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none of the final fantasy games aged well really, which is a shame. i tried to play through vii again recently and couldn't do it.
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It's cool they might finally get an expansion, though, given its been almost five years since the last proper expansion. It's been these life support add-ons ever since.
FFXI's "trilogy" story is AMAZING, though, and if there's one thing I'd love SE to do its to take that rich story and rebuild it around a single player game.
And fix RNG, but I know they'd never do that.
It's cool they might finally get an expansion, though, given its been almost five years since the last proper expansion. It's been these life support add-ons ever since.
FFXI's "trilogy" story is AMAZING, though, and if there's one thing I'd love SE to do its to take that rich story and rebuild it around a single player game.
And fix RNG, but I know they'd never do that.
I thought they shut the servers for this game down not long after FF14 came out. Speaking of 14, why the hell are they releasing content for this game when they should be focusing on clearing up that mess?
I'm still waiting for FFXIV's super-big-game-changing update to hit, as that game had promise but was CRAP. Looking forward to a more polished version of it!
@Scrustle
Because they are doing both simultaneously. Not sure why it wouldn't occur to you that there might be a different team in the same company working on FFXI.
Because they are doing both simultaneously. Not sure why it wouldn't occur to you that there might be a different team in the same company working on FFXI.
FFXI was a nice game, FFXIV not so much. I'd be willing to play FFXI again but I'm not sure if it's alive enough, maybe they should do a promo to bring people in, a discount on the subscription for a few months would be nice. I guess they hope an expansion will be enough. Never finished the story and I'd like to see all of it.
As for FFXIV I'll be willing to try it again once 2.0 comes out, they better give a free month to the people who bought the game when it came out so they can check it out again.
As for FFXIV I'll be willing to try it again once 2.0 comes out, they better give a free month to the people who bought the game when it came out so they can check it out again.
@Shinobi13: It's easily one of the best MMOs. Cross platform between two consoles and PC, language support for international parties, fantastic story and art design. Just the 200 song OST along qualifies it as one of the best MMOs.
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@Shinta
SE has made some mind-bogglingly stupid decisions with the game in the past (I blame Tanaka after seeing the trainwreck that was FFXIV's initial release), but even with that I have to say that I can't think of another MMO that I got into as much as FFXI. The story really was excellent, even SWotR with it's highly-touted focus on story didn't really hook me like that game did.
@Xelotath
I think everybody is getting a free month trial for 2.0 regardless, and if you actually paid for 3 months subscription time within a certain timeframe you have access to a (lifetime?) discount on the subscription. I was at 2 months before I stopped and am getting some crysta to pay for one more month just for that.
SE has made some mind-bogglingly stupid decisions with the game in the past (I blame Tanaka after seeing the trainwreck that was FFXIV's initial release), but even with that I have to say that I can't think of another MMO that I got into as much as FFXI. The story really was excellent, even SWotR with it's highly-touted focus on story didn't really hook me like that game did.
@Xelotath
I think everybody is getting a free month trial for 2.0 regardless, and if you actually paid for 3 months subscription time within a certain timeframe you have access to a (lifetime?) discount on the subscription. I was at 2 months before I stopped and am getting some crysta to pay for one more month just for that.
@Xelotath I deactivated my account and played up until a few months ago again and they were a lot of people in my server. It's don't feel empty at all.
I don't get how FFXI could have been so successful, while FFXIV was initially a catastrophic failure. Wouldn't they want to just take FFXI as a foundation, improve the graphics engine, and adjust the mechanics to make it more convenient, playable, and modern? It sounded like they actually went in the opposite direction.
@Fyrebrand It's as if they completely ignored everything they learned in their previous games. All the issues 14 has are almost identical to 11's problems at launch.
The FFXI community was by far the best of any MMO. I miss the game terribly, but I don't think it would be the same if I went back.
Remember, FFXI did well, but it was competing against WoW. They made a sequel at a time, when it wasn't warranted. FFXIV was left in the dust because they wanted to differentiate themselves from WoW, but failed.
@scaraba I don't really feel like XI competed with WoW. XI came out first and stylistically was not even remotely similar. They may have tried to create a
New MMO experience in XIV since there are about a million EQ/WoW clones, and in that quest to create uniqueness, XI had no depth at the start. But that's just an opinion.
New MMO experience in XIV since there are about a million EQ/WoW clones, and in that quest to create uniqueness, XI had no depth at the start. But that's just an opinion.
@scaraba I guess the second part is basically what you were saying so I guess we feel the same way after further review lol.
I would happily get back into this. If only I knew whether or not people actually still played this.
A Dark Knight walks into a bar. He misses. Ohohohohoho~.
Anywho, for those wondering why they're still pushing out content for XI despite XIV existing, both games are developed by separate development teams and both have paying subscribers. XI gets its updates, as does XIV. They're completely independent of each other.
Anywho, for those wondering why they're still pushing out content for XI despite XIV existing, both games are developed by separate development teams and both have paying subscribers. XI gets its updates, as does XIV. They're completely independent of each other.
I just started playing again i missed my bard an cor lol, i still enjoy XI very much ive played on and off since the games launch.
I got back into FFXI semi-recently. It has become almost insultingly easy to level up these days. You can now solo without it taking years, and if you party up and farm "pages", the game practically showers you with levels.
I'm at about 60 with my White Mage, and after I get it to 91 at least (and finish the last cap quest), I'm gonna go into overdrive getting every job to at least 75 so I can get all those Achievements on the 360 version.
I would definitely recommend it to anyone that found the original game too hard or time-consuming, but probably tell any vets to go ahead and stay away unless you're looking for a more casual experience than you remember.
I'm at about 60 with my White Mage, and after I get it to 91 at least (and finish the last cap quest), I'm gonna go into overdrive getting every job to at least 75 so I can get all those Achievements on the 360 version.
I would definitely recommend it to anyone that found the original game too hard or time-consuming, but probably tell any vets to go ahead and stay away unless you're looking for a more casual experience than you remember.
Err.. I was going to say how cool this would be, becasue FFXI is a great MMO.. Then i read its just a rumor on a thought, mixed with a hint of prayer.
I mean, cool if its true that this is a FFXI expansion. To be real honest FFXIV shouldn't have ever been a thing and they should have kept going with changing and making XI better.. But Square uses the same names and shit all the time, Adoulin, despite being from FFXI, could really be for anything, including FFXIV..
Which, maybe not so ironically, when you think about it wouldn't the name mean a whole lot if it WAS for FFXIV? I mean, most people who played that game wanted to go back to XI any way, even if they never played XI at all....
". Considering data-miners have found a ton of unfinished content in the game recently, this could easily be a possibility."
Well, it could be, but again, seriously, every MMO, hell, every game, has unused/unfinished stuff littering its data files.. Its easier for them to just leave that crap in then waste time and funds taking it out.
overall, it'd be great, but this is the sort of hope that leads to disappointment. I'd rather just wait and see.
"Dark Knights for life!"
As a former Paladin, we're going to have to agree to disagree :)
I mean, cool if its true that this is a FFXI expansion. To be real honest FFXIV shouldn't have ever been a thing and they should have kept going with changing and making XI better.. But Square uses the same names and shit all the time, Adoulin, despite being from FFXI, could really be for anything, including FFXIV..
Which, maybe not so ironically, when you think about it wouldn't the name mean a whole lot if it WAS for FFXIV? I mean, most people who played that game wanted to go back to XI any way, even if they never played XI at all....
". Considering data-miners have found a ton of unfinished content in the game recently, this could easily be a possibility."
Well, it could be, but again, seriously, every MMO, hell, every game, has unused/unfinished stuff littering its data files.. Its easier for them to just leave that crap in then waste time and funds taking it out.
overall, it'd be great, but this is the sort of hope that leads to disappointment. I'd rather just wait and see.
"Dark Knights for life!"
As a former Paladin, we're going to have to agree to disagree :)
I thought this game was dead? Maybe it got a new influx of users when FF14 turned out to be so damn awful.
Expansion confirmed! :D Also, called geomancer as one of the next likely jobs about 5 or 6 years ago. They seemed to have dropped ps2 support completely as well, which means they can do a ton of updates they've been wanting to do for years but couldn't.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/adoulin/index.html
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/adoulin/index.html
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