>Actually forced to participate in a server community to get

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>>380745431
Yes

yes and it will never happen again

MMOs are truly dead

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>>380745431
>tfw shouting in Whitegate for an entire day to build an Alliance to down Divine Might

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>>380745431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CEfMytkUg

best game ever

>>380745431
>>Actually forced to participate in a server community to get shit done
>>Quests that were vague enough to be interesting and have some sense of discovery to them

This is all that is missing in today's MMOs
Only Black Desert kinda has the same feels, although nowhere near as much content

>>380745431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHrZVKt-tM

>>380745431

Arguably the best game ever made, masterfully mixed the JRPG and MMO genres.

>that fucking soundtrack

>>380745431
That's all good, but the gameplay is still abysmal.
I don't think the exploration is that great either, most areas are just flat planes with enemies sprinkled all around.
The later expansions do have more interesting places though

>>380747172
my nigga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY3e4a5EwmU

>>380747289
>He never got lost in the fucking jungle zones while trying to find his XP party
>He never got trapped on the outside of Garlaige Citadel because there weren't enough people to open the gate

>>380747289
It's like you never even tried to explore the world. The dungeons are all huge and easy to get lost to. The world is dangerous and you probably die if you weren't prepared. Gameplay is great since it's not "action and dodge", but actually requires constant coordination with your party members (and yes that also means chatting during battle).

>>380747594
I liked how dangerous the world was, even at low levels. You really had to watch what you were doing.

>>380746120
For my DM I spent a few days gathering people for a run to take place the following weekend. Gave people enough time to get their shit together and we all had an Ark Pentasphere each so we were sure to win (eventually).
Was one of the most fun (and stressful) times in that game.

>>380747785
>tfw you will never relive the experience of having your party member's level 75 friend escorting your party to Jeuno from the Dunes for the first time again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A59-ksdfaZ8

>>380747912
>LS leader offers to help me get to Jeuno once I got level 20
>I get 20 and message him
>We set off and make it through Pashhow
>I die in Rolanberry fields
>He came on MNK/WAR so no raise
>Tells me to wait there he'll come back on WHM
>He never does
>Do it on my own the next day
Getting to Jeuno was horrible, but god damn did it teach me how to position and avoid aggro

Yes. For some reason achievements today have to be taking down a huge monster in a dungeon. They don't understand that a feeling of achievement can be through other means.

>>380747569
When your sneak wears off in the middle of Crawler's Nest and there's nowhere to safely recast

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>>380745431
>Was this one of the peaks of the genre?
Yes, but as an FFXIfag I think I would be remiss not to also put Ultima Online, Everquest, and SWG up there too.

>>380747912
>>380748181
I like how this became like ritual in the game. I had someone in my LS do this to me first time as well. Thinking that, the game also had lots of others things we took as "granted", like players built own culture inside vana'diel.

>>380748352
Yep, I used to play UO before FFXI.

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Anyone remember their first dunes party?

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>it will never not hurt to think about FFXI in its prime

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>>380747020
I'd argue that participation is the biggest issue there, because an MMO is supposed to be an MMO. If I wanted to log in and do something by myself all the time, I'd just go play a solo offline RPG (just as it ought to be). That being said, I'm fine with MMOs offering secondary activities like crafting and exploration as solo activities, so long as they don't undermine the greater social aspect.

But I think you're wrong about OP's "rare loot" point, because most MMOs resort to vertical equipment systems and not horizontal ones. Vertical is the classic gear treadmill in which constant updates obsolete currently existing gear, to the point that players log in every 2 months to get the newest and best stuff. Horizontal, which is what FFXI has (or had, I guess), allows a player to get something like a Scorpion Harness for their thief and then use it later on their dragoon, much further into the future. This robust equipment system only works when you have something similar to FFXI's class system.

>>380748764
Yes

I also remember getting to the top of Delkfutt's Tower, dropping down to the bottom and realizing I forgot to get the key I needed for some main story quest and having to go all the way back to the top

I loved FFXI, but it definitely had its share of problems
>PlayOnline service was extremely spotty at times
>many quests were pointless because the rewards sucked balls
>the economy on many servers was broken as shit, and making money in general was ruthless
>travel completely monopolized by a single class, and you had to pay (your nonexistent Gil) to taxi anywhere until you get your airship pass
>game was a literal grind for exp, with little else to do apart from looking for exp parties

>>380749279
>Main quests were pointless because the rewards sucked balls
Signet duration and proof you weren't a newfag

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>>380748764
No but I remember the last time I went to one, back in 2008 or so. From 2003 to 2008 I had played nothing but melee classes and tanks as my elvaan, never a mage.

I remember joining a dunes party right at level 10 because soloing as WHM was so shitty, so we went to fight the lizards near the Konschtat zone. Unfortunately my pathetic elvaan MP pool wasn't enough and we wiped like it was Auschwitz Highlands.

I don't think I'll touch a caster ever again, not that I even play MMOs anymore.

>>380749058
The gear was also situational, so depending on the day / weather / enemy / what you are doing, different kind of gear could be more effective.

I agree, that having "hobbies" inside mmo for past time when you are waiting for something is nice and relaxing. But making the main meat single-player focused is stupid. In XI people who could solo, were admired because of how hard it was.

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>>380749279
>many quests were pointless because the rewards sucked balls
I dunno man, doing the Warp quest, Utsusemi quest, and Teleport scroll quest and then selling them off was quite lucrative at one point in the game

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>distinct lack of mithras in the thread
loldrg

>>380749279
>travel completely monopolized by a single class, and you had to pay (your nonexistent Gil) to taxi anywhere until you get your airship pass

WHMs and SMNs needed a way to make some gil

>>380749279
>>PlayOnline service was extremely spotty at times
Agree
>>many quests were pointless because the rewards sucked balls
As opposed to today's MMOs where you grind 500 purely for exp until level cap? Also a LOT of XI's quests had good stories to them, and had very good rewards, particularly the ones that yielded magic scrolls.
>>the economy on many servers was broken as shit, and making money in general was ruthless
There was tons of ways to make money. Tons of shit to farm tons of shit to craft, you just had to be willing to put the time (or initial money in the case of crafting) into it
>>travel completely monopolized by a single class, and you had to pay (your nonexistent Gil) to taxi anywhere until you get your airship pass
you just complained that making money was hard, then complained at one of the ways people did it?
>>game was a literal grind for exp, with little else to do apart from looking for exp parties
Crafting, gathering, making money, BCNMs, KSNMs, MSQ, there was tons to do before level cap.

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>>380749481
I remember watching those old beast master and ninja solo videos and being amazed.

Never was good at XI but my older sister played with me. Might be why I care so much about the game.

>>380750356
Reminder that Avesta solo'd sky gods and tons of other shit at 75 cap. No Windower addons (meaning no Spellcast, no timers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGoDyuNYhhw
Dude was a god.

Why are XI threads always so cozy and polite?

>>380750794
Because that's exactly what the XI community was like outside of HNM.

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>>380748764
yep...

GOOD TIMES! I truly miss them.

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>>380745897
eh, it's still kicking. not what it used to be for sure but we remain loyal

>>380750794
Because people who played this game actually had to get along with other people.

There was no cross-realm party/dynamis finder where you could treat others like shit because you'd never see them again.

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>>380750794
Just wait until ARR/WoW people start posting

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>>380751037

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>>380751037
the dunes had so much fan art

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San d'Orian here.

Ronfaure was the best, Gustaberg and Sarutabaruta were nice too.

>pandemonium warden
>Absolute virtue
>That crystal dragon in EQ with death touch
Not even devs seem to have fun developing mmos anymore

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>>380751203
Even XIV references the dunes and crabkilling on the small shell minion.

>>380750794
>>380750860
I remember finding a linkshell in PlayOnline before I even finished downloading the game. Everyone was p friendly.

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>>380750201
Yeah I was a WHM.
Broke as hell, not only I had to buy gear, but also I had to buy crazy expensive spells.

>that shame when people /check'd on you and you felt your equip was gimp, but you had no money to upgrade cause scrolls, and staves, and earrings, and rings, all filthy expensive, my god

>that shame when you joined a party and you were missing the latest spells because you had just leveled up to be able to use them, but couldn't afford them, and you hoped they wouldn't notice you didn't have them

I swear WHM gives you inferiority complexes. Not only you are completely serving other people, they also want you to be perfect at it. And to be honest i loved it.

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>>380745431
Let's not forget the c@girl hentai.

>>380750794
It's polite until XIVfags come in. Then we become hostile and bitter because they represent everything that's wrong with MMOs now, and the death of our beloved MMO.

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>>380751052
>>There was no cross-realm party/dynamis finder where you could treat others like shit because you'd never see them again.
this

instancing is a cancer that should only be used slightly, if at all, for MMOs. I'm OK with FFXI having BCNMs, but everything else shouldn't be instanced and there absolutely shouldn't be cross-server play or party-finders of that nature

>>380751203
It was one of the more memorable, low level areas of the game. Even if you didn't get very far, you probably made it to the dunes.
>goblin uses bomb toss
Good times...

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>>380745431
I feel happy because I experienced it, but I feel utterly sad by the missing chance with XIV to repeat the same feels but with a modern game.

FFXI -> Tanaka Directing with Sakaguchi Producing = best game ever
FFXIV -> Tanaka Directing and producing with Wada trying to compete with WoW = total disaster
FFXIV -> Yoshi.P Directing and producing = WoW with a FF coat of paint.

>tfw using auto-translate function to communicate with JP players
>Met some JP who was super low level in Gustaberg and did some quests with him since we were both sub-level 10
good times

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>>380751203
I think it's when most people truly fall in love with the game. being in a party for the first time is such a cool experience. I remember my first party I was a WAR and I was so bad. I kept voke pulling and I couldn't hold hate for shit because I thought I was cool and used a claymore and the taru blm was spamming magic and dying in two hits and the whm didn't know how to use the F1-6 buttons to switch between members to heal them; etc. Good times.

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>>380751356
>east ronfaure
Cheval-drinking pleb, west ronfaure master race

I'll report you to the papsque

>>380751175
I love the optic hat there. Nice touch

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>>380748764
>mfw I would hang out in the Dunes as a WHM

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>>380751478
man I remember when I finally got whm to 25 I ran around the dunes just WAITING for people to die so I could rez them.

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>>380748764
I remember my first party, but it wasn't in the dunes.
I remember we started out in the Maze of Shakhrami, but I don't think we got anything done there and we moved to the garrison in Buburimu Peninsula. That was the only time I'd ever partied in those places and I don't remember why they were there instead of the dunes in the first place, though I didn't know it was out of the norm at the time.

Only thing I remember about the party was it had a PUP (first one I'd ever seen and I thought it was cool as fuck) and a japanese puller.

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>>380751686
Approximately how much gil was this?

>>380751889
I remember seeing a dead person in town for the first time. I didn't know poison potions were a thing. I thought someone glitched out.

>>380745431

I played on Nasomi for awhile before not logging back in for like half a year now.

Thinking about diving back in but always feel apprehensive about restarting a MMO.
At least I got a peacock charm when they were cheap

>>380751564
>Logged in the game first time
>Did not know how to move (seriously)
>Asked help from random passenger
>Ended up explaining the controls, showing the city (sandy!) and finally invited to LS
>Had the linkpearl for the LS until the end
>People actively were looking out to me and helped me to get stuff

Best first experience with mmo ever. Of course the controls in XI were bit wonky (especially targetting)

>>380751985
I think the thing that confused me most was a dynamis wipe, seeing a bunch of dead high level players in southern san d'oria

>>380751564
{Meat}{Shield}{Please}

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i have ascended to godly ffxi power status
ask me your wish and i may grant it

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>>380752194
>ask me your wish and i may grant it
raise3

>>380752085
Like, one of the longest relationships I ended up having in FFXI was with a guy who helped me out the first day when I was running around like an idiot. We ended up playing for like tow years together.

That just doesn't seem to happen much anymore.

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>>380752153
{jerkin} my {elvaan} {meat} {rod} {eagle eye shot} {mithra} {hole}

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>>380751720
For real though.
Being able to buff people and raise them and make them invincible was a great feeling. You felt great.

And the thing is, you actually WANT to do that to people, because they are your FRIENDS. Like, actual friends you share adventures with, not just random people you were matched up with in a random thingy.

You really want to CARE for them as a healer.

I swear this is the best game of all times. Oh, the memories... the sneak/invisible mgs action, the crazy duo explorations with my buddy, my god...

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>>380752273
r1 ok?

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>Spends weekend grinding carbuncles ruby
>Spends week looking for weather
>Spends week leveling to 20
>Can't beat tuning fork summons

Felt bad but still played summoner

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>>380752452
no I'll delevel to 74

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>>380752553
should be more careful where you pull from then

If you're going to play this game now a days the best way to be convince some people you know to start with you and just treat it like the ultimate co-op game and try to meet some other newfags along the way

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MMO's sure have gone a long way haven't they?

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>>380752085

>>380753327
Oh no, what's that. Why.

Where did all the waiting and planning and timing go? ;_;

>>380748764

very fortunately, in my first party, in the dunes at lv14/no sub, i partied with a tank and healer who told me we'd XP again tomorrow, and we made the same arrangement the next day, and the next. years later, the 3 of us, and others we'd met along the way, had cleared every expansion and endgame together. it was bittersweet to pick up my CoP ring. i don't think i ever wanted those missions to end. even though it was long nights, and a whole lot of busywork work, going back and forth between cities and fields and dungeons 10 times over, each dungeon with its own gimmick to slog through rather than ever simply letting you run through.

one guy forgot to click the ??? at the top of attowha chasm and had to do the whole climb again. another dude insisted we do the map quest for sea palace and i was in there until 10am the next day. it sometimes took months just to level up and start the next chapter.

i think thats the purest experience you can have from an MMO and i probably wont ever get it again. i still play FFXI because i still think its beautiful and charming and a nice timesink on the side, but its mostly solo, and really the memories are better than the game can ever be now.

I think I'm ready to resub. Haven't even been gone that long but miss it

>>380753928
Please look forward for more QTE's in future stormblood boss fights.

>>380753928
>waiting planning timing
I personally don't care about that. But having time in between actions/attacks lets me chat with party members midbattle, so it's easier to make friends with strangers

I still have a few party/LS members on Steam and Facebook from XI

>>380754082

Next update they're gonna introduce real time action combat boss fights. With flashy Devil May Cry moves.

>>380753985

>one guy forgot to click the ??? at the top of attowha chasm and had to do the whole climb again.

Classic FFXI. This sums the game up in a sentence for me. It's glorious.

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>>380754343
I joined an LS back in 2004 with my cousin. It had 20-30 people in it and most of them kept playing for years. I still play, never quit. I'm still friends with most of them, we talk or play games pretty regularly. XI works magic.

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>mfw I downloaded all of the original concept art (pre-Zilart) off their website

>>380754671

theres something for the CoP BCNM (ENM?) quest up there, and another for the actual mission progress cutscene. guess which he clicked before we warped out.

>>380754343
I know what you mean.

But the slow paced battles also let you see everything that was happening, it helped connect with people more. When party members did something crazy or funny, the whole party reacted to that, because you had time to chat between the auto attacks and the rare ability or WS use.

Nowdays battles are just button mashing and flashing VFX that cover the whole screen up, and you don't know what's happening, and the monster's dead in 3 seconds, before you even have a chance to engage it, maybe.

It was really rewarding to hit a monster for little damage, but seeing that little damage stack up with that of your other party members, so that an insurmountable obstacle that would kill you in a matter of seconds when soloing, became something achievable in a group. That's the essence of FFXI, I think.

Something I miss from XI was how gamebreakingly powerful you could get with the right gear and friends. Videos like the 96% haste Warrior or NIN/DNC solos. A game like XIV doesn't have the tools to experiment with for these things.

>>380755296
Post more. Any good Puppetmaster stuff?

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>>380755760
It's pre-Zilart, PUP was added in TOAU

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>>380755296
>>380755760
>pre-Zilart
>pup
anon...

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>>380755806
what tarutaru could have been

>>380745431
Fuck man I miss XI

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>>380755426

It was awful when stuff like that happened.

>you put together your full 6 people party, all geared up and ready to take on the big final NM to finish the quest

>you get to the ???, you click it and the NM doesn't spawn

>swiftly open up the Wiki, with sweat on your forehead and spaghetti falling out of your Subligar's pockets

>/p "huh, guys, apparently I forgot to speak to that one npc back in Sandy... brb"

Does anyone know anything about the mobile port of FF11?
When was the last time we got news on it?

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>>380755903
I'm sorry I just really like Puppets. I never even got far enough to unlock it. I just remember there was a cool PUP in our LS that helped me out with stupid things.

I don't think I ever got past 50 honestly. I still loved the game.

>>380756239
No news since the first pics came out a year ago

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>>380756291

>>380756291

you could have a pretty decently geared 99PUP in a couple of months now if you really wanted to try it out.

>Run all the way to the ferry
>As you reach the last wood section of the dock the doors close and it starts to drift away
>/sit

>>380756526
I know a ton has changed in XI. Just to check out the story I missed and revisit areas would be a lot of fun for me. I know the basics of what's changed but how is server population doing?

>>380756904
>/fish

>>380756526
>>380756291
>months
try days

>>380756943
this is asura during last month's event

>>380757143
woops
>>380756943
see
>>380751041

>tfw already missed out on all the Trusts I would want to have

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I'm set to pick this up again. Any servers to avoid because of language or something? I think I can find a guide for everything else unless there's some protip for newcomers you have.

>>380757968
just play on Asura

>>380757008

well a fresh account still has the usual progress gates along the way and quite a lot of work to, before they can simply complete RoE Tutorial Intermediate and spam some Ambuscade, which will lead you to scraping a basic 119 set together. i dont know how much work there is for PUP-specific things, either.

>>380757598

shantotto II was up last month, you fucked up.

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>>380757968
we have a /v/ LS discord if you're interested. not many of us play right now but always willing to answer questions or help

https://discord.gg/T5czN

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>>380758603
>They don't even have their subjob!

I've heard that modern FFXI is completely different compared to what it used to be. Are there any private servers worth playing on, or is the dream simply dead and gone?

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>>380760186
Some of the private servers have bad circlejerks. I think some give rewards for donations. You can check it out, the program is pretty good. The guys running the servers with it are the problem.

>>380760186
It's never coming back, sadly. There isn't a way to play FFXI in its heyday. You just have to live with it.

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>tfw I always want to come back every few months
>tfw play online is so shitty and I always forget my login
>tfw square enix' s recovery system sucks ass
>tfw you lied about your age when you first played and can't remember your age you put in
>tfw I always just give up before calling

probably a good thing

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>>380760186
honestly you're better off playing retail these days

if you get into an ls it won't feel much different from old xi. CP pts are basically old school exp pts. you also won't have access to working jobs like pup, run, geo on private servers. not to mention all the other broken shit.

>>380760818
>>380760525
>>380760186
There's Nasomi. I think it's great.

>>380760186
I played on Era a few months back. The community is tiny and I've heard talk of asshole mods, but I never saw anything wrong when I played.
I heard Nasomi has a larger playerbase, but I never played on that server.

>>380751548
Don't feel sad FFXIV sucks

>>380760186

It was a different time and a game that catered to a different breed of player, people who wanted challenge, wanted to play WITH others, and enjoyed the journey over the reward. Unfortunately SE for various reasons ripped out a lot of the core mechanics that played up the ideals of community and journey and there is no going back to the way it once was. Not only can the mechanics never be repaired but the people are gone, that playerbase will never come back.

It's a shame really, back then you had MMOs like SWG and FFXI pushing the MMO genre in the right direction but WoW came crashing through like a tsunami and ruined it all. Those kinds of games will never come back and the glory days of FFXI cannot be relived, not even in a private server.

>>380751052
More like there wasn't a competitive aspect of the game driving the community into a cannibalistic frenzy of abuse.

>>380761367
>the glory days of FFXI cannot be relived, not even in a private server.
While that's certainly true, it can still be a fun nostalgia trip.

I hope when square ends support of XI we get some kind of way to play it offline. Like a rerelease with Co-op or something. I don't want it to end.

>>380757968
>Any servers to avoid because of language or something?
FFXI has an autotranslator so language doesn't matter much. It was the biggest selling point back in the day, and it really helped, because Japs/Euros/Americans all have different time zones. If you wanted a party at 2am local time, you could probably find one if you were willing to play with foreigners.

>>380756239
Why bother waiting for the FFXI mobile version when you can do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hfeweNwdg

>>380745431
It's been nothing but downhill ever since, honestly.

Games these days just copy WoW and make casual quest-grinds that you can do entirely solo.

Even FFXIV has fallen to it.

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>>380762752
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohg11ZbcQ1s

>not playing XI in vr
heh, scrub

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>>380760186
http://www.valhalla.group/home/doku.php

I played on Valhalla a lot last year and had a lot of fun, but it's one of the more solo-friendly private servers out there despite content only going up to TOAU. You get a buddy NPC (not the trust magic ones exactly) that scales in level with you, and there's a server custom augment system that allows you to enchant each slot of equipment with up to 4 bonuses. So even the lowliest Brass Subligar can get +2% haste, for example, so long as you're willing to spend money on the transmutables (for example, 1 Lightning Cluster is +2% haste IIRC).

I played private server XI to complete all the content I never really finished back when I played, so Valhalla was pretty much perfect for me. Finished Zilart, finished COP, finished TOAU, cleaned up a bunch of HNMs I never really camped in 2005, leveled up classes I never touched before, etc. etc.

If you want to replicate the leveling experience I would suggest Nasomi instead.

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>>380761000
>posting an FFT image in an FFXI thread
I'll allow it

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>>380761829

For sure, the world is still there and so is the story, you're just missing the community and magical sense of accomplishment that FFXI brought along with all of it's content.

>tfw you worked your way through CoP missions pre nerf with a static of good pals

>>380762903
>implying this is playing the game

The guy asked about the mobile port, not how to walk around maps without being logged in.

>>380761950

It would kill me to know that the world of vanadiel was gone forever when they shut down the servers, it would be criminal to not allow even a single player sandbox version of the world to be released.

Frankly with how magical the game was I'm surprised they never did any spinoffs with it, all they tried to do was (poorly) copy the battle mechanics to FF12.

>>380763057
Does Valhalla only let you have 1 NPC? Or can you have a whole party of them?

>>380763635
Just one. It's some strange workaround that uses Pet Command passive on BST (applied to all classes) so you can use pet items on them, like Zeta Biscuits and Mulsum. It's weird but it works

>>380763463
The gambit system was neat, when I was playing FFXI recently with all of the added trusts I wish that they had implemented a similar system for them. Pissed me off that the RDM I summoned just wouldn't cast refresh on me because I was a BLU/WAR.

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Gear-swap macros were a great mechanic and gave this game more depth than XIV will EVER have

>>380763809
So you can't technically solo the entire game, since you can only have 1 NPC with you at most? That seems kinda shitty, because the augment system looked really neat and a lot more well done than XI or XIV ever did..

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I will say it again, modern FFXI might not be "as good" as it was in the golden age, but MMOs are actually so abysmally shitty now that 2017 FFXI is still the best MMO on the market outside private servers for discontinued games. Believe me, I've tried a bunch of them

>>380764006
there's more depth to the trust system than most people think

the order you summon your trusts also heavily dictates what actions they will use, some trusts have synergy with others, and some just plain do weird shit others of that job don't

>>380764496
I like the addition of the trust system, its just that sometimes they act like fucking retards and theres nothing you can do about it.

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get the game+HDD bundle for ps2
waiting for prepaid cards since i didnt have a creditcard(neither did mom)
they never released prepaid cards like they were supposed to
game is still sealed to this day

used the HDD for resident evil outbreak and storing save files

>>380764697
You can use the code to play on PC if you have one.

>>380747912
>he needed an escort

Real niggas learned how to metal gear solid

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>>380755296
I own the actual art book. There's a lot of good shit in there.

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>>380765712
which one? I've got this one but I think there's another

What was your greatest accomplishment out of the games "difficult" things to do, bros?

I quit the game pretty satisfied with myself. Killed every HNM in the game, fully completed both old and new Dynamis, old and new Limbus, old and new Salvage and Nyzul, did all of the Voidwatch stuff after the level cap went up. Even led a Delve linkshell score wins for the 5 minutes that Adoulin was actually difficult and had alliance-based content.

>>380752426
>And the thing is, you actually WANT to do that to people, because they are your FRIENDS. Like, actual friends you share adventures with, not just random people you were matched up with in a random thingy.
I played on Midgardsormr and knew so many freakin' people, it's the comfiest feel when you're going about your business trawling some dungeon on your own and stumble across a buddy or two out of the blue.

Like if you came across a friend in the street and say hey let's grab a beer and chat, fuck I've got so many good memories of that game.

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>>380766427
Different Anon, but I picked up this 10th Anniversary one a few years ago. Old picture since it's still at my parents house while I'm at Uni.

>>380766476
Honestly getting to PUP to 75 because people bagged on it so much, it was a damn good job and very fun to play.

>>380766476
Only played until they increased the level cap, I felt like they werer heading on a trend I wouldn't enjoy and bailed out before I started to hate the game.
>Killed everything but AV/PW,
>Fully geared PLD except Relic Weapons.
>Ran a successful Sky/Sea LS for just under 2 years.
>Met my wife on it.

>>380761559
you never made endgame did you? HNM camping and the excruciatingly painful endgame made linkshells hate other linkshells with a fiery passion and pitted brother against brother for loot

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Sup dudes. Most comprehensive, accurate guide ever made here. What can I help you with today?

>>380767312
I fucking loved HNM drama so much, that was without a doubt some of the funniest shit I've ever experienced.
The other guy is right though, HNM was a very, very small section of the community, most of the people outside of HNM were very nice.

The gameplay is still horrible. In wow you can actually use your spells

>>380767469
>most of the people outside of HNM were very nice.

not the japanese. They were seriously the biggest community of insufferable dicks I've ever met in any online game.

>>380767912
>tfw never had problem with japanese

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>tfw sneak and invisible are about to wear off

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>>380767365
is that the one that recommends WAR with WHM subjob?

>>380766725
I ought to pick that one up too

>>380768516

>tfw one day actually get invited to a xp group with a japanese party
>skip school, make your mom order pizza, force yourself to piss/shit immediately upon invite so you can stay for as long as possible because you your ass just struck 5000 karat gold

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>>380768601
>implying jorm isn't true sight/sound

>>380768674

Jormungand is true sight, you mongoloid.

What are private servers where I can play this game like an offline RPG?

>>380769150
retail. you can beat all the story solo with trusts and even do entry level end game shit

it's like playing ff12 at that point

>>380768827
>>380768915
You're right
I just thought the picture was funny and slightly related

>>380766779
ayyy, pup main here. Best job

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Just a reminder that Vana'diel Live is still up and running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MWXndI77og

>>380769150
Make your own private server. Use windower to run 5 extra clients. Use the windower multibox and macro plugins to control your team of idiots while you tank.

Modify the server settings to make the game quicker if you think it's slow. Program is called Darkstar.

>>380767365
I mean a guide about a game that is constantly going to be updated and rebalanced of course wasn't going to be accurate. But I loved the section at the beginning on how to interact with other players, and the job descriptions made you think about the possibilities you could make by combining various roles. It did a good job getting you into the spirit of the game

>>380766427
>>380765712
>>380766427
>tfw no FFXI lore books in English

>>380767365
>Bradygames
>What can I help you with today?
Just fuck my newbie playerbase up senpai

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>When you finally got the airship pass and spend all day flying around and enjoying the view

The few FFXI screen-shots I have are probably some of the oldest surviving files on my computer.

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I wanna snuggle a Mithra

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>>380771857
i lost a lot of my screens from 2004 and back unfortunately, i have a metric shit load of ss from 2005-present though. lots of great memories

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>>380772841
>name your character Apocalypse
>Bahamut gets confused when referencing the Harbinger of the Apocalypse

>>380770074
Makes me want to comeback but ffxi will never be the same :/