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>>738617097GIVE ME THOSE FUCKING BOOTSIT'S BEEN NEARLY THIRTY YEARS
>>738617097They should add nms to ffxiv.
>>738617345They did, they're called Hunts and they're loot pinatas
>>738617443They are garbage and they should add ffxi style ones and each one has some extremely powerful game breaking item that you will never get because bots always get the pull on spawn.
>>738617489that's at odds with everything in XIV being designed to be replaced within 1 patch cycle
THAT'S RIGHT COCKSUCKER GO BACK TO HORLAIS PEAK
>How do we communicate to our players the weight of taking a life, let alone many?>
No game can ever match the SOVLkino of XI, how do we cope? The group of men who made the game will never existence again in our lifetimes.
>>738617489XIV is a WoW clone in that items are made to be obsoleted every content phase. Players would seethe if they had "BiS" behind lottery spawns with a lengthy cooldown
>>738617849>kill 200 mobs with slow as shit greatsword>666 delayStill to this day the most KINO quest to unlock an advanced job. Runner up being a similar hell, Summoner ruby farming and weather hunting
Ffxi was great because it existed in a vacuum where there no casual mmos with piss easy difficulty for people to retreat to (im not referring to your optional hard difficulties of end game raid bosses, I'm talking about a generalised difficulty curve that applies to the whole game), so you had a really interesting mix of player skill levels that were forced into social interaction for almost every facet of the game (levelling, crafting, story missions all required talking and working with other players to some degree).I don't think a game like this can thrive ever again, outside of a really niche audience. So, for example, an indie studio production, which is unlikely to ever compare with the production values of squaresoft at its absolute peak.
>>738617097That's an ugly Alit
>>738620061A lot of the game's charm was also from what was basically an infinitely large discovery period because archival websites for info did exist but were not widespreadly used/assumed to be mandatory reading.Also you would rarely find actual guides for fights, instead you'd find testimonials which were like>We did this fight as 2 level 75s as (These jobs), we barely survived
>>738619998Job quests were so good. I never got around to doing all the AF quests for the lore.
>>738620331I never unlocked Ranger until very recently >Hunt an aging tiger by just waiting until it dies of natural causes
>>738617097>LEAPIN' LIZARDS!
>>738620147Kind of makes you feel you'd need a completely different design paradigm to get around the issue of the way knowledge is consolidated on wikis so quickly these days. But, I too remember fondly reading some allakhazam comment section with wildly inaccurate testimonies that lead to me and my linkshell buddies getting catastrophically wiped out.
>>738620105You mean a Guar
>>738617097i farmed him for weeks and only got earth crystals so I rmted the boots and emperor hairpin
i really tried to give FFXI (classic private server) a go, I made it to level 40? with a DRK. What ultimately stopped me was that pretty much only the veterans are left playing it, and i personally hate feeling inexperienced and incompetent. therefore i spend more time reading on game mechanics, quests and doing long ass trekks doing random things, never sure if the thing i am doing right now is even useful and worth it. The only sure thing I did was putting party flag up and hope that someone invites me, cause I sure as shit not gonna make a party by myself and not even knowing where to go or what to do. compared to WoW or FFXIV there are at least quests to give you a path to follow.Also holy fucking shit the UI bro, absolutely horrendousmostly a me problem, but as >>738620147 said. I also feel like FFXI is a exploration and discovery game, and i am way too fucking late to join the party. its really unfortunate becase i can absollutely see what an amazing experience it must have been being a new and clueless player along with everyone else in 2002 and why the game must have destroyed so many lives for them to put the login warning in.
goblin nigger
>>738620828Combine the lack of centralized information with server-side calculations, complex spawn conditions, and vague quest directions and you've got a game full of mysteries waiting to be uncovered. People still do autistic levels of testing to reverse engineer calculations for private server development. I wish we could go back.
i camped this fucker a lot and got the staff only once
>>738621569yeah because most niggas didnt even know how to datamine even if some shit was on the wiki you couldnt even assume it was accurate
>>738619710Hey, WoW had outperforming tier bonuses and trinkets even in Legion.
>>738621569you can't go home again
If you were Adventurer-san which Expansion wife would you wife?>Lion>Prishe>Lilisette>Iroha>Arciela
>>738623310>LilisetteEven though I've played through none of the expansion story. I've only done the DNC AF quests years later.
>>738623310Arciela
>>738623310Shikaree Z but of your options, Iroha
>>738623310Arciela for sure. Cutest overall and best personality.
>>738623310Easy
>>738624690They don't make em like Prishe anymore
>>738624506and fun to bully
>>738621751Zealot's guaranteed this guy wasn't a waste of time if you didn't compete with bots. They were always like 80K-100K at minimum and he pretty much always dropped them even without TH
>Log into retail on a new char>Grind up to level 15 in 10 minutes>Start camping LLI will get my boots
>>738617345They were in 1.0. I remember someone in Free Company helping me get a belt from one. It was actually really fun. I kinda miss that part of the game.
>>738623310for me, it's Ulmia
>>738626005That's what I did when I returned, got myself the whole collection of useful low level god tier items.
>>738620932that's what I said, an ugly Alit >:^)
