April 29, 2013 Version Update

Anyone know how the JPs are handling this on the official forums? Are they as mad as everyone else?

The weapons aren't 'outstanding'. They remove relevance from everything that came before - literally everything until r/e/m update.

@Enuyasha; Abyssea came with a level upgrade, and even then it didn't make everything from 75 pointless. This update remains within the sphere of level 99, but shits on everything from before - INCLUDING existing 99 weapons.

One day they'll make some excuse that if they improved the update process the game files would be subject to corruption or something just as preposterous.

MMO players are the most self entitled types of gamer

No, just no.

Essentially what I said earlier, thus I agree entirely.

people still play ever quest i doubt this game will end soon

This is satire? Yes?

While I like to repeat the same, I don't really believe it, too much of a difference between FFXI and FFXIV, besides, FFXI probably funded FFXIII, it's sequels, and FFXIV.

What I want to know, is what the hell are Seiri and Mesheef smoking? That ***'s going to get you killed. I'd advise stopping. What you're suggesting makes sense from NO angle at all.

Bath salts maybe? Do you even smoke those?

This is exactly what I thought when I cancelled the account. Basically, the only way SE will understand is if they lose subs on the day of something that the playerbase disagrees with. Can't really show it any better than that as they don't read english forums and only rely on their overseas teams to relay the information, which they normally do in a too polite way that doesn't reflect the severity of the complaints(unless the JP have the same complaints).

In addition to that, I don't see a point in the doing most of the events that I've been doing with the remaining friends I had, considering some of this gear even shits on Salvage II. I had a nice group of 3-4 friends I liked to play with. Specifically Salvage and neo limbus. Now, there's no point, considering the event's are grindy and time consuming, for a reward that looks like is going to be obsolete if SE keeps going forward with this gear ascension.

So yeah. €14 is a lot of money for me and I rather not give them to SE for something I'm not happy with. Same reason I didn't buy FFXIII-2, or Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, or any of the games they released in the past 5 years with the exception of Seekers of Adoulin.

My main interest in FFXI lies with the lore and story. Considering expansions take at least 2 years to pan out, and relics weren't boosted until the "abyssea saga" was over, I'm just going to take a break for a while and see how things pan out, and maaaybe return when there's enough exciting missions to do in one go and not 8 short cutscenes.

Thank you! Your witty and ensightful words have opened my eyes 0.0

I don't think you deserve to have George Carlin in your avatar.

If they were trying to kill off FFXI they just wouldn't add anything more would they?

It's stupid spending time and money to create an expansion/update to thin out the player base. Economically it's not viable. They would be better off not creating any further updates and focusing on FFXIV if they wanted us off XI.

It's a patch day. Thousands upon thousands of people just like you are trying to log in at the exact same time you are. Stop being a baby.

Hope that was insightful enough for you.

But still people are complaining there are better weapons and gear than what they have now (this time, its because they are VASTLY better[with a buff update coming to your favorite bandwagon weapons]). Parallel: yes there is one.

Level cap up or not, the same people archetypes will rage quit over nothing and mass exodus at some point for the same reasons,even if its differing circumstances.

They're not trying to kill it. They're just simply that inept.

Until someone obtains one of these new gaudy weapons I have to say that people are just jumping the gun about being angry. In all likelihood, yes, these weapons are just as they look. But since no one has one, there's still the possibility they are not.

Odd though that I should cancel my subscription this morning before the maintenance even happened. If I was a religious man I might take this as some kind of sign lol

Manufacturing the end to a game and killing off a game are 2 entirely different things.

I think what the others are trying to say is this is "death by design"

The only reason they would want to kill off FFXI is if their equipment, maintenance, staffing, and upkeep costs are exceeding their profit margins -- or they believe they could make more profit by focusing their resources from FFXI to another place.

With as many people playing as still do today, how many SoA copies sold instantly, how many people have multiple characters at +$1/month and mules meaning their paying a full $12+ a month extra. I don't see it likely.

I love it how ppl rated me down 1 month ago for predicting this.


§/&$&T your couch guys, i was right.

Yeah, i'm well aware of that, I was trying to rebuke an earlier post stating SE are trying to push away the player base... on purpose!

I've said it before. If they wanted to end it, they simply would. "We're done. Thanks for playing. Please buy our new MMO. We apologize for any inconvenience."


Yeah I got what you were saying. I was responding to the same folks as you. My bad for being unclear.

yeah, that's basically what I was saying..

"Wait a minute, too many words mean nearly the same thing, but still are different.
Nobody can learn all of those words. I'm going to bed!"

It is not just the weapons.the armor is awesome too and remember that each of them can be given THREE separate augments. It is very likely no gear we have is still best in slot.

I thought we rated you down because your tattoo was ugly.

Also, for those that have never used one of my patches before:
http://tehkrizz.net/FFXI/patchguide.php

Wait, you can rate people down on the forums here? No one told me about this!

Also: FUKKIN SHATTERSOUL STAFF. Sch/drk, is gonna be fun to mess around on :3.