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An MMO Similar to Final Fantasy XI
I seem to use FFXI as the basis for a lot of what I feel was "done right" in an MMO. I'm really starved for a good one I maybe haven't played before.
So, does anyone know of any other MMOs out there that are similar in style/combat/progression/challenge to Final Fatnasy XI?
P.S.: Please dont say Final Fantasy XIV, because that game was, and still is, (in my opinion) pretty terrible for the time being.
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Im sorry to tell you but you will not find an mmo that is similar to FFXI.
I have played tons of mmos in the last 4 years looking for something that comes close to FFXI and have yet to find it.
FFXI is a very unique game, unfortunately it seems like that kind of game is dying out now, today's games are much easier and casual friendly than they were in FFXI's generation.
What I ended up doing was quitting FFXI for 2-3 years then comming back. You would be surprised just how new the game willl feel after a few years.
Yeah, I tried to go back, but they wont let me. SE's horrible customer service wont let me recover my Play Online password because I don't remember the long expired credit card number that I used to open my account like 7 years ago, even though I have every other bit of information they asked for, including my original reg code.
My only option for returning to FFXI would be to buy the game all over again, buy another SE security token all over again, and start completely from scratch. I like the game enough to overlook their customer service and continue my old account, but no way I'm letting those d-bags sucker me into paying for the box and security token again.
Im crazy enough to say that its worth atleast buying the game again. Its maybe 20 dollars and comes with everything. All the new abbysea content. Everything. So you may end up saving money if you hadnt bought some of the new content if you get what i mean? Id definitely say its worth it but thats my opinion
Best wishes
Saint
I too have searched for games that are even slightly similar to FFXI. I have found 3, two of which are only because of class type/progression. One has an extreme FFXI feel to it, but I can't really say much about the challenge being similar.
Dream of Mirror Online- Its classes slightly resemble those in FFXI, and you can change anytime at the dojo. The races also remind one of FFXIs, the challenge...not so much. It has the typical grindy elements of most F2Ps but the story is pretty refreshing from the rest (I think at least). Also, when it comes to classes, you can set up to...two I believe, skill sets from other classes to use as your main class, similar to FFXIs sub job system (a little)
Eden Eternal- The classes in this one really do remind me of FFXI... a lot. For instance...A Samurai, a Samurai >->. The game allows you to change classes at will and has both a class level and a character level, so it is more like the old XIV in that regard. Can't say much about story, but its worth a go if you want something like FFXI. As with DOMO, I can't really say the challenge is anything like FFXI, because it isn't.
Pandora Saga- This one isn't as known as the other two, but the races, the setting, the classes all remind me of FFXI. This game is very close to it. You even have skill ups like in FFXI. It may have something to do with the fact that it was made by a Japanese company, perhaps it took inspiration from XI?
If I had to rank the three on a, which is most like XI scale, I would go...
Pandora Saga- Classes, races, over all feel. Can't speak for the challenge
Eden Eternal- Somewhat Classes and the system it uses for classes. Challenge, not so much
Dream of Mirror- Even less so with the classes as the prior two, but the system is nearly the same.
Apologies, I couldn't really speak much for the challenge aspects, but I wouldn't expect it to be anywhere near FFXI for any of these three.
I hope I was able to help, I wish you luck in your endeavors.
I ended up doing was quitting FFXI for 2-3 years then comming back. You would be surprised just how new the game willl feel after a few years.
Sounds good! Thanks for all the great info. I'm gonna check into these a bit.
Also your avatar is mildly hypnotic...I like it.
Check out Amazon's digital download service. At least 2 times a month they have the complete package for 9.99 which includes a free month. So you would be breaking even, though you would have to re-level characters.
Edit: Actually, it is on sale right now for 9.99 through Amazon's digital download. it is the complete edition with all xpacs.
FFXI is dirt cheap on Amazon or Steam definately. I would also agree I haven't seen anything similar to FFXI, and it's a shame, I think the entire genre has moved far, far away from that type of game since.
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So I've been considering going back to an older MMO anyway. I was considering Vanguard, but man is their forum filled with some unfriendly types. Makes me shudder to think what the community in that game is like these days.
So yeah, I think I'll check out that Amazon deal on FFXI (just got paid today so woot). I planned to start a new character on my old account anyway, I just kinda wanted to transfer a lot of my old stuff to the new one. Guess I'll have to do without.
Any suggestions on a good world to play on? If I remember correctly my last character was on Remora. Since I'm starting fresh I may as well pick a different server.
NOTHING
nothing is similar to FFXI :___(
FFXIV was supposed to........ more "casual" and accesible but.....u know...
and even FFXI now isnt FFXI anymore , since SE broke the 75cap rule!
the game was stagnant ? yeah , but come on , way to "finish" the last hardcore mmorpg.... (IMO)
You've just proven my point. Now please stop following me from other threads and making baseless false accusations or you will be reported.
Last I played I was on Cerberus and it was quite populated, but that is because most if not every server has gone through a merge. The game will be completely different than what you have played before, everything takes place in the new areas, Abyssea.
If you are unfamiliar with Abyssea, I suggest getting to 20-30 asap, then heading to Jeuno and talking to the fancy looking guy in the port (you'll know what I mean when you get there) he'll begin making the stones that let you into the areas at a rate of one every 20 hours I believe.
Leveling from 1-15 is the same, go and solo outside of town, 15-30 people tend to go to Gusgen mines and burn book pages in an alliance of 21 people, then at 35 you can do the same in Crawlers Nest until 75...Then you skill up >_>; a lot. You will still have to do the limit breaks and all of that, but Abyssea has made quite a bit of things obsolete. You will go from 1-99 very fast, especially if you have a shell that will help you through the limit breaks.
Abyssea is its own beast, and by the time you get there you should have a shell to help you get into the endgame stuff that has been going on. One good thing about all the easy leveling though, you can finally play nearly any job that want so long as you learn its basic stuff.
I wish you luck in Vana'diel ^^
This all sounds horrendously disappointing. FFXI was easily my all-time favorite MMORPG ever; even moreso than EQ. I'm glad I hesitated to buy the game again now, though.
Its just as well, I guess. I loaded up the pre-paid Visa card I use for all my online purchases (I dont like putting my main card on the internet) and went to Amazon to buy the game again when I saw a lot of 1-star comments. Decided to take a look and found out it seems a lot of people are really upset with SE for only accepting certain Visa/Mastercards for FFXI.
A lot of people claim to have bought the game only to find out AFTER installing it that SE wont accept their payments. I'm pretty sure they might not accept my prepaid card either, so I didn't buy it
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I dont recall having this problem with FFXIV, or with FFXI in the past...maybe the old card I used to have was one of the "good" ones.
Oh well, guess I'll check out one of the games you mentioned earlier in the thread. Thanks again.
I started a super linkshell several months back for the purpose of replaying FFXI from the ground up the way we all remembered it.. it was called "Reformation" Before it was over we had about 150 almost 200 members. It was going great for a while but I wasn't able to play as much as some people were, and sure enough.. we had one little group who decided to do the "solo to 15, and the page grind to 99.. with gusgen/crawlers nest.. which is not at all what the linkshell was intended for.. I tried to work with both play styles.. but it just wasn't in the best interest of the shell. Before long a group defected, and we had nightly arguments over how stupid that style of play was, as it related to what the shell was about and how playing the game like that really just wasn't fun for anyone else.
So it fell into the dust, as people who wanted to play the old way (myself included starting playing other stuff). We got too popular too fast, and got a whole bunch of elitist jerks in the shell who wanted to rush to 99, defeating the shell's purpose. If there were enough people who wanted to play the old way.. it could be fun, but one bad apple spoils the bunch and the game itself isn't going to change from what it is now.
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There is no game that comes close to Final Fantasy XI.... and it's a real shame.
But I suppose that's why it was so successful; because it was unique, hardcore, and very community focused.
I play on a server that is currently up to Zilart but even that gets boring as there aren't many people online.
But yeah, if FFXI went free to play, I would be onto it! At the moment though SE have stuffed it up so much these days it isn't worth the sub.
I tried FFXI a couple of years ago and was very disappointed....I had heard so many good things about it, then I got in game and it was not what I thought it would be.....The community was not as friendly as people lead you to believe....In fact many of them were outright jerks and elitists....
Nothin comes close to what FFXI was. It is a real shame.
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It's not the same game or community it was 8 years ago. Once server transfers and quick exp were introduced, the game went downhill community wise. Reputation meant everything in that game prior to '08.
I feel much like many of the posters here in the way this game went downhill after abyssea. Before abyssea I always enjoyed watching the hardcore endgame players from the sidelines while enjoying leveling my characters more. I never really had a adamant schedule to run events but there was always so many things to do in FFXI that it didnt matter. After aby came out and made leveling obsolete and took the challenge out of most activities in the game. Atmas made the game retarded beyond belief but I always kept coming back, looking at voidwatch as the last hope for some difficult endgame content without broken atmas/abyssea.
This was shortlived due to the further adaptation of "proccing" which was introduced in abyssea (but it was more optional where as in Voidwatch you HAVE to proc spam) and was required to kill bosses in voidwatch because if you didnt have the mob procced you would just get raped by aoe/status effects e.t.c. Which made the game from a bandwagon or bust setup in aby to a overglorified proc spam in voidwatch. I understand the game is old and its hard to implement new battle mechanics but the skillchian/burst system would of worked just fine without alienating classes e.t.c.
How far this game has fallen as well as the community, I just keep telling myself that the game is just old its better to have my last memory of it as the better days (pre aby) and hope that one day FFXIV (2.0) will be my new game I can call my home.
i will return to FFXI IF
Classic server : max lvl 75 (expansion...hmmm toau wasnt bad and wotg bringed good camps for leveling) however maybe a progressive release , 1 Zilard , next 2 months Cop , next 2 months Toau , so we have time to enjoy the old camps :P
other than that the game isnt the same
T.T
Didn't EQ do something like this? I would love to have a progression server for FFXI, can build up money for Sch before hand :P but the only problem I see would be that, making parties pre aby was rather time consuming because one had to find a Healer and Tank, usually the two hardest things to find in any mmo, not saying it was a bad thing (hell, I was a Scholar, so finding a healer wasn't needed) anyway, what I'm getting at is, a lot of the vets that left, do you think they would want to start off at square one again? Fighting over the limited camps and NMs, then IF the scenario above is still an issue, finding a tank/healer could be more of a hassle because of the possibility of a low server population.
The game originally had the players put into servers at random for a reason, I would love to see it, but in the world of FFXI, it would certainly be a difficult thing to pull off.
If they ever introduced progression servers then stand back. You'll never see a more vicious, cutthroat, and eletist crowd in an MMO ever. Too many ways to cock-block, monopolize, and make the game unfriendly for non-hardcore players. It would make for an interesting case study.