Why does FFXI have so many pointless items?

[eticket109]

Re: Why does FFXI have so many pointless items?

The sheep is Carnero, the weapon is the unpronouncable name

[DakAttack]

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Katayama Ichimonji

Not that hard, people.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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SE has stated in the past that they occasionally add in things, so they have room to expand, even if they don't know exactly what they will use it for. This can be seen in the Webs in Promyvions, the Large Apparatus on the right of the Hall of Transference, and the infamous Green Teleporters in sky. This can also be seen in places such as Gusgen mines, before COP release, where there was a group of rocks blocking off an obvious zone line, or even areas still existing as apperent future zonelines, in I believe Batallia and La Theine.

I think you kinda answered it yourself. While somethings might exist purely for aesthetic purposes, some things are thrown in that, at the time, might not make any sense.

Just look at all the new level 75 weapons added in the last update. They don't look like anythings special and we also don't know where to obtain them at this time. People suspect there may be some hidden latent.

And I know a legion of CORs that think Peacemaker is one of the most worthless guns in the game, but that's purely shortsighted opinion because they think COR is a DD class. The gun was added early because SE planned to reveal AGI was a modifier for Quick Draw and to give us a some leverage in regards to pulling. The other guns have 480 or 600 Delay, this one is 280, much faster than the rest.

Yet these CORs still write it off as worthless and are baffled as to why the gun exists because it doesn't yeild high damage. Its the honestly only gun I ever use in merit unless we have a really superb BRD and I can fall back on a higher damage gun.

[Feba]

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Not that hard, people

I was mocking the name more than I was having a hard time remembering it. I could remember ichimonji and kata, but couldn't remember the second bit.

and bbq, that's exactly my point. items that are TOTALLY USELESS, *NOT* worthless in the sense that they can't be used in practical play or EXP.

[LyonheartLakshmi]

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I was mocking the name more than I was having a hard time remembering it. I could remember ichimonji and kata, but couldn't remember the second bit.

I liked your name better. It made me fire up my Katamari Damacy sound track.

[Shadowneko]

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let's go into some history here with usless stuff in video games:

In Manaic Mansion (for you adventure game fans who are old enough) there's a chainsaw, but it's out of gas so you can't use it.

In FF7 there were joke weapons...like Cid could equip a mop! It was totally usless but it was funny ^^

If I really thought hard I'm sure I could come up with more usless junk but my point is that it's jsut there for fun or to make fun of and not eveything in the game has to have a real use ^^

[Taskmage]

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I wonder about cactaur needle and doll gizmo myself. As long as those items have been around you'd think they'd be involved in some recipe or quest or something.

[Ghostraven]

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Maniac Mansion

WOW I loved that game! almost totally forgot about it! We need more games like that nowadays...