Old FFXI Vs New FFXI

My respect for you rises KFH

I'm not perfect, and I don't pretend to be.

You're not perfect, and you do.

If I'm such a ***, why even say point it out? Can't ignore me huh?


LMAO.. Feel the love!!!

That's not walking away, cupcake.

No better place to learn the true lessons life can teach you than here at the FFXI forums!

"Good job SE. I like it when my mediocrity doesn't hold me back."

Go away

Thank you for unknowingly proving my point so well. Now go run along junior and full-time your AF3+2 gear with your lolMandau while the adults talk.

How would you know the mandau was lol? unless you are pretty knowledgeable within the game?

Doesn't sound like someone who doesn't care about XI would do.

Congratulations on your video game e-peens. Maybe you can put HNMLS on your job resume.

I'll have fun being gimp, playing a video game with friends and family.

Merlin is OG as I've been told.

You too.

I beleive gred is more implying that yes while this is a videogame, you should not be rewarded for being average. You may look at gred and say, he has a relic, he doesnt like easy mode...... basement dwelling loser!!! I assure you, thats not the case. This game is not as rewarding as it once was, as with anything in any situation in life, the more you have to put into it to succede the more acomplished you feel.
I love the two schools on this one....
Old school) ffxi is on easy this sucks
New school) hahahhahaha *** you e peen people! Hows it feel now that you playe this game and SE made an update that ruined everyhting you have fagot loser hahahahaa
Basically, old school ppl miss old school ffxi because it was fun, and challenging. New school ppl are so butthurt they were useless untill abyseea they still beleive the old schoolers sit in our basements jerking off to our relics.
Most of the e-peen ppl as you call them, dont care what you think about us, and we dont care or know you even play.

So because I think ffxi is fun as of now I am wrong?
I=confused on this.
It's more like
Old school:
nostalgia goggles as to how good ffxi was for them.

things change guys.
so either QQ about it or take it in stride and go with it and if being the best is your goal try for it still...but it's kinda pathetic getting all mad about it just because your shinies aren't worth the same as new content shinies.

No no. I think ffxi is fun too. Heres the thing. Not all relic holding, hnm gear, full salage set people hate new ffxi. I like it, i take it for what it is. Imo if this were ffxi when i started i would have lost interest very early on. So no you arent wrong for liking ffxi, you are wrong for assuming that people with old gear, or who like the old game more hate the new game for some made up e peen reason.
Edit* i use you as a general term not anybody in particular.

If it really bother some people the current state of FFXI, why keep playing? why not try something more "suitable" to your taste?

So much *** and moaning yet in the end quite a few are still here.

addiction + false hope that the game will return to hnm days.

I'm pretty sure Merlin was referring to the elites that always cry about the new ffxi.
You'll always have those who think it's all about being the best and that way back when it was so much better because they had to work for years straight to be the best.
Times are changing though.
We don't have far as many people as we used to and some of the recent changes were made in a reply to that to revitalized the content(and these new updates with the recent mini-update were pretty well needed and should've been done a while back though IMO)


so you see that those of whom we are speaking of have nostalgia goggles on too?
yupyup.

Im not an elitist and I hate the new FFXI.

You hate a lot of things.

and for damn good reason.

Maybe your mom should cancel your account... use the money saved to go to a Justin Bieber concert or something.

pff kungfu doesn't even play, he just hangs out here.
/grin
Justin Bieber is going to be a legend though.
Mark my words.
I think he should change his last name to something else because Bieber isn't the most flattering last name for an adult IMO.

@vinvv. Yes i know there are alot of people like you describe.
I just feel like, if you play ffxi, play it for your own enjoyment your own way. If you cant do that then leave. Personally, my enjoyment comes from making other people upset :) so i have plenty of playing ahea of me!

Sounds like he/she has missed one too many Ritalin doses.

yeah, I stopped playing awhile back because it just got mundane, before Abyssea.

and I would go to a Justin Beaver concert to assassinate him.

Yes because asserting anything opposite of your opinion clearly means I'm "proving your point." But I have an equally compelling master argumentative technique that I believe you will be unable to counter:

umad cuz ubad

Here's the funny part though. You're just as pixel greedy as the "elitists" you decry -- the only difference is that you just didn't have the chops to get those pixels til Abyssea.

People have always been able to play on their own time an accomplish something. Before Abyssea there were SCNMs, Salvage, Assaults, Nyzul Isle, ZNM, etc. that you could have done on your own time. The only difference between Abyssea and older non-World Spawn content is that the gear from Abyssea gear is top tier. The reason you like Abyssea is not because there is content you can do "on your own terms" it's that this content you can do on your own terms gives top tier rewards and not adjusted rewards. You're in it for the rewards just as much as anyone else, so of course you prefer a system where you can get rewards too. In other words you like it when top tier gear is low hanging fruit and isn't beyond your mediocrity.

My opinion is simply that not everyone deserves top level rewards just because they play the game. Go play Street Fighter or Starcraft at your own pace and your own way; the game is there for you to enjoy. But if you don't excel then you aren't entitled to the highest leagues/tournaments. There's nothing elitist about recognizing some people will never reach the top in a given game. FFXI is like any other game.


Because what is the alternative? XI was an aberration with PVE being competitive. XI was it. The changes brought XI in line with other games. There is nothing else.

And secondly the game changed because scrubs bitched and moaned enough, there is reason to believe the game can change back if others *** and whine enough.

Like Vestal said, it's probably false hope because of the reasons explained in this comic.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=267


I liked the competition inherent in the goal to be the best. I finished getting everything that I needed from Fafnir over a year before Abyssea came out. I still went to Aery every single day to make sure MY shell was the one that won the claim, not anyone else. That sort of thing no longer exists.

And winning the claim took SO much *ahem* 'skill'. Anyone who argues for a system where there is 30 seconds of "action" every half hour and has the claim as the most difficult part of the fight is arguing for a dinosaur of a game, one that most people are happy to never see resurrected.

HNM was one of the worse designs in this game. I really have no idea how people enjoyed camping them, lol.

ITT: HNM were hard.