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Random Thoughts.....What are you thinking?
By Viciouss 2025-06-06 20:01:08
I didn't really care for RE8, I felt like it was heavily frontloaded. Once the vampires all die, the story just peters out. That being said, no real reason not to look forward to RE9 if you are a fan of the series.
By Josiahafk 2025-06-07 00:11:58
You rather have Zimmer than Uematsu? Sacrilege, IMO. He is well known for take old as hell music and riveting it for the big screen, which is why I worded it the specific way I did.
By Mistressfifi 2025-06-07 01:02:53
I just assumed we're all adults
You assumed correctly, I dont think we should have any teenager or lower here, given how old is this game.
as a 17 year old who has been playing for 3-4 years. i can proudly say that at least one exists. Proudly?
What about being proud doing properly your studies, doing your work, becoming a better person, making the world a better place.
But no.
Youre just wasting your youth in this decaying game with a bunch of old geezer weirdos.
Nothing to be proud here, kiddo.
Go back to your studies. Geezer weirdo, Not geezer weirdos.
All work and no play makes me a dull lad
No xi and no tea make me something something
Also. It's better than what alot of my generation does. (Which is Scroll mindlessly on stupid videos)
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By Odin.Upbeat 2025-06-07 01:09:28
long rant about how I feel about current state of ff11
please don't take personal or get too offended
just a write up for my website I decided to share here
just started a several month break from ffxi
i'm not burnt out on the game
I guess i just don't like it
it holds so many of my favorite things video games can give
beastmaster, bonecrafting, tanking, pvp
I just find so much wrong with the game it really stops me
segs sortie dynad all are terrible in my opinion
cp/ep m.lvls all terrible
crafting mats on ah selling +1s selling fish terrible
I liked just logging my char in to chat with ls
but I didn't even like to do that several weeks before my break
the race change was very cool
but it literally only fixed so much other than that it's basically like nothing changed
if you played a female char you switch to a male and now a male that's the biggest change female to male or male to female
at this point I don't even care about ffxiah rank and that was the best thing ffxi had going for it for over a decade
mostly it's all because I can't smoke and play
if i'm not smoking I just want to go fast fast fast to get to where I can smoke
ffxi is kinda slow in that regard
if I am high from smoking oh hell yeah i'll play a slow game and work at it I want to feel the burden and make my high last as long as possible
I literally cannot think of one good event in the game or a good event the game has had in the past 5? years
the last thing I did that was actually fun was raising a perfect chocobo rieurturbo
ep solo is terrible you have to be in such a specific spot in life to enjoy it
who the heck wants to do the same thing for 15 hours just to lvl up and have to do the same thing for 30 hours
it's like 1,700,000 ep at lvl 40 and ur getting like 40,000 ep an hour and that's supposedly good (solo)
everything feels like a major waste of time
and in fact unless you actually get something done it is a complete waste of time
somehow standing doing nothing to build and conserve energy is the best choice
it's like because the game so so full of wasted time and long sell time
you expect so much more for the time you put in
if I play a month I expect 300m
that's 10m a day
end up only making 3.333m a day 100m a month and I don't even want to play
100m in a month is so small it's not even worth it to play
and if I took a guess over all the playerbase 100m is probably pretty decent
but it isn't lol
and there's no events you can do to even make that besides mercing or crafting
for the last several months
I felt the best way to make gil was to do nothing and sit on what you had
because to go out and do any event is a waste of time almost 100% of the time
spamming the same thing over and over for a chance at 5 7 10m isn't fun
you have to be high to enjoy something like that
and that's a entire month of doing something on repeat and you may only make 7m if you get the drop once
crafting lets say you need a stack on moonbow stones it'll have sales history of 15m that literally just happened that day or the day before then you go to buy and they want over 22m
then you don't look for a day like 2 days later and someone snipes a 15m
then it goes for a few more days and the person is buying at 22m
selling +1s if you don't undercut they don't sell
if you go over it never sells
if you just leave the market and let someone own it the price goes up
then you can undercut with the price up and usually get the last sell price
on a 15m item you put it up for 15m it won't sell only 1 sells every week or two week+
if you put for 14.2m it'll usually sell but it may not in the week
if you leave the market for a month or two it'll be at 17m then you can list for around 16.5 and sell
voidwatch is a waste digging is a waste pirates chart is a waste vrtra is never up farming mats is made near impossible
like for yggdreat bole I need to do the delve and I have the extra chars to meet the delve 3 person entry
but I have to do the adoulin missions to get a ki to get the alts into the delve area
okay i'm not going to do that lol
even if I can make hundreds of millions off of it
and camping vrtra is a waste because it's only dropping like 300k worth of mats it can take like 5 days to spawn how freaking stupid
oh and no nm is worth camping games literally got hundreds and hundreds of nms and none are worth it besides vrtra who 100% of the time ur getting like 300k
no one pvps and pvp is probably the most fun entertaining event in the entire game
somehow besieged is getting the most work done to it
and everyone is confused by that
I like brd I like bst I like digging even though it's a waste of time partying or soloing ep is a waste of time but it's the best thing the game has to offer even being a complete waste if you consider just making the 400m and paying for mlvl 1-50 I like bonecraft but it is so close to being a waste of time it's not even funny even with an escutcheon I love pvp no one does it I like pirates chart but it's a waste of time considering mkris drop rate and falling price I like killing vrtra it's never up I usually like chatting in ls but I don't like answering questions or talking about the game I like being silly in chat and talking about my cat salem
mastering all jobs seems like a waste i'll never play them and I don't even want to play to master them
and I could pay 15m and master them
building the useless relics seems 100% pointless even if it's just for ffxiah points it's not worth the gil spent
it's not worth playing to make the gil to get the ffxiah points
I'm at the point now a firmly believe this game is never going to get better
I've been holding on and I can clearly see
this game is never going to get better
and the people that enjoy it the very few of them all have something major wrong with them or they get paid to directly play the game
the most fun part of the game usually ends up being talking about food in ls chat
someone mention eating pork belly and you reply I eat menudo
most memorable ls conversation
I just wc
did you wash your hands
because you better not of washed your hands
I don't know why everyone thinks washing hands is good
then we're all laughing about how this guy doesn't want us to wash our hands after we go to the wc
I'm sorry but how stupid does it have to get to have fun in this game
I see youtube videos and i'm like "How bored does a person have to be to watch that one"
I feel exactly the same about every event in ffxi
I don't even feel wrong by saying ffxi is the most boring game out but it is also the best game out
somehow you pay however much you pay and all you do is stand there or waste time
i've never said it before
but the way they make things so much harder for better gear
is just freaking stupid
stop that eventually
any day now we'll quit building our char and gathering gear
and eventually have fun like we used to
but no it feels like it'll always be a harder foe and more gear to get that literally no one can do unless they run a static or multi box
it upsets me that so many people do segs for gil
and what they get 2.5m tops
freaking give 2.5m for ballista and scale all the 119 moves to be appropriate like 60 cap is for the most part
bring back hnms have pvp drop gil like segs add nms with drops that actually sell
who cares if it's a lvl 15 nm that drops a bis 119 mlvl 50 item
that's what this game needs right now
By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 01:20:13
By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 01:20:28
By fractalvoid 2025-06-07 02:55:32
mostly it's all because I can't smoke and play
operator error - the current endgame is getting ripped before Sortie runs and finding some *** to force your group into.
making them kill the ixion cos it makes funny horsey noises is the current go-to, or wearing the wrong gear for my "spectral jig set" and "accidentally" aggroing everything I possibly can on the top floor.
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By RadialArcana 2025-06-07 06:43:39
the race change was very cool
I read your other post, and I very much came to the opinion that you blamed the race you picked on many of the problems you had with how people treated you. When you could change that, your excuses fell apart and now you're sperging out and blaming the game. I knew that when you got the option to change, you would do it and quit.
The problem really is how you think about the game, XI hasn't changed much at all (to a fault you could say, in that they try super hard to keep it as close to the original design as they can).
Most of the stuff you talk positively about are crap, PVP sucks and nobody does it (mainly cause FF players don't like PVP but also cause of how hard they make signing up and waiting for it etc) and HNM is stupid content that is just botted.
There are many things that they could do in order to make the game better, but ultimately it is what it is and XI is a game made for a specific kind of player and it caters to them. It's in effect a somewhat underfunded and better looking version of OSRS, it's just made to grind stuff out in a living world.
I think a major problem is you're just not able to clear the harder content, and it's upsetting to you. Well you don't have to do the harder content. You can do lower tier content and just have the game as a relaxing thing you do in your free time, or play to the level you're comfortable. Over half the people playing XI are solo, they aren't doing all the hardest content solo (btw many people who multibox don't do the hardest content either, this is a illusion created by watching too much Eijin or Velner). This is a mindset like thinking you have to play a single player game on the hardest difficulty, or it's not worth playing. Most people dont have this minset and pick normal or whatever.
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By Shiva.Thorny 2025-06-07 07:14:48
Honestly, I'm not defending FFXI, but that post really sounds like you're suffering from depression (and probably addiction).
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Bismarck.Nickeny
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-06-07 08:27:35
I think a blood wedding FFXI tier story regarding the settlement of Jeuno should exist,
By Kaffy 2025-06-07 08:42:49
quitting can be hard, especially something you've done for 20 years, addiction or not. I think making a list like that is a good step to realizing why you are unhappy with something you used to enjoy. I'm coming to terms with being done with FFXI myself, I come here still but don't really play at all. got rid of all the accounts that had any progress done, so even if I get the urge I can login, but quickly realize I can't be assed to do everything over again.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-06-07 09:02:38
I said id quit when I beat v25 bumba and now im logging in everyday...
Please SE just kill this game already
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Garuda.Chanti
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 09:36:30
Also. It's better than what alot of my generation does. (Which is Scroll mindlessly on stupid videos) Welcome home youngster, and you make a great point.
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 11:13:55
This is merely generational clash.
Its pointless talking about other generations.
By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 11:14:21
Because mine is the best of all time and your just sucks, zoomers and boomers.
By Afania 2025-06-07 11:22:04
quitting can be hard, especially something you've done for 20 years, addiction or not. I think making a list like that is a good step to realizing why you are unhappy with something you used to enjoy. I'm coming to terms with being done with FFXI myself, I come here still but don't really play at all. got rid of all the accounts that had any progress done, so even if I get the urge I can login, but quickly realize I can't be assed to do everything over again.
I quit for 3 years after being addicted for more than a decade. I don't miss FFXI 95% of time now.
Last free log in campaign I logged in for free stuffs, and that's the only time that I slightly want to play more. SE almost succeed at taking my money away last free login. Almost!
Then I move on to other games and quickly forgot about FFXI.
Life without FFXI(or really just any time consuming activity) is too good with wide variety of other things that I can do. I can read more books everyday, participate in trpg or board game groups irl, join painting and crafting workshops, go to dojo, occasionally travel, and visit friends and family.
I can also play wider variety of video games than just a few per year. Which is a nice way to experience different game genres.
Recently I subscribed to kindle unlimited, can't wait to read even more books.
Personally, I think having different hobby makes quitting way easier. They will take your attention away from FFXI.
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By Kaffy 2025-06-07 11:30:39
I wish audiobooks weren't so expensive. My eyesight has deteriorated quite a bit over the years and reading books in print has become a lot harder. I understand why they are pricey, just have to be picky I guess.
By RadialArcana 2025-06-07 11:30:56
I will never understand this doomer mindset that can be seen on here (specifically here), WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. Same for almost every other mmorpg. You don't see it on places like the XI reddit sub either, they are just happy to be playing the game.
It's a hobby, it's a game you play as a hobby. Some of you take this way too seriously. I never read people talking like this anywhere else, not on WoW, OSRS, Everquest or anywhere else.
I think it's just a bunch of depressed people honestly.
Go take a pill.
Garuda.Chanti
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 11:31:07
This is merely generational clash.
Its pointless talking about other generations. At my age there are few of my generation* to talk about.
*Full disclosure: Having been born during WWII I am not a member of a named generation. There's this gap between the greatest generation and the baby boomers. I fall in it.
By Kaffy 2025-06-07 11:35:01
I think it's just a bunch of depressed people honestly.
Go take a pill.
For me depression has been a life long thing and FFXi both helped and hurt at various times. Funny enough though, I got off psych meds and made some lifestyle changes. Feel much better.
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Bismarck.Nickeny
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-06-07 11:51:10
I will never understand this doomer mindset that can be seen on here (specifically here), WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. Same for almost every other mmorpg. You don't see it on places like the XI reddit sub either, they are just happy to be playing the game.
It's a hobby, it's a game you play as a hobby. Some of you take this way too seriously. I never read people talking like this anywhere else, not on WoW, OSRS, Everquest or anywhere else.
I think it's just a bunch of depressed people honestly.
Go take a pill.
I think its because FFXI is a harder game then wow considering the fall of players and it being *** all hard to get into anything from scratch - My friends who play wow still have a crap ton of peeps to hang and chill with. FFXI is a solo game that people flex paying for 6 characters to do content efficiently. It's *** sad and hilarious at the same time. I feel bad for those ffxi players who do that do. They actually need help
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-06-07 11:56:04
I wish audiobooks weren't so expensive. My eyesight has deteriorated quite a bit over the years and reading books in print has become a lot harder. I understand why they are pricey, just have to be picky I guess.
You know you can get a library card, download Hoopla, and listen to unlimited free audiobooks.
Still trying to get into it myself but I still like physical books more. If I want to hear the book, I want to see it too. (movie)
Garuda.Chanti
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 12:10:48
WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. False. Not just the few years difference in the age of the games but XI is of the Everquest generation of MMOs. WoW STARTED the next generation of MMOs.
And much to my disappointment we are STILL in the WoW generation.
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By fractalvoid 2025-06-07 12:19:18
FFXI is a solo game that people flex paying for 6 characters to do content efficiently. It's *** sad and hilarious at the same time. I feel bad for those ffxi players who do that do. They actually need help
trying to group with people and they're like "naaah ill just do it (aka bot it) with my 6"
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man...
By Viciouss 2025-06-07 12:38:32
I will never understand this doomer mindset that can be seen on here (specifically here), WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. Same for almost every other mmorpg. You don't see it on places like the XI reddit sub either, they are just happy to be playing the game.
It's a hobby, it's a game you play as a hobby. Some of you take this way too seriously. I never read people talking like this anywhere else, not on WoW, OSRS, Everquest or anywhere else.
I think it's just a bunch of depressed people honestly.
Go take a pill.
Spare us the hypocrisy. Coming from the guy that constantly doom and glooms SE, Sony, every video game company out there, and always ends up being wrong. Go take your own pill and get back to Reddit. Seriously, a complete joke post.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-06-07 13:14:14
WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. False. Not just the few years difference in the age of the games but XI is of the Everquest generation of MMOs. WoW STARTED the next generation of MMOs.
And much to my disappointment we are STILL in the WoW generation. FFXI released 2002
WOW released 2004
Blizzard started development for WoW in 1999, the same year SE started development for FFXI
By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 13:23:59
I wish audiobooks weren't so expensive. My eyesight has deteriorated quite a bit over the years and reading books in print has become a lot harder. I understand why they are pricey, just have to be picky I guess.
Yeah, I like hearing books while walking.
What I usually do is to copy and paste the book text to Text to Speech app.
It is an overhead, but it is more effective than reading page by page for someone like me, that potentually have problems with focusing.
I also tried browser native reader. Its performance was quote underwhelming, stopping the speech, taking long to start etc.
The browser reading per se was quote good, but I suppose they cant just give a good product for free, so it is a buggy app
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-06-07 13:25:33
FFXI has evolved a lot in the last 23 years, the FFXI on release is nowhere near the same as the FFXI during SoA. But to suggest that FFXI and WoW are complete era shifts is outlandish.
By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 13:34:14
I wish audiobooks weren't so expensive. My eyesight has deteriorated quite a bit over the years and reading books in print has become a lot harder. I understand why they are pricey, just have to be picky I guess.
Yeah, I like hearing books while walking.
What I usually do is to copy and paste the book text to Text to Speech app.
It is an overhead, but it is more effective than reading page by page for someone like me, that potentually have problems with focusing.
I also tried browser native reader. Its performance was quote underwhelming, stopping the speech, taking long to start etc.
The browser reading per se was quote good, but I suppose they cant just give a good product for free, so it is a buggy app
I remember once studying Elasticshearch stack, noticed that the free version hadnt authentication features,
Then I read a pretty true post complaining about that, that security is a need, not a plus. While logically understandable locking behind a pay product the production ready stack, it is morally questionable releasing a product that will expose data to unintended public.
And I feel the same about audiobooks. Reading my UX course, a lot about accessibility is discussed. While sometimes I feel they exhagerated, I fully agree with the relevance of having it available is a human empathy trait.
And seeing they locking audiobooks behind a price wall, kinda defeats this. That is, for a product to be more accessible, you need to pay more, and this makes is less accessible.
Again, logically understandable, just ethically questionable.
By Afania 2025-06-07 13:44:53
I will never understand this doomer mindset that can be seen on here (specifically here), WoW is the same age as XI and you don't get that there. Same for almost every other mmorpg. You don't see it on places like the XI reddit sub either, they are just happy to be playing the game.
That's weird, I don't play WoW but even then I've heard many people saying "Wow was better BACK IN THE DAY!!!" rant all the time.
I think it's just human nature to lean towards nostalgia at this point.
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This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
Inb4thisthreadgetsreallywtf
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