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Looks pretty cool in alpha so far. Now that I no longer have any attachment to any MMO, I might pick this up or attempt to get into beta/trial. I wasn't impressed with the game at any point during its first life cycle. I was hyped for GW2 and never ended up playing it. I have also considered trying Secret Life and Tera but for Tera, I tried it out and lost interest immediately. Since I got so deep into FFXI, I could see this being of interest to me.

Kind of getting the feeling back for my MMO chops since I haven't actively played a game since I quit FFXI for good early last year. I think I'll be watching some of those alpha videos when I get home tonight. It looks like a much improved game and I'm building a new PC soon.

What kind of sub model they gonna be running on the re-release? If it's Guild Wars style, I might have to try it out after watching that video someone linked in that guilty pleasure games thread.

I know it seems silly, but I kinda miss my character.

I'm pretty sure that was the plan from the get go. And partly why they redesigned the graphics engine: it was too high-end for the PS3 to handle.

Was there a DRK in XIV?

I'm down with that. My PC isn't high end by any means(it wasn't high end four years ago when I bought it), so bringing it down to PS3 levels works just fine for me.

Only aesthetic. (IIRC, there was a 1-2 stat point difference which amounted to a negligible difference.)

The UI was terribly slow and unresponsive. The system was also unwieldly when it came to unloading your inventory from what I understand. Just constant pauses when doing anything involving menus. Also, SE was a huge offender for cutting and pasting terrain. So much so that you could encounter the same exact small area several times in one zone. All the zones felt really empty whenever I watch videos. They felt abandoned and lifeless.

Basically, nothing about the game made me want to rush out and actually try playing it.

Edited, Dec 20th 2012 2:36pm by Paskil

That said, it felt more fun towards the end, when they finally figured out how to get people to group up for EXP parties.

I'm totally gonna give it a shot when its in beta.

I don't mind if they make it one path(even the faster path) for EXP, but I hope they don't take it too far into becoming the only path. That's what kept me from ever getting into XI. Was over at a buddy's house and he wanted to show me what the game was like. Kept telling me how awesome it was. He ended up sitting around looking for a party for several hours while we watched a couple movies.

At the time, I was playing an F2P MMO called Knight Online. If you've never played it, at a certain level it becomes much faster to group for leveling, but you could still solo. It was a bit of a grind, but you could solo things like orcs(or whatever they called them) with very little trouble, or things like Troll Kings if you were an insane kiter like my roommate and I were. The EXP wasn't great on either(orcs were the better EXP/hour of the two but Troll Kings were more fun), but at least you could do something solo. So I ended up telling him there would be no way I'd join a game that forced you to party to do something as basic as level.

I'd love to get on the same server. Even if our schedules only meshed once in a while, it'd be cool to finally play a game with you all. Especially one where I was playing with you guys on my main and not making an alt to go hang out on whatever other server a group of Zam folks just decided to reroll on.


Personally, I can't wait for Stick of Truth.

That's good. I figured they wouldn't go too far back in that direction, but I figured I'd mention it anyhow.

I'm in the Alpha test. AmA.

Well, my understanding is that even if you keep your old character, you'll still have all your classes reset to level 1. Basically the only things that will carry over are the character model and the name. Maybe I'm wrong though. Either way, I'll definitely be keeping my old one. I spent a lot of time getting everything just right and I'd like to keep it that way. Keeping the levels would be an added bonus.