Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I apparently don't remember what happened in the seed of Chucky at all.

That was were it started kinda going off the rails for most people, I still enjoyed it but it was def not like it started. The first season of Chucky was really good imo, I can't find the 2nd one tho except on streaming platforms nobody uses

Currently pirating the second season (about a month late) and I can't for the life of me remember when glen and glenda possessed human babies.

I remember everything in bride and curse and cult, but the end of seed is just missing.

This show is actually amazing. There's just so much. I mean it's not good it's chucky lol. It's just very interesting. I love that they always keep the old cast and props and the story stays consistent.

Waterblock finally came for the 4090, the *** thing is almost as big as the original cooler. Kind of defeats the purpose. Not sure if I'll bother installing it now.

Killing Kirin on my old alt because I can't do it solo on LP character, and I can't really record well with family here crowding up the joint.

My luck seems to be ***. Three Kirins in, and he keeps dropping Damascus Ingot and one other thing. No Abjurations. No Pole. No Osode(this one makes sense, the character has an Osode).

I'm only rocking THF sub on the guy. I just wanna D-box a Heca Body abj and a CC abj on over, but it seems I'll be building a cabin out of D. Ingots before that happens.

Just unreal arguing with dummies from 75 era now with this private server stuff. I can't for the life of me understand their mindset. Its like a bunch of people parroting each other, and only basing FFXI post 75era off of Abyssea.

"broheim
Retail is terrible since they raised level cap, removed much of the challenge and group aspect"

I keep seeing this "removed group aspect" Our last alliance content was not even long ago with Dyna D, before that we had Omen and Escha for years. Where are people getting this? Before that we had Delve, Legion, Voidwatch, it just goes on and on.

On the challenge aspect... really? So kiting kirin over an hour and nether blasting him to death, timed aoe thundagas on large portion of content, manaburn strats with brain dead tanking (literally 5% of what tanks do nowdays.) I just don't get it lol, even during Abyssea there were more challenging fights than most of 75 era.

Ehh, whatever argument they make, it ultimately boils down to, "I want to play the game I remember where the things I remember mattering, matter."

That is all gone though, you aren't getting that back it won't even be the same 1/1. The backend of stuff is different, they don't have the original code and its backwards engineered, I've even seen certain fights with different mechanics than original retail. They are already tweaking things too, so they officially said they aren't following retail 1/1. Even if you could pretend its the same, why would you not want change? People are happy living the same era over and over?I would not be happy with nothing changing.. I had fun during those days but to have to do it all again seems silly.

Its stuff like this that just makes me think what the heck, and the worse part is they are literally hurting retail XI. They just constantly talk crap about retail without even playing past Abyssea where they got butthurt. They write it off as dead and people are just discouraged when their friends dont want to come back. It's like every era of the game has created some jaded players.

Yeah, Trusts really paint the wrong picture of the game. Trusts are only good up until Lv.99, which is when the actual game begins now. Trying to use Trusts in the game's actual content can work up to a point, but you'd be in no better position than in the 75 era trying to solo stuff too.

I sent a screenshot of my character surrounded by Trusts to a Discord group I'm in the other day, and one of the people started attacking it viciously. They literally said "That's the worst picture I have ever seen". And only after I asked for clarification did they say how brutally offended they were at the sight of Trusts lol

And the sad thing? I actually think Trusts are one of my favourite additions to the game. They added a means for players to make progress with fewer than 6 real party members without compromising each job's individuality. Every job's weaknesses are what make them unique, and any other dev team would have taken the easy route to just fill those weaknesses in so every job can solo as easily as RDM/NIN could. "Ah, give White Mage a boatload of damage and Warrior the means to heal itself and call it a day". But they didn't. They let you fill in empty party slots with NPCs just strong enough that you can make progress, but still weak enough that you prefer real players over them.

considering horizon XI has over 3.5k unique IP addresses connecting to it, making it the biggest ffxi server currently (asura included), i'd say they are to some degree getting it back.

sorry you had to find out this way. i'm sure you can find other ways to try and ruin their joy

Trusts are the best and worst thing. Simultaneously super great and necessary while being absolutely *** disgusting.

There is much that many players simply couldn't do without them, yet, botting became ridiculously easy thanks to them. You cannot go anywhere at all without seeing some dickcheese with 5 trusts running back and forth.

Most people's memories are pretty bad. They don't remember details like the signet buff or the fact that the lowest level great axe is the level 5 Butterfly Axe.

It's the broad brush strokes.

Parties take forever to get if your job is undesired.

The important NMs are Leaping Lizzy, Valkurm Emperor, and all the ones that were important for leveling/75 era.

You gotta group for everything over Even Match after level 10, because every monster is hard!

Gil is hard to earn and mundane drops stacked up are valuable so you can farm almost anything.

There aren't teleports every single place. WHM taxis and Airships are the convenience rather than (almost) dead modes of transport.

None of them pay anything, if they made XI free to play it could have 10 times the players. Who cares though if those player numbers aren't leading to more money, which in turn leads to more content.

The guy running it could quit and pull everything down tomorrow if he wanted to. The only reason he runs it, is personal prestige. Once that novelty wears off he will start getting bored of spending all his time on something that gives him no benefit.

isn't it free right now? let's see if the playerbase 10x's.

your delusion is just absolutely nuts and it shows on everything you post. you think if FFXI was free it would have 300k-500k players?

holy moly, you wild

No it's not free, a welcome home campaign is not free to play because a) it's a few weeks and b) you have to buy the game.

The server's also been massively hyped up over the last 7 or so months, and a lot of people want to play on a "brand new server". So while I do think that they can easily keep the server at 1500+ players, I doubt they'll maintain 3000 after the holidays are over.

It also depends a lot too on how well the developers are treating their playerbase, and I've been hearing about quite a bit of friction already (and the server's not even a week old).

Apparently someone at Horizon remembered that. Warrior's starting weapon on that server now is an Onion Great Axe. And they gave it about triple the DPS of any other starting weapon >_>;

You also don't get access to all wardrobes and there are a few limitations. Also all your posts are completely negative and personally attack anyone that likes retail. D44k idk why you hate retail and still play it and hang around its forums just to attack people, weird. Also i don't try to ruin their fun, only respond to their comments hating on retail (which there's a lot to choose from. )

That just goes to my point that these people are so jaded, they would rather play on a private server with 100x less content, less challenge, less options overall than log into retail when it's free. It doesn't make sense, how can their nostalgia be that deep and how can they be so jaded still from Abyssea. The worst part is they are helping to hurt retail.

The server is still in the honeymoon phase right now. I don't wish ill upon the server but any game during a big launch period will have it's peak during that period of time. What needs to be seen is how many players will stay once the honeymoon phase is done and over with.

That will provide the correct metric of comparing the two at that point.

Not saying or wishing that Horizon will fail but New World had a million active players when it launched. Look at it now.

A lot of folks aren't even jaded retirees from Abyssea intro era. A lot are just people who played FFXI up until the point they couldn't handle it anymore. There's quite a lot of people who played XI who never got out of the level 60s, never had a 75 in the 75 era etc.

They want to simulate that old style because it's what they never finished. / It's what they could handle.

Weird JRPG developments #3: cute sheltered princess that save the suspected emperor assassins against the guards, then join the suspected assassins just for travelling purposes.

you literally were making fun of people for "being poor" yesterday. you're also probably the most negative person on this forum


sure. must be nice to have something to be excited about. i'm envious

*shrugs*

The success or failure of a private server means very little to me as I have little interest in participating in that server.

But I do find it quite ignorant to compare populations of a sparkling new five day old server with current retail server population. Horizon has yet to be given the proper timeframe to show it's staying power yet and it could easily just end up like the New World example Proth stated earlier.

Time will tell.

I guess you could say I am mildly curious what would happen, but I'm not losing sleep or how "exciting" it is

Oooh~
Ghishlain's 1000th post :D

Welcome to the Elite4.

But there is a long way till you reach the Elite5 mwahahaha

Nothing like spending my 1K post on talking about a Private Server for XI, lol

Thank ya Thank ya xD

Is calling someone a “wench” something derogatory?

It's one of those words that started out as not derogatory, became derogatory, and then no one really said it for a long time. I think if you called someone a wench, they'd be more likely to look at you funny than get offended. Of course, you never know who might get offended anyway, so it might be best not to use it unless you really know the person will take it well.

I personally consider it somewhat derogatory but not entirely. It's like a weird middle ground for me.