Why did they remove msq.

[Sage Pirotess]

I played the game when it first came out after the rereleased. Anyway I recall during arr much back tracking to save simion members. I did end when child of darkness was introduced. Game itself was boring and as a ffxi player they wimped dark knights and gave scholars fairies.... yuck.

So returned to ffxi. But in arr I recall saving my group members . But now you do t save the 5 left behind in intermissions. So guess they died now?

Back then lvl cap was 60, so I walked through art as a lvl 70 monk. Boring, but at least at point where new content for me.

Overall the game feels so emepty and dead. Cant say I ever been treated, seen chat in any ligs, been invited to a fc.

Compared to ffxi, it may have 50k players but they talk, do things, and zones are active. As well as make high content in old zones to keep people coming back. But guess not here.

So yea why did they remove story from arr. And even the jobs, you cant customize them with skills like you used to be able to.

I hope blue mage is fun. Its great in ffxi but seems you must only do dungeons with it in this game to get anywhere.and groups at that.

[Alternity]

The game was updated to be more accessible. It caters to a certain audience, but also alienate the more hardcore players.

You don't really need player communication unless you are doing some specific content, like end-game raiding for example which will require communication for stategies to deal with mechanics.

There's a lot of RP going on on certain servers, it's big enough that at some point someone thought it would be necessary to literally rent billboards in the US to advertise an RP event.

The jobs were streamlined so that all of them are relevant. It has up sides and down sides. Good side: all jobs are relevant for every single piece of content in the game, you can play what you want, the differences in DPS are minimal enough to not really matter. Down side: no real customization available. Personally, I like the up side, jobs are all balanced enough to be relevant.

Blue mage is a limited job. It is it's own niche. There is some reward attached to BLU content, like the Morbol mount if you clear specific savage fights with a full team of BLUs, but you can't do regular content with this job for the most part.

Gotta say though, when I am not part of an FC, I get invites all the time. So maybe you are on a dead Data Center like Dynamis or OCE.

[Integrity]

They trimmed down msq a while back. A lot of players were complaining that the msq is too bloated so SE removed some parts.

As for FC, I would recommend making your own. You have some nice benefits of having your own fc and having your own fc house. I have created 11 solo fcs myself, and will make 4 more when the new Dynamis servers drop.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Anyway I recall during arr much back tracking to save simion members.

Simion? You mean Scions?

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

I did end when child of darkness was introduced.

Ardbert or who?

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

But in arr I recall saving my group members . But now you do t save the 5 left behind in intermissions. So guess they died now?

Who died? Y'shtola, Urianger or Tataru, maybe Cid?