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No, no it wasn't, you have no idea what you're talking about.


You may have enjoyed the game more then, and to that I say you must be a masochist but it certainly was not better by any stretch of the realm of reality.

What is this sourced from? I love it.

I can't quite understand the logic behind this....fast paced combat that requires player make decisions on the fly is what makes a video game fun. And it's not limited to FF11.

When claim bots don't work in Dynamis.

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I absolutely *** *love* that you're here telling us the current FFXI is dead, while boasting about...

A CLASSIC FFXI SERVER THAT WILL NEVER GET NEW CONTENT EVER, IT IS ON ITS LAST EXPANSION AND NO MAJOR CONTENT UPDATES WILL EVER COME TO IT.

You're here talking about a dude who copy/pasted this game and his mission statement involves ***not changing. That's not just a dead game, it's a dead game that's been gone for 13 years. That's the ***you're trying to claim superiority with, what a joke.

Modern FFXI isn't anything like FFXIV.

The *** are you people on.

I actively play both. They're entirely different games.

Don't try to argue with the delusional, it just hurts you.

No, it didn't. The entire world is still there, go explore it. There's even more zones to explore! Go find your friends, explore together. Everything like that still exists! Don't like the improved EXP gain? Don't do Rhapsodies, problem solved!

The core battle system of FFXI is the same as ever. The only thing that has changed is gear access. It's faster now because the gear today is actually useful. So much of the gear in 75 days was crap, extremely minor upgrades that you'd spend weeks farming for to get an impossible to be seen impact on your job.

As for whoever said that you can still get one shot in DT gear in current FFXI, that's because you're not utilizing mechanics. You also need defense. Since defense actually matters in current FFXI (it was broken in 75 days!). Gallants roll and indi-barrier and a DD in DT gear can survive wave 3 Dyna-D trash just fine.

Add to that, you can actually evasion tank Dyna-D wave 3 trash if you properly gear/buff for it, it's super neat conceptually, but far more difficult to actually utilize properly, but that's one thing I love about the game.

I also find it curious you claim people like different things, but then claim absolutely this game went to ***. This game was on 1-year contracts for years, and was just renewed for 3 years because of how strong it's been doing. Clearly the player base disagrees with your assessment.

You claim this game went down hill with level sync, except this game lost a ton of its population well before that. Level sync was added as a way to compensate for the population moving on to other games, it didn't start that happening. You're acting like the SE reaction was the original fault, which is incredibly dumb.

I look at it the same way many veterans look at basic training. It was one of the best, most memorable experiences of their lives but they'd never do it again.

Old FFXI had the best community of any game I've ever played and I've been an online gamer since the early 90s. The fact that you were forced to do... almost anything made the community solid. You were known.

However, I do agree that forcing you to group up to do almost anything sucked. There is no possible way I could play old FFXI now that I'm a husband and father of 3. And the fact that most games today offer top-end gear which can be acquired solo, the game wouldn't survive.

FFXIV was a step in the right direction but the game was just not for me. It has the worst community of any game I've ever played and from other forums I've posted in, that seems to be the majority consensus. It also never gave any of the feelings of accomplishment that FFXI gives even today. Many times I got BIS in FFXI and thought "eh cool" but I could get 1 BIS piece in FFXI and feel more accomplished. I do not know why that is.

Most of the mistakes SE made with the game that kept it from being more popular are the exact things you claim made the game great.

The guy above who said 75 FFXI is how veterans view basic training is accurate. It was a hell of an experience when it was first happening, but I would never, ever do it again. So many people in 2006+ XI had the mindset of "I'm never playing another MMO again" because of those very same reasons. They were hooked to XI, but never wanted to experience that again. That's by far the majority consensus from the community. As evidenced by the fact that free private servers still have only a tiny subsection of the population of XI players (Eden + Nasomi atm is less than half of Asura alone atm). The experience of original XI was memorable, the actual "game" was not. There was never going to be much longevity in that aspect of the game, that's why it all fell apart once people finished up leveling the jobs they cared about.