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Yea if someone cancels their subscription that is one thing. We kept our subscription just for the house. Bank was so backed up at the end of the year it took a extra 15 days to close. Then throw Christmas and new years and thanksgiving in things got behind. Sometimes real life is more important.

Not only that you can loose everything period:

and you only get:



The worst part is most of this is because of SE crappy support.

Tesee has been playing FFXI for so long it was her ex-husband who set up her account to a email she no longer uses. She can not change it because she does not know the security questions. Funny thing is they let you change charge info no problem but not email?
So they will not let her change her email so we got no warnings.

Edited, Jan 31st 2017 12:13pm by Nashred

Not to mention in mid 75 era RDM was the only job that could actually solo most of the gods. For example RDM melee wasn't "bad" but like thief, it couldn't touch the defense of many end game enemies (good luck meleeing on genbu for example) and I'm talking extreme early - mid 75 era when end-game actually started cranking up.

Surprisingly, we did play XI the way devs intended in many ways..which is what annoyed players because they didn't like it. Early on it was intended for us to exp on IT mobs (anything under IT gave **** exp), but they were too brutal, so they later adjusted T-VT to be viable, which players naturally gravitated to because of how spawns worked in 2002 and 2003. Another example of 'intended gameplay' is taking full alliances into Dynamis and Limbus. Which we did for a fair bit (if you got in on Dynamis early enough) but people eventually splintered off into making Dynamis shells and only going with about 18-30 people at best since it allowed you to be more guaranteed loot than the free for all it initially was.

So players did indeed shape XI a lot more than the devs ever will but that was usually because players wanted to break design for least resistance, RDM is a hot topic, but it was also one of the most powerful jobs in the game during the 75 era until it neared the 80+ cap and it finally fell behind. Did it heal and nuke as a efficiently as a WHM/BLM? Nope, but neither WHM nor BLM could support themselves indefinitely in order to solo stuff meant for alliances at the time. No where near until much, much later. People always throw back Avesta since he was the one who actually documented things, but it's been a common thing to the point you MAY have ended up running into a soloer going at a god which delayed your LS's Sky run.

As for housing in XIV, it's too far gone to fix because they'd **** off a lot of players. She kept her sub running but she had to interact with the house in that period in order to keep it. I keep my personal house active incase I want to resell it eventually or convert it to a solo FC and make an airship fleet so I have 8 Ships going at once.

All SE had to do was give everyone a Mog House with 100 slots and have Housing be a case by case basis (namely reserved only for FCs and have SEPARATE personal housing as yoshida said it would have been) and well, you pretty much guarantee a more stable housing on bigger servers because even Apartments were a bandaid fix because on balmung, it was filled up instantly, even more so because people utilize APTs and some houses as RP **** which takes slot of people not caring for RP but wanting an APT/House.

Maybe in 4.0 in the server uprgade things will change.

I started a fresh character in XI a while back and going through all the old missions and unlocks was a lot of fun. You might enjoy that.

And make sure you play on Asura.

I have not heard a thing since the screens shots. allot of people asking too...

You won't hear anything until Nexon decides to. It's similar to how we heard jack all about Maplestory 2 aside that it exists and they just materialized it out of nowhere essentially.

Two companies who hate telling players information teaming up is the ultimate silence.



On Quetz and Asura the main hangouts are West Adoulin and Mhaura. But people tend to be out CPing and such.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2017 11:34am by Theonehio

Yea I heard Mhaura before too...




Yea I heard about Reddit being there. I keep up more with FFXI than FFXIV lately.
Is BG there too?




Edited, Feb 2nd 2017 3:22pm by Nashred

While my stance on RDM melee back in the day is well known by the old timers, it wasn't really what I meant when inferring to not playing the game as intended. I'm talking more about stuff like, yeah, tickling Genbu to death with Bio over 4 hours and other behaviors that inevitably led to things like rage timers, blanket debuff immunities, flee speeds, super HP/TP regens, draw ins, depops, and so on. We can say someone wanting to test their limits is natural, and such things are an inevitable byproduct, but when players start getting held back because they don't subscribe to that malleable endgame player standard, or simply may not be skilled/geared enough to pull it off, you start running into trouble.

Taking the stance that it never personally happened to you or you never saw it (on your server) does not mean the behavior the didn't exist. From my own perspective, RDM was my main then, and with that came the ambition to maximize it as I could through gear. And yes, that meant chasing things "not expected of the job" at times, which translated to people being unwilling to help (because they didn't see the point), assigning priority if something was more useful to another job/person (even if rarely played) and thusly strung along even if I planned the event or kept track of ToDs, or that I should just solo the **** because I totally wanted to take an hour+ to do something I could otherwise do in 10-15m if some folks weren't such richardmuffins. Basically, so much of this headache could've been avoided if SE never invented Utsusemi or reacted much more quickly to the behavior, even if just through better monster AI.

Otherwise, various XI "features" just being people making due isn't really something to be praised. I felt for SMNs who didn't want to main heal. I empathized with WHMs who just wanted to be invited TO heal. I wanted THFs to be more than just getting invited at the last minute to land TH. I had more than my share of feedback to throw at SE, be it here or on the OF once it was a thing, but sometimes you get players too freakin' stubborn to accept change, those who can't really agree on potential solutions, or just want to **** on an idea because of who presented it even if it really was good. SE's a glacier when it comes to fixing issues, unless said issues actually work to the player's benefit. Then that shiz is hotfixed faster than Rog could belittle a poster for asking a question in =10.

Put another way, when I play Tetris, I want to play Tetris and not Candy Crush. When players start deviating from intent enough, yeah, you do start to potentially see two different types of games being played.

Just started a new character on Asura and joined an LS that supposedly only focuses on 75 content haha

If you switch to merit mode instead of exp mode, you can effectively cap your character at level 75. Since FFXI stayed at the level 75 cap through most of it's life, there's still a ton of content. If you wanted to go harecore vqnilla you'd have to avoid using certain storage options, homepoint warps, ect. It's doable though.

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FWIW, there are many of us who play both ways. I'm limited in the fact that I have to keep certain jobs at 75, but I still run content at level 75 cap. Keep in mind that while there have been quite a few quality of life changes, there is still a lot of low level content that is still difficult.



Edited, Feb 6th 2017 3:27am by FilthMcNasty

Looks us up we should be there in the next week or two. Most likely this weekend.
House stuff is getting caught up.
Almost logged back in this weekend and would have if not for the superbowl.

Cool. My character name is Raphan.

Not sure yet if we are starting new we still need to finish up some of the older content on our current character but are considering it in the future.
I actually found out my a bunch of my old LS are back on Phoenix too...
I may check in on them too see whats up?

Welcome to the Catch 22 of MMOs.

Like it or not, it's one of those reasons I'm a big advocate of alternative progression methods. If you don't find a good guild/linkshell that could help you, you'd still have a means to grow. If you don't meet ever changing, unknown PUG standards, you'd still be able to do something about it. I have no issue with (coordinated) groups getting the loot faster, but right now, the only thing really holding it back is the paranoia no one would ever group then. Which naturally segues into the argument that if group content is so un-fun that good carrots are absolutely required to coax participation and people really don't want to help after they got theirs, well, it seems more like we've got some fails somewhere.