Petition Against HNM Monopolization!Follow

Once again, until you get into the HNM realm and know what high end gear is, please don't comment. Changing the way it spawns actually makes it take LESS SKILL to get the equipment. If you can't take pride in the equipment you're wearing, then why bother?



I am not preventing and if you had HNM experience, you would see that.



So you're whining now that high levels don't want to help you and countless others who beg constantly? I help people on occasion but only when I choose to do so. I helped Krack with his PLD AF3 and he offered to craft me anything with leathercraft. Did I take the offer? No.



Farming, crafting, exping, quests, BCNMs, ENMS, missions, etc are what most people are probably doing. Saying people are being selfish for not wanting to help YOU is just ignorant and SELFISH on your part. How about do what we all did and make a PT to get you what you want. We did it, so you can too. Quit being lazy and thinking high levels are REQUIRED to help you because they were once lv1 too. I don't believe in that BS and just pisses me off everytime I hear it.

Yes it takes less skill and more of connection/luck to get the claim. But people have found ways around that.

Edited, Wed Apr 13 14:41:21 2005 by Ayrilana

I said that your posts make you look like if you could prevent them, you would.



I took care not to say "me" after the word "help" in my posts. Read them. I'm complaining about higher level players not helping lower level players, not about these players not helping me. When the situation required someone to help me, like a group, or a higher level player, I would /shout and asked politely the potential people who could help me, and if I faced a decline, I would always answer with the usual {Understood} {Thank you.} {See you again!}, because I KNOW that there are childish people who /tell everyone they meet {gil} {Can I have it?} {Help me out!}.



That's why I'm speaking about that (and strangely me and everyone who speaks the same way get rated down, but I don't care) : I have a bunch of Lv70+ old friends who started to offer their help less and less to their friends/LS, to end in a HNMs LS and completly ignore everyone except their LS.

Also, about the way Ayrilana answered me ... In others words, you said "Shut up, newbz, you're not worth the speech, go back to Valkurm Dunes and let the good players control the world" ... And that's exactly what disgust me with the Lv75 people.

Germonick is right. I tend to have a bad habit of not explaining myself clearly enough so that everyone can see where I'm coming from. I tend to be very opinionated too. I did not mean it to come out like you had thought. I've just seen so many people think they know what HNMs are like and comment about it. I'm sorry if I offended you.

{Gil} {Can I have it?} {Help me out!} {Please}

I thought Timbera sold hers to Lunarian? Timbera had the first one on the server. Will be plenty more now that IRON can kill the wyrm even though it's a pain to get to it. Spending 15 minutes of sneaking, using invisible, and running around mobs with true sight isn't what I'd call fun.

I didn't legride to get it. Although, You both missed the point of my post.


(I did try to solo him once, Buuuut..He turned around and bit me. =x)

The people that just joined a linkshell for certain items.

But, I paid for the items and crafted it myself.

Actually, I had the item far before Draken did. I quit the game before he had it. And, For calling Draken a leech I apologized to him through a friend for it because I had been given the wrong facts. If my friend relayed the message, That's not my problem.


Which,to you, was harder, Bowser? Farming, or going with your LS on HNM/God raids?

You still are only thinking of HNM in money terms, it is not so simple anymore. The day an LS showed up to claim serket and divide the loots are over. LSes like that broke up along time ago. The fact was that for 3-4 weeks AD and Lunies spent 5 hrs plus every Sunday trying to take down Jorm. Why? well just that sense of accomplishment that we want to be the first on the server to defeat it (and I think we were, so I don't see how you could be the first to obtain it). And believe it or not, Draken did participate in the downfall of the Purple snake.

I don't see why then that "farming" for the money give you more rights to that item than someone actually beating the HNM for the drops. Actually like I've said, why even bother comparing the two? the HNM LSes aren't giving the farmers and crafters a hard times about how they made their gil. The fact is in the end you both got that rare items, just thinking your ways of obtaining it has a higher ground over someone else's is a little condescending.

I've seen this sentiment many times. Someone saving up for a certain items getting pissed off cause someone else's LS just "handed" to him. Well I'm here to tell you, I've been in a major HNM Ls for almost 10 months now and I haven't seen anybody handed anything that they haven't worked for. If they happened to get it first, the work they put into LS after that sure would more than enough pay for said items several times over.

Some people claimed "well this would just make you the LS's *****." If you really have that mentality however, then surely you would never understand HNM. Its about using the LS to help build up your character in order to help the LS grow and experience a different part of the game other than just repetitive leveling and farming. As the old saying goes, don't knock it till you try it.

I am sure someone else is gonna say this as well....
If Draken actually killed the mob that drops the ore that makes the body, why is your body cooler? How would you even get it before him? He is in the combined LS that killed the mob and got the ore. I understand that you are just pointing out that you had it first. But you make it seem as if people are just trying to be like you. In actuality, since he stuck his weapon into the fray and helped to defeat Jormungand, his seems a bit cooler than yours or Lunarian's (not trying to discredit either of you. I think you are both swell dudes). On another note; What does this have to do with HNM Monopolization? Just sign the petition and see where it gets us. ^^

I sighted it. Trigger items to spawn them maybe not the best idea. But any other new idea is better than what we have now. ATM, The most important thing you need isn't about skills to kill the HNM. It's about if you can claim it or not. It's more like a competition of if you can find "other way around" to gain advantage on claiming the HNM. Sure you still needs some skill and right jobs to kill it.But ask around, how many LS out there that can kill it but never able to get their hands on it.

SE is buisness. FFXI is losing large amount of player due to many factors. Knowing why they release the newly "Return Home to Vana'diel"? Because it starts to get to their attention. And at this rate, FFXI won't last for another 5 years. This petition probably going to hit right on the nail to gain their attention into this issue. I don't care how they fix it or what they going to change. But any idea other than people can Monopolize HNMs so they can hold them to themself for a stupid reason like "I have roxor equitment, you don't !1!! And i will make sure you never gets it so i can feel special!!one11" for such a reason is childish and retarded. This is MMORPG. It isn't all about idividuals. SE on a buisness view, their goal is to sactisfy as many as players they can if not all of them. But it is absolutly not a good idea for a buisness man to not make a decision to fix this problem because there are small amount of players who likes to monopolize it and keep other majoritie of players away from gaining their sactisfaction because they want to be "speical" amount other players.

But on a side-note. Maybe SE already have another "card" up to their sleeve. Japanese Game company has a very common thing is they likes to release new title instead of fixing the old one. SE already earn more than enough money from FFXI's "Golden Age" to make another title. Now FFXI's "Golden Age" has passed, maybe it's time for them to make another possible "FF-XIV-Online" and gain millions profit in about 2 years like FFXI did. Because if there are too many issue there and if SE not going to fix it, people will keep leaving. And I highly doublt large company like SE will stick their heads into FFXI with the condition it has now. Especially with the high competitions like WoW and EQ2. It's already shown that SE have mulitiple new titles on the way to release like "Front Mission Online". So it won't suprise me if they say going to release "FF-XIV-Online" 2 years later with better game engine and new graphic and create another shocking "golden age" for FF online title.

So maybe i will see you people in the next new title of "FF-online" years later. But for now, i still want to enjoy my FF-XI without those Monopolization. Though i don't want to see FFXI go down anytime soon, but it is going to happen if SE don't do sh*t about the problems.