Is FFxi not the game I thought it was going to be? Should I find something else?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Is FFxi not the game I thought it was going to be? Should I find something else?

Shit happens. But yeah, we're around!

[lordcool86]

Re: Is FFxi not the game I thought it was going to be? Should I find something else?

First off, Welcome (back?) to Dreams in Vanadiel! I see you've posted a couple of times already. It's nice to see that you're interested in playing again after so long! If you have any questions or would just like to discuss something that's on your mind about the game, we have a vast wealth of knowledge among our members... although few of us play at all anymore. Don't be discouraged if nobody answers you right away. Often times, most of our population can be found in the Off Topics section of the forum discussing non game related things.

Secondly... WOAAAAAHHHHH NECRO POST!!!! Please take care to note the time stamp of the most recent comment on a thread before posting. More often than not if the thread hasn't seen any activity in the past month, it's not going to be terribly well received if you suddenly respond to it out of the blue. This one was actually 4 months dead. No big deal really, but I just thought I'd touch on that for a minute.

Let myself or any of the other mods (Names in Red or Yellow) know if there's anything we can help you with and one of us would be more than happy to oblige.

-Yyg

Ya i was a bit rude >.< Sorry bout that! I knew that it hadn't been posted on in quite some time but I was a little miffed by the OP lol Ya me and two friends are playing on Bahamut right now. Was hoping the site was still active. Wanted a good LS to join! I am really anticipating FFXIV ARR right now. Locked in my legacy status last year. Thanks for letting me know about stuff though.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Is FFxi not the game I thought it was going to be? Should I find something else?

First off, Welcome (back?) to Dreams in Vanadiel! I see you've posted a couple of times already. It's nice to see that you're interested in playing again after so long! If you have any questions or would just like to discuss something that's on your mind about the game, we have a vast wealth of knowledge among our members... although few of us play at all anymore. Don't be discouraged if nobody answers you right away. Often times, most of our population can be found in the Off Topics section of the forum discussing non game related things.

Secondly... WOAAAAAHHHHH NECRO POST!!!! Please take care to note the time stamp of the most recent comment on a thread before posting. More often than not if the thread hasn't seen any activity in the past month, it's not going to be terribly well received if you suddenly respond to it out of the blue. This one was actually 4 months dead. No big deal really, but I just thought I'd touch on that for a minute.

Let myself or any of the other mods (Names in Red or Yellow) know if there's anything we can help you with and one of us would be more than happy to oblige.

-Yyg

[lordcool86]

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I tried to play this game back in 2006.. And unless you had a lot of time.. or 5 other friends that could play it with you, IMO it probably wasn't worth playing. I remember looking through the manual and seeing all these zone that I wanted to visit and explore.. Now I feel like I can actually do that.. I do not have to rely on 5 other people to get me to my goals. Yes it can be lonely.. but it's also liberating. I do not really understand why the OP feels like he has the right to even complain about it having never even experienced it when it was "difficult".

[Aaliana]

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I dont think it helps situations like the OP is in when we're in a sort of 'limbo' - It seems to me a lot of players are biding their time at the moment until the new expansion comes out by farming, soloing, fishing etc. So will care even less about helping new players or going over old content.

[ShepardG]

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I know right! lmao, getting back into ffxi is like returning to heroin use lol. MAN IT FEELS SO GOOD, but i know it's probably gonna be the death of me lmao.

Nah. I'm gonna finish up that relic since it's retarded easy to farm currency now. Do a empy gun and H2H (maybe a katana too) and get myself ready for aduolin or whatever it's called/spelled.

Still plan on playing XIV 2.0 hard also, so that's gonna be rough couple of months, 'sposed to head to the middle east also this year.
We'll see what turns up lol

[Yygdrasil]

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Shep is back? Where was I when this news hit?

[ShepardG]

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HA, dude man bumped this thread...

litterly 4 months later, I said i'd never go back to XI in a million years, and low and behold, i'm playing again ROFL. Hypocricy now.
I feel i'll probably leave it behind when XIV 2.0 hits. I got into the Alpha in Dec. and the alpha was utterly amazing. was so excited for yoshi and for the FF comunity in general. It's been a few years since something generated such a good feel.

Oh and OP mentioned GW2 instead of XI. I laugh because all the things he wasn't happy about in XI are multiplied by like a bajillion in GW2, i wonder if he ever tried it out, i got my ranger up to 80 and was like.... is this it? wtf...uninstall.

[Hayde]

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Final Fantasy 13 lol

^

Wtf?

[PrayTheRosary]

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Final Fantasy 13 lol

[gypsyjanet]

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I agree with you. I am a like minded player. I have never leeched in abyssea nor anywhere else and I never will. I quit over a year ago with many 90s because I couldn't form "old school" parties anymore. I built my own LS and made it clear that the main rule was no leeching, burning or anything else of the sort. Then I got yelled at for kicking people out that broke the rules. Well, pardon me, but rules aren't enforced, there is no point in having any. Anyways, I am downloading the game now. If you would like to hook up and build old school parties, please let me know. I will mostly likely be on the Sylph server as Janett or some variation thereof.

Basically everything you said is what I have come to realize but hoped it wasn't so. I just wish that maybe long time players didn't encourage new players to rush to end game there seems to be enough new players that the old school style of the game could still be achieved. And trust me I have searched for liek minded players but they don't seem to exist the attitude is usually "why would I do that when I can take the short cut?" I guess I'll have to save for GW2 since WoW is awful and non of the new mmos seem like anything but a WoW rip off from what I have experienced.

[Firewind]

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Yeah WHM leveling was really rough back in the day. When I finally got WHM to the cap, I ground out my merits on RDM. RDM was my merit-bitch job, I hardly ever used it anywhere else except maybe some lowman stuff, but typically my BLM was more suited to that.

I can't imagine syncing the same place for that many levels ... 50 levels in Qufim? Fuck that. I hated leveling in Qufim. Granted, after sync came out Qufim became a much better leveling spot but it still wasn't great, IMO. Though you got rather sick of wailing on pink birds, too. I had a love-hate relationship with the grind, honestly. It was long and frustrating but man, you felt accomplished when you finished and got to 75 (when I quit that was the cap and it will always be cap to me. lol).

Game is extremely top-heavy now. Any truly new players won't find an experience they want, unfortunately. It's mostly returning players starting over or current players rolling a double box account. Kind of sad. I have contemplated coming back at least a dozen times, but the same thing stands: it isn't the game I remember. I'm content to sit it out with my nostalgia goggles on.

I hope that you (OP) do find something that tickles your fancy. There are a shitload of MMOs out right now, something ought to hit you just the right way.

It was DNC for me. Sadly against Birds DNC was the best healer job out there.

There was a French Canadian LS and a couple of JP LS's that really liked me on WHM though and actually sent me whispers asking me to heal them when their RDM wasn't around though.

[Moriquendis]

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Current XI is a lot better suited to newcomers and the current populace no matter how you adjust those rose-tinted glasses. Even if every "99 quits" as you hope for, things will not change back to circa 2004~2008 era because--why?

I've honestly tried to think of something better to say in the last 3 days, but I've had nothing positive to tell Moriq or the OP; it sounds like neither of you two made it to 75 in the old days (correct me if I am incorrect). It sounds like both of you quit before the 50 range, or during--do you recall why? Let me refresh your memory then:

True, I did only make it to 50something, but I never chose to quit. I was forced to quit because something happened to my laptop and I didn't have access to the game. But I understand what you're saying. ffxi was always my drug lol. I'm still willing to try and find that feeling again, which I hope is still possible as someone else on here has mentioned. I think I'll just try to adapt to the changes. And you say it's better suited to newcomers? That could be a good thing as I'm starting over. Anyway, heres to hoping lol.

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geez...you are a debbie downer...

I somewhat disagree with this. IMO I think you just need to adapt to the changes. The focus these days isn’t so much leveling to the cap but what you can do once you hit the cap. I mean almost everything has already been discovered. Pretty sure most of us read wiki word for word when doing an event or heading to a new area. And if your interested in exploring new areas, there's a new good sized expansiton on the horizon.


As a person who's been playing almost 10 years (geez that’s a long time) I still to this day get excited about things in the game. FFXI is still a drug I cant put down.

Perhaps im that way and your not because we had different LSs. You probably were in one that did everything 100s of times. Where due to my ingame jobs or wacky schedules, I barely got to participate in some things.


Wanna know what I'm itching to try?
Getting pops and fighting Arch Dynamis Lord with my shell!
Getting though Einherjar and showing Odin whose boss!
Doing old KSNMs to get my Mnk a Blackbelt.
Getting a Mythic weapon in 10 years.

I can actually go on an on about all the stuff I STILL have to look forward too...but i wont

I'm hoping I'll feel the same way you do when I go back to the game

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For the past 2 years I've been dreaming about the day I can come back to ffxi. I still think often of all the people I knew there and all the fun we had, and all the fun I had even soloing. ffxi just felt like my own world. I get happy just thinking about it lol regardless if the world has changed.

[Romyro]

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geez...you are a debbie downer...

I somewhat disagree with this. IMO I think you just need to adapt to the changes. The focus these days isn’t so much leveling to the cap but what you can do once you hit the cap. I mean almost everything has already been discovered. Pretty sure most of us read wiki word for word when doing an event or heading to a new area. And if your interested in exploring new areas, there's a new good sized expansiton on the horizon.

You don't get those feelings back unfortunately. It's just a video game, like the first time you try a new drug. It completely blows your mind, and you either spend all your time chasing that feeling or you just figure out that that feeling was it, and you don't get to feel it again.

As a person who's been playing almost 10 years (geez that’s a long time) I still to this day get excited about things in the game. FFXI is still a drug I cant put down.

Perhaps im that way and your not because we had different LSs. You probably were in one that did everything 100s of times. Where due to my ingame jobs or wacky schedules, I barely got to participate in some things.


Wanna know what I'm itching to try?
Getting pops and fighting Arch Dynamis Lord with my shell!
Getting though Einherjar and showing Odin whose boss!
Doing old KSNMs to get my Mnk a Blackbelt.
Getting a Mythic weapon in 10 years.

I can actually go on an on about all the stuff I STILL have to look forward too...but i wont

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah WHM leveling was really rough back in the day. When I finally got WHM to the cap, I ground out my merits on RDM. RDM was my merit-bitch job, I hardly ever used it anywhere else except maybe some lowman stuff, but typically my BLM was more suited to that.

I can't imagine syncing the same place for that many levels ... 50 levels in Qufim? Fuck that. I hated leveling in Qufim. Granted, after sync came out Qufim became a much better leveling spot but it still wasn't great, IMO. Though you got rather sick of wailing on pink birds, too. I had a love-hate relationship with the grind, honestly. It was long and frustrating but man, you felt accomplished when you finished and got to 75 (when I quit that was the cap and it will always be cap to me. lol).

Game is extremely top-heavy now. Any truly new players won't find an experience they want, unfortunately. It's mostly returning players starting over or current players rolling a double box account. Kind of sad. I have contemplated coming back at least a dozen times, but the same thing stands: it isn't the game I remember. I'm content to sit it out with my nostalgia goggles on.

I hope that you (OP) do find something that tickles your fancy. There are a shitload of MMOs out right now, something ought to hit you just the right way.