Comments | ammera86: Like woahmg

ammera86

Like woahmg

Jul 27, 2009 04:30

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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russta July 27 2009, 12:35:43 UTC

This is what happened when I tried to go back

niwaar July 27 2009, 12:44:00 UTC

I went back once ...

I can honestly understand the need to go back to someplace that has become so vaunted by our level of nostalgia at this point that anything you do just seems to be blah.

That being said, my last true foray into Vana'diel was back at least a year ago. I managed to complete TAU's mission line, do a few campaigns (which was fun and then became unfun.)

As for the major issue of your post ... SE stopped deleting accounts for a while, in an effort to make it easier to return to the game and pay them more money. Your account will still be there if you still know the info.

They just recently started a 14 day trial download though. So it might behoove your friend to give it a shot and see how he likes it.

niwaar July 27 2009, 12:54:42 UTC

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 lifeHe 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 ( ... )

russta July 27 2009, 17:16:28 UTC

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 July 28 2009, 15:18:10 UTC

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 ( ... )