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My memories of FFXI involve spending hours trying to get a party together--due to the prohibitive level restrictions on who can join which party, it would sometimes take hours. Then we would play a little bit before someone had to go, at which point we could spend another hour trying to recruit a replacement, or just press forward and get killed and lose a shitload of experience.
I spent several months on and off with that game, and never found the fun parts.
Today, all of that has changed. The level restrictions you've mentioned no longer matter, for two reasons: one, the Level Sync system (which was blogged about upon its introduction, but since we've lost the old TNL blogs, I couldn't reference any of my prior FFXI-related entries), and two, the significantly increased EXP rewards. If someone is level 90, and you're level 13, they can Level Sync to you (effectively becoming 13 themselves with an appropriate gear stat reduction), and you'll both receive appropriate EXP rewards for the level.
What you're mentioning are some of the most commonly lamented problems of the past, but they're no longer an issue. It isn't a completely different game, but it's almost as close as it can be, and with every update nowadays, it seems as if they're finding yet another way to make it even better.
I wish they had made those adjustments back when I cared, because FFXI had a lot of potential outside that critical flaw. Oh well. It was their first stab at a genuine MMORPG, so some growing pains are to be expected.
On that same token, however, you'd expect XIV to have been a better affair... I really don't know what they were thinking when they released that. "Let's release an unfinished, awfully boring product within this fiscal year, which won't appease our investors, since it's terrible, and then, we'll reap no benefits! It's a fantastic idea!"
XIV I beta tested and it honestly was released way too damn soon. I still play XI to this day and the changes from then to now have been astounding.
Is it time to dust off my copy, and reinstall? I only have the first two expansions - do all the changes mentioned apply to all versions, or does one have to have all the expansions to get the full benefits?Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun