Thinking Of Returning To XI - 2+ Yrs Away!

I want some of those minutes, Mr Rooks.

Thanks for all of the comments guys - it's really appreciated to see the forums are still helpful.
Taking everything into consideration, I'll give it a go soon - look out for me!!
Be kind lol.... Its been a long time!
I'll be returning to Fenrir- with the scope to join a friend on another server, just wanna check in on my life long server and see who's still around - if anyone!?

Thanks again

I wouldn't bother to come back until November, community and social interaction is very little-to-non-existent, and you will feel lonely doing any content. I like playing with lots of people this is why I don't play ffxi anymore. Only hardcore players remains and they use over 3+ mules to get things done (because the lack of players on each server(which is sad). There is popular private server tho. Way better than retail servers/cap 75 with a huge and healthy player base. Multiplayer gaming is important to me on a mmorpg , Doesn’t worth to comeback and pay 13$ just to play with npcs.

I have 2 main accounts geared very well until I stopped playing, and plenty of mules.
Ran a successful LS doing various alliance and low man events.
The private server sounds interesting though, got any further details?

http://supernovaffxi.wikia.com/wiki/Supernova

If you can't determine what I mean from what I wrote here it is again. lol



This is what I meant.

Always the discerning one.

Wow that sounds horrid, especially all the server instability. Why anyone would wanna play that over retail is beyond me. Even easier to play 75 type stuff on retail over that.

dont

A 'healthy player base'? None of the DSP servers ever have more than 100 on, and that's figuring in people who multibox due to it being free. Throw in all the bugs, server crashes, unimplemented features.. only kids who can't afford the monthly fee and the actual devs play on those.

Can you explain to me the spam in /l /l2 and /u every single day when i return from afk to me then.
Or how a LS named Reddit had to expand to a 2nd LS named RedditGold (or something like that) just to not turn other ppl down that doesnt fit in 1st LS anymore due to no more room in LS1?

Less shouts doesnt mean less ***going on - just less ***to shout for since ppl crawl back into their mass LSs and are prolly training the nubs from FREE LOGIN campaign that subscribed later on. Just because you stalk the ah.com frontpage shouts and dont see what you want/need doesnt really mean ppl dont do anything - but that has been said like over a hundred times.
If you like to wait for shouts to make progress with a mass raid and be Mister Anonymus who got lucky with a super rare drop youll never put to a real use anyway, dont come back.

Also 1.1k online at JST midnight yesterda for whats it worth.


Joined 2 Months ago again after a longer break - still getting ***done and making cash off AH and bazaaring. No i dont quadruble box - i behave social and give more answer then "Wiki it!" if someone asks something.

Funny how fast people change their minds lol.

Asura.Azriel

You're not wrong about the number or people, the bugs, and unimplemented features, though from what I hear it's regularly worked on. From having watched a few shells on there tackle some of the HNM, can't say I have experienced any crashes, but I haven't been on there often enough to make a claim that it's reasonably stable.

The appeal to it should be obvious though, there is quite a lot of people who enjoyed the 75-cap era, and want to properly experience it again. The experience offered at the moment isn't the same of course, with the bugs and whatnot; however those bugs won't exist forever, so people are progressing their characters for when the servers are running well, and/or helping out with coding, etc.

What's up with these people saying it's not worth it for 13 bucks a month? 13 dollars is a lot??

If you are active some people will join you. No one needs to play alone. Just do a shout, if people want the things you need they will join. Just people need to be proactive when shouting and joining something. If people sit around hoping someone shouts for something they want of coz they might be afk all night.

There's plenty of people on each server.

I can't speak for other people who use 3 characters but I do it because I like to, no other reason.

(To be fair, I made the third for another person and they stopped playing so I just kept up with it).

As if it's worth to come back? Very depending on what you value in the game. I returned 4ish months ago and still find something to do. Lately alot seem to ditch XI for Heavensward but imagine a lot will return for RoV part 2 in august update.

There is a few on Asura, but most part players from US in my experience

Last time i checked Asura had 412 online. 1.1k JST (that's very low) is nothing.

Currently 998 ppl online wich is good for a 10+ year old game imho

Last game that old i checked was D2 and after 10 years it had 5 games up with, lets be honest, 10 ppl online and one wanting to kill your Cowking on Nightmare?

Might be your time zone? I usually only see 1.1-1.2k type numbers when you have decent crossover between regions and common playtime - Saturday mornings for example - but usual ESTish evenings tend to be in the 650-750 range.


Either way, as mentioned, there's lots that can potentially be done with only a handful of people, or solo.

I was referring to the claim of Asura having 412 on, which is lower than I've personally seen it outside of post-patch or something (Heavensward launch week came close though).

However, I mostly play in EST, so it may well be that peak EU times see fewer people or something.

'course, it's not like the JP populations and all are irrelevant, since if nothing else it means there's more of an economy.

Your truth, my truth, the truth. Input has been given, with current population as of now are more then 400 online.
You judge if it is wrong or valid for you.

Carry on.

During EU primetime its normal to see 600+ which is okey i think

That 600ish number is what I've been seeing in CST playtime as well. I have never seen 400 on Asura aside from post-patch as people are logging back in.

Keep in mind, pugs are dead. If you are depending on pugs then you are going to be disappointed. I never liked doing stuff with pickup groups, because (at least on Sylph) they are run by some of the server's worst players. But it's not even an option anymore. I've done two pugs in the last three months. The pug shouts are all the same two or three Unity fights or Vagary, and it's the same lazy setups- now featuring beastmaster instead of ranger, for the most part. No thanks!

Half those people are sitting afk mules

700 here, must suck to be on your server.

Edit: I can give you an hourly update to compare the effort to yours, since its that important to you to have a full scale view. We wont hit any numbers lower then 400 for longer tho

I play with my wife and FFXI is very entertaining if you coop with someone. We started new characters from scratch on a new server and so far it's been a blast. The things that used to annoy me about FFXI have been fixed. (Easy teleports, trust NPCs to fill in gaps in the party, sparks currency to get gear).

I can set my goals and achieve them realistically now. It does help having at least one person you can play with at all times. I can see this game getting very lonely otherwise.

I can see FFXI transforming into more of an offline coop game in the future when the servers finally go offline.