Lots of private server options. Community is thriving.

2nd for no schizo posting.

>>2486292
You forgot the Anniversary details:
>Discount Campaign: From May 15th to June 9th, the Complete Edition will be 67% off ($30 -> $10)
>Echoes of Vana'diel Discount: From May 27th to June 9th, players who are subscribed to XIV will receive a discounted 30 days of XI sub ($13 -> $7). If you are buying XI for the first time, it seems like this discount will still apply after the included first 30 days, as long as you buy the game within this window.
>Return Home to Vana'diel: From May 15th to May 25th, players previously subscribed to XI will be able to play the game for free. (Must be unsubscribed as of May 12th)

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Pegasisters...?

>>2486558
THRIVING

which retail server is the best now? i remember having 1 toon on asura but that's several years ago and idk if i should start fresh or not

>>2486588
Asura still most popular. The next open one is Valefor but not sure how many folks here play.

checking out pegasus xi right now, they're not doing wipes and they're giving out 10m gil with the AH completely stocked up, they're a 99 cap server which I know might not appeal to 75 boomers

>99 cap
>has dyna-d

>>2486301
Lots of AI slop servers popping up riding off of the work Phoenix is doing to improve LSB while contributing nothing back.

why are people still playing this relic of an MMO?

>>2488205
it's good

people still play ultima online and play MUDs

ffxi is brand new comparatively.

>>2488205
yes
on horizon at least

gw1's recent resurgence happened at around the same time as xi's and both are kind of trickling in new content oldfag mmos are on the upswing

XI is hostile to new players period
Sure let's sit around Jueno for 10 hours
shouting for an endgame party. So many sad faggot boomers that ruin the new player experience. For a community that shits on FF14 and makes fun of the playerbase, XI is riddled with 60 year geriatric niggers who can't parse the idea of playing anything past the year 2007.

>>2488477
I tried GW1 remake or w/e, it's very clunky.

>>2488136
Aww wittle Phoenix slavie needs a wittle gold star and a juice box.

>>2488484
why are you even here then

>>2486292
I'm trying to buy a gold pass for my buddy that's about to try out the game, but it's giving me a "cannot connect to world pass server" error. Are these things just dated/dead content or is something else going on?

>>2488484
>waaaaah slur slur slur
We don't want you here anyway. Go back to WoW.

People in this thread constantly calling Phoenix AI slop, even their obviously hand drawn trailer is called AI. Then extremely blatant AI slop servers pop up all over the place and everyone is silent here about it. Make up your mind.

Or is it just Horizon staff scared trying to shit talk Phoenix and they have no fear of these low effort servers?

Let's see.
Phoenix - Old problematic devs, supposed Ai Slop server.
Horizon - Old head server with bad job balance and a lack of content.
CatsEye - Old head server banned from the XI community because the server owner doxxed a player.

Lmao pick a struggle guys. It's all the same mediocre flavor of 75 cap custom or not. I'm glad the server I am on doesn't have any of these problems.

>>2488621
Yes, it’s just horizon folks who are scared trying to write anonymous fan fiction. Go into any horizon stream where they talk about Phoenix and you’ll see at least one person say that they are scared about what’s going to happen to horizon’s population. It’s just a weird spite thing, even though Phoenix is hugely benefiting the entire community and not just themselves.

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Got banned from Horizon for fishbotting. Will have to do it on Phoenix instead now.

>>2488681
Problematic how?

>>2488790
They have a history of get this
banning people who cheat and harass people

Other than being free, what's the point of playing on all these private servers?

Are there any guides to starting on retail with the current anniversary events that are active?

>>2488843
Because the version of the game they are emulating no longer exists

>>2488790
They don’t have a reason. They just like to say whatever they can to be a hater. Know how I’m right? They never link a single shred of evidence of anything.

>>2488851
I understand people wanting old WoW but I didn't think FFXI changed that much.

>>2488603
if you're on bahamut or asura and I think also Odin now(?) those servers are closed to new players so I think gold pass shit doesn't work on them. If you're not on those servers idk it was working when I did it last year

>>2488892
It changed tremendously

>>2488850
pretty good summary of what to grab from the new stuff especially the temporary events for a new player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3v-WPni5uc

for a new player guide in general I would recommend

https://web.archive.org/web/20240101045247/https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Quickstart_1-119_Guide

>>2488908
I heard about that but tried making a new character on Bahamut and it worked just fine.

>>2488926
Thank you.

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Phoenix XI will be most kino if they add zone fatigue for easyfarm and fantasyfisher bots

>>2489006
>they add zone fatigue
Why isnt that a thing on Horizon? People had Lu Shangs within a week due to fish botting.

>>2489186
Wasn’t confirmed or known

>>2488892
it changed as much as WoW and maybe even more

>https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-04306312
Will they ever bring back this merch? Fuck them, why can't they just sell fun XI merch all the time?

>>2488484
i'm surprised you didn't feel right at home with the racist boomer incels that play this game. just /t rinste

>>2488790
1 dev was having autistic cybersexual relations with a player, then she was banned. the entire thing was insanely cringe, now the player goes around comparing the experience to rape while the dev has a schizophrenic meltdown when he hears her name. best to forget about it and stop giving those involved the clout and notoriety they desperately crave

>>2488621
>ctrl+f
>doubt

>>2489712
Got any proof of this? Or did you write this in your diary?

>>2488205
People are still playing Everquest and vanilla WoW, the truth is that nothing that has come out since has been comparable.

>>2488681
>Phoenix - Old problematic devs, supposed Ai Slop server.
it'll be different this time guys, take 4
>Horizon - Old head server with bad job balance and a lack of content.
It'll be different this time guys, take 3
>CatsEye - Old head server banned from the XI community because the server owner doxxed a player.
Retail jr. At least it has self found ironman mode which is its only redeeming quality.

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After 14 years break, I joined for free login and went around to old areas for nostalgia yesterday.

While in Windurst Walls [S] I talked to NPCs and saw a Campaign guy, he was like "Hello X, let's see how your Campaign progress is coming along... Oh we are very displeased of your recent Campaign contributions. I'm taking away your Mythril Wings of Service §§ key item immediately. Fuck off"

Guess I shouldve killed more Yagudos in the last decade guys, RIP....

>wanted to play retail with a friend
>trial players cant invite each other to parties
ughhh

>>2489854
First time online? It was on reddit then the fatfuck nuked it cause spergy racist kept doxxing him or something. Tent man has the summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xigsO_UB3hI

>>2489854
Why are you sweeping for Phoenix? No shade. Just curious. It seems you've been on the defensive anytime Phoenix is mentioned. There's a reason why players ask who the server devs are, or else we get incidents like CatsEye where Carver doxxed a player because they were abusing a gil exploit and it spiraled out of control from there. Maybe not "that" extreme, but c'mon man. It's a canary in the coal mine situation and the bird is dead and rotting. I moved over to Eventide I avoided the major servers due to bad drama.

people have been asking for proof since before phoenix was even announced

it's never been shown.

>>2490066
Haha... should have checked in every conquest week, chuddie

Proof was shown then the website was deleted. Use the archive it's been posted many times before jannies get it.

Website?

yeah I have "proof"
*crops screenshots after using inspect element to edit the text to have it say what I want it to say*

damn I sure am great

>>2489854
of course not, i'm not involved, i just consoom reddit threads and regurgitate gossip for fun. i read the leaked sexts, i'm sure they are still out there somewhere, you can read them and make up your own mind. of course that's assuming you aren't k*p himself trying to white knight yourself on 4chan, that would just be sad

Ever wonder why people strangely crop things and never post the full transcript?

Is the "evil editing" in the room with us now?

Xing in for the real HNM

No one posting proof

>>2486292
>Catseye - https://catseyexi.com/
or retail for a dude who never played FFXI besides for 2 hours at my uncles PC back in 2003?!

>>2491126
all things considered, it's like retail but heavily custom.

"post proof" as if this thread isn't where i learned you can send a DMCA takedown for your sexts

Proof?

>post the proof
.>oh the proof is out there alright
>doesn’t post any proof yet again m

The heroin hero forgot to mention the part where K***** helped Carver doxx SR but retards will screech PROOF??? because those DMs and any history of them were scrubbed to rewrite the narrative.

>>2491569
So no proof then? Curious

>NPC: I need 3 silk thread or crawler calculi
>"people": wtf this is so confusing and dated, where do I go
bruh it's not rocket science why do people act like FFXI is insanely convoluted

>>2491651
Because they are retarded and need their hands held 24/7 in gaming

>>2491651
xiv players try ffxi and get obliterated by a rabbit then cry themselves to sleep and transition into jet fuel that melts steel beams

>>2491714
And XI players have a melty when new players ignore their advice on how to play the game because they've been playing since 2007. The future is now old man. Nobody wants to hang out in your LS that you've made into an old boys club and is run by retired marine who beats his wife in the background. XI players are some of the worst people who can't cope with any form of change. That's why you're stuck in 2007 playing an old version of a game that no longer exist in modern day.

uh oh melty

>>2491791
they're not wrong though, if i had to compare the two, xiv wins. ff11 was never built with huge raids in mind, standing and reading a chat log to see what happened mid-fight isn't fun imo

>xiv

>>2491818
Instead you rely on twitch clips.

>>2491838
???
XIV's raid system far surpasses anything that XI could put out. They're still de-tangling from PS2 devkits. Literally 2 decade old technology, going on almost 3. We're getting better content and new classes and a new expansion. So what's your point big man?

>>2491849
lmao just let the boomers sit in their retirement home. they don't know what new games are

>>2490066
that's what you get for being a disloyal member of the windurstian military, you fucking traitor scumbag

little bros, although you all have great points, go make an xiv thread to gloat and circle jerk about xiv in. don't taunt the old men of xi. they've been lead-addled and get confused about well defined words like succubus

XIV's raid system might be... anything. But it's irrelevant/

the problem? I don't like playing XIV.

XI is for people who go "I went to Warped Tour in 1998." sure thing grandpa, now take your pills and play your funny RPG game.

some of us were born after lead was removed from gasoline, so we only have microplastics in our balls.

>>2491988
peak gameplay standing in front of a mob and reading a text box the entire time while you try to figure out what weaponskill to use next. I'd rather play ESO or any other tab target. XI hasn't innovated its gameplay at all in over 2 decades, any draconic argument can be shut down by two words "PS2 devkits." the game is so old it can't even handle 60 FPS because animations were written with 30 FPS and anything faster causes your game to crash. kek, lmao even.

>>2491818
playing ff14 is like watching paint dry. It's like playing the best version of skyrim that is fully modded out and then being forced to play ESO and people tell you it's better. It's not better. FF14 sucks a dead hobo's rancid sweaty nut sack.

>>2492013
You don't even know how to play. You did the main scenario and have never tried endgame or you wouldn't be saying this. You're a dude with his head stuck up his own ass trying to tell people who know better the things you think you KNOW

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>>2492013
ok so go to the xiv thread if you love it so much, why are you here?

*presses 1,2,3,4,5*
wew lad my fingers are so tired, I can't think because of how intense that was

>>2486301
Play Retail.
https://www.playonline.com/ff11us/

XIV is just instant-gratification zoomer slop, with trannies littering every city. You can't even play without mods to sex up your characters for ERP. Imagine paying a subscription to have cyber sex with another man masquerading as a woman.

>>2492166
>You can't even play without mods to sex up your characters for ERP.
I don't use any cosmetic mods and I'm able to play the game just fine. But yeah, if you're playing it as an ERP room, you probably want to download ERP mods, it's not rocket science.

>Imagine paying a subscription to have cyber sex with another man masquerading as a woman.
The vast majority of XIV players do not do this.

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Anyone know what this happy happy slug is?

>>2492178
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Monstrosity

Xing in for the HNM that is xiv schizos

>>2492166
Current MMOs aren't really made with instant gratification in mind, these days all the content is timegated to keep sub numbers up.

>>2492403
FF-14 is just a carrot on a stick simulator, last time i played you got one piece of gear a week from raiding and it was like ooh i can replace my one piece of gear this week with something 5 item levels higher and its all stat vomit numberslop and raiding consisted of doing bare minimum avoidance mechanics while following some minmaxer's rotation for a chance at topping the logs this week.
I'd rather fucking shoot myself.

>>2490287
So some psychos made shit up and reddit deleted it for harassment? lol

>>2492403
The truth is they NEVER cater to the addicts crowd because they are the easiest to care for. Just drop daily and monthly shit to keep subs. If you don't do this they get upset there's nothing to do. Raids are for the casual crowd and the majority.
There are statistics that showed that people stopped playing at an early game quest that made you increase your ilvl. Because there was no marker, even though the NPC to buy armor from was right next to it, they didn't know what to do. This is the magnitude of stupidity that current MMOs are designed around.

>>2492999
People wrote their extensive "i did nothing wrong" manifesto which just outed all parties as mentally unwell spergs and one sperg got bootyblasted and he used his lawyer degree TM to DMCA the reddit thread and the admins freaked out and nuked it. People now try to use 4chan to out the spergs and it gets nuked by reporters. One anon is claimed to be a janny and friends with the sperg hence the struggle. Proof-anon is just damage controlling and trying to bait people into b&.

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If I wanted to find a WAR on my server to borrow so that I can proc Red !! on an NM in Abyssea, what would be the best way to go about it you think

>>2493186
Ask your linkshell or use /yell.

>>2493186
you can just deaggro NMs through a conflux and it randoms their procs again

>>2493186
this is a singleplayer game buddy level one yourself

>>2493186
>>2493309
>make system designed to incorporate a lot of jobs
>1-2 jobs can just solo a proc completely
>other jobs can do nothing but watch
>1 proc has the opposite problem, extremely annoying to proc but turns out it's mostly useless anyway
>also good luck getting a drop if you don't engage with this system
What the fuck where they thinking? How was abyssea good again?

>>2493172
The video says nothing about 4chan why you LARPing bro

>>2493172
This anon is the janny speaking in 3rd person.

Can I just craft and fish all day and do nothing else?

>>2493536
Yeah, and you can make a bunch of gill just buying stuff off the AH and vendoring it if you know the prices.

>>2492044
>You don't know how to play.
Brother I've done all of Abyssea content and Voidwatch. I've done Ambuscade. What else is there to fucking do? Lmao. Money is piss easy to make on XI too, you fight Matamata and sell Pluton cases and go cash in. I quit back in 2018 and left with 138m in my pocket. K e k l m a o. I'm sorry is your best quality playing a 2007 private server where you fight "Land Kings" over and over and play a broken/buggy version of Salvage while you basedjock out at "peak" content. The cope of it all man. Go beat your wife and child and laugh it up with your buddies in your boys club LS gramps. Some of us will be living in 2026.

>>2493850
Can I get a Raise 3 over here? There's been a murder.

>>2493850
Wow you did some content over ten years ago. You got carried through ambuscade.

>>2493867
Hello fellow anon, even I have to step in and call you retarded. Your whole argument was that they didn't play the game, then you say they got carried after they mention endgame content. XI boomers not winning this debate.

>>2493285
My linkshell is circa 2012 and therefore very dead... RIP

>>2493307
Now this I can get behind, thank you Anon

>>2493887
>>2493850
my point was this faggot doesnt know how to play.
He doesn't.
He's a random shitter who thinks he knows what he's talking about.
He's never done any retail endgame.

>>2493850
>>2493857
>>2493887
Samefag

Final Fantasy XI private server players are very retarded.

>>2494110
First time?

>>2493850
incredible copypasta potential

My friends and I are gonna purposely not use the Echad ring in retail so we can try to not fly through levels.

>>2494197
you're gonna fly regardless, there's an exp event going on

>>2494254
The jubilee ring right? I mean at least that's only 50% instead of 150%, unless there is just a flat bonus everyone is getting.

>>2494110
retail or private, the game itself caters to the most obsessive autism spectrum disorder sufferers

>>2492013
>>2493850
They hated him for speaking the truth.

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>>2494265
>unless there is just a flat bonus everyone is getting.
>

You can check active campaigns here for future reference, for the anniversary they're doing a rolling campaigns thing where they get better every week

>>2495119
>forgot the link
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Adventurer_Campaigns

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Is there any way to know where the fuck Alexander is going to spawn for this event in retail?

>>2495373
Well that was really annoying just teleporting back and forth for an hour, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore, I made my gear.

>>2495102
Samefag McTardbox over here