The Digital Continuum: Week three of vacationing in Vana'diel

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Another thing you can't deny about FFXI, is that when you accomplish something you get a sense of satisfaction that no other mmo can provide you. Even after they nerfed the CoP missions, it's still hard as hell for some ppl to finish that storyline, but, once the feeling of getting sea, is unparalled to any game on the market, mmo or not.

Also, this is the only mmo that I have subbed to that constantly improves with each patch. Reading the patch notes as a patch is getting closer to being released is more exciting than playing most mmos these days. They just don't add a new dungeon every patch *cough wow*, no, SE adds will constantly add new game play mechanics to the game, and every now and then a new endgame mechanic (IE ZNMS last year). The varity of what you can do in FFXI is greater than most mmos. There is more than just questing, pvp, and raiding, which, sadly, is all that modern mmos are about.

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There isn't a variety though.

Once you get to 75, its all raiding, all the time. The style of raids may change, from timed semi-instance (Nyzul Isle, Einjerhar, Dynamis) to open world raids (Sky, Sea, ZNM) but its all raiding, and endgame exp.

There are fluff items, like choco racing, and crafting. But FFXI is pretty horrible in that once you get to level cap, the activities for non-raiding players become levelling another job, or meriting your current one.

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Yeah, you have those style of raids, but you also have besieged, campaign, ISNM, ANNM, BCNM, KSNM, Assualts, Salvage, Crafting, ToAU Gods, HNMS, and pankration is one of your fluff items left out :)

That's a huge variety compared to other mmos. List 3 other mmos with more variety of things that you can do?

Also, I have friends on ffxi who haven't even participated in endgame, and have played for 5 years. They don't just level other jobs, and some of them don't even craft. They do stuff like campaign, xp, FoV, Missions, help others do stuff, and just goof around alot. Some of them love camping low level nms (that would bore the crap out of me but some ppl like it). You have a choice in FFXI of how you want to play, and that option isn't available in most mmos.

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