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05.17.2012 7:52pm

Thread Creator (Edited on 05.17.2012 at 8:04pm)

Zubis
Registered Member

The payment issue got much worse late last year - they finally retired the PlayOnline payment method and went with third party companies. Unfortunately these companies didn't have a good reputation, and players essentially rioted over the removal of a "trusted" service. Square-Enix introduced new additional payment options in January, so now you can pay by Paypal and other methods.

Still going strong here, although I only login twice a month or so.

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05.18.2012 7:29am

Lexx
Terran Angel

I'm sorry to say my memories of FFXI aren't great. I grabbed the demo disc a couple years after the game came out because I was thinking of finally getting it. At that point I'd gotten over my anti-MMO bias and had been playing WoW for a while. Even back then FFXI felt archaic in comparison. The graphics were pretty rough, the gameplay was slow, and most of all, the interface was horrendous. It took me over an hour to set up the damn demo and then I only played it for twenty minutes.

Once in a while I feel like maybe giving it another chance, but I never act on it.

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05.18.2012 5:53pm

Onyx
Butts
Administrator

For PC gamers, the interface was pretty damn bad and without a controller, the controls were even worse. At least it plays well with a PS2 controller, but even now I'm amazed at how shoddy a PC port it was.

Maybe it changed now, but really things like "no hotbar" and needing to macro EVERYTHING were pretty damn inexcusable.

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05.18.2012 6:10pm

amaron
No answer, must be that deaf bitch.

Greatest game experience I ever had..... until WoTG.

Abyssea may have breathed life back into a dying game, but it killed it for me. It took the purpose out of the game for me because it was now only about getting to max level as fast as possible to kill the same shit over and over again.

I wish I could go back and enjoy the game as it was when I'd sit in Jeuno for hours on end AFK for no good reason.

I really hope they let us make private servers when they finally shitcan it for good.

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05.18.2012 7:02pm

Kellios
Yikes and away!

I would probably jump on the chance to play it again if there was a private server option, so I hope they will too.

Ten bucks on no, though.

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05.18.2012 8:35pm

Ashilyn
Career GM

I'm surprised no one's jumped on getting private servers for XI running, it seems just popular enough.

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05.18.2012 8:57pm

amaron
No answer, must be that deaf bitch.

Ashilyn said:

I'm surprised no one's jumped on getting private servers for XI running, it seems just popular enough.

There have been a handful (pXi comes to mind) but they've been summarily shut down by SEX or development has been stopped.

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05.19.2012 4:21am

Rinoa
Night Star
Administrator

I don't know of any pservers for xi that are stable, most crash continually.

Rinoa.Nu

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06.14.2012 4:09pm

Shadow
Comes and goes like the wind...

I'm still playing, here's an old screeny of me in my old AF NIN gear.

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06.15.2012 5:24am

Arckanghel
Pirate.

I remember FFXI fondly. Having tried to play ages times since WoTG and Abyssea, it doesn't resemble what I loved.

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06.15.2012 3:40pm

Clowd Cole
Dangerous Zombie

I have two diffrent memories with FFXI

I remember months with Lonven barly "playing" the game, but doing tons of RP.

Then I came back recently and almost level capped with Mortaich, but then TOR hit.

Buggle Up! Danger! Danger! (Genocide!) Death the Crisis! Dangerous Zombie!

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06.15.2012 4:02pm

Aquila
Usually lurking
Administrator

https://commerce.cpsma.berkeley.edu/tickets/tickets/production.aspx?productionNumber=7879

Too bad I can't go. At least they might release the CD/DVD here now.

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