WHOAH SHE LOOKS LIKE A MAN

>>20405879
what kind of men do you look at

I LIKE TO PLAY SPLINTER CELL

agreed, imo better than wow, and I've played both. I played ffxi on the ps2 hd

Actually worse than WoW.

Disapointing.

ffxi= mmo players mmo
wow=casual gamers mmo (except pvp)

>>20405989
No. FF is way more toward the casuals. If you disagree you're a blind fanboy or haven't played both properly.

Awesome game, but if you're not ready to dedicate yourself, don't expect to really get into endgame besides dynamis and limbus.

>>20406036
>FFXI. Casual.

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I would have loved to get into this, but shit takes forever to level and the economy is extremely FUCKED.

At least in wow I was able to level and accrue gear by myself without having to work my ass off for it.

I'd have to say that, for any MMO I've ever seen or played, FFXI has to be the slowest and most boring MMO yet. Every fight is like watching paint dry, except you get paid less than minimum wage to watch the paint drying and you have to do it in 50 different houses before you move to the next color of paint.

Oh yeah, FFXI, a game that requires you to spend entire days to do simple tasks, is geared towards casual players.


Riiiiight.

I'm pondering giving FFXI a try again, Any reason why i should not?

>>20406140


Level Sync makes leveling a lot easier.

Still one of the biggest grindfests ever, though.

>>dedication
>>video games

The only reason to play is its story, and world. Which is quite good, however, you can just avoid playing an MMO and play a good offline RPG instead.

>>20406140
Go ahead, Square Enix had a big update about 2 weeks ago making it more newbie friendly. Easy Prey and Decent Challenge give more exp, you get weapon skills faster, and the level sync thing.

Runescape feels extremely rewarding when you make it on top.

Also, people worship you if you're in the top 21.

<<<< THIS

>>20406255
the stories are fucking terrible, prove me wrong.

wow is superior, 3 year ffxi veteran 75 nin war drk, among the first people to down cerb, among some of the first to down dynamis xarc, among one of the first to make warrior an appreciated job.

wow just doesn't have all the retarded timesinks as FFXI, 4/46 leaping lizzy, 1/25 on VE, 0/220(not making this up)okote etc.

mind you, ffxi is a good game, and the japanese are oh so quirky. I don't feel like dedicating my life to a mmo with terrible PVP and an incredibly simple when broken down PVE system.

ffxi is nowhere near towards being a casual player btw to the idiots saying that wow is less casual. I know things have changed but try levelling a DRK 3 years ago, weeklong waits for parties and I was regularly outdamaging prepatch rangers.

AND the community in ffxi is stacked with fucking douchebags who are so pompous it's ludicrous.

at least in wow i can go KEKEKEKE and gank some bitches then log and i get something, other than 500gil and some quirky japanese out of the raw deal

>>20406429
The story is fantastic. Proved you wrong.

HURR DURR

>>20406474
in the entire game i believe there's one badass character? the DRK who's best friend ends up being the shadow lord, rank 6 was as cool as that game got, square stopped trying and started retarding the fuck up as soon as NAs touched the game

>>20406429
>0/220(
lol
>dedicating my life to a mmo with terrible PVP
>mmo, PVP
lol
>ffxi is stacked with fucking douchebags who are so pompous it's ludicrous.
Ok i'll give you that one.

FFXI is simply a game for the people who look for adventure and interaction with the community. Make friends and go on adventures, that's what FFXI is about. It's not about "kill these 500 random people you don't know".

That's what I enjoy about it, that's what I have enjoyed about it for the past 3 years.

>>20406533
as batshit insane as CoP was the story was pretty cool

>>20406550
yea, static grindfests get boring too poncho.

>>20406429
and fucking wow's stories are better?? The stories were fucking excellent, the battles for the stories even better.

>>20406533
>>square stopped trying and started retarding the fuck up as soon as NAs touched the game


Yeah, because Japs are soooo practical and full of intuition.

>>20406140
Eh, Thinking it over i might pass. I hate dealing with Douchebags. Nor do i care that much for the storyline. I just want a game that's fun to play solo or with a group.

I think FFXI's job system is the best out there still, but god damn, the amou8nt of effort you have to go through to enjoy it is just horrible.

>>20406605
who plays wow for the story? who plays ANY squeenix game for story? Want me to tell you how every single one of them ends? The guy with long, blonde hair is the bad guy. I'm sorry but few videogames have had very good story in years, and square has been shit since 98

>>20406570

People who join linkshells simply for static CoP, ToAU are fucking stupid. I made friends first, then we created a linkshell. There was no "static", because we all know eachother for a very long time, we can help eachother out with missions. We gain more friends as we go and we help them with previous missions and such as well.

You're just a lonely faggot who refuses to make friends.

>>20406533
Gessho
Tenzen
Volker
Lion
Perih Vashai
Zazarg
Mihli Aliapoh
Shikaree X Y Z

>>20406696


delicious lion

>>20406696
You forgot all the ministers of windurst. Little fuckers will fry your ass if you so much as think of being rude.

>>20406605


Anyone else here beat all the Promyvions before they were "nurfed"?

>>20406660
yea because playing with unorganized clowns who can't grasp the extremely slow combat sure is fun.

I never staticed TOAU or COP, I staticed from 50-75 because you HAVE TO. Otherwise you get stuck with at least ONE asshole EVERY time.

The only people we ever picked up were quirky JP who liked to have fun, because 99% of FFXI community are losers.

And yea, tell me to get friends on a MMO, good luck with that one. I can get friends in real life thanks, I play games to dick around with people's heads, not enhance some loser friend circle of people who don't even exist.

>>20406550
well said kind sir

>>20406429

>ffxi is stacked with fucking douchebags who are so pompous it's ludicrous.

>3 year ffxi veteran 75 nin war drk, among the first people to down cerb, among some of the first to down dynamis xarc, among one of the first to make warrior an appreciated job.

>ffxi is stacked with fucking douchebags
>fucking douchebags
>douchebags

>>20406696

>Volker
Big fag

>Zazarg
FUCK YEAH

Also Zeid was an emo.

>>20406780
>I can get friends in real life thanks

>>20406776
I'm pretty sure my LS did. The place was unbearable. Since CoP was new, the only redeemable part about the trip up was that other LSs were also always in there so you could fight the Memory thing as a big group.

>>20406830
Volker is the fucking savior of vana'diel. piss off

>>20406780
then dont fucking play ffxi. Some people actually like the community of their games.

I know that's an extraordinary concept for you

>>20406780

I say you don't have to. What are you gonna do about? I've leveled several jobs to 75 and I didn't static. There's an easy solution to assholes and idiots. Kick them, most people know who the assholes and idiots are so it'll be of little consequence if they start complaining. Although from your attitude I'd probably say you were the asshole getting kicked.

>>20405963
>>20405982

Pre-ToAU, FFXI was definitely one of the best on the market, despite lolgrindan.

Once Aht urghan came out though, everything turned to shit. Party mechanics went downhill, skillchains and magic bursts were ignored for the sake of "fast exp," most everyone relied on powerlevels., and the most needed jobs such as BLMs were pretty much nullified because no one wanted to do skillchains anymore.

Economy went down the shitter, since many of the high price item drops had their drop rates increased in the new areas, causing prices to plummet and making it difficult to make money.

SE is also extremely lazy when adding necessary things. It took them a goddamn year just to add the relic items for BLU COR and PUP, when they should have been ready at least 2 months after the expansion released. It also took them 5 fucking years just to add a moogle to Selbina/Mhaura. What the fuck was stopping them before?

So, before Aht Urghan, definitely better. Afterwards though, WoW was able to pass it up with most of the changes they've made, while SE has been too busy pumping out FFVII sequels.

>>20406780

>not enhance some loser friend circle of people who don't even exist

Wat?

>>20406780
>>I staticed from 50-75 because you HAVE TO

Not no mo' you don't. LOL campaign. LOL level sync. LOL exp from easy prey being boosted by 50-100%.

>>20406884
i quit, years ago. I play a far more relaxed, fun game now, called wow.

It has all of the bullshit FFXI has, but cut down 90%!

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed staticing with my DRK WAR and NIN, was a lot of fun especially with the quirky JP, FFXI is a fun game and the community (the gems) are gold.

Too much work to find a few good people though.

Honestly, if you play FFXI, and haven't played WOW. Do the trial, you'll be like: WOW WTF HAVE I BEEN PLAYING THIS GIGANTIC TIMESINK FOR? I COULD HAVE A GIRLFRIEND OR SOMETHING, WRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>20407018
Get out.

>>20407045
keep playing ffxi, enjoy the top with greasy nerds who would get their asses rolled in a game that requires any skill whatsoever

LOLNIDHOGG LOLCERB LOLSKY LOLSEA LOLKB

only idiots wipe to what used to be the 'hardest' fights that you can only be at the 'top' to deal with

>>20406429

> AND the community in ffxi is stacked with fucking douchebags who are so pompous it's ludicrous.

> at least in wow i can go KEKEKEKE and gank some bitches then log and i get something, other than 500gil and some quirky japanese out of the raw deal

>>20406780

> And yea, tell me to get friends on a MMO, good luck with that one. I can get friends in real life thanks, I play games to dick around with people's heads, not enhance some loser friend circle of people who don't even exist.

Thank you for finding a game other than FFXI to play. I hope you continue to enjoy games other than FFXI, and never consider coming back.

>I staticed from 50-75 because you HAVE TO

I lvled bst solo from 1 to 75 because I had the option to as you don't actually need to static to gain levels in this game. Unless you suck that bad you need to leech off the skills of others to advance. :x

>>20406696
Shantoto for the fucking win.

>>20407018
> I COULD HAVE A GIRLFRIEND OR SOMETHING
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>>20406931
I just started again in Asura. Yeah, I miss the Skill Chain and Magic Burst. They should implement xp bonus for performing a succesful Magic Burst. Something like 15% xp bonus with 30%xp bonus max. That way, you do it twice on a mob, you get 30% xp bonus. Then again knowing SSE's rate of implementing of new things..

Also, anyone got a non-endgame LS with plenty of ppl still lvling that I can join?

>>20406871

no, u.

Anyway the list is fail without Shantotto, this is coming from a Bastokfag.

>>20407110

ffxi's PVE is much harder than wow's. Average wow player wouldn't last till lvl 20 in ffxi.

>>20407216
don't replace hard with LOLGRINDAN

i love FFXI

>>20407018

I played wow. I look back at wow as something I did to waste my time. I have no relationship with my characters. Once you got to 60 your character was finished. there was nothing to do if you didn't want to grind gear or PvP(for gear). If you wanted to level a different class you had to start a new character, give up all your connection and start teh grind all over again. Now I know it wouldn't have worked to just delevel because of how you got most of your exp and gear from quests. But how fucking difficult would it really have been to phase your character so you got all quests reset/a different inventory/rep/etc for each class you played? And don't even get me started on how fucking awesome the subjob systems is. The most important thing in a RPG is immersion into the role or at least the ability to relate to your character. WoW's characters are just a medium for grinding new skills and new abilities to get to the next level.

I was always under the impression that WoW was like Baby's First MMO. So simple anyone can hop in and play!

As a former FF11 player who had a 75 RNG, PLD, NIN, WAR I'd honestly say that making the change to WoW was the best thing I ever did. While I had a lot of friends in FF11 the time commitment was just too high. It might be different now, but I have no urge to even try FF11 again.

When I quit though my character netted me about 2000 USD thanks to all the gil and items I had in my possession. Fucking Japs couldn't pull an HNM like I could.

>>20407250

You tell me that the average wow player can even get to the camp spot and I'll agree with you. I seriously doubt you've ever played ffxi.

>>20407344
ffxi is not hard, only idiots who don't understand how aggro and the conning system work could possibly have a hard time with it

>>20406931
I forgot to mention that the new relic pieces, SE said that they wouldn't be involved with Dynamis. Well, guess what, they drop in Dynamis now. Not even a new Dynamis area, just the old ones. They could have done Dynamis areas for Aht Urghan easy, but, again, SE is too fucking lazy.

It took me like 2 years after CoP came out to "finish" it but fuck this cut scene this was awesome and kinda moving.

I will only play if this is a choosable race.

>>20407386

The conning system... I take it you didn't make it further than lvl 30?

>>20407421
is titan :O

>>20407327

>But how fucking difficult would it really have been to phase your character so you got all quests reset/a different inventory/rep/etc for each class you played?

But how would Blizzard keep making money?

>>20407421
galkas suck

>>20407427
omg prism powders and sneak oils so hard to get anywhere my brain hurts WHY R THEY SO EXPENSIVE

Played FF11 on 360.
Seemed kinda dead, that or I was on a new server. People were either way high leveled, or really low leveled, no imbetweens.

I guess it is realistic, there's the high leveled awesome white people, and then there is niggers.

Drift City.

Fuck your WALKAN bullshit MMOs.

>>20406075
This black girl I knew, who could barely play the original Mario for NES. Was a fucking ugly weeabo and loved to play ffxi. I tried to get her to play WoW but it was too difficult for her.

CoP > RoZ > WotG > ToAU

>>20407451

But blizzard doesn't charge money per character so they wouldn't lose income doing it.

>>20407517

Wow isn't too difficult for anyone. Wow is way easier than ffxi, if you deny this fact, you are a fool.

>>20407586
other than pvp yes

>>20407517

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

NO.

>>20407586

They're probably about the same, just one takes longer to hit max level.

FF11 isn't more difficult than WoW, it just fucking takes longer. If that means difficult to you, then lol.

>>20407407

look how long it took for them to put out Dreamland Dynamis.. I wouldn't put it past SE to put out ToAU and WotG dynamis. just not in any of our lifetimes....