The thing it seems to me so many miss, is u dont have to follow the perfect party formula. Look at whose available and choose your mobs accrodingly.
You need a healer, someone with voke and u can kill. Heck i did 3 levels last night with 1 whm, 3 drg, 1 rng and a monk. See no tank, and yes we were doing chain 5s.
Granted i have not experienced HL parties yet. Yohater Jungle is as far as i have progressed before starting on advanced jobs. (Level 31) And i have waited hours to get into a party, but that hasnt happened to often. Especially now that i have a Linkshell pearl. Making friends in the game, gives you a pool of players to party with. And makes it even better as you learn excellent teamwork playing with the same players often.
And yes there are other places and other mobs to fight. But to do that u often need to make party before u go, as everyone seems follows the trodden path for leveling. When going to alternative areas, you will be highly unlikely to find a party on your own.
FFXI is very much about how you play, not just your race and job abilities.
Why not charge for hours of use per month. Like the pricing for dial-up, unlimited hrs is $20, 40 hrs is $10 and 20 hrs is $5, my DSL has tiers of service also.
With all the information I had to give to play FFXI I am sure they could track hours of use. Just have
Tiers that consist of hours of play, or levels would work too. But in FFXI for instance, you could get alot of mileage out of your characters job level, by just working on crafting and not building xp, which is why i suggest buying packages of hours, or tiers of hours per month.
Just my two gil:)
I have worked my virtual butt off to build my FFXI character up. It's not that hard to find a party, especially on weekends. I might not catch up to my friends, but that isn't the point. I take pride in the skills my character has as I have earned them myself. I really dislike people purchasing characters. Part of building your character is a learning curve to playing the game as well. Just my two gil:) As far as the pricing, i wouldn't mind the 10 - 15 dollar monthly fee, (I a am 28, married and work FT, and still log around 40-50 hrs on the game too per week.) Its the upfront cost, I don't think it needs to be $50, that right there has kept me from other MMOs until I watched a friend play FFXI on PS2 and i feel in love with the game. Still took me awhile to make that kind of initial investment though.
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The thing it seems to me so many miss, is u dont have to follow the perfect party formula. Look at whose available and choose your mobs accrodingly. You need a healer, someone with voke and u can kill. Heck i did 3 levels last night with 1 whm, 3 drg, 1 rng and a monk. See no tank, and yes we were doing chain 5s. Granted i have not experienced HL parties yet. Yohater Jungle is as far as i have progressed before starting on advanced jobs. (Level 31) And i have waited hours to get into a party, but that hasnt happened to often. Especially now that i have a Linkshell pearl. Making friends in the game, gives you a pool of players to party with. And makes it even better as you learn excellent teamwork playing with the same players often. And yes there are other places and other mobs to fight. But to do that u often need to make party before u go, as everyone seems follows the trodden path for leveling. When going to alternative areas, you will be highly unlikely to find a party on your own. FFXI is very much about how you play, not just your race and job abilities.
Why not charge for hours of use per month. Like the pricing for dial-up, unlimited hrs is $20, 40 hrs is $10 and 20 hrs is $5, my DSL has tiers of service also. With all the information I had to give to play FFXI I am sure they could track hours of use. Just have Tiers that consist of hours of play, or levels would work too. But in FFXI for instance, you could get alot of mileage out of your characters job level, by just working on crafting and not building xp, which is why i suggest buying packages of hours, or tiers of hours per month. Just my two gil:)
I have worked my virtual butt off to build my FFXI character up. It's not that hard to find a party, especially on weekends. I might not catch up to my friends, but that isn't the point. I take pride in the skills my character has as I have earned them myself. I really dislike people purchasing characters. Part of building your character is a learning curve to playing the game as well. :)
Just my two gil
As far as the pricing, i wouldn't mind the 10 - 15 dollar monthly fee, (I a am 28, married and work FT, and still log around 40-50 hrs on the game too per week.) Its the upfront cost, I don't think it needs to be $50, that right there has kept me from other MMOs until I watched a friend play FFXI on PS2 and i feel in love with the game. Still took me awhile to make that kind of initial investment though.