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No, there aren't nearly enough of them. I honestly thought this was going to be a complaint topic. I am happy to be wrong.

Yep, I'm excited too. It's funny, 3 months ago I knew almost nothing about ARR, having quit playing XIV just before they started charging. Once I saw the information that's been out, I've been growing steadily more excited about the game. People can talk negative all they want, it's not going to change my enjoyment of the game. As you said, it will have its shortcomings as all games do, but I think the positives will far outweigh the negatives. I have to commend Yoshi-P, when he first started I really didn't know if he could pull off an almost entire game redesign, but from what I've seen, he's done that admirably.

I'm very excited to get my hands on the beta in June.



Agreed. This was a nice change of pace.

Edited, May 13th 2013 8:47am by BartelX

On my very first day of logging into FFXI for the first time having no clue what I was doing, standing outside the city in East Ronfare I waved to another player. That wave turned into so much more, got invited to their linkshell with a lot of helpful people and they directed me to this web site. At the time I thought it was a secret site that only a handful knew about. I was so wrong but the site grew on me. I used the recipe section among reading the posts for years to come.

My very first post was when ZAM was giving away beta keys to the v1 beta. All though not directly at me was meet with semi-harsh response talking about being a sock, troll looking for a invite when others with tons of posts were trying to get in. It took me some time to get used to the community on a talking basis but it wasn't all that difficult and would like to think I was accepted into the community as someone who is helpful to others.

Someone said or I heard that saying you first mmo will be great as no others will be like it. And it has been, FFXI was my 1st, WoW 2nd, and a few others I played. Have been using this site for years with FFxi & WoW and used it for the short time I played v1 in FFXIV. Guess you can say I'm a fanboy or whiteknight for ZAM. While there are other sites out there with a lot more information, the people I've come to know on here help with that shortcoming.

It's part of my procrastination sequence as well. :D

You can still have a real life and be excited for an mmo. I work 40-50 hours a week, have a fiance, and hang out with friends and family every weekend. We go places and do things, yet I'm still very excited for this game.

I don't really sleep a ton, so I can actually still be semi-hardcore for an mmo. I'll probably still be able to put in 20+ hours a week once it's out. Of course, it certainly helps that my job is crazy easy and I can play at work sometimes. One of the few pluses of working for a small business.

Working from home means never having to miss an NM's spawn window.

Hehe, if needed I could probably do that here at work. I have a laptop and a desktop here, so I can do my work on the desktop and run FFXIV on the laptop. I'm not good at actually "working" if I work from home, so I don't mind coming into the office.

Yeah, it's not easy to stay on task with so many distractions just a click away.

I actually quite enjoyed fishing in 1.0, and from what I've heard, they basically revamped the mini-game for all crafts, making them a bit simpler, but seemingly more enjoyable as well. I haven't seen the interface for fishing anywhere, but I'm assuming it got a similar overhaul to the others, and should be quite user-friendly and engaging. At least I hope so.

Me too, I loved fishing in XI (106 + ebisu). I hope the 2.0 version is as enjoyable, the exploration aspect of trying catch specific fish was always something I enjoyed in XI.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the way people feel about the game but; I've actually slowly shied away from final fantasy threw the years but I always whent back and bought and played any re releases of the older to mid history games. I shied away from XI mainly because of my schedule. When XIV was announced I was all in but certain things made it harder and harder to enjoy my self in the game, But I still enjoyed it. The other day I whent threw a video on YouTube the history of final fantasy. It made me realize that I really enjoyed the older (up to the IX) games. And I think this game (ARR) brings that back for me. I'm probably wrong but that's the feeling I have for (ARR).

I was excited once, but then I took a delay in the knee.