Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I guess people have played so long and put up with the painfully slow way to level for so many years they kind of figure this is SE throwing them a bone.

I'm mostly against it because I just think what's the point of playing a game if you're not going to do anything? But I made my voice heard by not playing.

[Kailea]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

maybe this is what I need to quit for good? get to the point where I have nothing left to do, get bored and quit? lol thanks SE for helping me kick my habit ;p

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Actually, I disagree that it's a horrible mechanic or that it shouldn't be in the game. I mean, it's not particularly realistic, but I think it adds something to the battle system that you can't get in any other MMO.

[Kailea]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

well its not that I dont think its bad Abyssea is great, but the fact that people can level from 30 to 90 in a few days.... with no effort at all, that bugs me a little.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Yeah, I have issue with that, too. I mean for all the joking FFXI players do about WoW, you can't level from 1 to 85 in a few days, even if you don't sleep at all, even with full heirlooms and guild xp bonuses.

I mean the grind needed adjusting, absolutely, but it didn't need to be downright obliterated.

[Ketaru]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

That's really what has always bothered me about the game though. Yes, it feels like something was lost in EXP parties falling out of favor to leeching in Abyssea.

But in a way, people are dismissive of that because, if you did not really enjoy EXP parties, there was no joy to be had from not being capped. SE tried to make low level content like CoP. But all people really did with that is wait until they were capped, then used all their high level resources to bling themselves out to be leet temporarily low leveled players for the sake of 1 or 2 missions. It isn't as if anybody "liked" going to Sacrarium.

I really blame the top heaviness of FFXI on SE's failure to create engaging low level content.

EDIT: Actually, I found capped Ballista to be VERY engaging. But a lot of people wouldn't agree with me on that one. And now Ballista is dead, even though I think it had the potential to have required more sophistication than many other areas of the game. Yeah, imbalance reared its ugly head in Ballista many times. But it was immensely satisfying when you got one of those good games that is competitive the whole way through and you end up winning 230 to 220 or something like that. Those were the times I loved FFXI the most.

[Raydeus]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

As someone who usually doesn't have the time or energy to party anymore I welcome the recent changes. After all, it is why I came back.

The new level cap on the other hand didn't really make much of a difference to me, but hopefully it will allow me to get missions done that I couldn't back in the day.


And about lower level capped content I blame the excesive reliance on gear for it's "failure". Had they given you cool generic Emptiness specific armor and weapons to choose from when going inside capped CoP areas (leaving everything else behind) it would've worked 100 times better because the main reason people didn't want to go there was gear, plain and simple. Which could also drastically affect the time requirements, specially when having to use a job you didn't have any gear on you for or gil to buy new stuff for it.

That way it would've been all about strategy and skill rather than how long you were willing to mule or spend.

Or at least that's how I see it in retrospective.

PS > Explanation? The emptiness, the dreamworld, you could only get your counciousness insinde, not your physical body. That limited your level and obviously prevented you from taking any gear inside these areas so you'd need to use Altana's armor or something in order to protect your conciousness inside this place. Or something.

-The End-

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

That aside, an actual good idea emerges, after a full week of crap:

[Raydeus]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Edit > Bleh you ruined my auto merge. orz

[Kailea]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I agree, that would be cool, and lets say to unlock that, you have to atleast go there once yourself. (not just choco there but get there in any way, once)

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Yeah kind of like (hate to say it) WoW. They're called flight points, you unlock the path by speaking to the NPC from whom you purchase your free ride. But you can't go there until you've spoken to that guy and gotten the message that a new path had unlocked.

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Hell, even direct city to city airships would be nice. On the other hand, who still rides airships? And who goes to cities that aren't their home nation?

And magnets, how do they work?

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

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I probably need to stop posting there soon, seeing as how I haven't really posted anything really moderation worthy over there.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Oh goody they're just as cryptic as ever.

I've seen a few people on BG are apparently getting temp bans from the forums, too. Is it really our fault that people are so stupid that they set off our nerd rage triggers?

[Raydeus]

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