WoW Classic Higher Pop Than Live.

And even dumber people give him free money. :(

Unfortunately. Where we see a kid with anger issues and laugh because it's ridiculous but not necessarily negative on him, some people see a very cool guy they wish they were.

In their defense, I did find Steve-o and the other Jackass people hilarious back in the days. I didn't give money to this kind of stuff but, I guess these streamers are just the nowadays equivalent.

Meh, I mean like, if you like what someone does its "ok" to pay them for providing content.

It IS a job. If you watch "this streamer" because you enjoy what they do, but they don't get any money, you may never see or hear from them again.

Not any different than buying tickets for events, just cutting out the venue/venders/ticketmaster/agent/advertisers to pay them direct.

Yeah, I don't think that's the issue. It's more about "anyone can just turn on OBS, link it to Twitch and simply showcase how stupid they are and make money". Roughly.

Some streamers actually script their stuff and all, there is actual work, but those that are "quirky" and other stupid terms, literally gtfo.

This is just me, but I see Jackass differently. I cracked up at a lot of things they did/said but they were meant to be comedy and stunts. Too many streamers and (for a lack of a more politically correct term) "big name" streamers advertise themselves as being really good at their games when they're not. They throw real fits and discuss cringeworthy things.


Yeah, that's basically it. I remember the first time I saw one when I first heard about them. My kid who was 12 or 13 at the time said "watch this guy, he's really popular" and it was just some pleb playing a game. I was like "Is he about to do something?" He said "no, just watch". I kept watching and I said "is something about to happen? I don't get it". No, that was it, it was just a pleb playing a game.

My fave thing on Jackass was when they threw a sleeping Steve-O out of a moving boat and he literally woke up flying through the air xD

Steve-O really did some of the most "wtf..." stunts. The one I still cannot believe he did was the Poo Cocktail Supreme. I... just cannot imagine how horrible that was.

And he deserves it. He marketed from the start as pranks and other shenanigans. He didn't market himself as being awesome at something when he wasn't.

Oh well, Steve-O for President.

nah its just unplayable without Gearswaps, that's the only negative, never mind no world exploration and danger too, but that does not make the game bad its the community that does. i have recently got back to the game and i only have around 4 hours too after mastering RDM and getting neck +2 and creating 4 pages of macros for RDM its not fun without gear -swaps and i will never use Gearswaps. Its too fast for manual macros now

The only problem FFXI has is its low population, really. The game is WAY past its prime. It's enjoyable in ways it wasn't before but yes, at the end of the day, it's a MMO and the lack of people is severely hurting the experience in many ways.

That being said, it's still enjoyable in certain ways, so it's wrong to say that the game didn't adapt.
The game has and will always be niche because of the way it is played but if some of the stuff that was added in the past decade was present back in 2006, the game would have been crazy.

But I still find it dumb to judge a game with a very active community due to the current hype and a dead game, population wise. They obviously cannot bring the same kind of experience. I'm pretty sure most of the people on FFXI nowadays lament the lack of people. I miss leveling parties a lot, really a lot, but it just can't happen anymore if there isn't anyone playing anymore. That's how it is, deal with it.

What server are you on? Asura is where almost everyone who likes having more people/activity around transferred to, and there's basically always 2000-3000 people on, which isn't TOO far away from peak FFXI (~4500).

Real mmos... lmaooooo

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Sorry ffxi is hard for a thot like you... but keep your trash opinion to yourself

ffxi is hard. I die in Abyssea.
Bubbly Bernie kills me a lot.

You could park 140,000 people on Asura, this will never bring back the exp parties and other social elements that are gone from the game.
The shouts are more active, that's literally it.

Game is literally deep into its retirement.

But is it really something negative? To me, FFXI is chill. You hop on, you do what you want, it's chill as ***. No pressure, no teens to make things a headache, no frustration personally.
I want to spam Ambuscade? I can, I'm not on Asura. I want to spam ANY HTB? I can, I'm not on Asura. I want to farm an Empyrean with ZERO competition? I can, I'm not on Asura.
So why would I ***on it? If I don't feel like playing it (which I am not these days), I just play something else. If I want to play it? I just launch it. No pressure.

Why are you so obsessed with only playing one game? Why are you so obsessed with leaving stuff behind and that's it?

Why do you bring unneeded frustration upon yourself? Just enjoy life, do whatever you want that makes you feel good.
I find WoW to be garbage (tried it at different times), that's ok, I'll just go play something else. There are so many games nowadays, so many ways to spend time and have fun, alone or not, why always try to knock the other ***down. Just enjoy.

Grow up and get a real job and then you wouldn't consider $12.95 for entertainment expensive.


Not really as there's only 1 event you even need more than a party for. I'd say it's biggest problem is lack of modern content (sure has plenty of old, soloable content that is somehow still relevant for people to hash through but most consider it a chore and not fun).

Then your problem with it isn't its low population, as you claimed, but with what said population does.

It's almost cute that people think $12.95 is a lot of money.

I didn't mean it that way, it was meant as low population = low income.

That and, you know how things work, the average MMO player will think a game is dead if he doesn't see people everywhere. When you go through cities or worse, in the wild, it's pretty empty. Because of this, some people will unsub, thus lowering the population even more.

Part of why we don't get new, meaningful content "regularly", or at least somewhat, is due to the population. Whales will never amount to anything substantial, even more so on a MMO without a proper cash shop.

I have to agree with the opposite here. We're all at the very least at the beginning of our 30s, if you use the fact that you have to pay X$ as an argument, I think you have bigger problems in life than FFXI's state.

I don't even know how much I pay for FFXI and I'm not earning that much.

You didn't read the previous post properly.

Exp parties don't exist anymore, the game isn't designed the way it used to be, it's only normal things are different now.
This is what my post meant.

The social elements of FFXI are mostly gone, partially because of the game's design but also in part because most people left aren't the "good social kind". Gain is only making things worse, to give you an example.

Wrong. You'd have to get yourself a time machine. There is no going back to more people, stop dreaming.

I read it properly; literally every sentence was specifically about the raw number of people, and there is no room for misinterpretation.