Why did you stop playing FFXI?

Nemezzis

Well, I played my Tarutaru black mage/whitemage till lvl 26/15 coming from EQ and stuff.

I think that for first travel gamers this game might look like a dream coming true. Although I was hoping I would see my taru with a bad ass face with glowing eyes, when I realized he would always have that face I started to get sad.

I grown tired of exping all the time, the lack of deepness on each class, thus I hated that freaking "you can be any class in this game" so they could give less atention to the classes.

The NEED of a whitemage, and the customization is one of the worst I ever seen. The AF's made me give up of the game. Cool, the end game is everyone looking the same freaking person. Twin brothers all around!

Please, dont get me wrong, Im an admin of a MMORPG's board and my users are kinda alienated with FFXI, I just wanted to know how the people that stopped playing think so I can build up some more convicent arguments when they ask me why did I leave.

Thanks!

protoroc

I canceled due to lack of english speaking players at higher levels (dont get me wrong i met alot of nice jp ppls) but basically i could go for weeks without a team...another reason, the community is greedy, this is about the worst community i have ever seen in the game..

I come from AO where the learning curve is high, so consider me The Silly Rabbit....FFXI is for kids

Utini - Tarutaru - 58 Samurai

NeoKyosuke18

I quit for a couple reasons.. by level 36 the level grind really pissed me off.. I would spend 3 hours to find a team and kill 2 things before we disband! even then I'd die and loose enough exp to keep me busy for a week regaining it due to lack of teams.

Also I loved exploring new areas, but nobody else in the game does. Everyone stays at the same boring level up areas. There were so many places I could go but would need a couple friends help fighting new exciting creatures other than the same old boring crap we've been fighting since level 1 except with new names! OOOO

Boss fighting was the only fun I had, but even that god rediculous. NOBODY RESPECTS OTHERS!! I would spend 2 hours waiting for the boss to spawn, and in 1 minute some other player would come waltzing in and whoop he got it before me!

Also the lack of different looking armors pissed me off. And everbody jacked up the prices making it rediculous. and don't bother trying to make items. You will NEVER have the time nor money nore will power to succeed at a skill to make it worth your while!

screw ffxi. wasted 5 months on it!

Mechos

I cancelled due to simmilar reasons, i got my warr/mnk to lvl 28 but then everything started getting to repetive, the classes had no real Indepth stuff on each one, and as you said white mages where all too much important, and slowley as I played more I began to like it less, Untill eventually there was nothing in the game left to do.

ramadin

Dude seriously, theres like 10 other FFXI sux posts here, just check em out.

 

 

Laying in bed, looking up at the stars, a single thought passed through my head. Where the fuck is my roof?

Nemezzis

I know Rama, and I'm really sorry, but I wanted to read some mature stuff you know?

I didnt want to get to my users and say: "Well, I left FFXI because it sucks"

Hence, I did this post.

Well, thanks a lot all of you who helped me on this.

ramadin

If you actually look inside the threads there are lots of good reasons.

 

 

Laying in bed, looking up at the stars, a single thought passed through my head. Where the fuck is my roof?

Dantes

I mainly played a 38whm/19blm.  I say "mainly" because the wait to find a group, even as a damn whm, could run up to 2-3 hours and being a 2 hour per day gamer made grouping at my level impossible.  During the week I'd play my BST but that got boring also.

I am a MMORPG veteran as I started playing MMORPG when they were text based....remember those???  In many aspects FFXI is a good game but in the aspects that mean everything to me, it severly lacked.  Once I hit lvl 30, the frustration factor of the game outweighed the fun factor and that drove me from the game.

Reasons:

1. Too long to find parties post lvl 30.
2. Near complete lack of customization.
3. Inability to solo. (yes, I know it's a MMORPG but you don't have to group to enjoy the game and other people.)
4. The ability to be any class in the game caused a lack of higher level players because they were now playing a lower level character.
5. Leveling crafting skills to their max was pointless. For example, cooking, the most useful items were able to be reliably and profitably crafted by a cook that was only "mid level" in skill.
6. Lack of respect.  I had the spawn I was waiting to kill for an hour stolen MANY MANY times by JP players.  The very slight delay in my actions due to the distance from which I lived from the servers caused my actions to occur AFTER those nearer to the servers, hence causing me to be, IMHO, KS'ed from.
7. I found being able to sell only 7 items at a time in the bazaar too restrictive as I wasn't about to leave my character logged in with his own bazaar open 24/7.
8. Language barrier/national differences - Had no problem speaking to most JP players but I have a problem when the group that wants me finds out I'm "USA".  I've have MANY JP groups try to invite me but then when they found out I was american, they replied with "NO USA!!!!!!".  I have no problem with them but they did with my goverment.

That's all I can or want to think about now, as I'm getting pissed just typing this.

Beta tester supreme

ChronicRick

I quit because after level 6 it started to get boring.. And the community is greedy because it is so FUCKING hard to get gil unless your a theif. I should know. I ripped off a lvl 1 newbie of his starting gil with a lame weapon.

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Athus

I quite enjoyed my time in ffxi till lvl 25, the game can be very fun if you try to get into and do quests and there always seems something for you to do (ie choco quest, custom armor, gobbie bags, af, rank missions...) So I like the need for questing, but I quit because i'm leavng for Brazil for 2 years...and if I was here I would be playing WoW or EQ2 later this year instead, but until then it is a great game. Plus its economy is revolutionary.

Defalt

I'll start off by saying, I bought this game because I have played every Final Fantasy game there is all the way back to FF1 on the Nintendo, I couldn't stop now, the story lines are usually great, I love their gameplay, graphics etc.  But FFXI has been a serious disappointment for me and a huge waste of my time.  I bought the game in early November, I guess what kept me going for so long was the friends I made, but I will list all my reasons for canceling my account. 

1. Grouping-- becomes almost essential post Lv15, with very few exceptions ie. (BST, RDM/NIN), I started off with Drk/War, which I got up to Lv43, and I spent literally Hours upon Hours Looking for a group, so I decided to switch over to Whm and it did start out great, but around Lv40+ if your party doesnt consist of a 1. Tank--PLD or NIN 2. Main Healer 3. Refresher/Dispeller you might as well disband and put up your flag again.

2. Gil-- with the equipment people EXPECT you to have, much of your time is spent endlessly farming/fishing/mining... all of which are tedious and incredibly monotonous, my highest Lv character was my Lv71 Whm, my main expenses consisted of--Dark Staff 350k, Light Staff 150k, Erase 300k, Astral Ring X2 360k, including all my other equipment, and my almost endless list of spells, I spent more time farming than actually leveling.

3. Help-- YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING SOLO it seems once you get to level 50, limit break parties, AF parties, coffer key hunting parties, quest parties.  I've known people who quit the game because they could not get their Ancient Papyrus for LB1, you put a party together and once someone gets their item they leave the party. Coffer key hunting, nothing is more frustrating, except maybe putting the party together in the first place especially for Beastmen keys ie. Oztroja, Davoi and Beadeaux.  I spent 13 hours straight in Beadeaux looking for only 4 keys, we had a full 2 party alliance, 54-58, killing was average mostly because the only tank we had was a lv 54 PLD then here comes a full 3 party Japanese alliance which took the place over literally, so here we are fighting for slow spawning Quadavs. That happened to us again in Garlaige, our party was equipped only to handle skeleton mages/majors and here comes a Japanese alliance, forget wraiths, hellmines, magic jugs etc, they kill off everyone of our skeletons too, a tough enough party to put together ruined just like that on 2 seperate occasions. Same thing with the Missions, my hometown was Sandoria. Rank 6 was ideal the way it should be IMO, but rank 7, it took me 3 days just to sucessfully put together a party to kill the Cactuar in Altepa, then an equal amount of time for the skeletons in Ranpstomb and nearly a week for the Orc in Ronfaure at that point I just gave up on Missions because you need a full 3 party alliance to move the story line anywhere.

4. Leveling-- Starting at Lv51 exp requirements go up dramatically, from 10-40k in a hurry with the same average 150-240 exp per kill. Thats not so bad, I didnt expect anything less, but spending so much time per level, you would think the game would offer perhaps a wider variety of monsters to fight, so for all you people out there who are waiting anxiously for the higher lvls, this is what you have to look forward to. Lv53-60 you fight the same crabs in different places, Kuftal tunnel, Boyahda tree, cape teriggan and Gustav Tunnel. You will then get a small break from 60-64 to fight birds, raptors, and Couerls in Valley of Sorrows and Onzozo, then back to more crabs! Yippie! Honestly, I had the most fun in Delkfutts tower fighting Giants.

5. People-- This Game FORCES you to essentially beg for help, unless you have a great linkshell. Higher level NA players I must say really disappointed me. Out of all the higher lvl NA player I asked for help, I honestly did not get help from a single one, all i got was nasty responses and being a higher lv now I do know all too well whats it like being nagged constantly for help from the lower level players, and frankly is does get annoying, but to respond so harshly... and after all that I still had Dynamis to look forward to, and frankly, by that time it was not appealing in the slightest.

If you want to just buy this game for the story line, think again, 99% of the content in this game is for lv 60+, rank 5 is nothing, its a teaser to keep your interest, rank 6 things really take off with the introduction of what seems to be a great plot, opening up the Zilart Missions but simply was not worth it in my opinion with so many wasted days trying to put together parties to keep the story line going to keep my interest. After time; Tilling my front yard and installing a sprinkler system peeked my interest more than this "Game". I regard FFXI as anything but! Instead of fun you get stress and disappointment day after day.

Bobiin

User interface for one is horrible, specially the chat window.

Not a big sense of community

lack of depth

classes all did pretty much the same thing cept the white/black mage.

Harder to find a group

However i did think the graphics and mailing system were good ideas.  Also playonline message system makes it easy to communicate (if you were lucky enough to meet a friend)

--Nyture, Arc Convoker of fironia vie server (EQ) --Retired--

Explorer 66%
Socializer 60%
Killer 53%
Achiever 20%

discharge82

i stopped besause they paused my subscription and i dont know my password and ID lol. but honestly i was gonna quit anyway. like u guys said everything took too long. 27 hours to get level 9??? i play lineage2 now and im level 7 1/2 after one night of playing.i feel like im making progress and that was a problem in FF11.

punkrock

i stoped playing becouse i missed daoc. and the stupid level thing. work your arse off until level 50< does take a very long time> and then to find out no one wants you in a group until you get a better job< like summoner stuff like that> then you have to start all over from level one.

waterbbq2

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Originally posted by discharge82
i stopped besause they paused my subscription and i dont know my password and ID lol. but honestly i was gonna quit anyway. like u guys said everything took too long. 27 hours to get level 9??? i play lineage2 now and im level 7 1/2 after one night of playing.i feel like im making progress and that was a problem in FF11.

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Okay. I don't know why it took you 27 hours to get to level 9 but it shouldnt. You shouldve been at level 10 or 11 at just 10 hours of playing. maybe you decided that trying to take on things that check tough or very tough was fun so you died at the time.

White Mage:28 Server:Slyph
Black Mage:15 LinkShell:PlayersClub
Theif:2

punkrock

well i know when you die you lose alot of exp. and he died lots of times. so many time that it took him down two levels. i know i seen some one lose 3 levels before

 

protoroc

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Originally posted by punkrock
i stoped playing becouse i missed daoc. and the stupid level thing. work your arse off until level 50< does take a very long time> and then to find out no one wants you in a group until you get a better job< like summoner stuff like that> then you have to start all over from level one.

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This is another HUGE problem, i started a samurai, sure it was all great until 50, i had no probs finding a team, but as soon as i hit 50 everyone was like samurai sux, why cant u be a ranger. So basically i wasted 6months on a class that is not desired

Utini - Tarutaru Samurai - lv58 - Ramuh (acct canceled)

Djin

No offence to Asians, but this happened to me in Lineage II.

What it is are these groups of Asians who get sponsored to "beat" the game... be the best there is... a lot of characters in FFXI and L2 where played 24/7.  If someone had to take a crap, another person jumped in their seat to continue off where the last person left off.

It was really annoying because you would be happy with 4 of your friends and then comes this massive uber level 50000000000 group and kills everything...  but you have to wonder because the game's only been out a week. 

Yes I've seen this in Lineage II.  Two weeks into the open beta and there where level 50+ archers... very annoying... so I quit and that was the best thing I've ever done.  Same with FFXI.

ramadin

L2 and FFXI are really crappy games anyway, I dont know how anyone could play them.

 

 

Laying in bed, looking up at the stars, a single thought passed through my head. Where the fuck is my roof?

Ryker

I quit because of the leveling grind and problems finding groups. Way to much grinding to really enjoy ones self.

waterbbq2

Wait. Why were you in San d'Oria and not in Jeuno or Qufim looking for a party? And what frustrated you with the Chocobos? The quest to get them?

White Mage:30 Server:Slyph
Black Mage:15 LinkShell:PlayersClub
Theif:2

Bujinkage

There is a couple of reasons why I've quilted FF XI. The three main reasons are the forced grouping, the lack of customization and the fact that the world was populated by the same monsters over and over again.

bebo

i quit january (lvl 20 galka WAR) because i had trouble finding groups and  level grinding.

I resubscribed in june and now Im readdicted with my lvl 10 BLM

nooblet

LOL thats so weird , i quit the game with lvl 20 galka war in quifim.. it was lonely and took forever to find groups

Quinncint

I stopped only because I was moving away to school... I would have kept playing by my school had a giant firewall and blocked the ports the game needed. I suppose I could jump back into the game now that I'm done school, but meh.

"A scar is just another polaroid." - Jason Quinn

DoughBoi

This game... is amazing... but man its the same thing over and over and over and over again. You get a subjob, but then you got to lvl the main job up again to actually have the subjob be effective, then when you change to an advance job, you got to lvl up all over again... and it all leads to the same plface at the end. Partying is extremely BLAH!... you get into a group next thing you know people are leaving, soloing isnt much fun either. You find a MOB, and next thing you know your sitting and getting your health back up. over this game has nice graphic, nice spells and moves... just man you need to have so much freakin patience