Thread 724799539

It's the only game in MMORPG history that has never increased the subscription price even once over the 20+ years that it's been running.

Haven't logged into Horizon in almost a year but I'm getti g the itch to get back into the swing of it. Unless I'm really out the loop and there's something bigger, newer, better I'm not aware of

>>724800339
not really.
Horizon is getting stale but it may be the first server to have any real code progress since the Nasomi/wings days

>>724800339
>>724800481
private servers are trash, populated by thirdies

>>724801150
yup
Retail is where it's at

>>724801974
asura had 3000+ characters online, other servers have 300 at peak. clearly they wanted to have people spread out instead of just play on one server

a true casual filter MMO.
I miss it, I still listen to the soundtracks occasionally and get teleported back in time to hanging out with my online friends and partying up and doing quests and whatnot. I miss those times.

I could never play it again though, it was time consuming enough back then, I actually played it again around 2015 for a year and even back then it was so fucking time consuming just to get shit done, and the community by then was a shell of what it once was even though there were still nice people around.

>>724801974
Retail sucks big time however.
I don't know why they don't do a time gated classic server
it would be the death of private servers forever and we'd finally have treasures without 1 billion cope mechanics for shit that doesn't work because pserver code hasn't progressed since nasomi

>>724803665
>I don't know why they don't do a time gated classic server
they literally cant
the game takes a ps2 devkit to work on and many of the people who developed it originally no longer work at s-e
private servers well let the client move things around resembling regular gameplay so the average retard doesnt notice, but under the hood its nothing like the original game. nobody knows what the original source looks like outside of s-e
basically, ffxi is stuck in a cage that it will never be able to break out of without a complete from scratch remake

>>724800481
How's the population nowadays? I played around launch time when there was like consistently 1.5k players online.

>>724807108
Still floats are 1-2k online throughout the day

dont understand why horizoncucks exist

is there new contents or upgrades still occuring in FF11?

is there upgrades or new add content in ff1 still nowdays?

>>724810448
dunno what your timeframe here is but most recently they reworked limbus and added +4 af/relic upgrades as some accessories that kind of suck but also have augs that are upgraded in a similar way to odyssey rp

>>724799539 (OP)
game went to shit after wings of the goddess and the new expansions are not canon. if you didnt play at 75 cap you missed out and your opinion on this game just doesnt matter

>>724799539 (OP)
And the best one.

>>724807108
2-2.3k daily. It's kind of crazy how many ppl are still playing and with toau supposedly coming out in dec it will probably rise.

>>724811868
fuck off south american/southeast asian/jeet play the real game

>>724811454
true, but if you play 75 cap private servers you also dont matter because that time has passed
the retards that play them are either poorfag thirdies are retards who werent in their hnmls's clique on retail 20 years ago and didnt get to have their ridill and ebody and are desperate to chase that on private servers which is the most retarded shit imaginable

>>724812619
true. i tried them (probably 8 years ago) but they were all incredibly broken, not period-correct, and half the shit wasnt even implemented. i doubt a whole lot has changed. im sure the experience would change too like classic wow where all the math is already solved and everything becomes a log jam of meta mediocrity

>>724812619
I resubbed to retail a couple of years ago to finish a Tizona and Spharai and immediately got bored of the game. New Dynamis was kind of cool but it was very modernized in which people just killed the fewest things possible and death pulled specific mobs while everyone hunkered in a corner. Quite boring.

>>724812803
it is mostly solved yeah, the game has been around for so long so of course it is
though admittedly it cant ever be to the level of solved that wow is but theres a generally accepted meta and its pretty unbreakable
>>724812939
theres been some power creep so its much easier to full clear the modern endgame dynamis but people who arent geared are better off just being carried than actually engaging
kind of sucks but thats been the game for a while now

>>724812619
you sound butthurt

>>724813228
about what? i played the game at its peak (2004) and got loot. private servers that try to emulate pre toau never appealed to me because the "classic" game is actually terrible. who the fuck would wanna be timegated by kings drops again? imagine camping kings as a 30-40 year old, lmfao
dont get me started on classic dynamis either, complete dogshit
but i understand people who never had their glory days on retail to chase it on private servers
but youll never have done it when the game was relevant

>>724812939
>people just killed the fewest things possible and death pulled specific mobs while everyone hunkered in a corner
Sounds like you just have a boring leader. For some reason there's a lot of people out there that think content nearly 10 years old is still hard.

abyssea was the best era of ffxi, so many fags seethed at their gear getting obsoleted and the fact that a nin/brd/whm could do 95% of the content

>>724813658
about the thirdies, did they do something to you by any chance?

>>724813884
yeah, they exist on my internet. they should stop

>>724813658
well you're right, some want to feel what earlier people felt playing ff11 for the first time at his prime but now the game is solved, no need to for old players. did you play with the japs at the time?

>>724813876
>not socializing was the best era of ffxi
couldnt be further from the truth. botting was getting very heavy during the end of toau and that was around the same time ffxiv 1.0 was being announced. they didnt make any effort to dispel the rumors that development would stop on ffxi, and the way they were pushing xiv made it seem that way. then the salvage dupe bans came. all 3 of those things basically killed 60% of the entire playerbase over a few months.

>>724814059
what do you mean? me and my 2 friends i socialized with were able to play with just us and achieve meaningful progress every single day we played
you cant say sitting in dragons aery for up to 3 hours and your ls not getting claim was a better use of your time, lmao

>>724813989
there were a couple mixed linkshells at the time on my server but NA was just starting to break into endgame at the time so it was mostly competing against them for claims
theyd get really mad when non jp linkshells started winning claims, much darter mpking began because mpking was still possible then
>>724814145
saar??

>>724814402
what the japs do when theyre md lmo?

>>724814528
mad*

>>724814528
try to make faf spike flail by cure bombing our tanks (we eventually learned to use /blockaid [/blockAIDS]), pull spiders/darters down on us etc, try to insult us in broken english, was great

>>724814712
did they used the insult 'whitu pigu'?

>>724814906
no we were playing the game before that meme and likely before you were born

>>724815098
I was alive at that time