why aren't you buying the best MMO ever made? It's currently on sale you know
Because the level cap increase over 75 killed the game.
Because it's shit.
Because I'm waiting for Dragon Quest X even though it's never coming.
>>339410772
Because I played this years ago and I'm done with MMOs.
One it's in maintenance mode now
Two there are private servers for it now as well
>>339411267
yeah but the private servers are dead and are at the 75 cap of content which only means you can't actually level up because there are only 30 people playing on them and the rates aren't high enough to just let you level to cap in the first few zones, so kind of pointless, no?
I was so close to Maat's cap, maybe I'll come back and try and get it.
>shit the best log I ever put out
>flush it like the rest
should I have played with it?
>>339411657
>he doesn't play with his shit logs
the fuck?
>>339410861
Damn straight.
Besides I'm totally done with the game and stopped having time to play after going into higher education then working, not everyone can spend hours farming and partying etc.
However I'm pretty pleased to have maxed out a few "Gimp" classes and wrecked shit with them. Dragoon and Puppetmaster; provided you aren't a dumb dumb they aren't gimp, people just suck at playing them.
Played it when it first came out. Got bored because even little dinky monsters needed a team.
Not that I mind group content but I'd like a little more substance than 'kill this monster for the next 3 levels'.
>>339410772
Miss the game everyday, wish it was still like what it was 10 years ago. Some of my fondest memories are actually from playing that game with people I got to know well, the trying 'raid' areas like sky and sea, and the sometimes 10 hour long exp parties. Even that first run from the early areas to Jeuno were fun in their own way. Sad that it will never be like that again, nor will any game capture the same charm.
>>339410772
Dead game is dead. Everyone will be playing the mobile version though.
>>339413202
>10 hour long exp parties
Well, that sounds nightmarish.
>>339410772
>playing a game the developers intentionally killed by throwing in all their crazy ideas before the next iteration came out
>They actually thought FFXIV would be quality
I am still mad. FFXI has been dead for years.
>tfw no more good mmo to sink time in and make friends in
FF14 was a mistake and there is nothing else to play
>>339413442
FFXIV broke my heart. Spent 7ish years playing FFXI and it was a magical experience, then SE kills it off with unwarranted changes and releases a barely functioning trash heap and tries to force everyone to switch.
I miss when this game was good.
>>339413348
Wasn't mandatory, but sometimes you'd get a really good group of japs or europeans and be getting a level every half hour or so which is good by FFXI terms, and consistently executing the team chain attacks and sneak attack combinations was satisfying.
>>339412779
Samurai, Ranger or Dark Knight and Black Mage always outdid them and they were easier to play.
>>339413348
It is and it was. I played during 05-07 and I'm telling you the game is slow as fuck and if you didn't have friends or tried making friends and failed at it, you were uninstalling the next day. The game was fun and has some highlights. but the cons definitely outweigh the pros. Everyone bought gil to survive as well, the RMT was absolutely out of fucking control and botting was second nature. I would never go back to it. gamers today most definitely couldn't handle the steep learning curve and having no social life and job was a requirement.
All they had to do was give it a fresh coat of paint and it would have been fine. But no. We got FFXIV.
>>339413891
Samurai was boss. I used to play as sam/rng with that mad hit katana from that floating island place and usually outperformed every hagun user in whatever that raid thing was that you get to from the boat from whitegate.
>le FFXIV is bad maymay
Buttblasted WoWfags on suicide watch.
>>339413891
>Ranger
The definition of pay to win, ridiculous damage at the cost of spending butt-loads of money on ammo
>Samurai
Ridiculously broken at one point if you decided to spam Sidewinder
>>339414183
Every scrub played samurai and I bet they still do today.
If you've never played and you're looking for an excuse to try it out, do it for the games storyline's
Even if you're doing them solo, they still feel like one hell of an adventure
Also play on Asura, it's the most populated server
>>339414196
I've played FFXI, WoW and FFXIV to a high level in both pve and pvp and can say without a doubt that FFXIV was the least entertaining and most forgettable of the three. I don't really miss anything about it except some of the locations.
>>339414196
You're actually retarded if you legitimately believe XIV is a better game than XI.
XIV is a shitty mish-mash of MMO ideas and in the end its just a shitty theme park where you do nothing but farm tomes and filler gear on an endless escalator going backwards.
anyone from ragnarok from 2003-2009?
bretbyk here
>mfw i realized my name was fucking retarded
kek i was only 13 yo
>>339414598
It's a better game than XI. Just not a better MMO.
>>339413880
>tfw your mertipo was so good you were getting chain 200+ but mobs literally wouldn't respawn quick enough.
>>339414408
I always thought drk was the scrub class, all you had to do was stack acc and spam guillotine.
>>339414394
>tfw mained by Ninja and Ranger
I was always broke. I used Bow/Xbow/Gun always. I maxed Throwing and I used elemental ninjutsu.
>>339414047
>Everyone bought gil to survive
Nigga i spent 1 week leveling WW high enough to HQ Shihei and proceeded to rake in absurd profits off of all the lazy ninja subbed faggots
>>339414542
>locations
>not soundtrack
wew
>>339414721
I had that a lot in that aht uhrgan place with the pink birds. Lost some really high chains because of it.
>>339414719
>It's a better game than XI.
>>339414879
The only good songs are from the original game and some of the boss fights. Everything else is bland and boring, much like the majority of content in the game itself.
>>339410861
It died before then, but that was certainly the final nail. I miss mixed groups, bursting skill chains and the like.
>>339414879
Well I usually had the music turned off when I played because of skype or preferring my own music so didn't really experience it much. I kinda liked the music for twintania and stuff though
>>339414719
I don't believe a gimped version of WoW can be a better game than XI when WoW is already a worse game.
>>339414815
lel till you wanted the hagun for 80 mil or that peacock necklace
>>339415204
>Hagun
>80mil
>It was 60k on my server
wew
>>339415175
All I know is people don't seem to enjoy 'le oldschool MMOs' so there's obviously something they're doing wrong.
>>339414797
>I maxed Throwing and I used elemental ninjutsu
Holy shit dude, ninjutsu is fine but Shuriken were ridiculously expensive
>>339415360
>What is Everquest
Found the underage
Well if you want to play it again unmolested by shitty expansions the mobile version is coming out. Guaranteed to be populated.
>>339414047
The botting was pretty ridiculous. If your LS didn't cheat you didn't claim the HNMs. I can say I never bought gil and managed to stay in the gear I wanted. Broke my heart when Weskits dropped to like 5k after I paid like 4 or 5 mil for one though.
>>339414721
>I had a chain 999 in ru'hmet off a mob that would summon an elemental every time one died
>BRD RDM 4xBLM
>it was patched within 3 days
>mfw I have long ago lost all my screenshots
I play on a private server. We've been around for 2 years. Just added some more custom content. We're a 75 cap server. Tons of content. Decent size community.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzu-lI5h2Sk
FFXI was the only MMO that designed nearly every aspect of the game around cooperation and mandatory party play.
It was near impossible NOT to form relationships with other players, thereby creating an environment in which even the most mundane tasks felt significant and the difficult ones felt monumental. Field enemies your level were not only capable of wrecking your shit in 6 hits, they would actively gang up on you unless you were aware of your surroundings at all times. This demanded the player's engagement. Combine that with content like CoP missions that punished shitters by gating half the game from them, and you got a magnificent world.
>>339414047
>tfw bought 1 mil gil
>Invested it in buying and selling rare items
>The great inflation happened
>Sold all my shit at 5-10x the price
>Began buying back items I once sold to people and then reselling them at insane prices
>Regularly sold Enhancing Swords for 30-40 mil
At the end of it all I had somewhere north of 270 million gil in cash alone, I didn't blow it on random shit afterwards and was set for the rest of the time I played.I sold it all back to the RMT when I quit and got a pretty penny for it.
>>339415360
It's not that people don't enjoy old school MMOs. The problem is that modern ones tend to try making a lot of money by catering to the widest demographic possible. It's a problem that plagues video games in general, though. They have forgotten that having a niche audience that will keep on playing for months or years and buying expansion packs will benefit them more in the long term than trying to grab as many subs for one month of content before they resub in a year or so for one more month.
>>339413295
what mobile version?
>>339415337
Hagun was 2 mill on mine, haubergeon was 5 mil originally but went down to about 600k in wings of goddess. peacock was never below 10 mil, kraken club was about 60 mil.
I used to make money camping and selling that Ochiudo's Kote/leaping boots/emperor charm, but then someone in my ls crafted some xbow of a particular quality and sold it to a jap for like 200 mil and split it between the core members of the ls so I never had to farm again
>>339415561
yin yang robe farming comes to mind haha
>>339415623
Do you have the Trust system in place?
If I can't adventure with Prishe I ain't interested
>>339415561
NIN RDM BRD trioed bune every day. Split the cash 3 ways. It was how I always stayed baller as fuck in the game.
The following is not debatable:Prishe > Lilisette > Shantotto > Nashmeira > Iroha > Arciela > Lion
>>339415204
>Peacock Necklace
>Market value 10,000,000g
>browsing bazaars in Whitegate before besieged starts
>See someone selling one for a couple zeros less
>Check in with linkshell chat, buy it and get the fuck outta dodge
>Town /shout chat filled with epic levels of salt for someone who robbed their charm
Should've double checked your sale before you go showing off items like that, but oh god the adrenaline rush.
>>339415624
>un-nerfed CoP were as hard as or harder than raids in XIV and other MMOs these days
>They weren't even max level cap missions
CoP was literally the best thing to happen ever. There will never be an expansion as satisfying as it was ever again
-2.5 GCD
-bland graphics
-interservers with console
-microtransactions with monthly fees
give me the reasons why it's even considered good
>>339415920
>just ignoring ulmia
...The fuck?
>>339416091
This is a XI thread, not an XIV thread. You're in the wrong place friend.
>>339416169
Those are the main heroines from each expansion mate
Ulmia isokay
I loved the danger of this game. and the punishment was severe.
You literally lost levels if you died too much.
it made the world dangerous and terrifying.
that would never fly today. in fact they probably got rid of those mechanics
>>339416349
oh look, I didn't read the very OP
feel free to laugh at me
>>339416091
>meme
>nice try, kid
>just like ffxi
>cosmetic bullshit no-one but you cares about.
>>339416056
Agree with you there.
>>339415497
Nothing about this makes me want to play it.
>Big beautiful world
>Great storylines
>Best music in the series
Instead of making a solid single player version of the game we're going to get an outsourced mobile cash shop version of it. You have a chance to make something truly special that would allow all those people who missed out on XI to get a taste of it and then you throw it down the drain. What a waste.
>>339416517
The content was easy. the challenge was getting the right people that didn't suck ass all the time.
>>339415497
honestly the only reason I'm looking forward to this is to see the updated graphics of some places
but even then >mobile
when i heard about the free month i tried to get it working on my account but apparantly i missed my opportunity. when i try to migrate my POL account to an SE account it wants to bill me, so i decided against it.
plus my level 60 bard wasnt on the list of characters to transfer which really bummed me out.
i played from the day of the NA release for years. so many great memories. i got to rank 6 but i never did any of the expansion stories or anything and i feel bad for that now.
REALLY tempted to just pay for it and start a new character, just to explore the zones is almost worth it alone.
i just dont know ;_;
>>339416596
didn't say it was going to be good. just said it was going to be populated and free2play. it will make so much money they will shut down the PC servers forever.
>>339416451
Always made sure I had a huge XP buffer before LS events. Still managed to delevel from time to time on a bad night. A little annoying but that was part of the game.
>>339416451
The punishment for dying is still there, but you get like triple the XP now, so it's not as big of a deal. Also, it's a lot easier even getting that XP now, too, so it doesn't take an hour or so to get into a party to spend another half hour-hour getting a level.
>tfw it'll never be like it was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGUmnrkYi8
>>339416836
Stop thinking and just do it
And make sure you pick Asura as your server
>>339415497
>nexon is making it
FUCKING DROPPED
>>339416836
I've seen the SE store sell the base game with all of the xpacs for $20 a few times, so you might want to watch out for one of those sales and grab it then. Just a reminder that you also a get free month with that, too.
>>339416872
No one is going to play it, actual XI veterans think it's disgusting and people who didn't play XI have no reason to be interested in it.
>>339410772
I bought it a few days ago. Only level 10 RDM at the moment. I find it hard to really get addicted, I'm trying to get hooked but I just don't feel it yet.
I'm hoping I'll eventually like it more. I feel like I might have chosen a shitty class, I don't know.
>>339416676
A dedicated group was a must. Especially with how much pots and other shit could run you if you fucked it up too often. Some of those fights were a waste of time without people who knew what they were doing.
>>339417149
It's not worth the effort anymore honestly.
>>339417149
RDM is one of the classes thats a jack of all trades master of none and doesn't even its role defining spells until like half-way through the game.
I grew up with WoW and never played FFXI.
Should I try it out since it's on sale?
>>339416676
>tfw 3boxed the majority of CoP's level capped missions with 3 NINs
Probably the most active thing I've ever done in an MMO, in what is probably the slowest MMO in existence. FFXI multiboxing was next level.
>>339417385
Naw, it's a shell of its former self.
Not quite as blatant as current WoW, but still nowhere near as good as it was at launch/CoP.
great game but it was an everquest clone (massive time sink)
drained my life away for just 1 summer and I had to quit and continue school
>>339417149
RDM is definitely not a shitty class, but I don't know if I'd recommend using a magic class as a starter only because you go through levels so easily now that you'll be running around without a lot of your spells that you should have. It's also expensive buying all of those spells for those are difficult to get from quests and difficult/rare monsters, or even from shops. Warrior and Thief are both really good classes if you want to switch. Also, you should look up all of the new repeatable quests you can do (they're called like PoSomething).
>>339417149
All depends on your reason for starting to play
If you were looking to experience XI, you missed the bus a long time ago
If you wanna do the storylines n' shit, that stuff starts at level 30
Also RDM has some pretty great spells that it gets later on, but it's not a very wanted job from what I've seen in a lot of endgame content, if that's what you're looking for
>>339415093
>it died before then
Are you one of those colossal faggots that think WoTG killed the game when it gave us the best mage class ever?
>>339417385
Current day FFXI is nothing like what it used to be, you'd not really see the game for what it was and why people loved it.
>>339417563
FFXI was an improvement on EQ because it was far more party centric, had a much better designed world, and didn't look like refried dogshit.
>>339417140
You really don't think people will play a F2P game with the words "final fantasy" in it's title? Did you forget how big the mobile market is? Veteran player or not. The game will be so dumbed down for mobile "gamers" that any kid playing will be good at it. In fact the battle system is even re-worked so players can solo half the game themselves. These things have already been revealed.
>>339417758
>tfw they wasted the effort of remaking XI in Unreal 4 for a fucking Mobile game
This hurts a lot more than it should
>invited to random tp burn
>bard has a ghorn
giddyup
>>339417435
this was always the most fun thing to do
>>339417149
What you should do is get your RDM to 30, get into Aht Urgan, get BLU and level that.
BLU is the most fun job in the game.
>>339418090
>BRD+COR pt
>3 WAR/SAMs with fortitude axes and capped fucking haste
maximum fucking overdrive
>>339418090
>used to have a different instrument for virtually every song
>macros for everything that would change gear for everything
man that game was fun. i loved the UI more than anything else. it stayed out of the way unless you needed it, no shitty clutter and text flying all over the sides of the screen. it let you enjoy the environment more than any other mmo out then and now
> Playing anything past CoP.
>>339418090
>tfw had to solo merits on mount Z
it's not fair
>most fun classes
>BLU
>SCH
>PUP
>fun classes
>everything unamed
>boring classes
>WHM
>BLM
>PLD
>RDM
We can agree on this yes? Except the RDM faggots who think their class is fun.
>>339418762
>using BLM to merit
>>339418672
>Not experiencing the peak of XI that was ToAU
Sorry you missed out bruv
>>339418923
WoTG was better.
>>339418764
Why don't you like RDM?
>>339419046
Campaign was better than Besieged, true.
I liked ToAU's mission line better than WoTG's though.
>>339419046
WoTG was OK
Feel like XI started to experience a decline after ToAU though
>>339417758
You can already see how much current day players hate FFXI despite never having played it, if it's not related to FFXIV they aren't going to care. Any veterans aren't going to touch a bastardized mobile version of XI so it's really not going to amount to anything.
The general public already has mobile games they are addicted to so a very niche "Nexon Fantasy" game isn't going to draw people in.
>>339419316
>>339419254
WoTG had objectively better new classes than ToAU. And campaign was way better than besieged. ToAU classes were definitely good though.
Not liking WoTG is a matter of opinion but I think its probably your own fault for choosing a shitty nation (Sandoria probably).
>>339419802
>Shitty nation
I WILL FUCKING FIGHT YOU BRO
>>339419250
Because it was a shitty class that people liked for a shitty reason? (Jack of all trades lmao).
Not to mention that people did not use you for that at all but rather just a debuff bot, haste/refresh bot (because you had no other useful buffs), and fucking healing. It was one of the worst most boring jobs to play as and to top it all off people only ever truly needed 1 in endgame so good luck finding an endgame ls that needs a RDM
>>339419254
i used to love besieged
>>339419802
if you aren't from windurst you aren't anybody
http://nasomi.com/
>>339419943
>he liked sandoria
You liked a nation full of actual fucking retards that can't read or write (Trion), were arrogant ass holes, and burned down villages or invaded cities in the past. Yeah, sure.
>>339418764
I have an Aegis/Ochain/Excalibur/D ring Paladin. I really enjoy playing with it nowadays
>>339419802
Past Sandoria's mission-line wasn't even bad
But having to stop doing the actual story to take care of the missions was fucking stupid
Just like Japanese Midnight waits for some ToAU missions
>>339415658
Are you me?
Aside from the selling the money back to RMT, anyway.
I took my absurd profits from the great Christmas inflation, compounded it by selling gold coins from Aht'Urgan right after it came out (I was one of the people that actually pioneered new exp spots out there- holding Bard at level 50 or so really paid off). Once Bard started getting hard to find groups for out there (high 60s) I flipped over to Ranger and took groups of Rangers and Thieves out to shoot birds.
I could make several gold coins an hour exping out there, put them on the AH for several million gold each, and then be right back at it without the group even breaking. Everyone in my first couple of groups out there got fucking richer than hell.
Then I want balls deep on a Sha'ir Manteel and a few other twinkie items, and all those hundreds of millions of gil were gone.
>>339420014
I've heard this argument before, but none of these made RDM unfun to play.
>>339420107
>windurst
muh nigga. windurst was always #1 on the sylph world map, which was yet another really cool part of the game
>>339420132
how many players on average? Also, old private servers had a lot of trouble with broken monster AI and quests not working. It's fixed here?
ie: Will that fucking Uggalepih Pendant NM always cast Death when switching targets?
>>339420239
I often wonder how people felt after spending millions and millions of gil on top-notch 75 gear when the level cap rose
>>339420107
Windurst was the best town. All those cats, all those rhyming tarutarus.
>>339420239
I was tempted to blow it all on a relic weapon but i mostly played RDM and I couldn't justify spending 100-150 mil buying something like an Apocalypse for a job I rarely used. I ended up quitting halfway through WoTG and just sold it all, never went crazy buying any neat items or anything with it.
Part of me wishes I had stayed and played longer, maybe bought a relic, but the anguish of seeing them ruin the game before my very eyes would have been too much.
>>339420257
By endgame standards you were useful for 1 thing: debuffs.
By merit standards the only reason people took you over a white mage was because of convert haste and refresh, with scholar creeping behind with those storm buffs.
>you didnt play a mmo at its peak
![[ffforever.info]_ffxi_fanart_05.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qb4PsvY.jpg "[ffforever.info]_ffxi_fanart_05.jpg")
Puppetmaster is cute! CUTE!
>by the time 80-cap rolled around RDM main was useless
>>339420495
Usually hovers around 250-300
http://nasomi.com/status/
>>339420523
No idea, I wasn't there for that. All my friends drifted away in late ToAU, and I couldn't really find a new group for WotG. At that point, I knew most of the server and they knew me, so it's not like I couldn't have found a new group, just that none of the people left were people I really wanted to play with.
All the old guard from BastokGuardians, Befrog, and were gone, and the remainder in Spoondaggers were all kinda dicks. I wasn't even BF or SD, just knew some of the cooler folks in them. But all my social linkshells (NoSpillz and a bunch of others whose names I currently forget) crumbled away and most of the people left got pretty unfun to be around.
Private servers are lame. Retail is still a great experience
>>339417593
>scholar releases
>rushed to be the first 75 sch on my server along with a couple random Japanese people
>tfw nobody draws Mithra porn anymore
Miqo'te porn just isn't the same!!
fuck I don't think I should be under here
>>339421347
>Miqo'te porn just isn't the same!!
I feel your pain brother. 'Girls with cat ears and tails' just aren't the same as 'catgirls'.
I think it's the faces. They just look plain. Mithra looked cool. Miqo'te just look like Japanese girls with a hair clip and a bad hairdo.
>>339421347
That's another thing I really dislike about XIV. All of the races are just cheap imitations of XI's. I guess there's the lizards, but they're not that great looking, either.
>>339421545
>Miqo'te just look like Japanese girls with a hair clip and a bad hairdo.
And no ass.
>>339421539
honestly it's probably safer since you won't accidentally walk on those fuckingmanta rays
>>339421140
I remember I had a friend rush to hit 75 on her scholar. Showed up to Sky and was told to main heal the DD party since noone else understood what it did. Things didn't go too well
>>339421539
How'd you even get there?
Send a message to a GM, they'll re-zone you.
Exploring Attohwa Chasm for the first time?
Better watch out for those cracks and mining points
It'd be unfortunate if you happened to step on one
>>339421539
Is that the out of bounds area in the dunes where you could wedge yourself between the trees on the beach? There would always be people out there just chillin.
>>339422110
The blue magic spell these guys give is a strong damage dealer for like 30 levels.
I miss this game and the people so damn much.
People talk about game addictions, but I think this was far worse for me. This game was my life.
Played two years and a half from release day, understood that this was going to kill my studies, so I stopped for two and a half years to get my doctorate. Got a job. Then came back and played non-stop until Abyssea became the final nail in the coffin for me.
I have a well paying job, but I don't care one bit about it. There's nothing that fills that void in my life of doing something I *truly* enjoy with like-minded people that are as dedicated as I am. And I know the state of game-making - not just the market but the actual craft and the playing too since we have to account for playing communities - has changed so much that no one will ever make a game that fills that particular niche for me ever again.
I guess this as close as I'll ever get to the nostalgia of those people that went in the military and loved it. And god does it hurt.
>>339421545
Miqo'te have one face that's kinda catty, the one with the darker nose
shame everyone just makes generic white girls with neon cat ears though
>>339422379
My cat was indeed a fairly plain faced girl, but she wasn't white.
Can't have a proper catgirl if she isn't at least a little brown.
>>339420932
I don't know about cute, but I did love the class. Very involving, and fun to play.
Being PUP/SCH main healer for the Alexander fight is still one of my favorite gaming achievement.
And then there was the silly builds too. Like PUP/DRK with a healbot for campaign battles. Or being able to solo Diabolo before they nerfed that.
In hindsight, I wish I sold my account to at least get some money back from all the hours I wasted on this game. My account was probably only worth maybe $100-200. Found a pic I took ~10 years ago when I quit.
>>339422229
Yeah, that's the one. I liked to that just to freak people out.
>>339410772
I couldn't get into it because the interface is atrocious and obviously meant to be played on a PS2 controller with barely any consideration made for KB+M.
>>339413295
>Mobile version is published by Nexon
Not touching that with a 10 foot pole it WILL be pay to win.
>>339422796
Was a joy to play with a controller + mouse/keyboard though.
>>339422679
PUP makes an insane tanking job now. I can have 2 friends for Pup and I go Cor for the rolls and ranged attack. We all chill out of AoE range and just demolish stuff. It's a lot of fun
Open this up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07YqlcOOs5E
And then this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041231000509/http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml
Then proceed to cry
>>339423090
>The number of characters (currently active registered characters) living in Vana'diel has reached the 1.5 million mark! (As of September 28, 2004.)
>The world of FINAL FANTASY XI is now home to more adventurers than ever before, with over 550,000 active players logging on during the same day, and a record 170,000 players logged on simultaneously on September 18.
>>339410772
Don't you dare try to trick me, OP. I gave this shit a try on a private server that emulated the so-called "golden age."
Good god, you spend most of the game whacking at something with auto-attacks, only to build up enough tp for one skill, use it all up, and repeat the process over again.
The gameplay has no inherent value. Nostalgiafags parade it around cause it was only good "with friends" which can apply to any shitty game.
If that was the good time, then I don't even want to know what this modern dead version is.
>>339423796
Sounds like you just don't know how to play the game, which is fine for a new person, but you really shouldn't say that a game sucks before you actually learn how to play.
>>339423796
Did you party at all?
Because that was the entire point of the game.
>>339423882
that Windurst model is triggering my PTSD
>>339423796
>Good god, you spend most of the game whacking at something with auto-attacks, only to build up enough tp for one skill, use it all up, and repeat the process over again.
No one skill-chained? No magic burst? No status dealing? No exploration?
Anyway, to each their own.
>>339422310
i was in high school when the game released, and since i naturally didnt do much else but videogames i wasted so much time playing it.
not really a hardcore thing to say, but this is the only game where i have legitimately done a 10 hour straight session when I got into a JP exp pt and stayed there the entire day while people rotated in and out. started in the morning and before i knew it the day was over and i realized i was hungry.
i fucking loved being a bard. once i switched from war to brd i was able to see and do so much more in the game than before. i found statics for bcnm and exp, i would get pt invites when loading the game before the black screen went away. a lot of people said brd was boring as fuck and shitty but i loved it, always moving back and forth and keeping songs on both melee and ranged, debuffs, i would be the puller and keep the chains going.
it really is amazing how this is one of the few games where the people who enjoyed it have such fond memories of it.
;_;
>>339423882
Those are so damn cool
I'd love to do something like this
But I feel like I could never replicate it to the fullest and I'd end up fucking it up or it'd end up turning out shitty looking
>>339415497
>nexon
into the trash
>>339424257
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
>>339424114
I'm aware that an MMO is meant to be played with others, otherwise I might as well play single-player. However, there should be SOMETHING a solo player can do and enjoy at the very least. I would party if I could, but seeing as this was a private server with a small population, that was out of the question, and I was told I should be able to grind this shit out until lvl 10, and by 6 I was just not having it. After grinding out a bit of gil and buying new gear, I expected a significant difference in leveling speed, there wasn't.
>>339423910
What the fuck was there to figure out?
>>339423882
>bagpipes intensifies
>>339417383
I just switched to Warrior and got to level 10 in like 3 minutes. I was doing 3x as much damage with my weapon as a warrior than I was with redmage.
>>339424224
>it really is amazing how this is one of the few games where the people who enjoyed it have such fond memories of it.
I don't know about few, but yeah, anyone that played this particular game left a bit of themselves in there. Out of love. Hell, you can see just as much love in so many details from the makers too.
>>339424974
What level did you get to? It doesn't sound like you got to play much of the game from what you've described so far.
>>339424974
Beastmaster could solo in that era, but that's pretty much it.
It was intentional. The game forces you to party and meet people.
>>339424974
Exploring areas solo was pretty fun in the game. Especialy the high lvl areas. Someone else remember that monastery in the middle of davoi? Hod i wondered what is iside there for a long time. Hetting there was nigh impossible in the cop area.
>>339414196
WoWfugees are the only ones playing FFXIV while they wait for Leigon.
>>339420014
>doing what other people want all the time
I played RDM as my first job and it was one of two jobs I took to 75. RDM could do anything, at least pre-2009, I don't know what happened after that. I'd solo tons of stuff not even as RDM/NIN but as RDM/WHM. I soloed Miser Murphy and Guardian Statue for my own Warlock's Chapeau, and it was badass. And I liked helping people, so I didn't mind casting Refresh and debuffs were ungodly powerful in FFXI. You could get away with a lot of shit if you were a RDM anyway because people needed you. They'll yell at you for hitting the crabs in Boyahda Tree but what are they gonna do? You're the only RDM around for miles. Besides people always respected the power of Chainspell and Convert. Everyone's dead? Chainspell Raise everyone, sacrificing yourself, and they might be able to give it another go without taking 30 mins to return from their HPs. Or everyone wipes except you and you clutch out the battle at the last second with a flurry of Chainspelled black magics, perpetually keeping up that Stoneskin to stay alive. I pulled my party through horribly bad situations with Chainspell. Besides you'd find people who didn't mind if you melee'd anyway so you could pull out your dagger and go for those Eviscerations or Savage Blades with your sword. Fuck sometimes in Assaults and Beseiged and stuff from the later expansions, those RDM melee attacks helped a ton. Life was good as a RDM, every day. I was always broke in the old bank but I was never poor as a RDM.
And endgame LSs were pretty lame in general for every job so who cares about that. Yeah let's stand in this same spot for up to 3 hours and hope that we get the pull against the botters for Nidhogg, and then hope we get some good drops if we actually get it.
>>339425197
>It was intentional. The game forces you to party and meet people.
It was the last MMO where the second M was really not optional. The game had a built in shitter filter that did a far better job than any modern MMO, which instead aim for the lowest common denominator.
People who were not socially well adjusted crashed and burned hard, which led to a mostly well adjusted community of players who were actually reasonably sane people. There were still shitters, to be sure, who got by because they had friends who were not, but even they were far better at the game than the horror show that is WoW or FFXIV pubbies.
>>339424974
>I'm aware that an MMO is meant to be played with others, otherwise I might as well play single-player. However, there should be SOMETHING a solo player can do and enjoy at the very least.
I don't know that really agree. And even then, there was still crafting, and if you're like me and don't mind the deaths, exploration and mapping. I wasn't level 10 when I first reached Jeuno.
>>339425138
In its time, in the hands of a skilled player, high level RDM was fairly powerful, able to solo NMs - I had a friend who could solo genbu which was no small feat at the time. Early game? I'll grant you, not as effective as most other classes. But as someone that main-ed PUP for the longest time, I'm going to have to say: efficiency of the class is just not that important if you're playing with the right people.
>>339425347
>explore area with sneak/invis
>effects running out and need to recast
>no good place to cast without getting aggro'd
>get raped by IT mobs
fun times
>>339423882
I want to{Hexa Strike}at Shantotto's{Home Point}with my{Mjollnir}.
Since we're here, FFXI stories time?
>played FFXI with my RL friend from school
>one day he's walking around Maze of Shakrami aimlessly and he happens upon Argus just sitting there, no one else around, unclaimed.
>he kills and gets the Peacock Charm
>Peacock Charm, aka, the most expensive item on the server at 30+ million gold
>he sells it on the auction house in a matter of minutes
>he never shared even a little bit with me
>he quits the game like 5 months later and he never gave any of the remaining money to me even though he never played again
Maybe I'm greedy but god damn like the majority of people I was dirt poor in that game, it still bothers me that he was even greedier to not even share a single gil with me. We were real life friends!
>>339426181
>spend 2 hours making party
>get to camp
>tank or healer says "sorry guys, gotta go"
>party disbands
fuck me
>>339426181
Fuck off Sander
>>339426181
Did you help him kill it? Would he have been unable to do it without you?
>>339426181
He sounds like the kind of kid who'd invite you over to his house just to let you watch him play games.
>>339426590
No, he was by himself at the time. I know I was greedy but come on. If our places were switched I would've given him at least 1 million gil. Even if he didn't give me anything why wouldn't he give me his stuff when he no longer wanted it? He quit the game and had no intention of ever coming back. He just logged off and left his character as is to this day.
>>339426181
Oh fuck i'll never forget the time I was such a little bitch
>FFXI 07
>level 20 Hume warrior/monk in Jeuno
>Can't get a party
>Stuck there with nothing to do but fish
>High level Taru see's me and asks why I'm using an onion sword
>Tell Taru that warriors fight with swords and shields
>Taru tells me to fuck off with that logic and to get a greataxe
>Taru hands me 10,000gil (poor noob so it seemed like a lot to get for free)
>Run over to auction houseI bought an alchemist fishing rod with the 10k that Taru gave me, the truth was I did use a greataxe but I liked to look like a poorfag to get free stuff from sympathetic players... Later the Taru saw me again with a greataxe and gave me a nod of approval... i'm such a fucking faggot and I still feel bad for lying to you... Sorry
>>339426181
I remember once, at Christmas, the LS leaders organized a small event. Took their share of the Dynamis pool to buy small presents for everyone - so everyone decided to make presents all around, and then obviously we Dynamis Tavnazia and got trashed by the boss. as we clearly weren't ready yet, but we knew going in.
That Christmas music though.
Never sold that Forager's Mantle. Always kept it in my inventory.
>>339421840
They probably sucked then.
Back then Scholars were probably the best main healers and regen users.
>>339425472
>RDM could do anything
By itself, in a party they were garbage at anything other than healing and debuffing.
>You will never for a party of just Dancers since nobody wanted you around higher levels
Those were the best of times, also remember getting a party of beastmasters and just going to town wrecking everything
>>339427524
As I said, this if when they were first released and she rushed it to 75 asap. So I'm sure she sucked
>>339427659
Debuffing and healing is good, though. I don't see an issue here.
>>339426181
God that pic. Had a friend who NEVER reset his tonberry hate. Every time we went to help with something related to that temple meant insane adventures.
>>339427659
You're saying it like it's nothing. And forgettin a few things. Like complement MB-ing. I know this felt on the wayside post ToAH when WS-spam became more the norm, but it was still a use.
>>339428418
Puppetmaster and Beastmaster team up parties were fun too. Pups could heal and shit while Bsts just wailed on the mobs
>>339429884
I wish I had more funny FFXI pics
>>339429884
>Optical Hat was 12 years ago
fucking kill me
>>339430219
Does anyone play on that private server? Gonna try it.
>>339411267
what are some private severs?
>>339410772
Is this a one time purchase or subscription?
If it's one time I might buy it.
Just searched online for that mithra + canned food image, and this is one of the first results I got...
Fuck you OP, it's $40, not on sale.
>>339430880
Still sub based.
>>339430857
Someone posts Nasoni in every FFXI thread >>339420132
If their population numbers are true it might be fun. 300~ at one time, 1000? overall
>>339430705
Playing right now
>>339430923
Here you go, friendo.
>>339431101
Shit, it actually looks fun. How much stuff is broken though? I saw on the website a post said even early quests like Windy 2-1 is broken.
>>339431171
Thanks a lot.
>>339410772
Because I got to 73 as Dancer and there was so much side stuff to do as I was trying to beat CoP for RoV.
>>339431238
Half of the BCNMs don't work, most of the KSNM don't. There's level-syncing wyverns all over the world with their drops, though. They're called OWNMs.
EXP bands, home point disabled, Books disabled.
All the jobs function with exception to certain merits, PUP's automaton AI, and the math behind some BLU spells.
Chocobo digging and gardening aren't implemented. Gardening's been disabled because of infinite accounts/mules.
Uh, there's a couple of other oddities, but yeah, check out Nasomi. They got a Wiki, forum, and IRC if you need help or more information.
Where on sale?
>>339431887
home point warps.*
>>339431238
Not him but tons of stuff, you'll never know just how much though because no matter how much everyone asks the server owner will not post a changelog.
I stopped playing when I found out that he disabled exp rings, not because they were out of era but just because he didn't like them. The server is advertised as vanilla\not-custom.
A few things that aren't in because they aren't coded:
Gardening
Chocobo Raising
Salvage
Assaults
A fair amount of BCNM's
Puppetmaster
It's a neat idea but won't be playable for 5 years at least, and I doubt they'll get all the formulas for damage\monster AI right when it is done.
>>339427158
>FFXI 04
>playing female elvaan rdm
>male taru 75 blm starts kind of flirting with me
>im 16 year old male
>starts telling me im cute
>starts asking for ERP shit, dude fucking asked for a blowjob
>offers to camp expensive items for me
>say"Lol, no dude im a guy you big fat homo
>gets super embarassed
>still feel kinda bad about not getting 20m+ in items for writing some poor sad sack porn.
>>339432313
Eh, Dynamis, Sky, Limbus, and all but one a sea Aern work.
While ToAU's jobs are available, PUP is proken while BLU needs some work. ZNMs are there but all the ToAU mobs are set to 99 for the time being.
Only started playing with a static of old friends. We're 56~ish, but they've been distracted by real life and pregnancy. Been crafting and leveling RDM meanwhile. WOuld really love PUP and the ToAu content to be active- it'd be perfect for our group.
I need more catgirls.
>>339432867
FFXI veteran, from 2003-2009.
If you have that itch to go back for [insert random reasons here], don't do it, anons. You just want to see the story again, or you just want to get that feeling, memories, camp an NM you never got the claim on, etc.
It will haunt you. This particular game, and us, it's particular player base from the 'glory days' have a terrible price to pay if you log back in.
You'll be flooded with bittersweet memories of friends long gone and a deafening silence in the ghost towns you once had such grand adventures in.
It's very lonely. You'll feel like that old guy that still hangs out in his old high school, long after everyone has moved on in life and the building is condemned to be demolished.
Farewell, Vana'diel. Thanks for the memories.
I kind of like current FFXI. It's not as good at ToAU~WotG era, but it was pretty fun (stopped in december). Kind of wish there was a maintained offline mode for 99 cap. I'd love to just be able to solo shit on RDM all day since it's quite fun at 119 iLVL.
>>339414047
>not having friends
LELELELELELELELEL being a socially retarded autismo would definitely hinder your progress in this games heyday. Now any lonewolf sociopath can beat the thing.
>try and play with /ffg/
>they're only interested in Record Keeper
Why bros?
>>339432867
It's still like that for rare items. Some of the HQs of the 119 abjuration gear go for 100-300m. The prices make sense when you consider how hard it is to synth one. Some of the synths on my server are a 1-3m loss for every NQ, and HQ rates are %1~5.
>>339433070
Do you?
>>339433556
It could be worse and you could try playing XIV with /xivg/ literally nothing but ERP degeneracy of the highest degree and drama.
>>339433556
I'll be starting my account back up in the next day or two. I was the /ffg/ shell leader before I had to take a break due to work constraints and family stuff
>>339433221
I went back to a free server.
it sucks without the relationships. I killed some nms, got items i always wanted. it was just empty. i was killing enemies way too easily, grinding up items, with nobody to shoot the shit with
>>339433241
I like it too, but there won't be an offline version of it. I'm skeptical about the mobile version too because gookshit games usually turn your phone into an oven.
>>339433070
>>339433681
Mithra's aren't real
>>339434091
It sucks knowing I missed the chance to be with girls that would have dressed up as Mithra. If only I had been born a few years earlier.
>>339434270
>>339434450
Good Lord. 11/10. Though you'd most certainly never meet one like that at a convention.
>>339410772
never played this back in the day should i just get this or ARR?
>>339434626
Even in it's current state, XI is better than XIV in every way except number of polygons.
>>339434965
how is the gamplay?
and the mage classes?
>>339410772
Monthly fees are as backwards and behind the times as Japan
>ur just poor lmao!
No, it's [current year], I don't support anti-consumer practices like monthly fees, DLC, or consoles.
>>339435467
That's ok. You can go back to playing Overwatch while paying out the ass for loot boxes
What exactly was good about XI?
