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Post by RaymundPhule on Jan 5, 2005 15:23:58 GMT -6
Man 6-8 weeks and I am in FFO with bells on if you know what I mean. I'll still only be able to play a few hours a night because I'll have the Corps and my own business to run, but I will make time to school all you MMORPG noobs out there how it is done. Been playing Online games since I was a sophmore in highschool... yeah I'm a big geek but this is gonna rule!!!
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Post by Iyouboushi on Jan 5, 2005 15:37:01 GMT -6
lol. You can try but FFXI is a little different from other MMORPGs. Unlike UO where you could explore and level your skills by yourself, this game requires you to almost always be in a party (from around level 11 on to the end of the game you have to level in parties; once you're high enough you'll eventually need alliances). But hey, you're welcome to try.
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Post by Iyouboushi on Jan 5, 2005 18:00:20 GMT -6
To celebrate getting all the FFXI-related images back online I thought I'd take two more showing off my paladin and my current stats. Notice that almost everything I wear is a +1 (the San d'Oria bandana is +1, as is the Bastokian Mittens though neither say "+1" because of the length of text they can hold). I think the only things that aren't +1 are the earrings, the pants and the body armor (the +1 of the body armor didn't offer enough to warrant spending 30,000 gil on, especially since I replace it at level 20). And even though it may seem like I'm rich, sitting on 112,000 gil, that's really chump change. If I wanted, I could spend all of that on one item. Actually, I'm not even sure if all that would even afford it. When I say that items are outragously expensive, you better believe me. Items that add accuracy are out there, and if you wanna be a good dark knight/samurai you better be prepared to pay it. Anyway...weeee. Enjoy.
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Post by Smz on Jan 12, 2005 4:34:52 GMT -6
Hm, I really haven't been thinking of FFXI, but it also didn't help that my net decided to die on me. Maybe next week when I finally get it back.
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Post by Dead on Jan 13, 2005 9:05:15 GMT -6
Yeah FFXI just kinda fell by the wayside during the Onslaught of gaming the Holidays (mostly November early releases) brought to the table.. maybe one day I'll fire up FFXI again and play around. (that is if anyone is on there, sucks playing with strangers.) Scott should know that during the whole month since he reactivated my account I have yet to touch FFXI, lol. Sorry for that.
the immature side of me dies laughing at 'Lizard Jerkin' maybe later I'll find some adult websites and do a little of that myself.... j/k.
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Post by Smz on Jan 21, 2005 1:48:25 GMT -6
Eh, that's fine. I'm not really worried about it (wasn't really expecting to suddenly lose interest in it like this).
Meh, I don't know. I suppose I have never really been interested in online only games (Only ones I've really played would be WC3 and RO. D2 really doesn't count in a way since the only time I've played it online was just with James and connecting to his computer).
I guess another factor is that I've never been a social person to begin with. Or rather, perhaps I've gotten even more anti-social recently. I mean, I rarely talk in #Kyoto, though I know I used to talk in #dbzrpg more, but just stopped for some reason.
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Post by Dead on Jan 21, 2005 10:08:35 GMT -6
hehe.. Im similar (at least in FFXI,) I usually wait for someone to ask me to party, then I just attack however I want and if everyone dies.. oopsie. Doesn't help that I picked one of the most social relying types in the game ( Mage...) lol I most times just stand around waiting for people to ask me to join. eh.. most times I get bored with it and end up just turning it off. There really isn't anything in there that has made me go ' WOW I want to play this forever!!!' like the other FF games. I suppose the thing that made me get into this at all was the fact that everyone I knew was checking it out and I felt I needed to also.. eh..
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Post by Iyouboushi on Feb 5, 2005 5:18:24 GMT -6
I quit FFXI. Most of you already know this, but I meant to post my official "reasons" for doing so in this topic. I'll do that now. My decision to quit is for four reasons. First, the obvious game flaws. SquareEnix has had ample time to fix the inflation problems (one scroll might cost you 4.5 MILLION gil! It took me THREE MONTHS just to get 100,000 gil and this was back when the server wasn't nearly as populated or filled with gil farmers! I can't even IMAGINE getting 4.5 million, much less spending it on ONE item!). Something that really urked me was the chinese gil farmers who ruin the game for people (they steal people's monsters, MPK and ruin the economy even further by selling gil to people for real cash), the fishing bots, etc. I poked fun of it slightly within my comic but the problem is way bigger than I've portrayed. It astounds me that Square-Enix is doing nothing about this situation. This alone is just too much on me, but oh there's more. Second, it seems like the linkshell I made is crumbling to dust. Scott and Andy both made the decision to quit. Glenn hasn't been on in months due to school and just being too busy to play (so he's probably quit too since he hasn't even been on to check his messages), and another guy I know hasn't been on either. The only two people who remain are Tolan and Terry (Cal). I think they said they're going to keep playing the game for now. They won't reach a decision on whether or not to quit until later on. In any case, this game is so community-based that without friends it's not fun. Even with those two guys on it's just not enough to make me wanna go out and level up anymore. Third, I'm feeling a lot of regret about making Tolan pay for my account. Being poor sucks. I don't want him to carry the burden anymore. He's been paying for me since I got it. $12 a month for me, plus $13 for him (he has two characters). $25 a month. It adds up real quick. I know he was being nice when we originally agreed for him to pay for it but I think he was expecting things to go a little better and that I'd have already payed him back and be paying for it on my own by now. Since I can't, I feel really bad about it. Fourth, and maybe the most important, I'm just not having fun with it anymore. When I first got it, it was a blast! I played 12 hours straight every day for weeks. There was a bunch of cool stuff to see/do/try/fight. Once you hit level 30 and restart as a level 1 ...well.. you've already seen that stuff; fought those monsters; tried those things. I'm a level 17 paladin, soloed there myself because I knew how bad players are at that level and couldn't stand to spend 8 hours just to end up losing a level. It gets BORING. It seems like in order to get to the good story and stuff you have to be a level 50+ and have 17 other level 50+ friends. As Erin and Kuro both agree, if you don't enjoy it.. don't play it. Even Erin, who has never played it, pointed out that even on console games if all you're doing is leveling up you get really bored with it. She and I were both playing FF6 together (across the phone). We played for about a month. We did all the story elements together up until the last bit where we both needed to level up a bit. About a week later she said she couldn't do it. She couldn't take it anymore. She put it away for four months and tried it again shortly after that and couldn't even stand five minutes of it. Leveling up sucks. Period. And that's all FFXI really boils down to. You level up to 30, pick your class, restart. Repeat it. Occasionally you'll do some cool stuff, like fight the dragon and the big eye, but mostly it's just plain-ol-levleing up. Usually with people whoem you don't know and hate your guts because they feel that they are the most important person and you're just a little worm. Then you'll get yelled at for having out-of-date equipment when the next set of equipment costs you 66,000 gil to buy and you only have 10,000 gil saved up because you can't seem to find a good way to make money because gil sellers have all the best spots. Kuro said it well today when he said "Instead of you beating the game, the game beats you." I've got the bruises to prove it. But don't get me wrong. If you can stand all the leveling up, the huge amounts of competition just to make a gil or two, and the ignorant (and sometimes racist) people then FFXI truly is one of the better-looking (and massive) MMORPGs out there. I've got a lot of good memories from this game, and made a few comics based on it. It's not something I'll forget and it truly was hard for me to say "that's it" but sometimes that's just what you have to do. I'll leave this thread open for those who want to post / comment / talk about FFXI, or whatever.
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Post by Dead on Feb 6, 2005 11:26:28 GMT -6
Why I Quit: see above message.. ;D
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Post by RaymundPhule on Apr 13, 2005 22:35:25 GMT -6
You guys are nuts!!! First off they banned the gil sellers... ohhh WWIII just about got started when all those Chinese guys got banned lol. Anyhow I love this game. It is amazing. I have a lvl 25 RDM and my highest sub is 11 WHM. I just hated being a WHM so much that I couldn't bring myself to finish getting it to lvl 15! Anyhow my plans are to make a RNG/THF, though I do love being an RDM I really hate being the back up healer. I am just not good at sitting back and watching other peoples health. It is too much fun to go in sword swinging. Anyhow... I still think yall are daft for quitting, but seen as how you did and some don't like paying for a game check this out. I play it too and it is not only free but it has okay graphics and is actually a bit of fun to play. www.knightonlineworld.com/Knight Online... serious it is a bit of fun.
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