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• • To all the new and future FFXI players.

  • Hey all,

    I tried this game out 1-2 years ago. I'll admit that I didn't make it past the first day. At the time, I was drawn to the game due to it being a heavy grouping game. At the time, I could afford to play for hours. I quit the first day due to the lack of direction, plus I died my first fight. I am a great game player believe it or not and have never died my first fight. This shows how bad their fighting tuturial is or the lack of one (can't really remember). The PC controls were also horrible, but I didn't know you could use a PS2 controller. If I would have known that, I probably would have gave it more than a day. The controls is what I hated the most and couldn't adapt to. There weren't any people to help me out either. I started in this big city, can't remember the name, but I was a Human or whatever FF equivalent is for Humans.

    Right now, as good as the game sounds, I still couldn't play it. For one, I don't have endless hours to wait for a group or to spend grinding. I have around 3 hours to get on, do what I want to do, and get off. I also am not fond of tradeskills and crafting. In real life, I have a career and I specialize in it. I don't make my own clothes, create my own food, and etc and I don't want to do it in a game either. I won't play a game that won't let me get ahead by just participating in what I find fun, which is adventuring and killing stuff. EQ 2 had that problem, which is why I left. I like the fact that you can just adventure and level in WoW and can make money by selling the drops you get. However, I don't really like WoW, so I don't play it.

    I love games where you can just log in, join a group, and starting grinding. Hell, my first and most favorite game is DAoC. I grinded all the time. The beauty of DAoC though, was that you could find a group quickly and could leave just as quick without gaining a bad reputation. I wouldn't want a bad rep in FF because I cannot stay and fight for several hours and I've heard that reputation is key when wanting quick invites for groups.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 4:26 PM
    Final Fantasy XI
• • Old Frontier Server Would You Come Back

  • Originally posted by Lasastard
    

    It does sound like a cool idea, but I think in practice it will not work. DAoC does not have the sub numbers to spread people over yet another server. Also, while many have great memories of the old days, that is not because OF was so great but because the game was still quite new. In fact, milegates where a pain in the a.... :D

    I dont think OF will improve the gaming experience one gets now from the classic servers  by a great margin.

    Many will probably roll a couple toons, make it to 50 eventually only to find that it's still the same game with fewer classes and go back to their old server or quit.

    
    You under estimate the amount of hate for a lot of the classes that have been released with expansions and the amount of hate for cross-realmers. A new server would kill the cross-realming, because there wouldn't be a clustered server to cross-realm to.

    I am interested in whether or not we would start from the original starting areas, or from Cotswold and etc. Also, would the mobs be the levels they were back then or the levels they are now?

  • Posted: 5/09/08 12:38 PM
    Dark Age of Camelot
• • Is the MMO market too saturated for AoC?

  • I think many people here are failing to take into account the amount of work people have put into their characters in the game they are currently comfortable with. I know this website makes it seem like most players are looking for something new, but I think the majority of players out there don't read forums and are happy where they are. In this case, the genre is saturated, because it would take a spectacular game with a lot of hype and media coverage to pull in new players to the genre.

  • Posted: 5/08/08 11:30 PM
    Age of Conan
• • BD Exploit at an all time high!!

  • I have a small penis and I don't play a BD....

    On a serious note, if they come out with a new server, I bet most will reroll there and the new server won't allow cross-realming. The whole cross realming thing came about when Mythic had to start Clustering servers. Instead of making people delete their old characters on servers that were clustered with their other server characters, they just made it to where you had to wait in order to play on one of the other servers. Them reducing the timer is what caused cross realming to be the thing to do.

    Again, this will all disappear when they come out with a new server. There won't be another server clustered with it to cross realm to. I cannot wait.

  • Posted: 5/08/08 7:08 PM
    Dark Age of Camelot
• • Is the MMO market too saturated for AoC?

  • Originally posted by tkreep
    

    Originally posted by Mordria
    

    Originally posted by Skatty2007
    

    Simple question:  Do you think the MMO market ia too saturated for new MMOs to survive like Age of Conan?

    For instance, do you think AoC would do <better/worse> if it was released a few years <earlier/later>?  What would have to happen to the MMO market now and in the future for AoC to be <more/less> successful?

    

    I think right now is the perfect time for the release. People have been playing the current mmo's for awhile now and it's time for some new ones. Not that there is anything wrong with the ones out right now.. but they have been out for awhile and I think this will do very well.

    Also because more people should have upgraded PCs by now.

    
    A good rule of thumb I think is to plan on the majority of players playing these games with whatever they can buy from Wal-mart or Best Buy. I don't think the majority of the population has caught up to AoC's graphics. Considering how long computers are lasting these days, which isn't long, I'd think that most people would have whatever an average machine was 3 years ago. I probably upgrade more often than the average computer/internet user and I just now updated to Vista and a 8000 series graphics card.I bet most others are still in the 5000 or 6000 series, with the more hard core having a 7000 series. The fact is that these newer MMORPG companies are designing games that only game enthusiasts will be abe to run. It is better to design for the average consumer, so that you will have more revenue and an easier time providing great performance for all players.

  • Posted: 5/08/08 6:52 PM
    Age of Conan