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I am on Asura as Neuman. If someone can give me a pearl that would be sw8.
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One last expansion, and the eventual dropping of PS2/Xbox support. It's taken forever, but we're finally reaching the end of the road.
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Mar 19, 2015 12:45
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I guess I might resub soon so I can have one last hurrah on this game before SE pulls the plug on all the servers.  Never did finish WoTG or Alduin's storylines, should probably do that while I still can.
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Mar 19, 2015 14:39
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Well if the end is finally in sight I wonder if private servers will be able to many any real headway in the next couple years. Even the best ones currently have broken scripting and missions work only part of the time at best. Most of them don't even have any of the content past level the standard 75.
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Mar 19, 2015 14:46
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I may not currently play right now, but the thought of never being able to play a game I loved again is pretty awful. We all knew this would eventually happen going into it, but it never really sunk in. Imagine if Nintendo smashed every copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 and you could never play it again. I'm not used to books, movies and games getting lost forever.  This game is (thankfully) not a part of my life anymore but I still have a ton of nostalgia for it.Male of the Century posted:Well if the end is finally in sight I wonder if private servers will be able to many any real headway in the next couple years. Even the best ones currently have broken scripting and missions work only part of the time at best. Most of them don't even have any of the content past level the standard 75. IIRC most everything, including dialogue for story missions and the like is server side. So FFXI private servers are really, really basic and bugged and don't really come close to replicating the actual thing. I wish when an MMO dies and the plug the plug on the servers, the devs would release the stuff necessary for you make a private server. We all know SE and they wouldn't ever do this, but it would be nice.
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Mar 19, 2015 14:57
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FYI, the servers are still going to be running "for the foreseeable future", we just won't be getting major updates (except mobile port?)
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Mar 19, 2015 15:01
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Well that is some weird news.
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Mar 19, 2015 15:15
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Kazy posted:FYI, the servers are still going to be running "for the foreseeable future", we just won't be getting major updates (except mobile port?) Yeah but I can't imagine a lot of people playing when there isn't any new content. Hell, barely anybody plays now. They could probably reduce it to 1 server. Wikipedia Brown posted:Well that is some weird news. I dunno how this game could ever work on a cellphone, so I'm pretty sure that FFXI mobile has to be a new game. And I guess it's separate from Grandmasters? That said, mobile gaming is where it's at now in Japan. Consoles are near death. Mainstays like Capcom and Sega have really been struggling with console games and have shifted their focus onto mobile shovelware.
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Mar 19, 2015 15:27
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Gammatron 64 posted:Yeah but I can't imagine a lot of people playing when there isn't any new content. Hell, barely anybody plays now. They could probably reduce it to 1 server. Nintendo just recently announced that they are allowing their IP to be used for cellphone games.
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Mar 19, 2015 15:35
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So... server merger?
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Mar 19, 2015 15:41
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There was no mention of mergers or subscription fee changes, they only announced 2 different mobile games (a possible mobile port of 11 exclusive to japan at first, and a game set within vana'diel. Nobody seems to really know anything about either of these) and the free 3 part patch to wrap up all future content in a "greatest hits" type scenario pushed out as larger content patches that will culminate in November. The game will still exist, but is dropping PS2 and 360 support so they might be able to make inventories less infuriating. They will continue to put out "We changed PUP again" patches for the next 99999999999999999999999 years. That is the extent to what was announced and if anyone says differently they are simply speculating at this point.
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Mar 19, 2015 15:53
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I'm not quite sure they meant to say they will not make any content updates beyond the new scenario.quote:FINAL FANTASY XI’s major version updates will conclude with the November 2015 iteration, when Rhapsodies of Vana’diel is scheduled to reach its thrilling climax. We will, however, continue implementing ordinary version updates that focus on balance adjustments and bug fixes. I think "major version updates" could have referred to the "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel" updates specifically. Of course, they did say future updates would focus on balance adjustments and bug fixes. But they're dropping PS2 and 360 support AFTER everything is out. Why would they just end that money stream? Why even invest the time/money in improving the PC experience if they aren't introducing any new content? The dev team is not known for having an in-depth understanding of their own playerbase, but surely they realize it's the updates that keep people playing. If they didn't, then I can't imagine they would have put so much effort into them in the past. I don't know what to make of this, I just don't think this is the last bit of content we'll ever receive.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:10
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Zero The Hero posted:I'm not quite sure they meant to say they will not make any content updates beyond the new scenario. Im more optimistically inclined to believe that rov is se's last hurrah with the game before handing it off to nexon, who will continue content updates with a focus on the mobile port.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:34
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Trotting out fan favorites for one last hurrah sure seems to be what they're going for. If they hand it off to nexon and they decide to come up with something later then that's cool, but everything they talked about was very much "After this we're hand's off". See also: "We plan for this to be a grand conclusion to the FINAL FANTASY series' first MMORPG". But hey at least this is cool! 
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Mar 19, 2015 18:21
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frodnonnag posted:Im more optimistically inclined to believe that rov is se's last hurrah with the game before handing it off to nexon, who will continue content updates with a focus on the mobile port. I... huh. I don't know if I would call this "optimistic". On the other hand... idk. Maybe new blood would be good for development. In all honesty, this does make sense. There's no point in investing the rather large amount of money it would take to create a new client for mobile if they weren't ever going to release new content. Surely they realize how inaccessible the game is to new players.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:16
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Are we gonna like...meet Altana and punch her in the face? Cause I poo poo all over Promathia, I ain't scurred of no light lady.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:38
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Shinjobi posted:Are we gonna like...meet Altana and punch her in the face? Cause I poo poo all over Promathia, I ain't scurred of no light lady. Whatever happens in the end had better involve immolating Naja.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:59
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Male of the Century posted:Trotting out fan favorites for one last hurrah sure seems to be what they're going for. If they hand it off to nexon and they decide to come up with something later then that's cool, but everything they talked about was very much "After this we're hand's off". Who is that in the middle?
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Mar 19, 2015 20:29
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frodnonnag posted:Who is that in the middle? That is a new one, I think it is Altana.
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Shinjobi posted:Are we gonna like...meet Altana and punch her in the face? Cause I poo poo all over Promathia, I ain't scurred of no light lady. Altana dies. Altana drops Impact Knuckles. I need to check the private server stuff, but last I checked everything up to Zillart was working, and some jobs were still needing work.
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Mar 20, 2015 01:03
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Quetz Classic Joke Phagen is not taking the end of 360 support well/is one of the worst liars I've ever seen:quote:I have been playing ffxi since I moved into my first apt back when I was twenty one years old, I am now thirty, I have had three accounts that I pay for each month and I always pay my subscription fees on time. quote:Because now I have to spend MORE money, and I already have an alien ware for gaming as well as 5 pcs that I use for gaming,my problem is now in order to play i have to spend more money to replace hardware as well, and when you multiple accounts on 1 device, the game runs significantly slower which is why I play on consoles primarily and not my towers. Not to mention that xboxs can't get viruses.... TLDR: I spent $5000 on FFXI and now the game is ruined because I can't play on console (which is the superior way to play btw) and sure I could install the game on one of my dozens of gaming towers but I won't because FFXI gives your gaming PC a virus.
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Mar 20, 2015 02:00
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Holy poo poo, how delusional can you possibly get?? Also, you have a YEAR to move to PC if for some reason you haven't yet. It's not like they're turning off the service tomorrow and deleting all your characters.
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Mar 20, 2015 05:17
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I've been listening to one of my lsmates cry because she doesn't have the "thousands and thousands of dollars you need for one of those gaming pcs". I understand now why there's still a console market.
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Mar 20, 2015 05:18
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Zero The Hero posted:I've been listening to one of my lsmates cry because she doesn't have the "thousands and thousands of dollars you need for one of those gaming pcs". It only costs thousands of dollars to get a brand new computer from a company that sells prebuilt computers at ridiculous rates. Nowadays, it has never been easier to build a computer. It can be a bit stressful if it is your first time, but you are saving hundreds maybe thousands of dollars. P.S. I can't wait till I can play ffxi with my lovely cellphone.
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Mar 20, 2015 06:15
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You can run FFXI on the $80 HP Stream 7 Windows 8 tablet. You can run it on the $150 Win8 super budget laptops and the $180 Stream Mini desktop box thingy. Christ, you could probably go to a pawn shop and get anything with a Core 2 Duo (or even an older AMD processor) for $100 or less and run this game. quote:Minimum System Requirements There are dozens of brand new options that run this game that cost less than a new 360 ($200 if you want one with the HDD space to install XI) and if you already have an account you can get the Ultimate Edition download from Square free.
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Mar 20, 2015 06:31
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Gruknor posted:It only costs thousands of dollars to get a brand new computer from a company that sells prebuilt computers at ridiculous rates. Nowadays, it has never been easier to build a computer. It can be a bit stressful if it is your first time, but you are saving hundreds maybe thousands of dollars. Trust me, that quote was not from me. I played FFXI in 2007 on a PC from 2003. FFXI runs on integrated graphics these days. I ran FFXI on an AMD Athlon X2. You could probably run it on netbooks. The complainer in question actually has a laptop, I assume it would run FFXI flawlessly, but she assumes it wouldn't because it cost less than 3000 dollars.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:08
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Zero The Hero posted:Trust me, that quote was not from me. I played FFXI in 2007 on a PC from 2003. FFXI runs on integrated graphics these days. I ran FFXI on an AMD Athlon X2. You could probably run it on netbooks. I have a netbook that runs ffxi. For as comparatively pretty the game is, i would not be suprised in the least if the newest raspberry pi ran this poo poo.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:42
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If it's the year of our lord two thousand and fifteen and your computer can't run this old rear end game, I dunno what the gently caress, man. I mean, they're making a drat cellphone version of it for godsakes. Of course, I don't know how this game would be even close to remotely playable on a touchscreen. They were talking about maybe doing a PSP or Vita version years back and even then I figured it would be a nightmare to play on those. And they actually have buttons.
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Mar 20, 2015 15:48
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I saw the news and was hit with a nostalgiabomb. I started playing FFXI when I was 16, right around the time of NA release. I played up through a few years of WotG and then got bored with nothing to do. I never saw Abyssea or the expansion that introduced ilvl. Is it worth it at this point to come back, or should I let my good memories lie?
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Mar 20, 2015 16:36
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Abyssea was cool as far as character progression goes, but the story was pretty much non-existent. Adoulin is possibly the most boring storyline and overall expansion they have added yet, even if it did bring about the new ilevel gear (which is really just their solution for not being to raise the level past 99 since the game is coded to work on a lite-bright). The entire story is all politics, and it doesn't even have any intrigue until about halfway through, and even still you have absolutely no idea what you're really up against until the final few missions. If you never even got through the story of WoG, and I wouldn't blame you since it took like 3 years for them to finish it, then you are much better off just having fond memories of the golden Zilart/CoP/Treasures era.Kazy posted:Hey, sorry, you're wrong That was a neat concept for the alternate dimension and on the whole I enjoyed Abyssea for the breath of fresh air it brought with the level cap raises and all the new gear with content being easily accessible by small groups, but on the whole they did nothing with the story and it's on par with Voidwatch with no sense of agency. You simply invade a world that has been destroyed and kill it's god to save what's left of this lovely existence. You are left in the dark about what happened or why until the very last minute, and even still everything is completely without any sort of urgency so why bother. The biggest problem with it is that it was made obsolete with Seekers of Adoulin, like all the rest of the old content, but with those you could at least play through it to see some cool cutscenes and meet some interesting characters. Male of the Century fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 16:50
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Male of the Century posted:Abyssea was cool as far as character progression goes, but the story was pretty much non-existent. Adoulin is possibly the most boring storyline and overall expansion they have added yet, even if it did bring about the new ilevel gear (which is really just their solution for not being to raise the level past 99 since the game is coded to work on a lite-bright). The entire story is all politics, and it doesn't even have any intrigue until about halfway through, and even still you have absolutely no idea what you're really up against until the final few missions. If you never even got through the story of WoG, and I wouldn't blame you since it took like 3 years for them to finish it, then you are much better off just having fond memories of the golden Zilart/CoP/Treasures era. Hey, sorry, you're wrong  It was awesome to have a "What If" scenario where you lost against Promathia
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Mar 20, 2015 17:01
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Even though Abyssea completely changed how people play the game, looking back I think it was the most fun my friend and I had in this game. We were able to duo almost everything once we were geared and collected enough Atmas/abyssites. The new endgame is alright, but timed events (that you can't extend) like Delve tend to add an element of unnecessary stress to everything.
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Mar 20, 2015 17:27
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Abyssea was the best. It's the most fun i've had in ages in the game. There was so much to do and you could do it all with just a couple close friends. I'm honestly surprised they didn't release more content like it. It brought a ton of people back to the game and catered pretty well to both casual and end game players. keep it down up there! fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 17:33
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If I weren't for Abyssea I would have never even considered playing this game again after I ragequit it around ToAU's time and everyone who says Abyssea ruined FFXI by making it accessible to casual players who like to have lives outside of a video game is a self diagnosed aspergers basement dweller.
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Mar 20, 2015 19:23
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I'll be honest and say that the announcement the other day killed a lot of motivation I had for the game. I'm really on the fence if I should keep playing or not since it feels like after November, things will just taper off really fast. No more major content updates in my eyes is a roundabout way of saying the game is being shut down but with a long drawn out end. I dunno, maybe Vagary or w/e will be really good and worth messing around with for a bit.
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Mar 20, 2015 19:45
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I've been playing on and off since launch. I just need to hit 99 once and then I can let go. 
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Mar 20, 2015 19:56
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Gammatron 64 posted:If I weren't for Abyssea I would have never even considered playing this game again after I ragequit it around ToAU's time and everyone who says Abyssea ruined FFXI by making it accessible to casual players who like to have lives outside of a video game is a self diagnosed aspergers basement dweller. Abyssea did kill the game, in many ways. But the way I saw it... you had several years to play Zilart/CoP/ToAU. If you hadn't played in XI's endgame for the first several years, you weren't likely to start now. They broke the game to make it fresh for all the regular players. There was a very small percentage of XI players that got caught in between, ones who were making an honest attempt at playing endgame, but got into it late or had to take a break and just hadn't had the time yet. SE catered to the vast majority in this case. Many of the people in that group claim they liked old XI more, but I think a lot of those would have quit a long time ago without something like Abyssea anyway. The only thing I'm salty about is the CoP level caps. They could have at least kept the OPTION to play through capped. I don't even need any better mission rewards(though that would have been easy), just a star or something by the mission in my log so I can prove I did it. Sea was XI's most beautiful and scary zone, and those two qualities were tied fairly closely together. Now Sea is a walk in the park, and you blow through it so quickly it barely gets more than a "Hey, this is kind of neat." Sea is my single most treasured experience in all of XI, but there were many others that came close, and in most cases, it was dependent on difficulty. It's not just nostalgia. I hope that one day private servers are good enough that someone is able to recreate Zilart and CoP in easily-digestable chunks, where you can get on skype with your friends and play through missions as easily as forming parties in mobas, but in reality I don't think I'll ever have a gaming experience quite like the early days of XI. tl;dr It's possible to both enjoy the new changes and improvements while missing the highlights of the old days.
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Mar 20, 2015 22:33
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Cuchulain posted:I've been playing on and off since launch. I just need to hit 99 once and then I can let go. I has never been easier to get to level 99. With Records of Eminence, Sparks weapons, brown chests dropping armor, potions, elixirs, etc, and being able to summon three Trust npcs, you can easily get to level 99 solo without having to abyssea burn it. The best thing about that is your skills will be closer to cap than if you had abyssea burned it.
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Mar 21, 2015 02:53
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The game may be dying, but I'll be damned if I stop paying money for merch that comes with in-game items! 
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I guess that is what FFXI has become, taking pictures of your giant pen. How is the Quetzalcoatl server? I left it when it was afk city as far as the eyes could see.
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