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[ammera86]

So I haven't played ffxi in a very very very long time. Anyways, so one of my friends was talking to me about how much he wanted to play again and that he was tired of WoW. I'm thinking about giving him the info for my old account to see if it's still around. I wonder if it would be.

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[niwaar]

While I truly disagree with my friend Russta there when he says...

I simply don't feel like FFXI can reward the level of time I'm willing to give an MMO at this stage in my life

He makes the comment in a blatant comparison to WoW. However, while this may have been true at the time. (Think the time of Hyjal, BT, ZA, and eventually Sunwell.) At that time there were many and supposedly interesting things going on in WoW. However, now this is simply not the case. The current state of WoW is much like the time which we left FFXI.

1) Login... chat aimlessly about nothing
2) Do some inane thing like a quest (in WoW daily, in FFXI escort)
3) Sit around til its time to kill something big (HNM Window/Raid Time)
4) Be bored from Login til Logout.

The best I can say is that there are NM's to camp, HNM's to solo/duo/trio in FFXI. There are merit parties that mean something. There are downsides of FFXI too. Because its still a Login and wait til you get the opportunity to kill something (ie LFG for Merits or Kings, Sky, Sea, Limbus, Assault, Eisenjhar). There is still alot of waiting around doing nothing. But at least there's a bit more to wait for than a single raid instance.

Lemme say that I have no first hand knowledge because I still do not have an active content id and WoW's had a stop payment notice for a very long time. But a view from the outside is what this is.

[russta]

While I don't deny much of what you said, you're basically arguing being able to schedule your life around an MMO vs not being able to for the sake of feeling like you got your moneys worth.

If your idea of fun is to log on and then have a whole bunch of potentially meaningless events spread out across the day for the sense of a justified subscription cost, FFXI is for you.

If your idea is to be able to do what you want throughout the day then log on for a few hours at night to raid, keeping in mind the game is only really like that toward the back half of it's content patches, WoW is for you.

[flat_cat]

Nearly all of the content added in the last two... three expansion packs in FFXI have been instanced content for the most part. Meaning that you could just log in for a few hours to do your thing in XI as a pre-scheduled event.

Nearly every drop item has been shifted to some BCNM or instanced area with only a handfull of exceptions.

The two MMOs suffer differently. There's the nearly total and complete lack of character progression past a certain point in XI (My mithra's gear from 3 years ago would still pass as nearly-top notch DD gear today) vs the absolute lack of permanence of your loot in WoW... where every new zone and dungeon implimented means all your gear from weeks and months before are now summarily outdated and worthless, and your pvp stuff is defunct every season or two.

In XI, I've capped out gear wise for a long while and stuck around for months to get other people their stuff. But when we're all just gearing our 4th, 5th and 6th lv 75 jobs... well... motivation is scarce.

In WoW, I put in quite a bit of time in TBC raids... then was a little sad that WotLK hit and my stuff was worthless aside from leveling, but I understood it since it was a level cap increase from 70 to 80. Then I put in my time in Naxx... which got old in a month, then I went back and did every dungeon and raid from classic up 'till now... and called it quits. There was nothing to do except to farm mounts. Nothing else had any staying value.

I'm currently MMO-free with no plans to partake in any future MMOs... at least nowhere near the capacity in which I played XI and WoW.