Good luck!, FFXI is an intimidating game, not for the weak of heart, dont get discourage as you wander valkrum dune hopeless and at times, alone... and then it gets harder from there on! but this game is rewarding and if your willing to find them, they are great people in the game that will leave an impression on you for quite a while.

So, SE codename "Rapture" MMO, is finally showing some skin of its alluring figure. From the trailer, i immediately thought FFXI-2. Heres what they have revealed that i found important:

Races - Similar and has been done intentionally to provide some connection to FFXI. from the trailer / wallpaper you can see practically all the races of FFXI in a slightly different fashion. Bet you anything they gonna change the name to like MaruMaru, Cithra, Balka, Human, Elven.... xD

Vana'diel? - No, new world is called Erozea or something like that... which i find unfortunate but same time intriguing,,, the monster look very similar as well... Eitther way a new world doesnt sound so bad, especially when ur in a recession ^_^

Game type - They say its design to be a balance of casual and hardcore. Its hard to comprehend what they are trying to say... they mention they want to cater to casual play, to 40 min, to all day... what kind of an answer is that? i think SE is just tryin to cover all their bases. Im speculating something more largescale PVP n PVE for sure, where you are being attacked by many mobs instead of FFXI's one boss (and his pets).

"Growth and Development" - hmm... possibly no more leveling in terms of what we understand as levels.... They also mention alot about weapons in the IGN's interview.... quite possibly we will be leveling our weapons skills instead? haha

More on weapons - they say the logo has some meaning... (something about a wheel of weapon, blah blah blah... hint hint) obviously weapons are going to be a big part in FFXIV than FFXI... possibly more empahises on combat, PVP as well as team-playing. (I'm thinking SATA where you need the co-op of other players ...in many and different forms).

Release date - They thought about FFXIV for 3 or 4 years now... started development a few years ago.... planned to be release in 2010... planning on a longer beta than FFXI (so longer than 3 to 4 months)... This game could quite possibly be seen playing early 2010!!!

What to expect / Eagerly wanting!!

Compensation for veteran FFXI - We did not just waste over half a decade of our lives to start from square one again!... atleast give us an  "I was from Vana'diel" T-shirt for our character to start off with.

Payment plans - If you go Mircopayment, ima cry.... P2P =  better community, less cheap cheap birds.

More Innovative ideas! - FFXI's subjob and ability to change jobs are still very unique, so we can expect some unexpecting ideas when more info are release for this game.


Most Info I looked on was IGN's interview and Threads from here ^^, and the website.
 

So theres 14 servers in chinese OB? 10k max each server? 2k waiting que? so that shud be 168 thousand ppl let alone the thousands of ppl trying to get on the 2k que list lol

this coming from my friend whose giving me some info while he waits 2hour to play

not sure if this is all correct or not so be forgiving if its wrong lol

on bit torrent trying to download this myself i see 25 thousand other ppl downloading or seeding this as well

 

very similiarities with these two games... 
1) They are hyped
2) They both look great 
3) They both have PVP
4) I imagine they both would be entertaining to play

In conclusion, this game is just another Carbon Copy of Super Smash Bros. right? Pathetic.

Like an ideal lover, its someone you wanna invest some time and commitment with... not someone u can have action right off the start. But when u do get some "loving" its worth it...

Bots are an issue once ur high up in the levels. 

Make sure your PT is maxed out or close to it... dont leave it behind...

there is no easy grind (the 2nd reason is why)

Money isnt an issue.... not till later on tho xD (depend on ur class)

 /map to talk to everyone

If you dont mind a bit of grinding before the fun stuff try this out...

3 faction vs each other is a unique of teh game... alot of community cooperation results in your races sucessfulness (makes you feel included xD)

The armor you will see in the game is awesomee
and the oversize weapons too. 

helpful and kind people for the most part.

it was orignal surpose to be called Romance and Fantasy a long long time ago... but then Rising Force was better and i guess that song was surpose to be for the Romance and Fantasy part. The Graphics is pretty good in my words, especially the armor, like it actually look decent to wear lol. I find the control similiar to WoW in terms of getting used to. Its user friendly... especially those tip at the top of the screen... but when it comes to indepth game analysis, it gets a bit complicated... and when u figure it out, you have to start all over (im talking about, PT leveling...) Im sure with research before playing the game it could be quite fun and enjoyful for a grinding game ^^ 

NOTE: ppl are nice and extremely helpful ^^ (depends on your race)

you can argue tat rakion isnt a mmorpg but in fact! lol the stage rooms are like instances that you would find in guild wars or WOW.... the pvp rooms are like the arenas in guild wars or those crappy war song gulch in WoW

its indeed a mmorpg because theres classes and everything just because rakion isnt RPG oriented much it still has RPG in it....

its true that rakion has a little "problem" when it comes to hackers... but when u reach lvl 31+ theres literally no hackers... all the accounts up there are monitor... its acturally quite fun with clan wars and everythiing... now this noob that posted this... had a bad experience with a hacker i bet and let out his anger on this... hes probably only like a lvl 2 at highest lol... BTW hackers DO get banned! especially when it comes to SSH hacks... obvious hacks like rapid range and that too will also get you banned trust me i had friends got banned because of it...

player driven economy... id play FFXI for a few years... its probably what i see is the closest thing to an economy... WoW... Is all loot n sell... in FFXI i acturally had to farm beehive chips... thunder clusters and everything to make ends meet... What bothers me was how FFXI manage their auction houses.... yes of course there was gil (money) sellers in the game and they jacked up the prices in such high lvls it would take me forever to get enough money by farming...

so what im getting at is... AION would be good to have a player driven economy IF...
The game started to have gil sinks. which are basically how they monitor their auction houses and make sure nothing goes off the roof thus creating inflations...

*oh and FFXI had like 4 different auction houses? yea more diversity means more profits! :D

3 months wait hmmm im sure in korea their hype wont be going down just cause of a 3 month wait but here in NA/EU ya it will be a shame for us... we have to wait a long time and now we have to wait a longer time lol we would be losing alot of potential players.

i think its because people imagine chanter as the "Bard" class in FFXI or something like that kind of type... but im sure chanter has some crazy damage skill up its sleeves or something

I got an AION tattooed on my ass

Originally posted by Grusome

Im prob going to be an Assassin because im going to be a big PvPer.

yes, i'm a huge fan of PVP too... looking at assassin i find it be very hard for a less reflexive player like me.. be very hard to go behind people i think lol... and i saw in somehting on aionfuse that elementalist are going to be good in PVP if u use it right.

Originally posted by Shiineko

Wizard most likely.  I love using offense magic.  Possibly Elementalist as well since it seems to fall into the same category, but to a lesser degree?

i would assume so... elementalist would concentrate more on his pet elemental rather than direct nuking from himself i bet

ya ha some people say "why do they need to know this?" and then there some other people wondering about those people "why do you care to even write a post if you didnt need to know this" and then theres people that say "causes hes a weirdo trying to pass time on his poor excuse as a life" but then there are those people whom do want to rant on about those kinda stuff and they say "Ya i thought AION was gonna be another grind fest too... and why would this be any different... but you gotta look deeper than that i guess ^^ heres to everyone whom arent as shallow"

Originally posted by Vandal783

I havent really looked too much into Aion untill recently, and it looks beautiful. At first glance it looks like something I wouldent mind playing, but then I watched that clothing video, which in itself was cool, but while watching it I had flash backs of Final Fantasy 11. Asian MMO's are typically full of grinding and I see that Aion is an asian MMO. So, any word on wether this one is gonna be different than the rest or is it going to be FFXI style leveling?

Hey i had the same flash back too! wonder why... oh well i hope it will be just as good as FFXI or even better. good thing it has solo grinding too i hate to be LFG for hours at a time.

you think they will make a dating service within the game?

yea those arent the real names but aslong as u know what each class does its all good... it seems that the priest classes wont be rare to find in the game :P good news for parties hey

thanks for bringing up some issues like being able to see the level and afk grinding Taz... Seeing that most of the peeves in Granado Espada has been changed and dealt with in SotNW lol I might just go back to the game again