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1 300 in a craft in one day ? Hmm ... <_<
I pulled level 58 wood working in one day on FFXI.
2 GMs ? Meh, I think they forgot to hire them ...
Yes, this is one of the things that bothers me too, the GM’s are way too slow. But! At least when they finally get to you they help, unlike FFXI’s GM’s.
3 Servers 2 hours online, 22 hours down per day. You don't like the 8-hours/month updates of FFXI ? BE happy that it only last 8 hours, and that they make an annoucement 1 week before the server shutdowns.
This is a new game, FFXI was like this when it came out, newb.
4 30CP per item through the delivery ? OMG !
Omg? FFXI charges you thousands to put an item on the AH.
5 Lag. Always. Everywhere. Sometimes I even "get" the quest 2 minutes after I "accepted" it ...
I’ve had this problem, but it hasn’t been as bad lately… the servers are slowly getting corrected.
6 A party ? What's this ? 6 peoples running around, slapping random mobs ? Pff ...
FFXI takes no more skill than in WoW, you’re just a newb.
7 NMs ? Spawn rate = 5 mins ... Cool ! Drop rate = about 1% ... *bam*
Nm spawn rate = 5 minutes? You’re completely stupid, find some proper things to complain about. Those are not NM’s they’re quest based monsters.
8 No farming. Yes, negative point. No farming because you can't sell these damn "rare" items per AH or Trade. So you must obtain you friggin' Agi+6 dagger by killing this NM that drops it 1/1000 time ... You don't spent 30 hours farming gils to buy your item, you spent 30 hours camping the NM to get it.
You don’t pick the corpses after you kill a monster? I’d call that farming, idiot.
9 There are already gilsellers on WoW.
Do you know why there are gold sellers? Because everyone has noticed you can make real money off a game by selling the currency. You’re too stupid, I should just stop here >.< but I won’t.
10 ALT+TAB ? Non-secured executable ? Meh. In 2 months everyone will hack.
There’s a program called windower on FFXI, you can already hack on FFXI… you can’t stop it, the company will do their best to prevent it.
11 "Oh, I'd like to try Priest, looks funny ^.^!" *Have to create another char and start over* "Damn ..."
So? Your new character is free, what’s the problem with this?
12 "Let's see ... Weapons > Daggers ... Huh?! What's this tiny list ?! Weapons > Swords ; Weapons > Staves ; ... I understood <_< ...
Huh? There are tons of weapons, Axes, Staves, swords, knives, guns, wands… the list goes on.
13 "OMG look ! so much quests !" "w00t ! I'll try some :D" -> "Go kill 10 mobs." *10 mobs after* "Go kill 20 mobs now." *20 mobs after* "Go kill 12 mobs and a boss" *5 days later* "Go kill 5478 mobs and 178 boss" *suicide*
Oh. I’ll go do this mission… walks in -> Elemental seal + Sleepga II, pick off each monster…
14 Every important notes are on every side on your screen. 2 tiny windows, a chat one, a battle log one. Now I'm happy when I play back in FFXI and have an unique window on the bottom of the screen, with everything important displayed in and near it (PT status, Mob status, etc ...).
- No "Locking" on a mob.
- No Mithras. No Tarus.
I don’t miss locking, you get to see the stats of monsters.
I miss Mithra, Taru, Hume girls… but guess what? You bought this game, it’s a completely different but… yet again, you’re too stupid to understand anything. Have a nice day.
Sorry to waste my breath, but I had to reply to this.
1. I think the point the OP was trying to make was that WoW's crafting system is rather "light" compared to FFXI. You said you got to 58 Woodworking in a day. Did you consider trying to get to 68? Or 78? Of course not. Because across the board, the first 60 levels of every craft are relatively easy. There is a reason you are allowed to take every craft to 60 without any penalty.
Whereas in WoW, the crafting system is generally much simpler, and doesn't yield many of the rewards, or even offer the complexity (randomness? lol) of the FFXI crafting system.
2. GMs are terrible in both games. That's all I have to say about that.
3. Not sure about this one. WoW had, and still has some terrible downtime, but I wasn't around at the launch of FFXI. Not sure you have a ton to gain calling someone "newb" though.
4. I was dissapointed with the delivery tax as well. Also, WoW also charges you to put things on their auction houses.
5. Lag: probably related to number 3. Newer game, server difficulties.
6. FFXI does have a stronger based grouping system, which is both an advantage and a flaw. Once again, not sure about calling someone "newb", whatever floats your boat.
7. NMs. I absolutely agree this one. I hated WoW's drop system. Pieces of equipment that you want randomly drop off of mobs, sometimes at a rate below 1%. The percentage of monsters that drop blues starts to change later in WoW, once you get into instance crawls,but it's still kind of disturbing. Make's FFXI notorious monster camping seem fun to me.
8. I pretty much explained this one in point #7. Not sure what calling someone an idiot proves.
9. No comment on gil selling. Usual comment on the name calling.
10. No big deal, can't avoid hacking.
11. I would say the main problem is that you have to have a new character to enjoy a class you want to try. It's simply a different system from FFXI. Many gamers enjoy being able to carry the same name with you, more of a mental thing than anything.
12. Weapons... hmmm, decent amount in both games. No complaints for either.
13. Quests...quest's are really lacking in nearly all modern MMOs. The nature of them makes repetitive. Although I found FFXI's missions, CoP, through Chapter 5, to be very fascinating.
14. I love FFXI's locking, but WoW's UI customization is very nice. Once again, name calling.
In conclusion, you make some ok points for a game you enjoy, but you repeated references to someone who posted an opinion as "idiot" and "stupid" do a lot to undermine any point you may have wanted to make.
EDIT: Slpeling.
Edited, Tue Feb 15 21:37:26 2005 by Germonick