanaka, who isnt there. Your playing both sides of the fence, "now" the game is easy-mode and you can 100% get basically any drop by procing mobs, and if the game is terrible "now" that would mean you liked it "before" the drops were jokes to get. The only piece of Tanaka that remains relevant appart from the amazing storyline was voidwatchers which he got flamed for because it was "to hard".

If you like good games that have some version of challenge, dont go. If you want to start at lvl1 and beat the game in a month, go ahead, you may enjoy it.

[Jennestia]

Matsui is working on both games.

[Irana]

A new expansion JUST came out for xi ....

[Alhanelem]

A new expansion JUST came out for xi ....

Uh, no, it's not out yet. It's been *announced*.

[AceofRains]

A new expansion JUST came out for xi ....

I would want to get back into it just for this
especially since geomancer is being released, gosh I've waited so long.

[kazaran]

There is a vast amount of content to do in XI. Starting now can be challenging but it isn't as hard as it was orginally. Once at a suffcient level you can grind out alot fairly fast. It will however be challenging to find low level parties, iwithotu a sub job, and get some aspects done. If not familiar with the game (you will need to use guides) it will be a slow process. Once familiar grinding out jobs isn't all that hard.

A majority of the community are level 80+ and have leveled most jobs to at least 75. THe community isn't what it used to be so gettign help can be tough, even with level synch.