Recent accomplishments

[Rostum]

Yeah, I've taken short breaks from FFXI to play WoW in the past. It is a good game in my opinion, but for me it still lacked something that FFXI has (and generally I missed all my friends on FFXI).

I'm starting to get to a point in FFXI, where I can't attend as many end-game activities due to getting / trying to get a job and being in a whole different time zone to Americans, and a lot of shells don't like that. I'm just lucky my current shell can put up with me being late or not showing up.

But anyway, it's good, so enjoy it. ^^

Edit: BTW. Even though I could generally play FFXI 8+ hours in one day, I still found it slow to level in WoW. Not as slow as FFXI, but slow enough to notice.

[Del Murder]

/cry Yeargdribble

Just kidding.

If I had played the game as long as you and done all the stuff you did, I'd probably be looking for a change too. The game is not always going to have the same appeal as you keep playing it. I don't think I'll ever play WoW though, I'm more of a FF fan than a MMORPG fan.

In recent accomplishment news I just acquired the Dark Knight job and got Blu up to 16. I'm really enjoying learning spells.

[Yeargdribble]

It just upsets me in retrospect because after playing FFXI so long I just figured so many things were par for the course in MMORPGs. When I played WoW, I finally realized how broken FFXI was and how lazy SE is.

I'm at a point in FFXI where it is absolutely a job to keep trying. I have so much endgame Ra/Ex gear that I'm running out of space. Any time I'd want to level a job I'd have to spend nearly an hour muling the gear over. I was at the point where I either stop leveling other jobs for fun or start being a gimp on my BRD.

While leveling may be slow on WoW as well as the levels get higher, I find the way quests work with the game to be much more friendly. You are killing two birds with one stone. You get a quest, go kill mobs for XP while doing the quest, get their drops (which are actually worth something in WoWs economy), go back to the quest giver, get MORE XP for finishing it as well as more money and sometimes some pretty decent gear. It feels like a lot of progress at once. In FFXI if you want to XP... you XP... period. You have to find a group to do so and that's frustrating if I don't have a mount of available time to play.

I think FFXI has good bones. It has a lot of things going for it, but honestly SE has shown they don't care with the impotence in which they deal with in game problems.

WoW is also a game that will be easier to enjoy with my wife. She's not too keen on giving up FFXI and her 3 75 jobs all pimped out in Relic and everything else you can imagine. She's got a lot of friends and such, but she played WoW and enjoyed it. It's so easy to get together with a significant other in the game and go accomplish things and I find that great.




I'm also gonna miss you guys. I didn't get to play with any of your but you made me feel pretty at home here on this little corner of the internet. I won't feel as involved any more and that's pretty sad. I'll try to stop in and see what everyone is managing to accomplish from time to time though ^^

[Markus. D]

I've decided to take a long and possibly permanent break from FFXI. After taking a break for about 2 weeks, I tried the little 2 dollar WoW trial. It's not so much that WoWs the better game (though in my opinion it probably is), but really the fact that WoW allowed me to look at FFXI without the love goggles. I finally admitted to myself that the game just doesn't reward you much for what you put in. Additionally, SE is lazy about pretty much everything. They don't listen to the complaints of the playerbase, they let RMT run rampant, they let people cheat, they don't allow windowed mode and say it's because it will allow all of the above things they don't fix.

In WoW you can play windowed. Hell, you can even play with mods. Stuff like TParty and Bloodpace would be 100% legal in WoW. At the same time, if someone cheats (flee hack, bot, etc.) they get banned. RMT don't own the economy and you don't have to save up forever to get something. You can wear decent gear and not be a gimp. You can wear different looking gear than other people of your job at your level and not be gimp.

Instead of logging in for 3 hours of LFP every day on DRG just to log out without making progress, I can log into WoW for only 30 minutes and make 10x the progress and feel good about it and then return to real life.

FFXI offers you almost nothing if you can't devote 2-3 hour time blocks to it. Am I supposed to really feel all that accomplished that I spent over a year doing sky to get a full set of god gear? It's good, but it's only a few notches better than any other gear. So what if my e-cock is bigger and I can brag more about my gear? It just means that I sold my soul to a LS that got it for me after an unhealthy amount of time. I'd rather put a reasonable amount of time in and get rewards that are even more worth the effort (i.e. the stats are actually a notable improvement).

People will say the playerbase is more immature in WoW and they are probably correct. However, there are also immature asshats in FFXI. At least I'm not forced to PT with them in WoW. My option in FFXI if I get a PT with a jackass is to either deal with him, or go LFP in Jeuno for another ridiculous amount of time.


I'll probably come back after an extended break in WoW, but maybe not. Some do, but most don't. You always get the handful that come back from playing for 3 months and capping a single character just to say how easy WoW was. Well, it's probably easy coming from FFXI where you played 8+ hours a day. If you spent that much time in WoW, sure you'd get everything fast on one toon.

I'd prefer to go slow and enjoy myself while still having time to spend doing other things. I'd like to be able to log in for only one hour and actually feel like I've accomplished something and had FUN. There's very little to do in FFXI for fun in one hour. I started scheduling life around FFXI. I'd rather schedule a game into my life than feel the need to adjust my life for the game.

it sounds fun doesnt it n_n-b

... and then you get to the end... and feel empty u.u... its your choice though. you are Yeargdribble After All :3!


so. have fun ^-^

[Darius]

I dont know. Im still having fun with the game. WoW looks fun but at the same time, I doubt ill ever play it. I played Diablo II for about 5 1/2 years and its true, once you get to the end of the game theres not really much else to do but PL a lower lvl character and duel. Not 100% sure if thats the way it is in WoW but most Blizzard games that ive played run the same way.

Plus, dont get into mods too much. Diablo II was a free to play online game and people were getting banned quite often (once every 2-3 months theyd have a "rust storm" and about 20,000-30,000 were banned at once). Considering WoW is a pay to play, I can only assume its a matter of time before they run a server sweep.

But all that aside, I made a mule about a week ago and Ive been farming with it in the mines, plus sending stuff to it from my main to sell at the AH. I pretty much doubled my income now and have a steady income now. Also completed ZM4 so just a few more and I can go to sky. Friend got me in a sky LS so once I get access, its on like donkey kong!

[Yeargdribble]

it sounds fun doesnt it n_n-b

... and then you get to the end... and feel empty u.u... its your choice though. you are Yeargdribble After All :3!

I hear this often, but the same can be said about FFXI. Some people argue that FFXI is more fun because it takes longer and you can be more proud of your accomplishments. In all reality, I've done pretty much all there was to do with BRD. I stretched the limits quite a bit.

I had all the gear and then some. I got to the end, and it feels empty. Just because it took me 10x as long to get those things in FFXI than it would in WoW, is that supposed to make them any less hollow? At least in WoW I might not feel so attached to my toon that I can't just play another toon.


I'm curious what FFXI players feel like is waiting for them at the end of the rainbow that they claim WoW doesn't offer. The endgame of FFXI is less well thought out imo. Sitting in Dragon's Aery 3 hours a day 7 days a week for a chance at gear? Competing with botting LSs? That's fun?

All I know is that the higher you get in FFXI, the higher your dependence becomes on others to help you get things.... the higher the requirements on your time to get any decent gear.

I would offer that FFXI's end is similarly empty. It just sucks more life out of you before you hit that wall.

[Misfit]

I play both WoW and FFXI. ^_- I love them both, when you get bored in FFXI... just hopping on WoW to kill somebody on my <3Rogue just feels great. Then I go and play FFXI again.

YOUR HAIDATE WILL BE MINE!

Anyway. ^_^ I did my first Sky event last Saturday. It was thrilling.

[dodhungry]

well over the past few weeks I have managed to get mnk to 43 and pld up to 30. Unfortunatly however I am as poor as a broke bicycle so its time to farm.

[Rostum]

I just cleared Dynamis - Beaucedine. =)

[chionos]

I wish I could come back to the game. After I quit, I slowly came to realize how incredible FFXI is. I think if I get the chance to come back or decide to waste my time trying to play on dial-up, I'll be able to enjoy the game more than I ever could before.

When I played before I was constantly plagued by the persuit of the best gear, and was tied down to a hard-core HNMLS. But next time I'll concentrate more on my friends, and doing things that are fun as opposed to events that make me money or give me things.

Hopefully you'll go back to FFXI, Year. As someone who doesn't have a choice, it's hard to see someone who does have a choice make the wrong one. Although if I could play WoW, I probably would for one of the reasons you are going to it. I do think FFXI has more to accomplish, and is more rewarding, and generally a better game. But WoW isn't as much of a time-sink, and I have no time to waste.

Grats Omecle, Xarcarbard is insane, you'll love it. Especially if you'll be going after DL.

[Ultimage]

I just cleared Dynamis - Beaucedine. =)

Congrats Omecle.

[Markus. D]

I wish I could come back to the game. After I quit, I slowly came to realize how incredible FFXI is. I think if I get the chance to come back or decide to waste my time trying to play on dial-up, I'll be able to enjoy the game more than I ever could before.

When I played before I was constantly plagued by the persuit of the best gear, and was tied down to a hard-core HNMLS. But next time I'll concentrate more on my friends, and doing things that are fun as opposed to events that make me money or give me things.

Hopefully you'll go back to FFXI, Year. As someone who doesn't have a choice, it's hard to see someone who does have a choice make the wrong one. Although if I could play WoW, I probably would for one of the reasons you are going to it. I do think FFXI has more to accomplish, and is more rewarding, and generally a better game. But WoW isn't as much of a time-sink, and I have no time to waste.

Grats Omecle, Xarcarbard is insane, you'll love it. Especially if you'll be going after DL.

:]!

it plays pretty well on Dial-Up. not much differant from 150kb per second... IMO... connecting and patching are a differant story though.


ps: Omecle. You must be so amped up ! congrats.
psps: I like the odd tune of Xarcabard.

[No.78]

Last night I learnt Ice Break, it was fun. At one point we were resting and a golem popped right beside us, so we got up and buffed, it turned and attacked and at the same time a tiger came and aggroed on the guy i was with (he was only 41) so I slept the tiger and we fought teh golem, then we fought teh tiger, and a bat eye joined in O_O I slept that and went all arcane circley and stuff (subbing drk), and somehow we beat the tiger then the bat eye!! So yeah, it was fun cos we lived through numerous assaults XD

I learnt ice break, he didn't, then we died.

And today I decided to hunt Clusters in lufaise, I knew I'd never even find any, but it was worth a shot. And the funny thing is, I found an atomic cluster, fought it, it used refueling, I killed it, and learnt it first kill! So that made me happy, unofrtunately I had like 50 HP and 0MP left to protect me from the Gigantobugard that decided to attack me right afterwards, so I died but... It was so worth it

[chionos]

Well I just restarted my account. First accomplishment in 7 months. It's a little choppy on dial-up, but it's worth it certainly. Crappy thing is I sold everything before I left and gave the money to a friend who doesn't play anymore, so I have to start from scratch financially. But that'll be fun.

[Rostum]

I don't know what it's like on other servers, but on Midgardsormr you will have one hell of a time trying to gain back your gil. The economy has crashed and there's no profit to be made in anything worthwhile. =\

Though, may I ask, why you are on dial up? Broadband's pretty cheap these days.