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Just started playing again a few days ago and.....
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A friend has continued to play since the game has come out. I quite 2-3 years ago. A few days ago I puchased the game again, told my friend I was coming back and stated the game up. I have to say I am somewhat Disappointed.
There was no bad blood when I left the game, I just got to busy and was ready for something new after playing for 2 years or so. The thing I noticed right off the bat was that no one was running around Windy. I walked through 3 zones and saw one person. I quickly ran to the AH to see 3 people afk selling and 2 people shopping. I took a quick look on the AH and saw that there might be a total of all the swords in the game 3 for sale. Same with armor.
This can't be I thought. It must just be this city, so a made an alt in another city to find much the same thing. I was a little put off to say the least. This meant I would not be able to buy any weapons or armor, and that there was pretty much no way to make money since so few people were buying.
I desided to wait till my friend logged in, so I ran outside and lvl'ed alittle. I then did a global search of all lvl 3-20. I got 3 names, including my own. This was on a weekend. Which is obviously very sad, since it means there is no one to lvl with. Since FFxi is a group based game this pretty much ensured I would not be playing anymore.
My friend finally logged on. I asked him about it, he said most people were lvl 75 and doing high lvl missions. I knew he had been lvling a DRK and asked him how he was doing it with no parties and how he was getting equipment. He said he was soloing, and had created many characters so he could craft basic equipment. This really put me off, I did not want to grind to 60 and onward to find people to party with, and I did not want to have to farm for hours upon hours just to get the material I need to make basic gear, since no one would be buying anything I am selling.
I found all of this hard to believe. Has FF really dropped that much in population? Even with WoW getting older and many, many people having capped chars the world is populated with people's alts and new people of every lvl. I was just very sad. I was looking foward to coming back, but not like this.
Has anyone else had this problem? Or anything to say pro or con? Or maybe a server that has a high low lvl population. Though I hate to abandon my friend.
There was no bad blood when I left the game, I just got to busy and was ready for something new after playing for 2 years or so. The thing I noticed right off the bat was that no one was running around Windy. I walked through 3 zones and saw one person. I quickly ran to the AH to see 3 people afk selling and 2 people shopping. I took a quick look on the AH and saw that there might be a total of all the swords in the game 3 for sale. Same with armor.
This can't be I thought. It must just be this city, so a made an alt in another city to find much the same thing. I was a little put off to say the least. This meant I would not be able to buy any weapons or armor, and that there was pretty much no way to make money since so few people were buying.
I desided to wait till my friend logged in, so I ran outside and lvl'ed alittle. I then did a global search of all lvl 3-20. I got 3 names, including my own. This was on a weekend. Which is obviously very sad, since it means there is no one to lvl with. Since FFxi is a group based game this pretty much ensured I would not be playing anymore.
My friend finally logged on. I asked him about it, he said most people were lvl 75 and doing high lvl missions. I knew he had been lvling a DRK and asked him how he was doing it with no parties and how he was getting equipment. He said he was soloing, and had created many characters so he could craft basic equipment. This really put me off, I did not want to grind to 60 and onward to find people to party with, and I did not want to have to farm for hours upon hours just to get the material I need to make basic gear, since no one would be buying anything I am selling.
I found all of this hard to believe. Has FF really dropped that much in population? Even with WoW getting older and many, many people having capped chars the world is populated with people's alts and new people of every lvl. I was just very sad. I was looking foward to coming back, but not like this.
Has anyone else had this problem? Or anything to say pro or con? Or maybe a server that has a high low lvl population. Though I hate to abandon my friend.
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I've played many games, and the ones that I play change weekly. Currently I am very interested in Gunbound, Poker, and Kwon Ho once more. I am thinking of returning to Maple Story and Ghost Online.
agreed, this is one of the few games you can play with a PS2, a PC and a 360.... and there's always people running around when i play. Some people stop me in my tracks... and ask for help, or where to go, or if i want to team up with them as they fetch their friends.
Unfortunetly you don't get into the storyline until well into the game, but on the plus side once you get addicted again... getting there will be a lot of fun.
just find a server that's good, and you're all set to go.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
10-50 is very slow on Phoenix, you can go days without seeing whm , and the rdms got sticks up there collective butts about main healing. The saving grace for Phoenix is the Japanese community while most wont party with you if you roll a dark or drg , you can often get into a party that last 9 hours or more.
Phoenix also has aton of PL / RTM groups running, normally 3 pl , 3 ninjas and whatever job they Pling ,they often perfer DD types but they work like a machine. While its dancing with the devil , its often times 1 lvl per hour , they could with endless resources.
Asura has a really good community , most of the people I ve met have gone out there way to help. The problem is 5pm US time is dead air time , not much people on. But around lunch time there is a strong German/French/ European community which are often times newer players who dont mind helping you.
The parties 10-40 are generally slow , average wait for a non mage is 5 hour in the dunes , quifm varies but longest my thief waited for 3 hours. Garbage and Crawlers/Desert is bit slower , Rdm and whm get instant invites post 30.
Shiva I only static with friends from the old days , damn people went and had families , wives and such. So they only allowed out of certain weekends or certain days. We normally do 2 hours of lvling , and I mine zinic so they dont fall behind money wise. Shiva was hit pretty hard by RTM so AH are fubar, but its one of the most exciting shopping servers I ve been to.
Several known RTM there will pawn off astral rings for 150k , and you can find amazing deals on armor and food. I got +1 squid sushi stack for 7k and got a lvl 18 Flame sword for 8.6k on bazzar.
As far as the community , I havent really interacted with many people, just the people farming zinic and soot for ninja quest. So far most of the high lvls give you advise but dont go "ZOMG newbie why are you using XX"
I'm on Remora, and any time I log in, there's people in the cities, people levelling even in the Dunes...no lack of people I've seen. I levelled WAR and NIN with pickup parties in the Dunes last weekend and gained a total of eight levels, no trouble getting parties at all.
Chris Mattern
same i find it hard to belive how i was from differnt servers and neither of them were near the way the op is claiming. i bet the op is just trying to keep people from playing it just because he didnt like it. Just because someone doesnt like a game doesnt mean they should try to force people to beleave that the game is also not good when in fact they might actually like it once they try it lol.Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Well, anybody who buys under-20 equipment at the AH (unless they're rich and looking for HQ) is a damn fool anyways. It's all for sale in the NPC shops (or for a few items, fairly easily quested) for much cheaper.
Chris Mattern
OP, if what you claim is true, why will you still not tell which server you are talking about?
There are several issues with your post which at best are questionable. For example, talking about soloing as a DRK shows you don't know much about this game.
Until you tell us which server this was, I choose to consider this as a creative way of flaming.
Also if you havent been reading the BBS and Wikii sites , you d see how much of shortage there is for newbie gear. If a tank starts in Windy (for example) there are no axes or heavy armor. If you start a mage , and are in Bask , you have to goto a niknak shop hidden away to for light armor.
Then sandy has medium armor. Also if youre nation sucks (or is controlled by gilsellers) then you might not have access to most stand equipment. And dont even get me started on basic spells selection.