i have quit the game

[Carl the Llama]

I have decided to quit the game i all i ever do is fight fight fight and i have had enough of it fighting without a storyline is jus sooo boring to me i want a story so does anyone have any sergerstions as what i sould play i have thought about playing PSO on the PC and World of Warcraft but i would like to hear your oppinion as to what i should play

[Lionx]

You barely even scratched the game :rolleyes2

Heres a CoP cutscene. Most things are like lvling up first then the story. FFXI's story will be greater and more better than any other MMORPG out there...you havent played long enough to give it chance. Its the story that kept most ppl playing as well.

SPOILERS ON PICS...but just to show him.

I regret not taking any screenshots for Zilart Missions as that cutscene was AWESOME!!!

BTW PSO and WoW dont really have a main story from what i know.

[squareSOFT]

I don't blame you at all for quitting, I could only stand a few months of it. As for a suggestion I STRONGLY recommend Guild Wars. It's an insane MMORPG with no monthly fee. Can't go wrong with that!

[Lionx]

You have to buy expansions if you want the entire game anyway O_o That more than makes it up. However really if you cant stand the hardcore-ness to get to the story, then nyah..its pretty rewarding i say. Breathtaking cutscenes.

[Carl the Llama]

a friend of mine called Risto asked why i am quiting the game after i told him and i said the exact same reasons stated here and he said thats fair enough as there is hardly any freedom till you get to 70 (he's lvl 75WHM) and that he cant blame me for wanting to quit, all i ever do is fight fight fight its soo boring it takes ages to lvl up and i jus find when i play it i feel like i have to play it not that i want to it feels like duty and i have had enough of it another reason i like PSO is that there is a boss at the end of each lvl and you can do a whole game in one sitting the feel of going through a whole game with your friends and not jus some random person you just met and they happened to say oh hey come play with me and my party or worse yet you in Jueno and suddenly you get a blind invite to go party in koroloka or somewhere at least when you play PSO you dont get random invites and you and your friends can always play together no matter the level gap thats what i dont like about it with FF if your in a party with someone who is higher then you you end up getting no exp if i play a game i wanna play with my friends not some random people anyways thats jus my take on things

[DJZen]

I felt that way before I joined Red Lotus. Now I know just how much there is to this game. Any time I get bored of fighting, I can always go mine, log, auction, level a new job, go exploring, or run new quests and missions. I don't feel like the game is restrictive at ALL and I'm only level 20. There's a lot more to the game than levelling. A LOT. Trust me on this one. The important thing is to find a good linkshell. Red Lotus is an awesome one. I couldn't ask for better. Well, except for Kierethe who always smacks me when she sees me, but I probably did SOMETHING to deserve it.

[Lionx]

Yeah you just need friends. I like for people to lvl up so we can do Ballista, or events and fun stuff like that. Fishing trip in my mind atm and bring the entire LS with us. The game is only what you make of it, and friends too. Many of my low lvl friends have quit but for those that stayed we talk from now and then and its great. Many people whom i have as friends that i barely talk to are now pretty close and we do many things together as i get higher level and in the end everyone wins. Like..omg i didnt know Terryfier still rememebered me since i rarely talk to him but he does..and now i co-lead an HNM LS with him. Its fun to see the story too its truly something out of this world if you can finish them.

That and LS loyalty, with so many characters on so many servers its not a wonder that you quit since you didnt stick with one...and no offense i think you are cool but i never thought that you would stay on our server that long with that many characters over the worlds or even the LS really. That..and how much gil you had was truly something that people might not like outside of our LS..>_>

[squareSOFT]

A goods LS does help, but it just delays the eventual boredom, IMO

[Kierethe]

I pretty much agree with what DJZen/Torren said... except for this one part:

Well, except for Kierethe who always smacks me when she sees me, but I probably did SOMETHING to deserve it.

=O That was only that one time! And you were doing naughty things with the auto-translate! Besides, you haven't been around enough. lol. We haven't ran into each other in a long time! You always seem to be Bastok. =P Start hanging around Jeuno or Windy, that's were all the cool people are~. xD

And what Liony said is true about having people in game helping a lot. The game is really quiet when you don't have anyone to talk to or form random parties with. =/ I can't imagine playing this game without seeing the RedLotus LS chat going by as I play or running into my LS mates every now and then. It really creates a sense of community I'd miss a lot otherwise and Liony is nice enough to let us newbs invade his space. ^^

I've barely scratched the surface of my cooking skill and am buried under quests. I still want to try fishing, raise my fame a few more levels, get myself a good amount of gil. :x I don't forsee myself getting bored anytime soon. I enjoy taking this at my own pace. And even then, I know there's always my LS mates to help out. ^^

^^ But, I wish you good luck in the future. It may be that FFXI just isn't the game for you. I know I had a hard time myself choosing what MMORPG to play. FFXI won me over, but it's not for everyone. =/

[Lionx]

Just curious SquareSOFT, you keep saying its boring..and i understand that people has different likings but really whats the boringness? I mean you keep saying it but we never know what it is O_o. I certainetly dont find anything boring.

I will have to agree about friends, that when i lvled up around Christmas 2003, all i had were some beta friends that i talk to. None of them were very high level, and i technically had no one besides two people..and the LS we started..struggled. I went through alot of things that many people currently in the LS would have help and be easily done, yet for me it would be a big hurdle. Kazham keys for instance, and Rank 5. I had to sorta ask strangers and semi-close friends that i meet elsewhere for help. That wasnt so fun...however now that i had a LS that is more established, its much more enjoyable in the game, especially when you help out the lower levels with things you struggled so much with and it really makes a much happier feeling knowing that they dont have to ask some random person out of the blue to help them...then not seeing them for a long time.

*hugs t3h kiere* lvl up so we can do some REAL missions for story ^^b

[Carl the Llama]

Yeah you just need friends. I like for people to lvl up so we can do Ballista, or events and fun stuff like that. Fishing trip in my mind atm and bring the entire LS with us. The game is only what you make of it, and friends too. Many of my low lvl friends have quit but for those that stayed we talk from now and then and its great. Many people whom i have as friends that i barely talk to are now pretty close and we do many things together as i get higher level and in the end everyone wins. Like..omg i didnt know Terryfier still rememebered me since i rarely talk to him but he does..and now i co-lead an HNM LS with him. Its fun to see the story too its truly something out of this world if you can finish them.

That and LS loyalty, with so many characters on so many servers its not a wonder that you quit since you didnt stick with one...and no offense i think you are cool but i never thought that you would stay on our server that long with that many characters over the worlds or even the LS really. That..and how much gil you had was truly something that people might not like outside of our LS..>_>

i think you have missed the point i was making, with FFXI it is good to have friends i believe me i had lots (look the the screen shots) but like i said haveing friends is great and i love it but the endless killing and lvling up jus takes to long i have a total of 15 days and 6 horus play i know thats not much but 90% of that time was spent lvling up and when you spend 360 hours lvling up and you only 24 the game take's all of your spare time out and what for you get a party kill monsters and spend loads of time waiting for someone to turn up to join the party and they just disband after 20 mins of fighting to me that is not fun its boring and when on the rare occasion you actully do get a good party what happens someone runs out grabs a monster brings it back and you kill kill kill rinse and repete it ends up taking hours and hours just to get 1 smegging lvl that is not fun, like with PSO you run around a lvl kill all the monsters and at the end of it there is a boss which gives you a sence of completion when you and your team kill it and with regards to gil i was only lucky as i had a friend (like me who quit the game) he gave me his Republic Aketon just because i have money doesnt mean i am a bad person and i have always been very generous with iti mean i gave all of my money away to vap and army and my last words were "make sure you buy people gifts with it" so i think that haveing friends is good

[Roogle]

Did you even make it to Jeuno?

[Carl the Llama]

yes i got there as soon as i was lvl 20 as i wanted a chocobo

[Ouch!]

I agree with Lionx, your big problem was that you had characters on, what, five different servers? No wonder you spent so much time leveling if you're trying to keep up with that many characters.

If you stick with one character and a mule (if you need it) you can get further in the game much faster and actually get things done.

There's so much to do in the game, but if you ask me, it sounds like you've spent all your time trying to level so that you had no spare time to do anything else. DJ Zen already suggested many different options which you seem to have neglected.

And I strongly disagree with you as far as the lack of story progression goes. You don't need to be level 50 to progress very far in the plot. I was rank 5 at L30.

In the end, it's your choice. FFXI is more involved than most other MMORPGs and is one of the few that I've looked into that was actually able to maintain a plot with enough depth to make it interesting.

[Laguna]

As for how "awesome" Guild Wars is, a friend of mine recently tried FFXI and now he plays all the time! He says "its freaking huge by comparison!" and "Guild Wars is just like a stripped down version of FFXI!" So there's his opinion. As for mine, I'd say FFXI is the best online RPG I've played. So meh :P