Board 8 > We haven't had an FFXI nostalgia topic in a while [Nick][realo][FFXI]

(+) Yeah! (+)

Still to this day the best MMO to have ever existed. Was the first game I can ever remember playing literally the entirety of a day. Woke up at 8am and was still playing it by 1am the following morning.

Being severely underleveled and travelling from San D'Oria to Juno even though I couldn't even get my chocobo yet.

Nearly getting wiped in the Valkurm Dunes because we were all noobs and didn't know what we were doing and trying to get to the zone before a fucking Goblin killed us. Or often times since I was a tank, I'd pull aggro and run the other direction so the group would survive coz I was awesome like that.

The LITERAL HELL that was the jungle areas. Trying to fight Mandys and suddenly someone comes sprinting to the zone point with LIKE FOUR GOBLINS CHASING THEM. Then when they either die or zone, the Goblins just stand there, WAITING for someone to try and get by ffs.

So many awesome moments with that game. FINALLY getting Paladin after wanting it for so long was a joy.
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Nobody else?
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I played the game a lot.

I played the game a little. Would love to resub when I can justify the time/money.
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Can you even still play it? Does anyone still play?
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Can you even still play it? Does anyone still play?

It still gets monthly updates even. Console versions got shut down over a year ago, but the PC version is still kicking. No more major content - 2015's Rhapsodies of Vana'diel was the last of that - but I just saw a tweet about July's update continuing something called the Ygnas Directive storyline.
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It still amazes me that I managed to sell $18k worth of gil when I quit.

And then when both me and my then wife returned like 6-12 months later it made no difference due to the direction the game had gone in. So we like lost out on nothing.

I played FFXI for years. It was fucking terrible. Shitty leveling that took away EXP if you died and required you to group up with people (good fucking luck if you weren't one of the "better" DPS classes) who might be shit enough to get you killed multiple times in one night. Not to mention that the max obtainable exp from a single mob was 200 (from the highest level monsters), despite the exp required to level increasing exponentially. And the crafting system was shit too. You can only get crystals if you're not too high level, and your faction controls the zone. That game was a fuckibg horrid mess.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

It still amazes me that I managed to sell $18k worth of gil when I quit.

holy christ.
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Espeon posted...

I played FFXI for years. It was fucking terrible. Shitty leveling that took away EXP if you died and required you to group up with people (good fucking luck if you weren't one of the "better" DPS classes) who might be shit enough to get you killed multiple times in one night. Not to mention that the max obtainable exp from a single mob was 200 (from the highest level monsters), despite the exp required to level increasing exponentially. And the crafting system was shit too. You can only get crystals if you're not too high level, and your faction controls the zone. That game was a fuckibg horrid mess.

haters everywhere we go, haters everywhere we go
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See I actually enjoyed the EXP punishment for being killed because it actually felt like your life meant something. Being killed had actual gravity to it, unlike literally every other babby MMO where they hold your hand all the way through level 30.

FFXI felt like a meat grinder but it was REWARDING AS HELL to get through it. Every other MMO I've played lacked that.
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I was still reading gaming magazines when FFXI came out. It's been awhile.

Never played it and always assumed that the project essentially killed Square.
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Well you're completely wrong and you missed out.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

I was still reading gaming magazines when FFXI came out. It's been awhile.

Never played it and always assumed that the project essentially killed Square.

I mean, just a few years ago it was the most profitable Final Fantasy and hasn't gained a rep for needing to pull talent from other teams to get it working (unlike, say, 13 or 14). Plus it's still pulling in subscription fees fifteen years after launch, which is a rare thing among MMOs at this point.
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I meant killed Square in the sense that the project forced them to gut the smaller teams that contributed to the golden age
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The MMOs have more interesting NPCs than the other mainline games now.

ExThaNemesis posted...

ShatteredElysium posted...

It still amazes me that I managed to sell $18k worth of gil when I quit.

holy christ.

Yeah, gil was selling for like $40 a mil at the time and I had 400m+ to sell.

I was one of the leaders for a high end HNMLS and we merced out kills/equipment. The prices people were willing to pay was ridiculous at times, especially after updates. Some members bitched about it but most realized it was far better to sell drops for crazy amounts whilst demand was stupid and then distribute to members once demand died down. Updates were always the best times because you'd get 100m+ for items that would drop down to like 5m within weeks but people are stupid.

Although our best money earner (granted this was long after I cashed out and returned) was Arch Dynamis Lord. ADL always dropped 1-2 marrows. Marrows sold for 30-40m for a solid 6 months because only a handful of people across all servers could kill it and you needed 5 to upgrade your relic. We could generally kill 4-6 ADL's per run and we ran it 2-3 times weekly. The typical LS member who attended every run was walking away with like 40=50m gil a week as we were killing it with like 10 people (the rest of the alliance being account 'mules' who were there solely to either Astral Flow, Soul Voice or use the Corsair 2hr ability to try reset other peoples 2 hour abilities)

Delve was also super fun for a while (again long after I cashed out). We were world firsts on kills for it and had a monopoly on it for a few weeks where people would literally server transfer to us to get the kill. That was because the title from completing Delve enabled you to buy items with points. So not only were we selling the drops for 100m+ per item, we were also charging people 50m+ to literally enter the zone and do nothing in order to get the kill title.

By the time we were farming ADL and Delves, gil was only like $5-10 a mil and I was in a 6 figure job so it was never worth me selling the earnings. Although I know multiple members were unemployed and totally did that.

i played through all the story stuff last year cause i quit 14 and was in the mood for a good rpg. a lot of dated controls and such but still really enjoyed it. shame i didnt bother with it when it was new (except for a bit of tetra master on my brothers account >>)
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so SE, do you still play or are you completely done now?
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I played like 48 hours of this quite a few years ago now.

I intended to get back to it to at least beat the main campaign but it didn't happen :(
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ExThaNemesis posted...

so SE, do you still play or are you completely done now?

I still have my account and the game is still installed but I don't play right now. I basically finished up Rhapsodies of Vanadiel and called it a day as I had finished everything in game at that point and it was a fitting end

I could probably be coerced into playing again as I know some friends still play

If I ever do resub I want to at least do the main stories. I didn't play a whole lot the month I got when I bought the game.
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