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By Viciouss 2025-06-06 20:01:08
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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.
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By Josiahafk 2025-06-07 00:11:58
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Dodik said: »
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.
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By Mistressfifi 2025-06-07 01:02:53
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Pantafernando said: »
Mistressfifi said: »
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Drayco said: »
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
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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
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 01:20:13
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Im sorry
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 01:20:28
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Or congrats
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By fractalvoid 2025-06-07 02:55:32
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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
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Odin.Upbeat said: »
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
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Honestly, I'm not defending FFXI, but that post really sounds like you're suffering from depression (and probably addiction).
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-06-07 08:27:35
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I think a blood wedding FFXI tier story regarding the settlement of Jeuno should exist,
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By Kaffy 2025-06-07 08:42:49
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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
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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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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 09:36:30
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Mistressfifi said: »
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
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This is merely generational clash.

Its pointless talking about other generations.
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 11:14:21
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Because mine is the best of all time and your just sucks, zoomers and boomers.
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By Afania 2025-06-07 11:22:04
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Kaffy said: »
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
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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.
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By RadialArcana 2025-06-07 11:30:56
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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.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 11:31:07
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Pantafernando said: »
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.
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By Kaffy 2025-06-07 11:35:01
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RadialArcana said: »
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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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-06-07 11:51:10
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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
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Kaffy said: »
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)
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-06-07 12:10:48
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RadialArcana said: »
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
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Bismarck.Nickeny said: »
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...
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By Viciouss 2025-06-07 12:38:32
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RadialArcana said: »
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
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Garuda.Chanti said: »
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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
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 13:23:59
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Kaffy said: »
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
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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.
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By Pantafernando 2025-06-07 13:34:14
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Pantafernando said: »
Kaffy said: »
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.
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By Afania 2025-06-07 13:44:53
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RadialArcana said: »
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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