Final Fantasy XI

I made it to level 10, and like everybody said to do, I went to the dunes and searched for a party.

I searched for 3 hours.
Then I tried Begging, Bribery, and just plain Reasoning.

Still no team.

When people said that I'd have to grind until level 15, I just said screw it, theres much better things to do with my time, and much better games to play.

Heck, even a free game like Rappelz is also a grindfest but has 10x more teaming at lower levels than this game.

If the game sucks from level 1-15, the game just sucks. A good game is not supposed to have ANY sucky parts, and this one has a big sucky chunk.

It also sucked a big chunk of change out of my pocket.

So I'm sorry if I offended a hardcore Final Fanatic or 5 out there with this post, but not everything that Square-Enix makes is gold. And you'll probably try to pick apart and "reason" your way around that statement too. If you're planning on attempting that, dont. I have a counter-argument for every argument you have and it will just cause a flamewar.

P.S. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Originally posted by Xero_Chance

I made it to level 10, and like everybody said to do, I went to the dunes and searched for a party.

I searched for 3 hours.
Then I tried Begging, Bribery, and just plain Reasoning.

What server were you on? What time frame were you playing on? Some of those are factors. I don't experience that on Kujata usually. I even have people I know that started not too long ago who aren't having any problems and love the game.

Still no team.

When people said that I'd have to grind until level 15, I just said screw it, theres much better things to do with my time, and much better games to play.

Yeah, tons of stuff to do in the game besides leveling if you didn't know.

Heck, even a free game like Rappelz is also a grindfest but has 10x more teaming at lower levels than this game.

If the game sucks from level 1-15, the game just sucks. A good game is not supposed to have ANY sucky parts, and this one has a big sucky chunk.

You only say it sucks because all you did was level. I know I did other stuff when I started out. It took me like two weeks to solo to level 12.  There is a difference between slow and sucks. Heck, it's not even really that slow. I took it slow myself.

It also sucked a big chunk of change out of my pocket.

So I'm sorry if I offended a hardcore Final Fanatic or 5 out there with this post, but not everything that Square-Enix makes is gold. And you'll probably try to pick apart and "reason" your way around that statement too. If you're planning on attempting that, dont. I have a counter-argument for every argument you have and it will just cause a flamewar.

I'm nowhere near an SE fanatic. I don't praise every game they make. I just so happen to love FFXI though. I didn't even play FFVIII, and IX at all. Had no desire as they didn't interest me. X-2 wasn't the hottest thing either. I'm sure you have a counter-argument for everything. Doesn't mean it'll be right though. This IS a great game and it ISN'T for EVERYONE. It wasn't for you, still can't say no one else should play it or won't like it.

P.S. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Don't worry, I didn't. It was worth every penny.

  LoL, Well to be honest I never ever went to the dunes any lower then 13. To be honest its very easy to solo around your own nation til lvl 12. In fact its a great way to make a nice chunk of gil to level that job.

  After 12 I ussually gear up and head to the dunes. I kill along the way til I get to the Highlands. In which by that time I am already lvl 13. Next I seek and chill killing things around the area til 1 of 2 things happen. I get a party or I hit 14/15. After that I head to the Dunes and chill near the outpost. Now around this time I will do one of 2 things, Wait or make a party.

Originally posted by Xero_Chance

I made it to level 10, and like everybody said to do, I went to the dunes and searched for a party.

I searched for 3 hours.
Then I tried Begging, Bribery, and just plain Reasoning.

Still no team.

When people said that I'd have to grind until level 15, I just said screw it, theres much better things to do with my time, and much better games to play.

Heck, even a free game like Rappelz is also a grindfest but has 10x more teaming at lower levels than this game.

If the game sucks from level 1-15, the game just sucks. A good game is not supposed to have ANY sucky parts, and this one has a big sucky chunk.

It also sucked a big chunk of change out of my pocket.

So I'm sorry if I offended a hardcore Final Fanatic or 5 out there with this post, but not everything that Square-Enix makes is gold. And you'll probably try to pick apart and "reason" your way around that statement too. If you're planning on attempting that, dont. I have a counter-argument for every argument you have and it will just cause a flamewar.

P.S. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Idiot!

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Originally posted by Xero_Chance
I made it to level 10, and like everybody said to do, I went to the dunes and searched for a party.

I searched for 3 hours.
Then I tried Begging, Bribery, and just plain Reasoning.

Still no team.

When people said that I'd have to grind until level 15, I just said screw it, theres much better things to do with my time, and much better games to play.

Heck, even a free game like Rappelz is also a grindfest but has 10x more teaming at lower levels than this game.

If the game sucks from level 1-15, the game just sucks. A good game is not supposed to have ANY sucky parts, and this one has a big sucky chunk.

It also sucked a big chunk of change out of my pocket.

So I'm sorry if I offended a hardcore Final Fanatic or 5 out there with this post, but not everything that Square-Enix makes is gold. And you'll probably try to pick apart and "reason" your way around that statement too. If you're planning on attempting that, dont. I have a counter-argument for every argument you have and it will just cause a flamewar.

P.S. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

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You need to realize you are coming into this game way late, most players have almost all their jobs maxed out and doing their own things. Not many new players show up and as I said the existing players there isn't a huge amount that need to go back to the dunes. The dunes is the worst place you want to get the hell out of there while you can and never come back, some people quickly level all their jobs to 19-20 so they won't have to return.

I've been out of the game for a long while, but I keep up on it since it is one of my favorite MMOs I've played. You will never get a party system so perfect like that at least not in this age. I'm sure this can be said and possible you went at a bad time of day or bad day of the week. If you have no patience, this game is not for you. You will wait 2-3hrs before you get a party sometimes, you just need to find other things you can do and have fun. Even when I waited for a party I found fun or went and farmed some items I needed. If you are a final fantasy fan you already get gripped in to the world and really the only thing that kicks you out is when you get to the end game and do it over and over and over again.

There is a lot more added to the game since I've played I'm sure there is a crap load of stuff to do now they are good at adding content for everyone. FFXI is a massive time sink no argument there if you don't enjoy it, don't play it, but don't sit there and scream it sucks cause you can't find a party...

Yep the dunes pretty much suck balls. I myself will most likely never be going back there. I have all the jobs I need to lvl to at least 25 atm except for bst but I don't need a pt for that one. I guess this game just wasn't for you or what I would like to think is you just started a little too late is all. I remember when I was first going threw the dunes as war, mnk, and pld the problem I had was there was too many people there and not enough camps but that was back in fall of 2003.

This was a good game back about 4 years ago when you could get a party before you LFG (depending on your class). But yeah about 2 years ago i deleted my character with a few high levels on it not knowing i would come back to play again. When i talked to SE about restoring that character they were unable to. So i decided to start from scratch i got to 25 no problem. Trying to find someone to help get the Kazham keys proved to be my reason for quitting forever.

dont waist my time

Many of my friends say every server is different, so I can only speak for my server however.

Diabolos is live and kicking many, many people still play at all times of the day.

The great thing about FFXI is that if you had too many players all the camps were taken, now there are JUST enough players to find a party and not have to look for hours for a camp.

The game is all about team work and community, if you don't want those things then your playing the wrong game.

You wanna solo grind to level 100000?

Try WoW.  Its not a bad game, its just vastly easier and in my, and many other people's opinion much shallower game.

I personally have achieved over 550 levels so far in this game.

(You don't have to make new characters to level a new class you just switch to that class)

I wouldn't have played this long if I didn't find something really really redeeming, and the fact that the game has over 500k subscriptions still to this day proves I'm not alone.