Quote Originally Posted by Babydoll View Post
Indeed. The only ones who stood around doing absolutely nothing are the ones who did not want to do anything for themselves. I always made my own parties, ran my own Dynamis and HNM LS, I did everything myself. Not that hard lol.
I am sure you completed Shadow Lord, Ark Angels, Black Coffin, and Promy's (pre level cap removal) and all the other Main Story fights ;D. Seriously gtfo all of you elitist dicks. You might not think yourself as one but the 3 of you are acting like it, with the whole "I can solo everything FFXI!!!! You others just fail and don't live up to my standard" (Heck Babydoll you even said that yourself, I hate elitest and when you said that I loathed you) Why you might ask? Because it is exactly you people and my friends that wouldn't help those that need it because "they weren't up to snuff to your ridiculously high standards" or "We already did it and I sure as hell don't want to do it again".
I tried my hardest for years to get those done, What I cared about was the story and because of people in the community like what I am seeing here saying everything is solo, is the shit that made me give up, I never beat Ark Angels or Black Coffin or any of the stories except Shadow Lord, because after shouting 6 Hrs a day for 6 months straight and being ignored, you all can eat it.
Yes I am upset because I hate the Elitist attitude so many in XI had. It is reason Why I could get nothing done, (not because I didn't have skill) It was because I DIDN'T have the damn time to do any of it.... I was in the Navy, duty day every 3rd day (which is working 24hrs+a work day) then being out to sea randomly for 4 years. I could never make it into an end game shell due to these things, then when a friend would hook me up, I would get boned by the navy and 1-2 weeks later get kicked by lack of participation (not my direct fault).
The other problem with a lot of the Solo-Content that has been put up. It puts no real forward motion in character development. No XP from Quests? Yes they were fun just to do, but the rewards were small. People at least want a tangible reward for something they worked hard on solo. Self-Satisfaction in a game only goes so far.
Also again on the Elitist, If you are so amazing to do something solo, doesn't mean everyone is, so stop rubbing it in everyones face and have some humbleness. It is what turns people off of games, which will be a challenge for all the new players at ARR release because we will have a lot of people with all 50's rubbing it in the new players face and not helping them get things done because "Oh I did it myself! You weakling/bad player you should stop playing!" Instead, (and I am not saying you are not also a kind soul and help players (but for majority people that rub it in others face that they do something better than others won't do this)) why don't you help that person because obviously they are having trouble or are not confident in their own ability yet, so go help them, give them pointers while doing so and evolve a great community like early XI had, before all the elitist end game shells, and it will propegate where we all help each other! That's what I want out of ARR above all else.