Question To All FFXIV players.

[Laraul]

And I disagree about the brutal uphill battle currently in xi, exp/gil are incredibly easy to get, even in book burns you can go 1-99 in a couple days and skill cap in a single day easily, an empy, even dualboxing takes a couple weeks tops if you play daily and you can get top gear in a couple days if the rng doesnt screw you. Even ppl I helped break the first limit break a few weeks ago are running around in gear that would have taken us years to get pre-aby and touting a maats cap and empy weapon. Hell they even nerfed CoP to the point a whm or brd can solo nearly the whole thing and you can do things like open the gates in garlaige by just clicking a ??? near the entrance once. Even the limit breaks up to the 95-99 ones are easily solod since all you have to do is click on ??? anymore. As for farming gil/gear/everything else in the game all you need in xi is bst and ur good to go.

Ummm... this is all baloney. FFXI is still takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to advance in. You still need help with a lot of things. People who complain that abyssea "ruined" FFXI are just people who can't admit to themselves that THINGS CHANGE.

[Forgo]

I'm glad we got a chance to change both games because without change a MMO dies, Look at Wow it changes with the people for good or ill and its still going FFXI changed with the people and its still up there over 10 years later..so changeing FFXVI to ARR was the best step up for yoshi-p and crew in keeping it alive and fighting for a chance to be one of the greats that never die

[Vilhem]

I'm actually worried about XI with the kind of posts I'm seeing in the official forums :/ I spent 8yrs on the game, and only last year (2011) did SE even bother opening up the communication lines for XI players....and now, they do give feedback, but it seems like convincing the devs to do stuff is like talking to a brick wall. We have it SOOOO good here with Yoshi-p and his crew lol

With XI its really really really hard to pick up where you left off. I'm all for exploring new content and trying new things, but the latest stuff is just a rehash of the old stuff we've seen since ToAU: staggered NM progression like ZNM, weakness procs like a BLM spell or a certain WS...or kill 1000 bees to upgrade your weapon 5 levels. You're pretty much f**ed if you start a chara from lvl 1 unless you have friends and a good knowledge of the community sites out there.

With XIV I didn't feel like I had to assign at least 3 hours of my afternoon to get stuff done. XI is getting some changes done, but it's not happening fast enough. They still stubbornly hang on to PS2 limitations :/