Sure, there are plenty of threads about "I'll definitely move right away" vs. "I'm going to hang back and wait for a while". But SE keeps talking about wanting people to be comfortable playing both at the same time, and I'm really curious... How many of you are there?

So the topic of this thread is: If you intend to play both simultaneously, why? And for how long?

Edited, Oct 21st 2009 11:02am by homeschoolzam

(Was going to include a poll, but that's apparently premium only. If you feel like it, pick your favorite response ghetto-poll style.)

Question: Will you play both, and if so, why?
1 - I'll stick with what I know, kthxbye.
2 - Probably play both briefly, then pick my favorite.
3 - I just can't abandon my linkshell. (But secretly I'm working on FFXIV and trying to talk them into joining me.)
4 - I've got plenty of time - I'll do end-game in FFXI and solo in FFXIV!
5 - OMGILOVEFF
6 - FFXI IS DYING! GASP!
7 - FFXI sucks. Here's hoping for a decent FFXIV.

Edited, Oct 21st 2009 11:05am by homeschoolzam

7 I guess. I intend to play through the missions and major quests of FFXI just to see what happens, but honestly I'm so sick of the gameplay I'm not entirely looking forward to even doing that much.

Seems like what you are basing your dislike of FFXI when RMT came into the game. I guess you have a bad memory, because they were around pretty much from the begining of the game. It got worse a year or two after the NA release and is actually MUCH less of an issue to gameplay today than it ever was.

Name me an MMO without RMT. I would love to see it. If you are choosing to not play FFXI because of RMT and are waiting for FFXIV, you are playing a pointless game. I can promise you right now, there will be RMT in FFXIV. There is literally no chance that there will not be. SE has shown with their improvements about the issue in XI they can keep their impact minimal, but they (or any other MMO developer) will never remove them completely.

As for the OP question, I guess I would have to choose "2 - Probably play both briefly, then pick my favorite." I plan on likely moving from XI to XIV, but I haven't played the game. I still really enjoy XI and XIV may cater to a different crowd and end up not being for me. So, I will start XIV with intentions of staying, but I am not deleting my XI character. I may go back.

Attempting to play both longterm would be too much of a timesink personally.

Edited, Oct 21st 2009 10:49am by VawnLakshmi

Where you said you played for 6 years and haven't played in 3? Why did you want to point out to me that you're bad at math?

Edited, Oct 21st 2009 10:51am by VawnLakshmi

You're a winner.

Thanks, but moving right along. Let's be reasonable, no one will have time to play both games, unless you literally have no life. I'm going to give FFXIV a shot, see how it goes after a few updates, and work from there. I will probably play long term because I've been dying to play another FF MMORPG for a while, and this is just Heaven Sent to hardcore FF fans.

I just hope they make a keyboard/controller (For PS3) like they did for Everquest on the PS2.



Edited, Oct 21st 2009 11:56am by Skeptic

7 i would say, but I wouldn't say FFXI sucks. I am hoping SE fixes their customer services problems. And hoping that 14 is alot more casual.

I used to be a hardcore ffxi addict when I was in my younger 20s and would never log off most of the time. I got older (almost 30), married, job, kids,.... just not enough time for everything. I got so far behind on the ToAu and WoTG missions that I said forget it. Plus the fact that no one wants to help after they have done those missions. It gets pretty pointless logging in unless you want to fish, craft, or merit; which I have no interest in whatsoever.

If they offer up some sort of package deal in which you can keep your FFXI content IDs for only a few more dollars a month in addition to FFXIV's fees, then I will play both, at least for a while.

Regardless of what happens with my FFXI career, I would be pretty disappointed if I could never log on and see San d'Oria or sea or whatever again. This is the whole reason I still have my old PS1 and PS2 Final Fantasy games (and Chrono Trigger/Cross) for my backwards compatible PS3, and will never sell them; sometimes the sense of nostalgia I get from playing old FF games is a feeling without equal.

Basically, as long as the fees are reduced and coupled with FFXIV, I will still play every now and again, if for no better reason than to just run around and enjoy the views.

Agreed. I just wonder what the Level Cap will be at and if "leveling" will be too easy. In all MMOs I've always been a tank, but honestly I think I'm going to try different jobs in FFXIV. I was in the process of leveling MNK in FFXI, and I loved the job. I hope that everything we have been hoping and wishing for pops up in FFXIV, this is a real serious moment for Final Fantasy MMORPG players everywhere.

If not, we'll go to Japan and Boycott, eh?

Skeptic*

I broke my own rule once..I had one of those "I freakin quit this game, ARRGGGHHHHH! ::Throw Control::" moments and really quit for like a good, eh, year. It was a pre-quit, and a lot of you guys know what that is, one of those "I'm quitting, but I'm going to keep my gear on here jusstttt in casssee.." kind of quits? So after a year I came back, most of my friends quit, my only LS was broken, and the price jump was so nuts I put it away for good. Sold all my stuff, gave the Gil to my remaining LS mates that I passed into, and that's it. I can't lie, I miss the hell out of FFXI..but it's just behind me now.

And I say we start a FFXIV-aholics ASAP.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 2:54am by Skeptic

Write-in: I will keep an active WoW and FFXIV account. I haven't had an XI account in well over a year.



As an aside, whoa, I can't believe the last thing I bought before I quit was a Haub+1 for my friend. XD

Who even cares? I'd sold all of the coins I had saved for my Yoichinoyumi before I quit, so I had probably something akin to 45 mil to my name.

Well, that and the link would clearly answer your question.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 11:24am by Zackary

No need for the stupidity.

It'll probably stop right around the time you start actually reading threads.

Ah come on youss.... This time will be different.....

HA! This game brought to you by the people who made up Salvage, Nyzul Isle, Mythic Weapon quest, Relic Weapon quests and my favorite time sink which is find the random ??? in random X zone with no actual hint of where it is from the text your are given.




Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 2:14pm by youssarian

Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 2:14pm by youssarian

Hey Salvage only takes 100 minutes and Nyzul Isle less than 30 per run. Sure you have to do an assload of them to get gear (especially Salvage), but at least SE is showing improvements in comparison to older events like Dynamis and Sky.

FFXI has always had RMT, as has every other game, but they problem is the way that the economy is structured. The RMT in WoW, while annoying, don't have a crippling effect on the economy the same way they do/did in FFXI. I personally haven't ran around Vana'diel in almost a year now but I'll be picking up FFXIV when it launches.

I tried to get back into FFXI on 3 separate occasions but having lost all of my friends and, as a result, all of my reputation, it was impossible to find a group for anything. It was like I was starting the game fresh except I had 2 jobs over 70 so I was stuck doing petty little things like attacking walls for nominal exp for hours on end.

I agree to an extent with the OP but I also think that because so many people are connecting FFXIV to FFXI a lot of the playerbase will be ex-FFXI, which will make for a bit of a closer-knit community than say WoW.

It does. It's called shouting for an AV or Pandy warden group in a starter city.

NOW THAT'S A HARD MODE.