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That's not how MMO players work and you know it.

A lot of it is. As long as you're level 99 you can make really good progress through RoV and pick up a bunch of delicious delicious rhapsodies. You don't really run into difficulty solo until you get to the Adoulin stuff.

And it's unfortunate people jump to the conclusion that people never try.

If my compiling names and servers for XIV here in the past was any indication, actually gathering bodies via the forum here would've been difficult outside of maybe 2-3 servers. The OF probably wouldn't have been much better, as then you start getting into schedules meshing, empty promises, job conflicts, and whatever other reason plans fall apart. And MMOs being what they are, said content isn't just one and done, either.

I'm just going to be conservative and say anything one does with a good guild/static will take at least 3 times longer (group formations, explaining tactics, wipes, etc.) for someone who does not when it comes to the higher end content, presuming they don't give up before then. XI subverts this somewhat when it comes to content without time gating, but XIV is still restricted in such a manner. And while it's easy to say they only need to do something once a week or so with lockouts in play, there still other factors that can inhibit reliable access/success.

What?

"I can't find people to help do the things I want to do"
"I'll go somewhere with more people to make it easier to find people who want to do the thing I want to do"
"Now I can't complain about finding people?"

That doesn't make any sense.

You gotta help yourself too though. I haven't played XI seriously in over a year and everyone I knew who played is gone. I jumped back into the game with a new character and found an active LS within a day. Use FFXIAH or something to network.


Edited, Feb 8th 2017 12:22pm by BrokenFox

People pick a high population server, but they don't want to find people to play with... it doesn't make sense. I agree. It doesn't make sense to me that people can't find other people to help them out.

People are saying they go back and they find active linkshells overnight. I don't really buy that so many people still complain about finding people to clear content.

I am not on Asura but finding a Ls may not be tough but being in one that can do end game may be a different story.. Been hearing a lot about statics on Asura..

Could be why I am reading about so many starting new characters and just starting over. This actually sounds fun to me. I pretty much did scholar and whm as a healer and thought maybe paladin would be cool. Maybe a different city. Tesee hates healer though.

Most end game does not sound that great but I have done none of the new content after Adoulin so I have no opinion.

I'll continue to scorn SE for as long as they demand $18 for server transfers in XI, too. Not everyone wants to toss money at an unsure thing.

Honestly, server transfers should just be free with a long cooldown on them to ensure you aren't somehow being abusive with them. There's no real reason to charge money for them. It's not like someone with a clipboard goes in to the server room with a thumb drive every day to move physical files around.

It's absolutely possible. The idea here though is that you're choosing high pop server to reduce the possibility of not being able to find people. The problem is that many people stop there. They think if they surround themselves with other people it should be easy, but it still requires that you put in a little work finding them.


While I do think that another mass server merge is in order this late in the game's life, the fee for transferring is still less than other MMOs. The wait between transfers is also lower so I feel like it's not that bad.

In FFXI you're transferring a single character and possibly a mule. In other games, you'd be moving more than that since other games generally lock class choice to the character. When I moved to a different region, I had to pay close to $400 to transfer my characters to a server group with a more reasonable latency. $18 compared to $25 sounds like a bargain to me.

Eh, monk is fine, the biggest issue is just hitting the accuracy requirement and since the 2 handed adjustments they're more preferred than single hand/h2h but a lot of melee DD aren't that wanted because of how AoE heavy NMs became post Adoulin, but they can indeed work perfectly fine.

Well we did not make it on this weekend, to much to do with the new house.

I think the transfer price is a little extreme right now too.. I also think the subscription price should come down, it might actually help the game with subscriptions but maybe not.

I do not think there will be a server merge, they would loose to many players. I remember the last one and it was horrible, our server was the one merging so most had to give up their names. Allot of people were really unhappy and some quit the game because they had their name forever. It was horrible. You think you saw someone you knew and it was someone from the other server. Also the people were rude on the new server because they didn't want us.

Actually at this point I think as servers die they will start to take them off line and you can migrate to server of your choice. Server we are on seems to be starting to have some hickups. I doubt they stick any money into a server to fix them at this point.

Honestly I wish they would have just ended the game all together instead of this slow death. I remember reading a long time ago a article but it was on the last days of Vana'diel and it might even been called the last days of Vana'diel. This guy wrote about what it would be like on the last day and walking through Jeuno and saying good bye to your friends and then waiting for the servers to go dark.

I think that would have been better than slow death. I would have loved to say good by one last time instead of my friends just fading away one by one. It would be cool to visit those favorite places in the game and take pics for the future or video, to fight that favorite boss one last time or fish that favorite spot. This is not the way it should go out. Should have been a count down and fireworks, parades, events. it should have been a day to remember.

Any how if anyone knows where that article is I sure would like to read it one last time.

Edited, Feb 13th 2017 9:52am by Nashred

It is pretty dead. My server has almost no one on. One server has a higher population (Asura) but still less than my server had right before I left for FFXIV. To me that is pretty bad.

I saw how much it dropped off after Rhapsodies and then the drop of consoles. My last few times on we were lucky to see one or two people even moving. At night you see some Japanese players. It is dying a slow death and the way it is going most wont even care anymore. I just hate to see a great game go down to this. It needs to go out with a bang not another year when there are a few left on Asura. Now that a few friends are back it might make it hard to change servers again. We shall see what happens.

To me it would give some closure instead of keep going back to a game that is severely gimped and big chunk is nostalgia. Tesee and I will pop in a cd of music from FFXI and get all hyped up to play and than after it just feels flat. You cant capture that feeling anymore of the original. Leveling is to easy even if you cap at 75. I still enjoy the game but also the whole time I play I feel kind of sad. You travel places you loved and spent so much time in like the dunes and it is empty. I think Asura would help us because at least there are people.

Might still be a better game than FFXIV but it just feel so wrong to go down this path. I have talked to a few others who feel the same and a few others that are just happy the game is alive in some fashion or another. It is fine the game means something different to everybody.











Edited, Feb 13th 2017 11:33am by Nashred