FFXI/WoW Feud? Why?Follow

well it'd sorta be like posting a FFXI is better than WoW on this forum. You may have your very good personal reasons but It's gonna get flamed cuase of where you posted it.

no idea... ppl are strange that way...

they don't want a change... to know that they are wrong...

no biggy tought, to each has it's own way.

Because a lot of decent people are leaving FFXI for WoW, at least to try it. It's "hurting" a lot of people that their friends are "abandoning" them for, GASP, another game. What it comes down to is our own personal hubris; those that really love FFXI are "fulfilled" by it's trappings: I'll call it the "appreciation of the grind." Or it simply could be a sort of jealousy that someone could drop an account with the same amount of playtime and effort, but they can't?

The reason for the hate is multifaceted and we'll never really know why it's there. Frankly, for me, I was unhappy playing FFXI and I needed a change. I haven't cancelled yet, but, who knows...perhaps next week?

I think this occurs because some players within these games invest much of their self-image in their in-game accomplishments which leads to them feeling insulted whenever someone says anything negative about their respective game.

People need something on which to base their self-image. I run into people at work who refuse to admit they are wrong because they have invested a bit too much in their pivot tables or whatever, and I find the same personality types in MMORPGs.

It's extremely sad to observe folks who take personal offense to opinions held by others about video games. On the flipside, it's also an uplifting experience, because I can say to myself, "Glad it ain't me."

Sometimes, it's just fun to argue about topics like these. People who love FFXI will defend it to the death, while WoW lovers will do the same. It's like catching bugs and putting them together so they can duke it out...it's fun to watch. When I was an FFXI player, I too defended it for a time. The problems I had ran into were easily resolved by complete avoiding what I was doing that caused the problem( i.e. Had a lot of trouble finding/creating groups to level up in. Then one day -POOF- went bst!). Maybe some see it as trying to convert other people, which is very wrong. People cross over from one thing to another for their own reasons. You could try to convince a friend to stop playing FFXI and play WoW, but if they really like FFXI they will stay with it. Unfortunately for Aacra, the village idiot, I successfuly converted. Behold my 68+24 CHA!

How dumb must one be to have an idiot correct you? :P

Yes you did make a big scene outta that post, then went on with all your "facts" of why FFXI sucks, half or so being false too. You obviously wanted attention, and if you didnt expect those responses then that's pretty ignorant. That or you just like stirring things up.

Wuss.

Edited, Fri Nov 26 02:14:57 2004 by Seanwhirley

Oh let me count the ways for you.


1.) It was posted in an FFXI Forum.
2.) It mentions WoW being possibly better.

3.) This one is long. When WoW started getting closer a large portion of the FFXI community here was hoping all the morons, losers, idiots, and bad players would go to WoW. Instead good players from FFXI started leaving. Players that had put in ALOT of time into FFXI were all leaving for WoW, I have seen people from level 30-72 (yes a level 72 quit FFXI for WoW) coming to WoW.

4.) We do the same thing most of the time when people from other MMORPG's try telling us their MMORPG is better and WoW sucks. Kinda like trying to convert a Christian minister to a Pagan, you know it won't work but you try anyways and you only end up pissing alot of people off.

People from my linkshell were 75, had multiple AFs, abjuration, god armor, Rank 10 in a few cities, Zilart missions done, a good portion of Promathia done -- and still left for WoW. Maybe they just ran out of things to do. :/

One reason why alot of FFXI players might hate WoW is because they are losing alot of players to it. I came from FFXI, and I know personally that alot of my friends really didn't want me to quit for a new game. I know that if I still really loved WoW and some brand new game started taking all my online friends off WoW and onto that new game, I might hold a little resentment towards it. Just my 2 cents.

Well, that was my post. I got lots of hate for that, but I guess I overstepped my boundaries in the ffxi board--I just spent the last year of my life playing ffxi and posting there so I figured I could talk amongst my peers.

I think many will migrate to WoW and that's why it's causing so much stir right now. But FFXI just got so negative I was hoping to influence some of the hardcore players to try WoW.

This board is great so far, not 7/10 negative posts like the ffxi boards lol.

Why bother to even compare at all?

IMHO, these are two totally different games that I find hard to draw straight lines of comparibility between. I played both, and will continue to play both until I achieve my goals in FFXI and then move full time into WoW. I guess you can call me a fence sitter :), becuase both games have pros/cons and it is those which keep my playing both.

Don't rate me down for this, please. It's just something I observed.

Alot of the players I encountered on FFXI seemed conceited and bitter, perhaps because of the long waits for parties. On many occasions, I saw FFXI players talk about how much other MMORPG's suck. I heard, quite often, how "Anyone who doesn't leave EQ for FFXI is retarded". I know someone who was interested in WoW, and my linkshell made it nearly a priority to inform him how much FFXI was superior to all other MMORPG's. They didn't even make points, just the usual slander you'd find on the internet about things being "gay".

Also I got yelled at because I thought it was a bad idea to put all players from all countries onto the same servers, if only for the language barrier. I have no problem with japanese people, I just think it's a bad idea to put english speaking players and japanese speaking players on the same servers. I said this once, and was nearly thrown out of my party.

I'm not saying all FFXI players exhibit these traits, but the ones who did made themselves apparant rather quickly.