Will FFXI last?Follow

SE is gonna let this die ...if they dont bring in new blood simple

for the whole FFXI / WoW thing going on right now.

I played FFXI for 2 years, great game, awesome community, @#%^ing hate being lfg for hours on anything other than my rdm.

I play WoW now, I run 1-2 hour instances (like dynamis) to get all my gear, I do not farm for a week,or buy gil. when I log on, I dont LFG for 2 hours hoping for a party, I go grind out a level, or run instances with whoever is looking to run one,we all gain a level,and some nice gear.

I also go into capture the flag matches, its alot of fun, I also like the arena battles, helps you get better for versing mobs,and real other players.
I duel my friends and people I dont know, we tell each other "good duel" and share some tips, its alot of fun.

I can do battlegrounds ,like CTF matches, territory matches, and other fun fights between the horde and alliance. I get my nice gear, instead of farming for it for 1-4 weeks(depending on how good you are) like FFXI's Scorpion
Harness.

WoW is a fun game , leveling two characters at a time (read: jobs) can take the repetition out of the game, if battlegrounds, instances, and crafting havent already.



FFXI : the hardcore gamers' game

LFG long time on many jobs

waiting 1-30 hours to get a ingame mob for a item you have a 1%-45% of getting.

quests usually reward nothing to little.

Crafting is the size of a game on its own,but the same select items, craft,

repeat x 10,000 to 100 skill. ( about 30 seconds per crafting item too)

Lacks a lot of player verse player fighting, and fun verse battles.

FFXI has a great community

Beating that hard boss is awesome, and is very rewarding.

Takes a good chunk of skill, only decent people are able to make it past lv 10
, weeds out retards and asshats.

Can not be casually played on many jobs, even beast is a little eh, if you only have an hour.


WoW: newbie to hardcore players

Little to no LFG for anything.

has a built in,easily accessible PvP system, lots of fun.

half the people you meet type like "u" "r" "2".

Is meant to be casually played.

Costs less, no fee for extra characters, ( you can make literally 200+ characters without added fee)

Is not grinding out experience with your party, solo is much better

You can run instances for all your gear, takes alot of team work, they are very fun, unless you do it 3 or so times a day. you also gain experience in these.

Can do battles with the opposite faction,its fun,and gets you really good rewards.

Have options for experience and leveling, you can quest, solo(and gain loads of gold too) , or do instances( little less experience about 2 times faster, and really nice items).

Can meet some great people in the game.

Classes are well balanced and diverse.

May get boring if you play it for 4+ hours a day.

less effort is put in usually( WoW still has some tough to solo mobs that drop rare items !). with little effort ,comes less happiness out of the item.




I favor WoW with the time I have, Lots of things to do, just like FFXI, but I do not seek for 5- 10 hours for missions / some jobs exp.

grinding for hours with a party is boring after the first hour, I rather quest with some friends and have a nice time.

The economy is very nice. not very low,or very high likes FFXI's goes with rmt bannings.

and lastly, I dont waste time, I can always be doing something with someone because there is alot of people playing( one reason why you seek for anything on FFXI for a long time).

I like FFXI, but to get all the great stuff, you gotta be a casual player with a static, or your 2 hour FFXI day all planned out. Or your a hardcore gamer, who wastes 5-6 + hours on the game, and need to get some help,or hang out with friends.

I played FFXI 3-4 hours a day, seeking on thief for usually 1-3 hours.

Now I play WoW, I have a guild, I can hop on the game casually and get a good amount of worthwhile playing in.

Last of all

I have fun.

FFXI , is 4/5 job/talking to coworkers(players) and 1/5 fun.

No I wont join you with my rdm to wait 1 hours for you to make a party.
I'm going to go enjoy myself, not sitting around ,looking like im afk when I'm actually "playing" the game, ( by the way, seeking is not playing the game, its a horrible waste of time,unless you do other things while seeking.





For you FFXI players that have a good pc, pick up WoW, get to lv 20 on your trial account,and see how you like it, and as always take anything in moderation.

I like FFXI and all, but it only has the PvE aspect, and I hate sitting around, wasting my time trying to get a party started for some exp.

I put too much effort into my FFXI life to let it die, but for now . I play WoW, I have tons of fun, and am able to easily balance real life, and MMO life because now I dont wait 1 extra hour for that 4 hour pop to happen.

Good day to you all, rate downs are ok, I sorta expect them. Give WoW a try if you havent.

But dont come here and say "I heard it gets boring quick, and its too easy"

because you have no knowledge of it, try it , or shut up,get to 60,then come back here and talk.

Zobar of FFXI, Siren Server.

Edited, Jan 25th 2007 1:08pm by FFGamer

well I would hope not since I just started but it seems a solution would merging servers together... like two of the lowest population ones together or somthing like that

Combining some servers might help with the low level shortage, but think about what it would to the high level situation. End game experience areas are fairly crowded as it is, what will happen when you take the populations of one server and jam them into another one? Something should be done about the shrinking low level population (if there's anything that can be done, anyway), but merging the server populations is not the answer.

sorry to sound so noobish but how are you able to check how many players are playing on the current server your on? besides that where do all the higher level usually hang out at? My only guess would be Jeuno

I'm sorry you decided to quit over this, but the MPK update didnt do anything to the overall sever population, for 2 reasons. 1, BSTs make up absurdley low percentile of the FF population. And 2, most ppl enamored with BST overcame the update, even learned to exploit it, rather than run away crying about being nerfed. You want an update that made ppl quit left and right? The RNG nerf lol. I tell you now a helluva lotta 14 year old wannabes quit in the weeks follwing that nerf.

Today I see mostly established players on my (Fenrir) server. But that's also because I, myself am an established player. Undoubtedly there are still new players to the came. And also very casual players that 2 years in have not reached 75. However, I also know that most of the ppl I know in game are closer to ending their careers than beginning them. Many of my friends have reached a point where either they have acheived lvl 75 in the many jobs they wanted to play, or have completely maxed out 1 job in all phases of the game and therefore are beginning to wrap up their careers. IMHO all it will take for FFXI to die almost completely is a new S/E (preferably Final Fantasy) MMO. The ppl playinf FFXI today are ppl that enjoy the depth of story and challenge that Square/Enix prides itself with providing. This is a market that other Mainstream MMOs has not been able to begin to compete with. If FFIX comes out as a MMO... goodbye FFXI, you'll see tens of thousands of ppl moves overnight,

You'll have to be more specific. Do you have a DVD player in your PC? Have you tried opening up the game in My Computer?

There are indeed things that can be done in a relatively short time frame, but I think are just too focused on certain aspects (like "Must do sky/HNM or nothing"). You can be pretty helpful in helping people and crafting within a 3 hour time frame, and do Assaults too.

I think even if you level only like twice or three times per week, you will still get 75 in a reasonable time frame -- like 4-5 months. I have known people can do 2 75 jobs when I can do only one ; ; that was just nutty @_@, but there is no need to follow the way they play. As long as you are being nice and responsible to the community, you can do whatever you want in the game with little fear.

All I'll say is WoW and FFXI is Fruit BUT

WoW = Apples

FFXI = Oranges

There in the same Category but different flavors. Stop putting the square peg in the triangular hole.

I apologize if those were bad anologies. Can't stop the comparo-war but hopefully give understanding to the difference as many ppl have done(just had to put my input a little late^^).

*I wish I knew about Pikko's pots 3 years ago so I knew about having to check on plants I didnt know they needed to be loved ;) Most plants ended up looking like my front lawn.

See ya in Vanadiel ~

Hi,
I plan on playing FFXI for as long as it supports PS2. After that I'll play single player games.



Also,
It would appear that these threads about FFXI going under, are being introduced at the same time gil sellers are being caught faster and faster.

i completely agree with Arenthon. i would really like to see a new server with only new characters.

SE is most likely quoting the number of actual primary Content IDs while FFXIAH also shows mule characters. For example I use a main character and 4 mules and I don't believe that this is too far from the average.

On a seperate note I have been playing for more then 2 1/2 years now and have played most of the jobs to a fair degree at least. As such I think I can honestly say that, for some job choices at least, FFXI is poorly suited for people who can only play for 1-3 hours at a stretch. For example, the probability of my managing to gain meaningful XP on my Drg in that amount of time would approach the vanishing point, in fact I would be fortunate to even get in or start a party in that amount of time these days let alone get to camp and gain any XP. This is nothing against FFXI, I gave WOW a try and it wasn't for me but then I am fortuante enough to be able to invest the kind of time that FFXI requires and prefer it. Nevertheless, I would have to say that WOW is better suited for those who are unable to make the relatively huge time commitment that FFXI requires, particularly after level 50. Even for me, note the number of jobs I have at or near the 50 mark, LFG for hours on end is just not my thing and tends to lead me to just try another job out or switch over to Bst!



Edited, Feb 5th 2007 10:20am by Bladestriker