I got a couple things wrong that I want to address for anyone interested in the game. The first thing is you can not solo the entire game there is late game content that you will need party members to complete. There is still months of content that you will need to solo to get to the end game. I would say close to 75% of the game can be done by yourself. The second thing is auction house for the most part only has end game armor, weapons, materials, etc. because most of the active player base is at the end game. I still recommend FF11 I think it's a really cool game and is worth a try.
Thanks for this, friend. INSTASUBBED! I'm only just now playing FF14 but am loving it so much that I find myself wanting to experience ff11. You've convinced me that it's not too late :)
It is worth noting that that most important areas now have home points, and they added the ability to travel between home points a few years back. So most of the "long commutes" only have to be done once. There are still some places that are not that easy to get to but there are other ways: Voidwatch warps, UNM warps, etc... that can help new players get around. The Unity warps are very helpful because they will send you to zones you've never been to before.
This game was my life from like 2005-2009. It was extremely hardcore back in the days. It took me about a year of playing daily just to get my first job to level 75 (which was the cap at the time).
I'm going to be quite honest here with this overview. But I'll give my overall answer first. Without a doubt, 100%, yes. Yes, FFXI is still worth playing. Even if you've never played it before. HOWEVER.... Be aware of 2 things. 1: FFXI is, first and foremost, an old game. Expect to do a LOT of research. To do almost anything. And 2: Be prepared to be very pro-active in finding and either joining or creating an active primarily social/helpful LS - For this reason, I suggest VERY heavily that you start on one of the 3 remotely active servers, in particular Asura (despite all the bad rep people in the community throw at us, we're still a MMORPG, not a MMO-lite. The negative parts are a very small part of the server overall, and we have by far the highest population, especially if you're not Japanese.) So, FFXI... Where to start. I've been playing on and off, but mostly on, for the past 18 years. I've taken 2 breaks, once early on for about 6 months, and once more recently for about 4 years. But I AM currently active/semi-active - I've got most of my endgame clears, my SAM is basically 3 pieces of gear from BiS, I've got my nyame, etc. etc. I may not play EVERY day, but I play enough to keep up still, and still very much enjoy the game - There's just a lot of other games I enjoy, and I may have gotten a bit too addicted to One Piece recently, and IRL may have gone insane as well, so I haven't played THAT much this past year. But I'm still playing. So, FFXI is unlike almost any other game you've probably ever played - Everquest is to my knowledge the closest multiplayer game, and FF12 is technically largely inspired by and based on XI mechanics-wise in many, many ways. It is a truly social MMO. You will spend more time, even these days, talking with people, setting up groups, sorting out event times, and likely helping other players with stuff they need to do, than you likely will doing actual endgame stuff. And this is a HUGE positive. Modern day FFXI has essentially 4 ways to play it. Retail, Asura/one of the other somewhat populated servers. Which is how I'd personally recommend it. Private server, HorizonXI. Which is basically 75-cap era XI, with all of the positives and negatives associated with that. Horizon often rivals Asura population-wise, so it's by far the option I'd suggest if you want to go the private server/75 cap era route. Retail, ghost town server. Private server, anything that's not Horizon. This includes both retail parity servers and other 75-cap era servers, and probably at least 1 random pre-ilvl 99 cap server somewhere. So, depending on which option you pick, you'll get a different experience. The big option between the first 2 and the second 2 is that the second 2 are mostly going to be a nearly-solo experience where you have to work together with the very small active population on your server of choice. You won't see hundreds of people sitting around in towns, sitting in queues, and you won't deal with RMT. For the rest of this, I'll be discussing this from the perspective of the first 2. As it's what I have personal experience with. I know a number of people that play on the less populated servers - The general feel really is "there's one linkshell that's actually active, hope you get along with them.", but at the same time, there IS a benefit to that, which is a more accessible world - No RMT bots, less 6-man groups, you can easily solo a lot of stuff. I'd actually almost suggest starting on a tiny server and paying for a server transfer to asura later on if you're willing to spend the money, because the pre-endgame experience will actually probably be WAY better, due to almost no competition for anything. So, let's first discuss horizon vs retail. Horizon is 75-cap, and this means: No QoL teleports everywhere. Long, slow, difficult leveling process. No free gear, you have to actively work for everything. No trusts, so you HAVE to do everything either purely truly solo, or in a group. The benefits are... uh... 75 cap era experience. Basically everything mentioned. ...yes, I vastly prefer retail. I understand why people like 75-cap, but it's just so much less enjoyable now-a-days since I've experienced what FFXI can be without everything taking hours to do. Horizon is going to be your time sink, but it'll likely end up having more of a "community feel" to it. It's also free, which is a plus, I guess. So retail. You likely won't interact with another player until you hit 99. And that's fine. You'll have more story to do, and you'll have more jobs available. You'll also be able to abuse the economy to very easily progress in most stuff, and be bombarded with free gear constantly. Trusts make leveling from 1 to 99 a breeze. Experience the game. Have fun. Explore. Look up stuff only when you feel like you want to, rather than when you have to in order to figure out where this exp camp you were invited to is. Retail lets you experience almost the entire game... completely solo, at your own pace. Until you reach endgame. Once you reach endgame, do your absolute best to find an enjoyable, sociable, fun, linkshell, and make some friends. A LOT of us are super helpful. I definitely spend multiple days every month on average just helping others with stuff, and I've had 100% new to the game players in my LS become valuable key members of event groups even just within the past year or so. Endgame, horizon vs retail. Horizon will very much be about group co-ordination and timing - You've got your 2 Dynamis runs/week, your 2 assault days/week, your 1-2 einherjar, limbus, etc. days/week, dependent on what expansion Horizon is on at the time. These are ALL group-only content for the most part, between 6 and 18-man groups. Then you've got your daily sky farming and HNM camping. Which, again, is group content. Solo... you... uh... level other jobs and craft. Retail, you've got the same sorts of endgame stuff, though usually on daily lockouts instead of weekly/bi-weekly, with only the notable exception of Dynamis-D. But... you also have TONS of solo content. Between ultimate weapon farming, quests and missions, a lot of secondary gear, Trove, Sortie, etc. there's TONS of stuff you CAN do solo, if you don't have a group yet, and can easily do low-man if your group is missing members. Depending on the jobs and gear you have, you can even solo the vast majority of stuff like Aeonic grinds, Ambuscade, HTBFs, etc. etc. Essentially, the biggest differences are that something like Horizon is going to generally be a lot more social-focused, while something like retail is going to be a lot more gameplay-focused. However, and this is the biggest aspect that makes me really prefer retail over private servers... you can still very much find social groups to chill with on retail. We still exist. I have a mostly social LS that I'm the co-leader of, founded by my friend of 17 1/2 years, that has over 40 daily active members. We often have group chats in discord with like 5-10 people, we often have 6-18 person event runs, even for older content, just to have fun. I'm pretty sure we managed to have an 18-man alliance for besieged of all things, which lasted all of 5 minutes and it was hilarious. Horizon is more guaranteed to be social, because it has to be. Retail is more guaranteed to allow you to actually play the game, and has more overall content, so even if you get through the content faster, it's not like you're going to run out of things to do. 18 years in, and I still have stuff I need to get around to doing, jobs I want to gear and content I want to clear. FFXI is an incredible game, that has always been criminally underrated, and especially modern-day retail FFXI. I can't recommend the experience enough, provided you've got the free time for it. You... do need a lot of free time for it. Like... a lot.
As someone who played from 2004-2011 and just came back yesterday hearing the sentence "this game doesn't respect your time." My "old person" comment is going to be this. Back in the day you couldn't warp between books, you couldn't warp between home points, trust didn't exist, there was no RoE, no FoV, no GoV, no mounts aside from chocobo, you couldn't unity yourself to jeuno, movement speed was 25% slower, and I went from level 1 to 15 in about 2 hours yesterday as I clunky learned how to use RoE. That would've taken me, as a new player, probably 6-8 hours total, over 3 days. This game has took a massive improvement from almost 2 decades ago to today on making things easier and faster and more convenient for a new player base. EDIT: I completely forgot about this YOU CAN BUY MAPS. That was never a thing. You used to only be able to get maps from questions or rare drops from certain enemies in certain places. It was so easy to get lost.
100% this game has come soo far. This was my first MMO and it keeps getting better. I have tried many other MMOS But they are all the same junk. And i keep coming back to FFXI
Everything you mentioned makes the game worse and takes away the character that was FFXI. If you want a solo easy amusement park style mmo like every other one since WoW, play those. You earned what you had in XI
I couldn’t agree more. It was that “awfulness” that brought us together to accomplish common goals. The tribulations, friendships and obligations formed during those years laid the foundation for all the memberberry fields people want to eat now. SE could give a shit about enforcing people who exploit the game with windower. This game is something else now and it’s far from fun.
I LOVED this game. We played on the PS2. Had a decent amount of peeps playing. Back then we ran into numerous issues, 90% of the problems were the "Chinese gil farmers". The games economy was just to hard to keep up with unless you played 8-10 hours a day. Trying to claim a NM was a feet in and of itself. I remember for my character getting a pair of the Leaping Boots was a HUGE upgrade but they were so expensive at auction and claiming Lizzy was near impossible, let alone getting the boots to actually drop. In the end, I stopped playing because of the time constraints, and the people we had in our group just dropped off one by one. I remember really enjoying the combat system, creating the macros for Sneak Attack and Trick Attack :) Great game. But it started to feel more like a job than a game.
The games economy really got destroyed into treasures of aht urghan. I used to run with Chinese Gil sellers because they would give me an even share or drops. Like striders boots and such.
@@magillageurilla shits and giggles I just google the online AH on my old server, Lakshmi. Leaping Boots Currently at 50k. That’s a joke. I think they were like 4 million or something if I remember correctly. The cheapest I remember was 250k
I went rounds and rounds with RMT. SE worked to fix the problem with workarounds and ex tags and I feel like it sapped a lot of the fun out of it. Not that fighting RMT was fun because it wasn't, but the thrill of seeing your target spawn and to get the claim, I was hooked for years. In Oztroja and the RMT brings the entire floor on you. /hide. Balbowski, Goddiva.. Turnerbrown.. Fairy/Sylph, miss you guys just throwing it out there if ya'll might read.
Back in the day the only ways warp to home point was either A. warp cudgel, B. D2(warp) from a BLM, or C. Blood warp (return to home point). There was none of this if you checked a home point you can warp to any other you have checked, no no. We ran out of town on a level 1 job to die and HP. I have not seen in the comments but you made mention of cure as a BST/WHM, correct me if I'm wrong and if I am I'm reactivating to play, but cure spells do not work on pets. You have to use reward or food to restore pet hp.
I played this game during 2002 and stopped a few months after due to real life situations like work and school. This game was incredibly challenging during this time. There was no wiki available, so I had to rely on helpful players for things I was clueless on. The game also took a huge amount of time. For example, the Chocobo Riding license took hours to complete. I had a great time despite only playing it for a few months. I'm surprised it's still around.
If you guys think retail FFXI is difficult, try out one of the private servers like HorizonXI sometime. Progression there is so glacial that even for a hardcore player like me with 20,000+ hours on retail, I was shocked at just how slowly I was leveling up and progressing. No home point warps, no trust system and the old EXP tables before the thousands per mob you started getting showered with in retail. If you get 100 exp per fight in Horizon, consider yourself lucky.
That sounds more like a chore. Plus, thats just artificial difficulty. It doesn't actually make the game harder to play, just takes more time to grind so it FEELS like its harder. Its a way to add more gameplay hour without introducing any new or meaningful mechanic to the game. I hate it when devs to that.
SE lets you play for free (for a couple of weeks) every few months during their campaigns, so technically you can play the game for free after you buy the initial game during one of their regular sales. It’s usually around December/may I think?
Yeah I started in 2006 also. Played for 11 years until swapping to FFXIV. Thinking of taking a few months break and fresh installing FFXI and starting like a new player again. I mean, I have my SEAMS account. So that's the biggest potential ball ache taken care of. lol I actually did solo (RDM) for years before it was even sensibly possible. Taking me anything up to 20-30 hours to gain a level. Spent years of my life just crafting and making gil. I had 400 million on my character by the time I quit. I gave half of it to a linkshell mate and logged out. Never to login again. I was already dipping my toes into FFXIV by that point. Took me 6 months to make 200 million gil on my initial character. Never bothered farming gil again. Still only got about 400 million between all my characters 7 years later.
I remember playing this back on ps2 it holds so much memories for me as the 1st MMO I ever played and it was actually the introduction to FF for me. I remember back then it was basically unplayable as a solo player you absolutely needed help I was so happy when they added trusts to the game and it makes me happy to see that the game is still being updated. And imo the story is still just a bit better than FF14s simply bc you start out as a nobody and work your way up to becoming a legendary adventurer where in FF14 you basically immediately start known as the WoL (Warrior of Light) and already world famous basically. Plus back then you did not have any warps either so the game is much respective of your time now than it was back then lol
@@magillageurilla Same I remember spending countless hours on this game as a kid so much that my granny basically had to force me off of it lol it brings me a lot of joy seeing that the game still has a pretty large playerbase. If it didn't require a subscription to play I'd definitely download it and replay through it again
As a FFXIV player, it is so weird seeing this game. It looks like an oldschool version of FFXIV, down to the designs on the enemies (that goblin is straight out of FFXIV, or I guess it is the reverse really), the races seem almost exactly the same, with Miqote, elezen, roeghadyn etc etc (excuse the spelling, I am not exactly sure how to spell those names).
I like and miss sneaking and inviting through the aggro areas to find a camp spot... the trains in crawlers nests. The struggle was real back in the day.....
2 things Id like to mention 1st the game plays VERY poorly with a mouse, if you want to play theres 2 options, use a controller or full keyboard, since its a slower paced game , controller is really nice to use AND 2nd Look for addons to fix the UI ffxiv crossbar and ffxiv ui, makes it so the UI looks a lot like FFXIV, the crossbar one for controller is fully functional(theres also ffxiv party which improves party frames)
Hey, ive been wondering if i only play for the story, how long do you think it will takes ? I really want to play this game because it is the only FF games i never play.. but atm im playing FF14 a lot too ..... i dont think i can juggle playing both game at the same time ... i want to play this game to experience the story.. but i also want to play 14 ....
you wont have the time for both that's for sure. just an FYI.....I just did all the winderst missions @lvl 99 thf and it took me 5 days @ 4+ hrs each day. but I also have been playing for a number of years and got a lot unlocked. I didn't have to do it all from scratch.
Is there a primary server with lots of population currently? I played this at launch and miss is always... if I come back I want to be in the most populated server. Please advise!!
Ahhh, FFXI. I miss this game. The waiting for airships, the low gil earnings, the long travel times, the hideously expensive leveling for crafting (I just wanted those sunglasses), doing the YMCA and other Village People songs with emotes while only wearing a subligar... This made you put in real time and effort to accomplish anything. I especially liked how Prishe called Bastok a dusty hell hole. San d'Oria forever! It wasn't like the fast paced FFXIV. Kids these days, no patience.
I remember when I was the first N/A riddle warrior on my server. The memories of the people you met, because you had to rely on others in this game for everything
I remember as a kid a cousin of mine would play this game 24/7 on the ps2 and I would just sit there and cheer her on. I didn’t get to start my own adventure until I finally bought the game on Steam 2 years ago and man the developers weren’t exaggerating about the game being addictive! 😂
I played ff11 from 2004-2006. I regretted having to leave. I just figured the game was just gone. But after getting nostalgic about it, I started watching videos about it. And I learned it was still alive and well. I am thinking about getting a steam deck, just to play this again. I know I will have a lot to learn about everything new. But after not playing for 18 years, I'm pretty sure I'll get to enjoy a lot of things that I don't remember. And a lot of new content that I never got to play.
I saw people on comments (somewhere on YT), that have spent 8+ years in this game, and thats not including HorizonXI server. I knew that there is something between FFX and FFXII, it makes sence right, cause games go like 1 2 3 4. I never seen this one, and I want to play it, I guess. Also now we got retroachievemnts enabled for private server
I hate the Final fantasy community that has never cared to play this game and sometimes in their rankings they place it just above FFII 😂. But honestly i consider it a great "original" final fantasy. In terms of story and the gameplay still keeps the essence of what a final fantasy is (or was). When people tells me to play 16 or 7 remake. I tell them "that is not final fantasy anymore". Final fantasy 14 just merges a bunch of the stories that were before and it is more casual (nowadays as full time worker and as parent i appreciate it).
@Joey The Slime Boi there are fan severs on pc. The official severs for ff11 on ps2 and Xbox 360 have been shutdown. Maybe there is fan severs for ps2.
Hey I am playing on the Bismark sever and my character's name is Feetfeind. I need some help getting clears in Void Watcher for my first pulse weapon. I also need help getting some odyessey gear. If there is any Giga Chads that are willing to help a noob it would be greatly appreciated. P.S. If you were to send Gil it would be greatly appreciated.
if you never played it and would like to play it, or would like to finish it, I would recommend it. you can almost solo the whole game. BUT be warned its still difficult to make gil. AH selling is slow, not a lot of players, so you have to sell stuff "the stuff thats sellable" to NPCs and lvl THF for treasure hunter to make gil. also JP is slow after you hit 99. even with the boosts. your review is WAY WAY off. not PS2 graphics 🙄 originated on the PC. ALL old NM drops are useless with the exception of mission related NMs. yes this game dont tell ya how to play it, you have to look stuff up on the fan sites. but 14 used to be that way to. I would say the only useless expansions would be abyssia. ALL MMO's take up your time. any game in general will.
This game was actually good, but hasn't aged well. They've added so much quality of life that's cool to see for the people that still play it. Cool video, but I wouldn't recommend the game in 2023.
Anyone don’t have to miss this game, just have to play at your own pace. Download time? Used to be overnight, now about 2hr or less depends on connection speed. I’m a return player at Asura. Tons of patience required to build up the character. It’s much easier to play (start) compare to years back. Maat fight? Much easier with Trust (need certain missions and quest done). Gil problem? There are certainly other ways but I am not promoting here. Have fun playing.
The game won't work properly above 60 fps because the animation is directly linked to the frame rate. Anything above 60 and the run speed etc goes hyper but you won't actually go any faster. Just the animations...
You can DEFINITELY NOT solo everything in this game. Try doing Odyssey or Sortie solo and you'll get a massively rude awakening. As for the state of the game, it's definitely not worth bothering with at the moment, unless you're brand new to the game.
This is a very poor review of the game, and not a proper representation. * You can not heal pets /whm. * You are reviewing a 20 year old game and calling it "dated". lol * You "barely pushing 10FPS" is an issue with your personal setup. *This game never gets to 144 FPS regardless of tools, lol. You even made an excuse as to not even trying it because it is "work". * The UI is clunky compared to what? This again is a PS2 game. It isn't going to be drag and drop with fancy transparent windows. It is functional, and often not very needed. Hot keys can quickly bring up the fraction of menus you use. Around half of the menus are rarely used or needed besides that. *The game "not respecting your time" is very personal, this is an MMO. No one takes airships and boats, everyone quick travels around. *You absolutely can not solo everything or even close to everything in FFXI. You played the solo parts of the game and did no endgame whatsoever then decided to make a review with footage of low level XPing.
I can push 150 fps with a gtx 1080 and a 5820k but the animations go turbo because there directly linked to framerate the actual speed of the game doesn't speed up just the animations so is unplayable lol
@@jamiehav0k62 lol, it's not a real frame rate though was the point. It be like overclocking a CPU while cooling it with liquid nitrogen. Your CPU isn't going to do it without nonsense pushing it past where it can actually go. Aside from everything being unplayable in game at that rate, the game can't even keep 60 fps in towns and instances.
@@gumdroplollipop you are asking the wrong questions. The game is in a new era. The game basically starts at lv99 now, not level 1. And instead of leveling 1 to 99, its 99 to job master and THEN master levels. Takes even longer than the original grind. The content you keep thinking of is literally almost 2 decades old. You think the game would survive if we were still leveling as content to lv75? Um no, it would be long dead
@@gumdroplollipop trusts are amazing for pre/new 99's... but once you get to a certain point, trusts really aren't viable to do content with and you need to join up with others to farm. Im sorry it just kinda triggers me when people say you can solo the game with trusts like there is no difficulty in the game when that couldn't be further from the truth lol i mean no ill will its just misinformation is all :p
Well, it depends, with trusts you can do so much. But end game content, you will need help, but it's still enjoyable. It's still a time sink even with all adjustments, but it's totally worth it imo.
XI worth playing if you put it back like it was in 2002-2009 ... lvl75 cap and no more lvl and fighting HNM with 18ppl .... since 2010 soloing Fafnir = WTF man srsly...... put it like it was and millions will play it again!!! LONG LIVE ODIN SERVER and BBQ PLATINUM
Private servers are ONLY for people that play for the nostalgia. I started playing FFXI in 2020, and if it wasn't for add-ons and devs improving the battles to make them more fast paced I wouldn't have keep playing it. And I like slow paced games, but FFXI in 2023 doesn't stand a chance being sloe paced.
This isn’t the true FFXI experience. Only classic og’s from back in the day understand what I’m saying. The classic 11 experience is gone and the only way for us who played in the golden era is to download the horizon XI private server
easy answer: BUY the game? No. Downoad the game and play on private server like HorizonXI?? Deffinetly if you like hardcore grinding games. This game aint for everyone, if you cant stand to grind for litterly EVERYTHING then don't bother. If you like games like SWG, Runescape, Everquest,... Then yes this is the game for you
@@gumdroplollipop good it was fun, when Abyssea first came out we had a ton of fun leveling and learning the new spells and abilities. If you are being facetious, i did lvl a new char and burned him to 99 in less than an hour. But after comes the real exp which is job points and master levels. Those taking a while!
@@ImmortalDraylo if youve never played ffxi and ur first try is retail, ur gonna be playing by urself with trusts for a year before u can do meaningful group content. all mission/expansion content is pretty mcuh uncapped so youll be running through every "fight" as 99 one shotting everything since theres no incentive to do it at the level it as designed for, nor will u be able to find enough sprouts to group with. your other option is join a ls and have them kill everything for you. if u want to play with humans for xping and experience the missions with intended difficulty with humans ur only real option is a private server. both are great options, just vastly different. whatever floats ur boat. dont listen to draylo, hes what happens when u play the same game for 20 years straight 12 hours a day. toxic troll just ignore.
@@rocko0o yes for the start of missions, you can level sync or do them at their intended level if you really care that much. Most wont, and the fights are recreated as high tier battles if someone wanted to experience them otherwise. Missions are not s huge part of the content, they were never difficult at all. In fact even on private servers people one shot them quite easily. You can find a linkshell for anything, you are literally looking for any excuse to shit on retail. You under ninjas payroll too or something? What do you benefit trying to hurt retail
@@ImmortalDraylo "both are great options, just vastly different. whatever floats ur boat" im getting really tired of having to repeat simple ideas to u multiple times. i cannot be any more clear with what i say and u cry ppl attacking retail. get help u delusional manchild
I had a buddy that tried to get me into this game but when he was showing it to me he fought a bunny and it took him like 5 mins to kill it and I was on WoW blasting through mobs of 20+ in 10-30 seconds so I was like "....nah I'm good" 😂
I got a couple things wrong that I want to address for anyone interested in the game. The first thing is you can not solo the entire game there is late game content that you will need party members to complete. There is still months of content that you will need to solo to get to the end game. I would say close to 75% of the game can be done by yourself. The second thing is auction house for the most part only has end game armor, weapons, materials, etc. because most of the active player base is at the end game. I still recommend FF11 I think it's a really cool game and is worth a try.
Thanks for this, friend. INSTASUBBED!
I'm only just now playing FF14 but am loving it so much that I find myself wanting to experience ff11. You've convinced me that it's not too late :)
It is worth noting that that most important areas now have home points, and they added the ability to travel between home points a few years back. So most of the "long commutes" only have to be done once. There are still some places that are not that easy to get to but there are other ways: Voidwatch warps, UNM warps, etc... that can help new players get around. The Unity warps are very helpful because they will send you to zones you've never been to before.
This game was my life from like 2005-2009. It was extremely hardcore back in the days. It took me about a year of playing daily just to get my first job to level 75 (which was the cap at the time).
I'm going to be quite honest here with this overview. But I'll give my overall answer first.
Without a doubt, 100%, yes. Yes, FFXI is still worth playing. Even if you've never played it before.
HOWEVER....
Be aware of 2 things. 1: FFXI is, first and foremost, an old game. Expect to do a LOT of research. To do almost anything.
And 2: Be prepared to be very pro-active in finding and either joining or creating an active primarily social/helpful LS - For this reason, I suggest VERY heavily that you start on one of the 3 remotely active servers, in particular Asura (despite all the bad rep people in the community throw at us, we're still a MMORPG, not a MMO-lite. The negative parts are a very small part of the server overall, and we have by far the highest population, especially if you're not Japanese.)
So, FFXI... Where to start.
I've been playing on and off, but mostly on, for the past 18 years. I've taken 2 breaks, once early on for about 6 months, and once more recently for about 4 years.
But I AM currently active/semi-active - I've got most of my endgame clears, my SAM is basically 3 pieces of gear from BiS, I've got my nyame, etc. etc.
I may not play EVERY day, but I play enough to keep up still, and still very much enjoy the game - There's just a lot of other games I enjoy, and I may have gotten a bit too addicted to One Piece recently, and IRL may have gone insane as well, so I haven't played THAT much this past year.
But I'm still playing.
So, FFXI is unlike almost any other game you've probably ever played - Everquest is to my knowledge the closest multiplayer game, and FF12 is technically largely inspired by and based on XI mechanics-wise in many, many ways.
It is a truly social MMO.
You will spend more time, even these days, talking with people, setting up groups, sorting out event times, and likely helping other players with stuff they need to do, than you likely will doing actual endgame stuff.
And this is a HUGE positive.
Modern day FFXI has essentially 4 ways to play it.
Retail, Asura/one of the other somewhat populated servers. Which is how I'd personally recommend it.
Private server, HorizonXI. Which is basically 75-cap era XI, with all of the positives and negatives associated with that. Horizon often rivals Asura population-wise, so it's by far the option I'd suggest if you want to go the private server/75 cap era route.
Retail, ghost town server.
Private server, anything that's not Horizon. This includes both retail parity servers and other 75-cap era servers, and probably at least 1 random pre-ilvl 99 cap server somewhere.
So, depending on which option you pick, you'll get a different experience.
The big option between the first 2 and the second 2 is that the second 2 are mostly going to be a nearly-solo experience where you have to work together with the very small active population on your server of choice. You won't see hundreds of people sitting around in towns, sitting in queues, and you won't deal with RMT.
For the rest of this, I'll be discussing this from the perspective of the first 2. As it's what I have personal experience with. I know a number of people that play on the less populated servers - The general feel really is "there's one linkshell that's actually active, hope you get along with them.", but at the same time, there IS a benefit to that, which is a more accessible world - No RMT bots, less 6-man groups, you can easily solo a lot of stuff. I'd actually almost suggest starting on a tiny server and paying for a server transfer to asura later on if you're willing to spend the money, because the pre-endgame experience will actually probably be WAY better, due to almost no competition for anything.
So, let's first discuss horizon vs retail.
Horizon is 75-cap, and this means: No QoL teleports everywhere. Long, slow, difficult leveling process. No free gear, you have to actively work for everything. No trusts, so you HAVE to do everything either purely truly solo, or in a group. The benefits are... uh... 75 cap era experience. Basically everything mentioned. ...yes, I vastly prefer retail. I understand why people like 75-cap, but it's just so much less enjoyable now-a-days since I've experienced what FFXI can be without everything taking hours to do.
Horizon is going to be your time sink, but it'll likely end up having more of a "community feel" to it. It's also free, which is a plus, I guess.
So retail. You likely won't interact with another player until you hit 99. And that's fine.
You'll have more story to do, and you'll have more jobs available. You'll also be able to abuse the economy to very easily progress in most stuff, and be bombarded with free gear constantly.
Trusts make leveling from 1 to 99 a breeze.
Experience the game. Have fun. Explore. Look up stuff only when you feel like you want to, rather than when you have to in order to figure out where this exp camp you were invited to is.
Retail lets you experience almost the entire game... completely solo, at your own pace.
Until you reach endgame.
Once you reach endgame, do your absolute best to find an enjoyable, sociable, fun, linkshell, and make some friends. A LOT of us are super helpful. I definitely spend multiple days every month on average just helping others with stuff, and I've had 100% new to the game players in my LS become valuable key members of event groups even just within the past year or so.
Endgame, horizon vs retail.
Horizon will very much be about group co-ordination and timing - You've got your 2 Dynamis runs/week, your 2 assault days/week, your 1-2 einherjar, limbus, etc. days/week, dependent on what expansion Horizon is on at the time. These are ALL group-only content for the most part, between 6 and 18-man groups.
Then you've got your daily sky farming and HNM camping. Which, again, is group content.
Solo... you... uh... level other jobs and craft.
Retail, you've got the same sorts of endgame stuff, though usually on daily lockouts instead of weekly/bi-weekly, with only the notable exception of Dynamis-D.
But... you also have TONS of solo content. Between ultimate weapon farming, quests and missions, a lot of secondary gear, Trove, Sortie, etc. there's TONS of stuff you CAN do solo, if you don't have a group yet, and can easily do low-man if your group is missing members.
Depending on the jobs and gear you have, you can even solo the vast majority of stuff like Aeonic grinds, Ambuscade, HTBFs, etc. etc.
Essentially, the biggest differences are that something like Horizon is going to generally be a lot more social-focused, while something like retail is going to be a lot more gameplay-focused.
However, and this is the biggest aspect that makes me really prefer retail over private servers... you can still very much find social groups to chill with on retail. We still exist.
I have a mostly social LS that I'm the co-leader of, founded by my friend of 17 1/2 years, that has over 40 daily active members.
We often have group chats in discord with like 5-10 people, we often have 6-18 person event runs, even for older content, just to have fun.
I'm pretty sure we managed to have an 18-man alliance for besieged of all things, which lasted all of 5 minutes and it was hilarious.
Horizon is more guaranteed to be social, because it has to be.
Retail is more guaranteed to allow you to actually play the game, and has more overall content, so even if you get through the content faster, it's not like you're going to run out of things to do.
18 years in, and I still have stuff I need to get around to doing, jobs I want to gear and content I want to clear.
FFXI is an incredible game, that has always been criminally underrated, and especially modern-day retail FFXI. I can't recommend the experience enough, provided you've got the free time for it.
You... do need a lot of free time for it.
Like... a lot.
I play as well sometimes... had been in Asura from the past 18 years
all the bad people when to Asura lol Behemat! 4 Life !!!!
I left 18 years ago. And I'm thinking about coming back. I'm sure my old character is gone. But i plan on starting a new character anyway.
Man, the POL music still pops into my head every now and then....... From back in the day when I bought my copy with the PS2 HDD kit.
man that was my best day ever when i bought the PS2 HDD kit , the game had a different taste
As someone who played from 2004-2011 and just came back yesterday hearing the sentence "this game doesn't respect your time." My "old person" comment is going to be this. Back in the day you couldn't warp between books, you couldn't warp between home points, trust didn't exist, there was no RoE, no FoV, no GoV, no mounts aside from chocobo, you couldn't unity yourself to jeuno, movement speed was 25% slower, and I went from level 1 to 15 in about 2 hours yesterday as I clunky learned how to use RoE. That would've taken me, as a new player, probably 6-8 hours total, over 3 days. This game has took a massive improvement from almost 2 decades ago to today on making things easier and faster and more convenient for a new player base.
EDIT: I completely forgot about this YOU CAN BUY MAPS. That was never a thing. You used to only be able to get maps from questions or rare drops from certain enemies in certain places. It was so easy to get lost.
Maps of zones / certain zones were earned or bought through CPs ( conquest points ) if I remember
100% this game has come soo far. This was my first MMO and it keeps getting better. I have tried many other MMOS But they are all the same junk. And i keep coming back to FFXI
Everything you mentioned makes the game worse and takes away the character that was FFXI. If you want a solo easy amusement park style mmo like every other one since WoW, play those. You earned what you had in XI
I couldn’t agree more.
It was that “awfulness” that brought us together to accomplish common goals. The tribulations, friendships and obligations formed during those years laid the foundation for all the memberberry fields people want to eat now. SE could give a shit about enforcing people who exploit the game with windower.
This game is something else now and it’s far from fun.
I started the game on ps2 you could always buy maps. You had to quest some of them yes.
I LOVED this game. We played on the PS2. Had a decent amount of peeps playing. Back then we ran into numerous issues, 90% of the problems were the "Chinese gil farmers". The games economy was just to hard to keep up with unless you played 8-10 hours a day. Trying to claim a NM was a feet in and of itself. I remember for my character getting a pair of the Leaping Boots was a HUGE upgrade but they were so expensive at auction and claiming Lizzy was near impossible, let alone getting the boots to actually drop.
In the end, I stopped playing because of the time constraints, and the people we had in our group just dropped off one by one. I remember really enjoying the combat system, creating the macros for Sneak Attack and Trick Attack :)
Great game. But it started to feel more like a job than a game.
The games economy really got destroyed into treasures of aht urghan. I used to run with Chinese Gil sellers because they would give me an even share or drops. Like striders boots and such.
@@magillageurilla good strategy lol can’t beat them, join them
@@magillageurilla shits and giggles I just google the online AH on my old server, Lakshmi. Leaping Boots Currently at 50k. That’s a joke. I think they were like 4 million or something if I remember correctly. The cheapest I remember was 250k
I went rounds and rounds with RMT. SE worked to fix the problem with workarounds and ex tags and I feel like it sapped a lot of the fun out of it. Not that fighting RMT was fun because it wasn't, but the thrill of seeing your target spawn and to get the claim, I was hooked for years. In Oztroja and the RMT brings the entire floor on you. /hide. Balbowski, Goddiva.. Turnerbrown.. Fairy/Sylph, miss you guys just throwing it out there if ya'll might read.
they kind of fixed it by making them rare/ex you could got them in BCNM too
It's amazing that Square Enix still update this game!
Its their pride and joy
Yea they said it's the one game that still makes them the most money.
@@jscrub6232did u got mixed up with 14?
Back in the day the only ways warp to home point was either A. warp cudgel, B. D2(warp) from a BLM, or C. Blood warp (return to home point). There was none of this if you checked a home point you can warp to any other you have checked, no no. We ran out of town on a level 1 job to die and HP. I have not seen in the comments but you made mention of cure as a BST/WHM, correct me if I'm wrong and if I am I'm reactivating to play, but cure spells do not work on pets. You have to use reward or food to restore pet hp.
Correct I don't ever remember that being a thing but I stopped playing during the 2nd Abyssea installment
You could also use Conquest Points to purchase Warp scrolls back in the day.
I played this game during 2002 and stopped a few months after due to real life situations like work and school. This game was incredibly challenging during this time. There was no wiki available, so I had to rely on helpful players for things I was clueless on. The game also took a huge amount of time. For example, the Chocobo Riding license took hours to complete. I had a great time despite only playing it for a few months. I'm surprised it's still around.
there was always the bradly guide.
If you guys think retail FFXI is difficult, try out one of the private servers like HorizonXI sometime. Progression there is so glacial that even for a hardcore player like me with 20,000+ hours on retail, I was shocked at just how slowly I was leveling up and progressing. No home point warps, no trust system and the old EXP tables before the thousands per mob you started getting showered with in retail. If you get 100 exp per fight in Horizon, consider yourself lucky.
No 😂
That sounds more like a chore.
Plus, thats just artificial difficulty. It doesn't actually make the game harder to play, just takes more time to grind so it FEELS like its harder.
Its a way to add more gameplay hour without introducing any new or meaningful mechanic to the game. I hate it when devs to that.
20,000 hours?? Boy you need to get a life.
@@manea7074 What else are you going to do as a teenage boy get a girl pregnant ?
@@Bewefau hit the gym go outside that's unhealthy amount of hours bet the op has issues or introverted.
SE lets you play for free (for a couple of weeks) every few months during their campaigns, so technically you can play the game for free after you buy the initial game during one of their regular sales. It’s usually around December/may I think?
I played the game back when solo play was almost non existent. A fantastic game for me back on 2006!❤
Yeah I started in 2006 also. Played for 11 years until swapping to FFXIV. Thinking of taking a few months break and fresh installing FFXI and starting like a new player again.
I mean, I have my SEAMS account. So that's the biggest potential ball ache taken care of. lol
I actually did solo (RDM) for years before it was even sensibly possible. Taking me anything up to 20-30 hours to gain a level.
Spent years of my life just crafting and making gil. I had 400 million on my character by the time I quit. I gave half of it to a linkshell mate and logged out. Never to login again.
I was already dipping my toes into FFXIV by that point. Took me 6 months to make 200 million gil on my initial character. Never bothered farming gil again. Still only got about 400 million between all my characters 7 years later.
because it was expensive. Money was way to hard to make.
I remember playing this back on ps2 it holds so much memories for me as the 1st MMO I ever played and it was actually the introduction to FF for me. I remember back then it was basically unplayable as a solo player you absolutely needed help I was so happy when they added trusts to the game and it makes me happy to see that the game is still being updated. And imo the story is still just a bit better than FF14s simply bc you start out as a nobody and work your way up to becoming a legendary adventurer where in FF14 you basically immediately start known as the WoL (Warrior of Light) and already world famous basically. Plus back then you did not have any warps either so the game is much respective of your time now than it was back then lol
It almost brings me to tears. I played this game for so many years
@@magillageurilla Same I remember spending countless hours on this game as a kid so much that my granny basically had to force me off of it lol it brings me a lot of joy seeing that the game still has a pretty large playerbase. If it didn't require a subscription to play I'd definitely download it and replay through it again
How do I get the addons you mentioned? Specially the one to make the HUD look like FF14
There’s an instruction manual in the game that I never see mentioned because people presumably never realize to look for it.
As a FFXIV player, it is so weird seeing this game. It looks like an oldschool version of FFXIV, down to the designs on the enemies (that goblin is straight out of FFXIV, or I guess it is the reverse really), the races seem almost exactly the same, with Miqote, elezen, roeghadyn etc etc (excuse the spelling, I am not exactly sure how to spell those names).
yup goes to show you how stupid people are today. All they care about is pretty graphics. The graphics doesn't make the game fun.
Still have to press M for map, or run 3rd party mini map like i did?
I like and miss sneaking and inviting through the aggro areas to find a camp spot... the trains in crawlers nests. The struggle was real back in the day.....
2 things Id like to mention
1st the game plays VERY poorly with a mouse, if you want to play theres 2 options, use a controller or full keyboard, since its a slower paced game , controller is really nice to use AND
2nd Look for addons to fix the UI ffxiv crossbar and ffxiv ui, makes it so the UI looks a lot like FFXIV, the crossbar one for controller is fully functional(theres also ffxiv party which improves party frames)
Do you happen to know the crossbar addon?
KB warriors will hate you lol
@@hardinggrim8549 don't need a crossbar it has a build in macro system that's way than that crap.
Hey, ive been wondering if i only play for the story, how long do you think it will takes ? I really want to play this game because it is the only FF games i never play.. but atm im playing FF14 a lot too ..... i dont think i can juggle playing both game at the same time ... i want to play this game to experience the story.. but i also want to play 14 ....
you wont have the time for both that's for sure. just an FYI.....I just did all the winderst missions @lvl 99 thf and it took me 5 days @ 4+ hrs each day. but I also have been playing for a number of years and got a lot unlocked. I didn't have to do it all from scratch.
@@clamo6362 wah thank you for the reply..... will consider it ... :)
For custimization options you mentioned I didn't hear skin color
are you only able to be light skinned in this game?
everyday for 7 years i loved this game
Is there a primary server with lots of population currently? I played this at launch and miss is always... if I come back I want to be in the most populated server. Please advise!!
Asura but its all mercenaries and people who run 6 accounts that wont help you.
@@jdove5665 well that is disappointing LOL any suggestions on alternatives?
The memories I made in 11 are better than 14. Skill chain high. The need to party with others in 2002.
how to push up the graphic. mine is very rough :(
Ahhh, FFXI. I miss this game. The waiting for airships, the low gil earnings, the long travel times, the hideously expensive leveling for crafting (I just wanted those sunglasses), doing the YMCA and other Village People songs with emotes while only wearing a subligar... This made you put in real time and effort to accomplish anything. I especially liked how Prishe called Bastok a dusty hell hole. San d'Oria forever! It wasn't like the fast paced FFXIV. Kids these days, no patience.
I remember when I was the first N/A riddle warrior on my server. The memories of the people you met, because you had to rely on others in this game for everything
Anyone on Asura, looking for some LS members for things to do? Im currently downloading to start playing again!
I remember as a kid a cousin of mine would play this game 24/7 on the ps2 and I would just sit there and cheer her on.
I didn’t get to start my own adventure until I finally bought the game on Steam 2 years ago and man the developers weren’t exaggerating about the game being addictive! 😂
I played ff11 from 2004-2006. I regretted having to leave. I just figured the game was just gone. But after getting nostalgic about it, I started watching videos about it. And I learned it was still alive and well. I am thinking about getting a steam deck, just to play this again. I know I will have a lot to learn about everything new. But after not playing for 18 years, I'm pretty sure I'll get to enjoy a lot of things that I don't remember. And a lot of new content that I never got to play.
How do I still play this game? Can I get my account back from 2004 to 2012?
You might need to call them up.
I saw people on comments (somewhere on YT), that have spent 8+ years in this game, and thats not including HorizonXI server. I knew that there is something between FFX and FFXII, it makes sence right, cause games go like 1 2 3 4. I never seen this one, and I want to play it, I guess. Also now we got retroachievemnts enabled for private server
Good video man subbed!
i didnt notice him in the bottom right until the very end of the video lol
Yes. Next question?
The only FF game I never played...
If this game ever comes back to Xbox, I would definitely play it
I hate the Final fantasy community that has never cared to play this game and sometimes in their rankings they place it just above FFII 😂. But honestly i consider it a great "original" final fantasy. In terms of story and the gameplay still keeps the essence of what a final fantasy is (or was). When people tells me to play 16 or 7 remake. I tell them "that is not final fantasy anymore". Final fantasy 14 just merges a bunch of the stories that were before and it is more casual (nowadays as full time worker and as parent i appreciate it).
FPS doesnt need any third party. /config FrameRateDivisor 1
The graphics look great for the time
Good video! Just so ya know white mage sub job can not heal pets lol they eat pet treats but way fun
You didn't touch on the story lol
anything over 60 fps completely breaks the animations
This game became my favorite the first time i played, n i still wanna play it but i don't have the money for it (╥﹏╥)
Does it still work on PS2?
The PS2 and Xbox 360 severs were shutdown the only way to play now is on pc.
@@truepandemicjr I thought there were fan servers
@Joey The Slime Boi there are fan severs on pc. The official severs for ff11 on ps2 and Xbox 360 have been shutdown. Maybe there is fan severs for ps2.
looking back the game should have been PC only from the start back in 2002
Who needs this Shit if we have FF14
14 isn't that great
Hey I am playing on the Bismark sever and my character's name is Feetfeind. I need some help getting clears in Void Watcher for my first pulse weapon. I also need help getting some odyessey gear. If there is any Giga Chads that are willing to help a noob it would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. If you were to send Gil it would be greatly appreciated.
So... your into feet too huh? Nice
if you never played it and would like to play it, or would like to finish it, I would recommend it. you can almost solo the whole game. BUT be warned its still difficult to make gil. AH selling is slow, not a lot of players, so you have to sell stuff "the stuff thats sellable" to NPCs and lvl THF for treasure hunter to make gil. also JP is slow after you hit 99. even with the boosts.
your review is WAY WAY off. not PS2 graphics 🙄 originated on the PC. ALL old NM drops are useless with the exception of mission related NMs. yes this game dont tell ya how to play it, you have to look stuff up on the fan sites. but 14 used to be that way to. I would say the only useless expansions would be abyssia. ALL MMO's take up your time. any game in general will.
is this private server
Bought this on launch on ps2
every mmorpg player should play it
oh, is the XI, i was thinking is FF XIV XD Look like the same graphics.
It is XI or XIV....... Thus XI is worth a buy when it goes on sale.................
its Xi
this is the part with the car
This game was actually good, but hasn't aged well. They've added so much quality of life that's cool to see for the people that still play it. Cool video, but I wouldn't recommend the game in 2023.
Anyone don’t have to miss this game, just have to play at your own pace. Download time? Used to be overnight, now about 2hr or less depends on connection speed. I’m a return player at Asura. Tons of patience required to build up the character. It’s much easier to play (start) compare to years back. Maat fight? Much easier with Trust (need certain missions and quest done). Gil problem? There are certainly other ways but I am not promoting here. Have fun playing.
The game won't work properly above 60 fps because the animation is directly linked to the frame rate. Anything above 60 and the run speed etc goes hyper but you won't actually go any faster. Just the animations...
You can DEFINITELY NOT solo everything in this game. Try doing Odyssey or Sortie solo and you'll get a massively rude awakening. As for the state of the game, it's definitely not worth bothering with at the moment, unless you're brand new to the game.
Yes its worth it
Private servers are nice as well
@@gumdroplollipop no they suck
@@ImmortalDraylo grand theft fun
@@gumdroplollipop going to have to report you to the square enix police
This is a very poor review of the game, and not a proper representation.
* You can not heal pets /whm.
* You are reviewing a 20 year old game and calling it "dated". lol
* You "barely pushing 10FPS" is an issue with your personal setup.
*This game never gets to 144 FPS regardless of tools, lol. You even made an excuse as to not even trying it because it is "work".
* The UI is clunky compared to what? This again is a PS2 game. It isn't going to be drag and drop with fancy transparent windows. It is functional, and often not very needed. Hot keys can quickly bring up the fraction of menus you use. Around half of the menus are rarely used or needed besides that.
*The game "not respecting your time" is very personal, this is an MMO. No one takes airships and boats, everyone quick travels around.
*You absolutely can not solo everything or even close to everything in FFXI. You played the solo parts of the game and did no endgame whatsoever then decided to make a review with footage of low level XPing.
I can push 150 fps with a gtx 1080 and a 5820k but the animations go turbo because there directly linked to framerate the actual speed of the game doesn't speed up just the animations so is unplayable lol
@@jamiehav0k62 lol, it's not a real frame rate though was the point. It be like overclocking a CPU while cooling it with liquid nitrogen. Your CPU isn't going to do it without nonsense pushing it past where it can actually go.
Aside from everything being unplayable in game at that rate, the game can't even keep 60 fps in towns and instances.
@@glumbumble "I only engage in the highest quality of dopamine hits."
Bro review was i dont like the game is not easy.. man what has happen to gammers
Most gamers these days prefer to have their hand held through everything.
Final Fantasy 11... Most Of The Community Are Terrible At The Game... Even After 20 Years...
solo everything with trusts... thats a good one lol
yea considering its not possible
What cant you solo pre 99?
@@gumdroplollipop you are asking the wrong questions. The game is in a new era. The game basically starts at lv99 now, not level 1. And instead of leveling 1 to 99, its 99 to job master and THEN master levels. Takes even longer than the original grind.
The content you keep thinking of is literally almost 2 decades old. You think the game would survive if we were still leveling as content to lv75? Um no, it would be long dead
@@gumdroplollipop trusts are amazing for pre/new 99's... but once you get to a certain point, trusts really aren't viable to do content with and you need to join up with others to farm. Im sorry it just kinda triggers me when people say you can solo the game with trusts like there is no difficulty in the game when that couldn't be further from the truth lol i mean no ill will its just misinformation is all :p
@@escheysketch6876 if i said it wasnt difficult i apologize, but it does jiggle my nuts and bolts when lvling 1-99 is seen as side content
Play HorizonXI instead - free private server with lots of population.
No.
Impossible to play now…
Well, it depends, with trusts you can do so much. But end game content, you will need help, but it's still enjoyable. It's still a time sink even with all adjustments, but it's totally worth it imo.
XI worth playing if you put it back like it was in 2002-2009 ... lvl75 cap and no more lvl and fighting HNM with 18ppl .... since 2010 soloing Fafnir = WTF man srsly...... put it like it was and millions will play it again!!! LONG LIVE ODIN SERVER and BBQ PLATINUM
144 fps? How?
nostalgia!!!
Why change the time based system tho . Ruined the ff franchise.
People still play this? I wanna comeback
Exaggerating on some stuff here.
Not really, play a private server. Those devs generally have much more passion for what make this game special.
Private servers are garbage. Retail has 100x the content and all the freedom in choice
Private servers are ONLY for people that play for the nostalgia.
I started playing FFXI in 2020, and if it wasn't for add-ons and devs improving the battles to make them more fast paced I wouldn't have keep playing it.
And I like slow paced games, but FFXI in 2023 doesn't stand a chance being sloe paced.
Horizon ROCKZ
@@gumdroplollipop nope it's garbage
@@ImmortalDraylo why?
This isn’t the true FFXI experience. Only classic og’s from back in the day understand what I’m saying. The classic 11 experience is gone and the only way for us who played in the golden era is to download the horizon XI private server
'Sub WHM heal pets'.......
...... (ﾉД`)
Ff 7 remake is better and have much more content
easy answer:
BUY the game? No.
Downoad the game and play on private server like HorizonXI?? Deffinetly if you like hardcore grinding games.
This game aint for everyone, if you cant stand to grind for litterly EVERYTHING then don't bother.
If you like games like SWG, Runescape, Everquest,... Then yes this is the game for you
i want grindy games but the UI Feel So clunky
is there any way to fix the battle UI?, that alone could fix many things that i dislikes about this game
Quick answer ? No, too old, move on and let it die so maybe it'll get a remake.
Wrong. Old doesnt mean its obsolete. Still being updated and still fun
@@ImmortalDraylo im assuming you like to solo
@@gumdroplollipop nope, ive done every content ffxi has to offer. I do a lot of end game with my friends.
@@ImmortalDraylo how was your journey till 99?
@@gumdroplollipop good it was fun, when Abyssea first came out we had a ton of fun leveling and learning the new spells and abilities.
If you are being facetious, i did lvl a new char and burned him to 99 in less than an hour. But after comes the real exp which is job points and master levels. Those taking a while!
Don't buy it, play on a private server.
Buy it, private servers are garbage
@@ImmortalDraylo if youve never played ffxi and ur first try is retail, ur gonna be playing by urself with trusts for a year before u can do meaningful group content. all mission/expansion content is pretty mcuh uncapped so youll be running through every "fight" as 99 one shotting everything since theres no incentive to do it at the level it as designed for, nor will u be able to find enough sprouts to group with. your other option is join a ls and have them kill everything for you. if u want to play with humans for xping and experience the missions with intended difficulty with humans ur only real option is a private server. both are great options, just vastly different. whatever floats ur boat. dont listen to draylo, hes what happens when u play the same game for 20 years straight 12 hours a day. toxic troll just ignore.
@@rocko0o yes for the start of missions, you can level sync or do them at their intended level if you really care that much. Most wont, and the fights are recreated as high tier battles if someone wanted to experience them otherwise.
Missions are not s huge part of the content, they were never difficult at all. In fact even on private servers people one shot them quite easily.
You can find a linkshell for anything, you are literally looking for any excuse to shit on retail. You under ninjas payroll too or something? What do you benefit trying to hurt retail
@@ImmortalDraylo the reason people dont like retail is because you literally dont need a party til 99
@@ImmortalDraylo "both are great options, just vastly different. whatever floats ur boat" im getting really tired of having to repeat simple ideas to u multiple times. i cannot be any more clear with what i say and u cry ppl attacking retail. get help u delusional manchild
I had a buddy that tried to get me into this game but when he was showing it to me he fought a bunny and it took him like 5 mins to kill it and I was on WoW blasting through mobs of 20+ in 10-30 seconds so I was like "....nah I'm good" 😂