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Googling any ffxi related threads / blogs worth to read and here is you again haha.
As for Rapture … who can afford (time/$)to play 2x MMORPG in parallel? Well at least not for me, and if there is no way to transfer / export / reborn in Rapture I might just have to kiss my taru goodbye w.
Hihi :)
Thank you for your kind word and ya! I was thinking the same.. if they can’t reborn our ffxi tarus to the new game… should jus call it GG.
OR come WoW until u get bored :D the gameplay is there for sure :D
Maiev! I is not a Leeroy… =P~
The thing is, for every 1 person who wants to come back to FFXI, there are 1-2 more who are quitting or going “on break.” That’s half of why (imo) the numbers for FFXI have sort of stagnated instead of moving either up or down. It’s not a bad thing but, SE has a LOT to learn about running a game and interacting with their customer base (which is something Blizzard both succeeds and fails at, at the same time).
Personally, most of the people I enjoyed playing with on a daily basis have moved on or quit, and with changes that SE made to the game that soured my experience… I’m moving onto something different. I like WoW, I’m having a lot of fun with it, and it’s a refreshing change from FFXI. When Falconfire and I were not married and living over 45 minutes apart, it was a nice way to spend time together and chat every night. Now that we’re married and living together… we don’t really play together so much because it doesn’t hold the same purpose (instead we sit on the couch and have marathon Guitar Hero sessions or play Super Mario Galaxy together). I realized I’m only playing FFXI these days out of obligation, and not so much because I’m having fun talking to people. I’ve kept in touch with a lot of former FFXI friends via IM or Facebook or whatever, so continuing to play SE for something I no longer enjoy seems… silly.
Just my $0.02. :
I realized I’m only playing FFXI these days out of obligation
Well worded. That’s exactly what I felt like while I was leading. The gameplay just wasn’t there anymore. I like the people but it’s hard and doesn’t give it enough motives to play just to chat with people. I can chat with them like you said (FB, IM’s etc). But spending my time on it… just isn’t the same. I rather have “real fun”, such as playing another MMO, with a refreshed gameplay :)
If I was in a more laid-back mode, I’d probably wouldn’t have gotten myself burnt out so quickly. Oh well! However, I do miss the Taru and keep wanting to go back :O! Damn Account Policy!!!
Why do people keep coming back to FFXI?
I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I tend to burn myself out everytime by playing too much of the game. For the past few years I have bounced around FFXI and WoW, and a little DoTA. I tend to burn my bridges, such a deleting characters or giving away all my items. Yet, I still come back.
I suppose its out of boredom.
I must say I have enjoyed WoW’s game play more, the fights in FFXI just dont feel as ‘epic’. or maybe I enjoy WoW more because I dont have to stand there for three hours to fight something, maybe. There are many fights I enjoy in WoW: Shade of Aran, The opera event and The chess event. (I name mostly Karazhan events since that is what I primarily did before I quit, though there are many more) Though, maybe I dont enjoy FFXIs as much simply because I only have a White Mage.
Well, I forgot what else I wanted to say, so to end.. I do not know why I came back to FFXi, a few of my friends who still played have welcomed me back and helped me however they could. I suppose I might be having some fun, or I would not still be playing?
I played FFXI for about a year in 2004, quit and went and played WoW for three years.
I quit WoW two years ago and now I’m playing FFXI again.
I’ve played a number of online RPGs, and the one thing that really drew me back to FFXI was SE’s consistency. In WoW, it was not uncommon for one update to make your character into a god, and for the very next update to nerf it into the dirt.
I’ve been playing my new character on Ramuh server now for about seven months. My main job is Blue Mage, and the Blue Mage I play now is still the Blue Mage that was played when Treasures of Aht Urghan was released, and is still the same Blue Mage that I played that Saturday evening when I unlocked the job as a NIN36/WAR18.
I could go on for hours as to why I believe FFXI is the “best of the bunch” in regards to online games, but I can say it quite well with one word, “depth.” In comparison, and I have experience in many games, WoW and more modern online RPGs are much more shallow.
This shallowness, and as my friend puts it, “games so easy all you need is $60 and a pulse = autowin” has contributed to the rising popularity of WoW.
For more “hardcore” gamers such as myself–the type who get a lot of enjoyment out of a challenge, that shallowness that seems to be overtaking gaming as a whole is rather depressing. It is nice to know that even among all the games that are too easy or too short to be worth the sixty bucks, there are some that still offer depth and complexity of play.
Well yea, WoW is shallow.. but then there are a lot of people who plays because a lot of people just really want a game to bum around, hop on the bandwagon or simply, because 70% people are casual players in the world.
However, FFXI’s hardcore-ness is what bonds people together. You really got to work together. Especially exping. Although over the years, stuff turned into a TP spam… still, it still needs others to form a party and go exp :)
Both worlds have their goods and bads, and obviously we can’t have both worlds :) so there are the FFXI-ers and the WoWers :D but for me.. I think I enjoy the… fact that u play with people a lot =) just about everything (well other than soloing lol). even skillup u play with people :D hehe
Hi everyone,i was reading through out this site, everything is great. I just droped wow with a few lvl 60s and i deleted everything because FFXI is on my mind. i have gone on and of a few times now with FFXI and dont really know why i drop it. I want it back, but the last time i played their was a small amount of people who played, this can make the game very hard to lvl or just have fun. so my question is, is it worth it? Is their enough people in the servers any more?
Very good insight and a nice reading indeed. I never play WOW (I don’t think they ever will), so thank you for nice introduction to Leeroy Jankins.
Let me hear your thoughts about FFXI moving forward to “Rapture”. Will it bring mass exodus or give people excuse to quits (relates to your point about gear) or you think people will hogs to the old FFXI like what happened with EverQuest.
To be honest, I would have like it better if they could make transition bettween the two worlds. But from the screenies look like there won’t be Galkas, Mithras or Tarutaru in the new game. It look like Avalice and not vana’diel to me. Dearly me I will miss my Tarutaru-self /cry
@Robo-tosho
Hi :o sorry I totally missed your message :o didnt see it till now.
FFXI.. well with the latest addon having quite a significant negative review, I’m not sure if i can say worth it for the content. Wings of Goddess still good but definitely not worth it to come back for ACP.
However, if you got a lot of friends :o it could be worthwhile. The servers are staying strong, however skewed to a few such as Odin and some other server. The subscription definitely isn’t keeping up as strong from the feel that I get (esp the amount of people who’s blog went to WoW related), but it’s still a nice game, and it’s got its own enjoyment with less people around (such as not so camped NM’s). :D
I got bored myself… but maybe I will get back to it someday, when I have more time “in chunks”. Only problem with FFXI is… you can’t do shit unless you have a chunk of time :x which is the only thing I hate XD
@Machupichu
Here’s my take on it. Rapture is SE’s next MMO, but one fact remains, it’s not title as the “Final Fantasy”, hence they will not get that same type of support as FFXI did.
If they make a bridge from FFXI to Rapture, then will take some of that fanbase there, but it might also kill FFXI with the amount of people being converted. IMO FFXI will stay as FFXI and Rapture will just be another MMO coded/developed by Squeenix. If there would be a transition, they would have named it FF17 Online or something.
I also don’t think there will be a transition, because sometimes there are people that is just waiting for a new game, for a new start to be on the top. By starting some people off with relics, they are also discouraging a lot of people playing. They already have an advantage. :x
FFXI is a good game, but it needs fresh minds and an upgraded graphics. WoW recently upgraded all the DAT files of equipment released with the latest expansion. SE could also do that just for all the stuff created starting from Wings of the Goddess. I’d personally even pay for a graphics update. (However, I wouldn’t pay for ACP).
I still love FFXI, I read, talk and still do stuff closely related to FFXI… just not playing the game. It needs to…get an upgrade in fun content. Just my 2c :D
True, but isn’t “Rapture” just developmental codename for the next MMO? Because it is Avalice surely it would be name Final Fantasy upon release. But then I doubt they will transfer the service across the game.
To main issue: I’m not sure what SE had learn from the FFXI service but the key issue that hold back FFXI is their support for PS2 (I call it The Chain of Playstation 2 lol).
While I am agree that there are a lot of players on console. The fact remain that PS2 hardware doesn’t allow room for the game to be continuously evolve. things like loading screens should exist in this day and age but it is still apparent because there are limitation to what PS2 engine can do.
I know that SE plan to release “Rapture” or whatever they will call it apon it release on Xbox 360 and PS3 as well as PC format but is it really wise? The game will eventually hit a snag and will never be as popular as WOW despite superior graphics etc.
My other criticism is rigid job system. It only allows people to play in certain way. For example, PLD, when XPing people doesn’t expect you to come anything /WAR or without a shield. Ofcourse there are /NIN and /RDM but you won’t be using that until endgame with some god-gear (Haste, Haste, Haste, Fast Cast). Yes, you could only manipulate the way you play through gear other than that, no chance.
While I like how FFXI make uses of gear to change play style. I still despise the rigidness of their job class system. For example, no matter what I do I cannot have any better hate tools than “Provoke” (I’m just talking about spike hate here – not to get too technical about it). More importantly, why must I play like that other PLD? And all ended up wearing the same gear and gunning for the same items? Why could I not have DD build as PLD? – This is the key issue with FFXI.
I hope they fix this in their next MMO. But other than that I’d like them to keep all the good things you hand mention in you article.
Lastly, I hope they would run the current service along with “Rapture”. With people moving to next-gen console. I hope people still remain with this one (Myself, I would keep this service while try out “Rapture”). If enough people stay with this game. They might consider overhaul the graphic of FFXI to make it up-to-date with current-generation graphic, don’t you think? Well, I hope so anyway, touch wood!
I really miss playing with my friends on ffxi. We played during college.
@Joe
Any contacts with them? I manage to find a few via AIM finder on facebook :D and we are meeting up in 2 weeks :D
That’s always something I like about FFXI, you feel more bonded with people you play, that friendship seems more real than anything :)
hehe that’s just how I feel though :)