Poll of the Day > 6802 - Are you one of the 10 million cumulative players of Final Fantasy XIV?

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I was a free trial player for a while, but then stopped, when i had to reinstall windows to my pc.

I play the game on PS4.
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Tried it out for a bit. Could be fun if I played with friends/family.

I'm not cool with paying a monthly fee though

I play it daily. I would be playing it right now, but for some reason I can't stay connected for longer than 5 minutes these days, so I can't queue up for anything.
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Nope. I just started FFXI this month though. God it's painful.
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I was until my family learned my wifi reaches their house, and it became a lag fest because of them leeching. I eventually just stopped.
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Veedrock- posted...

Nope. I just started FFXI this month though. God it's painful.

Why are you playing XI, just play XIV, it has a community of more than 4 people, and it isn't archaic.
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I play ffxiv every saturday. im thinking of playing ffxi. is it free to play yet?
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Have not played since 2.0 because it's a boring as hell casual guild game like WoW.
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I was until my family learned my wifi reaches their house, and it became a lag fest because of them leeching. I eventually just stopped.

Dude, I feel so sorry for you for not having a backbone

papercup posted...

Veedrock- posted...

Nope. I just started FFXI this month though. God it's painful.

Why are you playing XI, just play XIV, it has a community of more than 4 people, and it isn't archaic.

I don't answer to you.
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Played 1.0 for a little bit, didn't really get that far, came back in 2.0 and have been playing on and off ever since. I don't really have the time or patience to sink hours into MMOs anymore but it's easy enough to pick up and play.
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i like the game a lot but my internet is too shitty to play it
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Veedrock- posted...

Nope. I just started FFXI this month though. God it's painful.

what server?
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papercup posted...

Veedrock- posted...

Nope. I just started FFXI this month though. God it's painful.

Why are you playing XI, just play XIV, it has a community of more than 4 people, and it isn't archaic.

a lot more content

xiv might overtake it in content in like 10 years then that one can be played
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XIV has a ton of content, and they add more all the time.
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I've never played a Final Fantasy game.
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papercup posted...

XIV has a ton of content, and they add more all the time.

and yet xi still has more
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Played for several months at 2.0's launch, then several months about half a year later, then several months half a year after that, then at the Heavensward launch, then during a free weekend for an hour or so here and there, then I haven't touched it since and have no desire to.

When a game becomes so much of a grindfest that you play a certain way, or do certain things routinely out of habit to reach weekly caps and not out of a desire to have fun, it becomes work. Running the same content endlessly ceases to be fun a week after a patch drops, and it's supposed to keep you going for 3-4 months.

Basically, when you're playing with friends, you'll have a good time, but I play games that aren't time sinks with friends and have a blast because the gameplay is so good. Judging FFXIV on its own merits, as a game, it's awful. Maybe if combat didn't involve memorizing rotations that maximize dps, or if there was horizontal gear/skill progression, or if endgame content involved individual skill rather than group-wide coordination, I would've enjoyed it more. As is, I can't stand the game.

i got to stormblood expansion this weekend. Woah Woah. i got to say i was kind of disappointed on the ending of heavensword.
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I'm on the Greg server.

In fact, just last night I crafted a bunch of i320 gear for my tanks, save for the chest and leg pieces that I bought previously with tomes. In the next four weeks, I'll do the same for either my healers or for my Bard, and then the other three weeks after that. In the meantime, I still have other combat classes plus Fisher to finish leveling to 70.
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I was until my family learned my wifi reaches their house, and it became a lag fest because of them leeching. I eventually just stopped.

And you couldn't lock or control bandwidth why?
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I'm interested in it, but I would only play if there were no monthly fee.
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