Things I'm waiting for:

[Aksannyi]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Yeah Ex has a lot of haters. A lot of linkshells hated us just because we tended to take the best members from linkshells (some of whom are encouraged to apply, some of whom apply on their own) and that we don't "farm" them ourselves. Which is a pretty stupid reason to hate us. Some hated us because they couldn't get in. And some hated us because they hated Stan (usually) or any of our other members.

I pissed some people off when I left other linkshells to join Ex, too. I had quit my previous linkshell about two months before I actually got into Ex, but they still took it personally because I got loot and left. Which is what happens in every single fucking linkshell ever ... but whatever. And it isn't like I left two seconds after I got something. But some people think that you should stay in a shell forever if you get something from them. It wasn't working out so I left a few weeks later. I feel a bit bad ... but not bad enough to put up with the abuse I'd put up with in that shell just to make a few people feel better about me getting gear.

The thing is, most of those people probably could have gotten in if they'd tried, but they hated the shell so much for taking some of "their" people that they'd never even try.

Endgame FFXI. Serious Business.

[Neverslip]

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LOL... I ever tell you I was in several endgame LSs and each had an individual or two screw the whole LS over so they could attempt to get into yours?? I always seemed to come in right at the end of the drama in each LS so I never knew much of what had transpired but it always boiled down to: person gets Relic Weapon and leaves LS soon after getting it so they could get into a better LS... One was a LS leader. I don't think any of them got into Excellence but they were never welcomed back really to the ones they left.

I'd never want to be in Excellence. It'd feel even more job-like than this game already tends to be. I never harbored ill-will towards them like some of the other folks I've played with.

[Luna Flower]

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I'm waiting for the PS3 release. At that point, I'll have a bit of money and there will be more changes made to the game. That will be a good time for me to reconsider playing it.

Yeah thats a good idea my best friend IRL has to do the same (he needs a new HDD). At least by then you can only hope they will have everything fixed since they are so set on having a "perfect" release for ps3.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

I'm waiting for the PS3 release. At that point, I'll have a bit of money and there will be more changes made to the game. That will be a good time for me to reconsider playing it.

[Luna Flower]

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I played the alpha and beta, I didnt like it either. I stuck around for awhile after release and things in FFXIV seem to be getting back on a more enjoyable level. I have faith in SE to fix the things wrong with it! There are not very many things I want to see changed in the game now that a lot has been fixed.

If you ever want to give it a free try I have a gold pass you can use (the game is also free atm). I know the specs for alpha and beta, well cut that by half to play the game now.

[Aksannyi]

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XIV is just ... clunky. I haven't played it, but I haven't heard really anything good about it. And I can't afford a brand new PC to run it, and for any game, it has to be really spectacular for me to even attempt to spend hundreds of dollars just on a machine that will play it. (Yes, I know I could use another PC for plenty of other things, but I can't justify the expense when this one works just fine.)

For all the joking I used to do about WoW, the UI is solid, I can accomplish several things over the course of an hour, and I don't feel frustrated at my inability to actually finish anything. FFXI got better with that, but not enough to draw me back in. FFXIV seems to have the same problems, but lacks even basic things that a new MMO should have. I think SE tried too hard to make it different but forgot that it should also be at least somewhat intuitive. I've heard of people having problems figuring out how to do basic things, like check an item in their inventory. (Not sure if that's true, just an example I'm giving) That shouldn't be complicated. Searching shouldn't be complicated. Buying gear shouldn't be complicated. It shouldn't be so buggy. With FFXI they had an excuse, and MMOs were fairly new at that point, too. Now? MMOs are a huge market and while I highly doubt anything is going to dethrone WoW, they have to have the same kind of user-friendliness and accomplish-ability or no one is going to play them. I've played a few F2P MMOs that are basically just clones of WoW, they're completely unoriginal but they're easy to get into.

And what pisses me off most about FFXIV is that SE has proven yet again that they can't listen to their players. People gave them feedback throughout the alpha and the beta, and very little changed. Now that people have shown with their lack of desire to pay to play this game, they have started to listen and overhaul the game, but it's too late. I spent 5 years playing FFXI and watching the devs repeatedly ignore feedback from the players and I just got sick of it. As soon as I saw that XIV was going down the same road, I was almost entirely convinced I would never touch it. There is still a part of me that wants to play it, but I'm warily watching from the sidelines until I can find any solid reasons for me to spend the money to buy it.

Unless SE can get their shit together and turn FFXIV into something I'll actually want to play, I'll happily keep logging my ass in to WoW. :D



And Neverslip, you can say it. My LS is elitist. Then again, we were (are?) still one of the best known linkshells across all servers and one of the hardest to get into. I worked my ass off just to get in. I'm very proud of that feat, but it got to be very stressful when I was only given the opportunity to play my WHM 99% of the time. All of my jobs were exceptionally well geared, so it wasn't just that my other jobs were gimp. No, we just needed the WHMs, and I hazzed one.

Ygg, I'm not mad. I'm irritated, but that's because tonight is yet another fucking NCIS rerun and I was hoping for a new ep. And goddammit, apparently not next week either. SDFAGOPDUIGEGDKJGEDUIJK

[Luna Flower]

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Speaking from the vantage point of someone who appreciates all that "Ask" contributes to this forum (both knowledge and humor)... I find everything in the above-quoted post to be arrogant, misdirected slander. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I don't appreciate the way you're making generalized assumptions of her. How dare you.

Asshat...

Think of it this way
When you only have half a glass of water to drink and you are dying of thirst. You drink it anyway regardless of the fact that if you took the time (like 10-15 minutes of time) to look around you would see a whole stream of clean fresh water to drink.

[Yygdrasil]

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Oh trust me its a personal thing. You go on about how you dont like BRD, yet you leveled it. You say it was bec you were told to do so which leads me to believe you dont think for yourself. Judging by your picture you have kids which means you must be at least 25-30 years (judging by the age of your kids) so considering you are an adult one would think you would have grown out of the teenage stage of "follow the leader". Then you state you quit FFXI and wouldn't touch FFXIV yet you post on a forum dedicated to both games with an "im so superior" attitude.

Speaking from the vantage point of someone who appreciates all that "Ask" contributes to this forum (both knowledge and humor)... I find everything in the above-quoted post to be arrogant, misdirected slander. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I don't appreciate the way you're making generalized assumptions of her. How dare you.

Asshat...

[Luna Flower]

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I played SCH for a while but I couldn't stand not having Haste. I felt really bored without any sort of rotation. I soloed DNC to like 22 or something, but by that point, I was starting to get sick of logging in.

I dont mean to get too off topic but, cant you get haste now that the lvl cap is 80? I quit before that tho so idk nor do I remember if whm gets haste at 40 or 41 lol.
You should really try FFXIV tho, a lot has been fixed since release and it looks promising.

[Neverslip]

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Her LS would have died laughing if any of them, let alone her (WHM), wanted to come to an event as DNC.

That LS is ... special. Yeah... special.

[Aksannyi]

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I played SCH for a while but I couldn't stand not having Haste. I felt really bored without any sort of rotation. I soloed DNC to like 22 or something, but by that point, I was starting to get sick of logging in.

[Luna Flower]

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Or you're reading far too much into it. Ultimately the desperate need for WHMs (which was my favorite job, for a long time, I just got really burned out) and the push toward leveling a job I really didn't want to level is what led me to quit the game. I think they were joking, mostly, but I'll never know for sure.

Most of my BRD levels came from SMN burning anyway. But when I did actually level it, I didn't enjoy it.

I didn't mean to get snippy, but I really dislike when people make assumptions about me.

Oh well I can see why that is. Playing a class over and over for a long time can get boring. Sorry for my assumptions. Did you give SCH or DNC a try? I thought they were both very fun.

EDIT: nvm just saw you lvled SCH.
How come you dont like FFXIV?

[Aksannyi]

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Or you're reading far too much into it. Ultimately the desperate need for WHMs (which was my favorite job, for a long time, I just got really burned out) and the push toward leveling a job I really didn't want to level is what led me to quit the game. I think they were joking, mostly, but I'll never know for sure.

Most of my BRD levels came from SMN burning anyway. But when I did actually level it, I didn't enjoy it.

I didn't mean to get snippy, but I really dislike when people make assumptions about me.

[Luna Flower]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Lurk more.

Protip: I'm not the only former player who still posts here.

Oh trust me its a personal thing. You go on about how you dont like BRD, yet you leveled it. You say it was bec you were told to do so which leads me to believe you dont think for yourself. Judging by your picture you have kids which means you must be at least 25-30 years (judging by the age of your kids) so considering you are an adult one would think you would have grown out of the teenage stage of "follow the leader". Then you state you quit FFXI and wouldn't touch FFXIV yet you post on a forum dedicated to both games with an "im so superior" attitude.

Thats the only reason I jumped on your case. I have been apart of these forums for years I just forgot my old username / email to get my old account back.

On to the topic....
I cant wait to get the bunny hats!! lolz

[Aksannyi]

Re: Things I'm waiting for:

Lurk more.

Protip: I'm not the only former player who still posts here.