FFXI Classic - Playing on a Private Server
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- FFXI has changed alot over its 16+ years of life, and some would argue that not all those changes have been for the better. In an attempt to recreate what was lost, players have started hosting their own private servers with an older level 75 cap ruleset and state of the game. Nasomi is the most populated of these, and in this video my tiny hume rdm finally begins his journey.
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One of my favourite things is listening to my boyfriend regale me with tales of FFXI. I've never played, but everyone who has, all seem to have such wonderful memories and stories, and such a love of the game!
Your video was another testament to how loved this game is by the community. :D Really enjoyable watch!
I've consider going back to FFIX so many times. How big is the community right now?
retail is doing well! Nasomi and a couple other private servers have stable communities too :)
Is it easier to level up now? And is it possible to lvl up to lvl 99 solo?
I sold my Gil and character for like $5000 back in 2009 lololololol
Fred Sanford same. UAE players would dump thousands on accounts
I spent a crapload of time farming low level areas back in the day. Crawlers in Sarutabaruta (maybe lucking out with Fruit Punches and Mist Silk Cape drops), Goblin Weavers for cotton mats and wild onions, bees and saplings in Gustaberg, shrooms in Ronfaure, etc. Leveling THF was a godsend to make money, which was definitely a huge part of fun for me.
Personally I don't think XI live servers are like WoW at all, today's ffxi there are MORE options not less, jobs really gained more complexity and job identity with level 99 and job point system, trusts are one of the best battle NPC systems added to any mmo ever. WoW needed classic because the current game is less than vanilla its lost something, XI only gained imo.
Yeah. I can't understand why anyone would want to go back to "vanilla" FFXI (it's not even vanilla, if you're playing with RotZ and CoP expansions, can't really call it vanilla) where it takes 6-10 hours to gain 1 level at 50+. Some people like that, but then there are some people who love being tied up and whipped until they're bleeding. So, to each their own.
@@RaxiazRedux We call it vanilla because ToAU was the point where the game still resembled the original version (just with some additional content and jobs), before most of the major changes were made that turned it into an "easier" game.
@@RaxiazRedux and we cant understand how someone can handle being buried in huge piles of loot and xp just for logging in ;)
It can be a "small" change for some but gigantic for others. In EQ2 quite a lot was retained but combat was dramatically shortened and made much easier. No one seemed to notice, the crowd just took it in stride. I was left in the dust astonished that there wasn't a rebellion.
@@blackhawksfan2525 that still isn't vanilla, though. Everyone who calls 2006 FFXI "vanilla" FFXI are fucking wrong.
Modern mmo's are far too linear.
Just look at FFXIV, you get to max level and then you are following a gear score level instead that dictates a clear order to group events that all have a gear score entry level.
It never feels like a true open world as you are directed through a path of content.
FFXI (75 cap) felt like an adventure.
"Here's the world, got fourth young adventurer and find your own path"
You could choose only 1 endgame area to spend your time if you wanted and you'd be able to build a gear set that was comparable to anyone else's, everyone within a class looked vastly different as there was no gear score, just top level gear and it was only differing bonus stats that separated them so everyone had wildly different builds, some were balanced, some were high stat or att based and some (like my Sam/rng) were stacking haste and multi attack weapons to be weapon skillchaining machines.
WoW and FFXIV feel more like mobile games in how scripted your time is.
Pretty interesting take; can't say I disagree. One of the things I hate in more modern MMOs like FFXIV is the class design. FFXIV's combo rotation design just feels so mechanical and repetitive to me. I feel like dodging AoE zones is the only thing requiring me to have my eyes open to play that game, because everything else is just a routine you execute ad nauseam. The jobs/classes all felt so homogenous.
In WoW, it's much less concrete than that, but you're still either adhering to a rotation or to skill priorities off of a global cooldown.
FFXI felt different, and I liked that about it. It was less about how fast you can crank out how many skills, and more about which skills you use and when. It embodied patience, anticipation, and delayed gratification. I always felt like FFXI was the "chess" of the MMO world.
I'm very glad you tried this out. Eden and Nasomi are great experiences as the communities on these servers are great! the 1-10 exp is great that you cannot replicate on retail. Authentic Dunes parties you cannot reproduce on retail. I started on nasomi but quickly switched to eden as it seems like it is less buggy is better supported than nasomi which is ran by one guy.
Both are inevitably going to be shutdown at some point. Running a private MMO server isn't an easy deal.
Eden is super fun!
So much nostalgia rolling off this video! I really do hope this becomes a series so long as you're having fun playing on a private server. I must say, as much as I'm nostalgic for the days of old, I am equally not missing the brutality that was FFXI at its heyday.
I've never tried playing on a private server, and unfortunately I don't really have the time to invest on a time-capsuled version of FFXI. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that old-school FFXI was the most time-consuming grind I've ever played in my life. It made any supposed "grind" from any other game look tame by comparison.
Since you're always talking about your experiences with FFXI throughout the years, I thought I'd share a story, too. I actually fully pre-ordered FFXI for the PS2 late 2002 and purchased the Brady Games FFXI Fall 2003 strategy guide when it originally came out. Because the game itself was pushed back to spring 2004, that meant I had months to pour over the guide and obsess on this game. Long before I set foot in Vana'diel, I had already determined to play as a Hume Red Mage beginning in the nation of Bastok. Memories of my early experiences in FFXI - from taking two days setting up the frustratingly confusing PlayOnline account, to setting foot in Gustaberg and fighting worms for the first time, to seeing the first mass aggro-train in Palborough mines consisting of every Quadav in the zone - are as vivid today as they were when they first occurred over a decade ago.
As for what I'd change from back in 2004-2005, I'd say have the airships actually wait for you and not take off when you're two steps from boarding it. Better yet, if you're already in the boarding area, have the decency to ask the player if they'd like to hop on. I don't know how many times I was in a panic about missing an airship heading to Kazham, having spoken to the NPC stating the ship will depart soon, paid for the transportation, rushed through customs, only for the ship to start backing away right in front of my face. Suffice to say, missing an airship was the cause of much rage back in the day.
I'm the opposite to most people. In FFXI, I've always liked starting over with new characters. The experience of being a waste of skin and scavenging anything you can find to make a profit is pretty cool and compelling. And restarting with your knowledge on things is a fun project. This is also why roguelikes are my favorite game type of the time.
Have you heard of a game on Steam called Kenshi? I wouldn't be surprised if you have, but I had quite a glorious time with that game. It's a game that I stopped playing after a great deal of time but I always feel like I can get right back into or even start over again. I could play it like it was a game that I *had* to dedicate so much time to play it, even though it's a single player that you can pause/save/quit anytime.
@@darknightz75 I have! And I've only heard good things about it. I've just put it in my wishlist. Once I'm done with Dead Cells, I'll give it a try!
Same here!
I love being one of the 5 people running around in Bastok actually doing things. I look at the dozens of maxed out players just standing around, waiting for something to happen. MMO end game content tends to bore me, just because theres only so much to do so often. End game feels so much more like a slog than grinding levels. But that's just me.
My favorite thing is methodically leveling each job evenly. Are you currently playing? What server?
@@omnibusprimephd7914 Was playing a few months ago on Asura and Cerberus, but Dead Cells and Slay the Spire got in the way. I should resub once I'm done with those.
@@kaishido6698 sounds fun. If you ever pick it up again I'm on Asura. The name is Mikehat
I've never nodded my head in agreement more than during this video. Love your videos man!!
play on Eden
Eden is so much better. Stuff actually gets updated and it doesnt break a whole ton of other stuff!
Items actually work...
Eden is awesome ^^
I had fun playing Eden for a few days but the population felt pretty low. There was only like 20 people online that were my level when I was around 10 or so.
Eden is amazing!
One change for early FFXI that would have been a huge positive difference IMO would be level-sync. I still remember the very first party I level-sync'd into as a 50-60-some whitemage down to Gustav tunnel (whatever level that was?) and had a blast with some friends who I had never actually gotten to party with. I wasn't a fan of the abuse of syncing at very low levels (astral flow parties, etc.) but.... overall it was incredible.
We have level sync on Eden, and yeah it has been a big boon. People tend not to abuse the "broken" stuff very often, mostly because that stuff is boring as hell and a lot of people who play on private servers play to have fun and not just to do whatever is most efficient.
I remember playing FFXI at the NA PS2 launch. It was my first MMO and everything was new. Going to La Theine Plateau for the first time was scary. It was so big compared to Ronfaure Forest, it was intimidating. I played some on Nasomi last year; it was neat to try and replicate those feelings again, but it'll never be quite the same. I took it as an opportunity to try things I never got to the first time. Play a different race, job, home nation, that sort of thing.
Also Nasomi is a little worrying, the person in charge of doing things is pretty sketch. Eden is a solid second option. A bit smaller of a population but made up for with great management and less bugs.
So I started eden after I hit 20 and got my sub job! Been really enjoying it, definitely seems to be a truer and more stable experience so far
Great choice
Dang dude you should have farmed some bounding boots since you started in bastok anyway
hah its back to the old standard leaping boots dropping from lizzy! there were like 6 people at a time farming him for the gils ; ;
Lol, rmt on a private server already. Jk/jk. Those boots were always +3.
@@Huntin4GamesChannel fuck that lizard lol, i farmed that thing for ages only to get the drops only during a party hunts and lost the roll each time ; ; same with the hairpin!!
wait until you figure out that nasomi is the one selling the gil to players.......... have fun guys!!
Liqued Snake. I didn't even know about it when i started. Just realized the lizard was a lot stronger than normal for a 13 war. Got the boots on that drop and wore them to 75 drk lol
I had mixed feelings on my time with Nasomi. I enjoyed the time I spent with it, but I did not like what I was seeing in terms of the community. Lots of great folks, don't get me wrong. But I swear damn well everyone I played with was only interested in the most "optimal" kinds of everything. Camps, gear setups, etc. The game is basically frozen in time and people have already worked out the most optimal strategy for everything and well... no one is interested in trying anything but that because this particular era of the game has already been theorycrafted to hell and back. Seeing things like Dark Knights never using a greatsword, Red Mage's not even bothering carrying around a sword and just every high level player geared almost exactly the same just made me a little depressed. Multiboxing is so rampant it just takes me out of the experience as well. Not one party I had didn't at least have one dude multiboxing his high level healer. It was still a good experience, but not one I could put a lot of time into. That feeling of discovery isn't there anymore.
Yeah the meta mindset is terribly bad in Nasomi I'm not sure why. I had a better experience in Eden, which I'm guessing with its smaller pop doesn't have people being as picky. Probably just has nicer more helpful people in general.
It is rampant everywhere. The non-nerds joined the gaming community a while back and changed everything. Run throughs and niche tactic groups are common in even Classic WoW instead of an odd exception. Twinking is assumed in P99. Thinking I'll have to find a group of friends rather than relying on randoms anymore.
Is Nasomi still up and running? I tried logging in for the heck of it a while back, and error messages. Reinstalled and same error message.
FFXI,EQOA,and PSO(gamecube) were my all time favorite games. i put in so much time in all of them and still never managed to get to max lvl/ endgame.
Never played FFXI before but grew up on WoW and Lotro. I'd love to give this a try sometime though!
You should its different
Install is pretty rough compared to most but doable.
@@HallyVee very true dont like the install
Ohhhhhhh 100 EXP for a kill. Masochist.
It’s rough!!!
@@Huntin4GamesChannel it's better.
Even watching you play on the private server it still doesn't look like I remember. The game looks so dead now. On the private server you were playing on and retail. I remember those old areas just buzzing with players. People going everywhere. Parties all over the dunes. SE really knew that the focus of 11 and what made it so great was the players. Without them its really just not the same.
If I could have changed one thing about 11 back in its heyday, it would have been dark knight spells. Dark knight was my favorite job but the spells were what ruined its functionality for me. I loved casting drain and the like but that mage casting was no good for a melee DD. The dark knight spells like drain, dread spikes and absorb should have all been job abilities like any other melee DD.
Newly subscribed. Like the channel. I'm thinking about getting back on 11. I was on Leviathan the last time I played. Not sure how the servers are even done any more. Would be cool to party with you like old school.
Smoke Shadow yeah...
Drk knight was fine how it was, I knew people who duoed nyzul, best team I knew. 1 em was drk. As a duo thought they only could get base relic weapon but this was when real cap was 75
I could never do 75 again. Life evolves as does the game. Ffxi was ok to me as a drk, but until blu, abby, walk of echos, campains and sch came I didnt love the game.
No empys, no blu spell hinting. No tweek magic of sch. If they ever did a 99, but not 119, then maybe.
Takes me back to 04 wait 02?... can still remember 3 hours wait just for a party with a warrior with no taunt macros.
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I play on ffera!! Hit me up!
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depends on what server you're playing on. Everyone recommends Nasomi, but i found it to be TOO brutal (gil wise) to new players. the new player experience on nasomi is NOT like how it was back in the day. Back in the day there was an active AH, so making gil wasn't that hard. If Nasomi were to give new players some starting gil, or AH bots to simulate an active AH I would be all about it. I chose HomepointXI (formerly LegionDark) specifically for that reason. I recommend it.
@Liquid Ocelot I like it way more than nasomi. It has some bonuses, and few minor custom things to make low levels easier (this is a lv99 server).
2003-2004 FFXI needs Level Sync. Yes, the worst downside to it is that its easy to fall behind on your skill levels but the fact that you can jump into any party is amazing and if you enjoy the harder lvling jobs like drg, drk, smn and so on, it makes leveling them 1000% better. Its sad that it took untell WoTG before level sync came out.
You should look into Edenffxi! Also a private server.
Started a few months ago and absolutely love it!
Would be fun to play with you there 😁
You’re videos got me to reinstall FFXI after 10+ years. And the nostalgia of 75 cap is strong, but the one change Is like to hear from one of these private servers is that you don’t lose exp when you die. I could swallow all the other challenges of 75 cap XI, but not that one, it’s too time consuming and too stressful. Tried poking around some of the private server descriptions and did not see any mention of this kind of change, but I hope I’m wrong
Removing experience loss on death would have ripple effects, too, though. Warp would be useless and NIN would lose the uniqueness of its two-hour because people would just die and return to home point with no penalty. Those are minor, yes, but also making death not as punishing would take away the fear of it, thus diminishing the respect we as players should have for the world.
I felt like my points were better in my head, but oh well, haha.
There are a few servers that remove xp loss on death. highwind.us/server.php
Is one such server. I would check out m.reddit.com/r/FFXIPrivateRealms
To find the server with the changes you like best.
play on the Private Server Eden its a lot closer to the original
How is it? I tried some other servers but the netcode seems really bad. also do they let you run 2 clients?
Eden has a large team of developers and GMs constantly working and interacting with the player base. And yes, you can run two clients.
@@Apok_Alyptik Seems mostly stable to me. Also you can basically play 2 characters following each other around at the same time if that's what you mean.
you made the right choice by playing on Nasomi. there's way more things that work and most importantly, the amount of players on the server. you'll get that classic ffxi experience when you're traveling to many different exp camps because some of the standard locations are full. eden is also full of players that were banned from Nasomi for cheating/exploiting/elitist/ect. i'll see you around Nasomi one of these days!
Not entirely correct. I have accounts on both servers. I play on Eden by choice. I left millions of gil and 4 lvl 75 jobs on Nasomi because Eden is more retail accurate. None of that BS where he locked you out from traveling back to home nations from Whitegate. Nasomi is his perverted version of FFXI. Im looking for accuracy not Nasomi's FFXI. The bugs alone on Nasomi was enough to clearly know which option was better.
If retail had legacy servers i'd play on them.
Modern MMO makers should be forced to play on Nasomi until 75 as prerequisite for employment.
#NeverforgetValkurmeDunes , man i missed this game, it was like a Darksouls MMO lol it did not hold your hand, man best memories ever
Hi H4G - I play on Nasomi.. Level 72 RDM. Hit me up if you're ever on and need some help! I love your videos! IGN: Havels
i just started nasomi im RDM 16 now i would like to get pl to pass dunes 😭 IGN Mno
Levels 1-10 are the best levels.
nasomi is yesterdays news. all broken with bugs and guy running it doesnt know how to fix the problems. eden server is where its at for a well maintained server. Nasomi is just the oldest and is way too broken. dynamis runs were dropping enough currency to complete multiple relics in a few runs. Af was dropping like hotcakes. the older players are decked the gills. no delivery box system. custom nms running around. its rubbish lol while nasomi has 2k players after 5 years. eden attracted 600 in 2 months since it went live and growing rapidly.
ray ray amen brother
Pretty harsh there. Nasomi is quite fine, IMO. What in particular pushes Eden above Nasomi, besides a functional delivery box system (I mean, c'mon).
@@CodyRockLee13 Nasomi is fine, if you got friends there, thats where you should play. its playable to get an ffxi fix. but when compared to eden its not even close. Eden has no relics. Theres no Drings as of yet and even the number of ridills and E/A bodys are a handful. That sense of fairness is more than enough. They hired new developers from the playerbase. A server discord where all players can talk things out. apart from ingame features that accurately reflect ffxi in its Era years. Plus any bugs can be reported by players on edens github and fixed in a timely fashion
Thanks for joining us on Eden, Huntin! That stream was fun. :D Hope you stick to it, we love our streamer community and are happy that there are more people playing with us!
By the way, let me know if you want that gil for that linkshell, the offer is still on the table. :)
Private servers are amazing, I'd highly recommend Nocturnal Souls. It's got some crazy good settings!
i went there no ff 11
@@georgiannabailey7535 nocturnalsouls.net/getting-setup/
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming Lmao
@@scizorunleashed ty
Got my first 75 (and 99) on Valhalla, then had to quit because people stopped partying, and the devs had strong opinions on Trust NPCs. Looks like they also completely changed the entire server since then. Whoops!
Where did you find a private server? I would love to play thus again.
Not a fan of the Square servers?
nasomi.com
@@omnibusprimephd7914 75 FFXI was more fun then the 119 FFXI
I love the game but I can't play more than 5 hares. I think playing with someone might help but I doubt it.
No thank you. I'll take my modern, fast-leveling version of FFXI now please. Back when I didn't have any choice, and the pace of life was a lot slower, old school FFXI was fun. But I've been spoiled by modern games and their pace of progress, so I just could never go back to how I played FFXI in 2004-09.
that's a good response.
Time to find a private server and blm solo to 75
nasomi ;)
Playing on Nasomi is great, for a while. However its not really a "Era" server, and for some reason Nasomi will just do odd balance changes that make no sense. It can hurt when you lvl and pay to get your Ranger to a high lvl and they just introduce Ranged attack optimal distance out of nowhere. Also, after a while the glitches and the odd changes start to irritate you I find. Enjoy your time tho, and beware the boats in selbina and Mhaura, they....can just drop you on top of the water sometimes.
God I'd really would enjoy a stream archive youtube channel of you playing through vanilla XI. My net doesn't play well with twitch and it would be much easier to watch old content in order with yt playlists.
I’ll see what I can do dude!
Even if it’s too much time investment I think a series with reliable weekly episodes or something would be good for the channel. People could be like “Oh it’s Tuesday! H4G is going to post another episode l!”
No matter what you do, I support you all the way. You got a relaxing voice and the XI content is dearly needed. :D
I tried a private server, that I thought was pre-abyssea faithful, but it had a lot of bizarre additions, like free 9 hour super buffs, and weird teleporters that used the beetle enemy model dotted around everywhere, the accelerated xp was nice, but I didn't stick with it cause it just felt wrong.
Come to think of your question... If they had actually made a good work out of our Adventuring Fellow early on, making it equivalent to current Trusts, but limiting it to 1 per player, then, maybe, those party of 3 PCs you’ve mentioned, each with their Fellows, would be possible without “breaking the game” or making it too easy.
It’s sad that nasomi is very custom and not living up to era appropriate. Eden is closer era appropriate
been checking out Eden as well! following this video series i switched over to see how they compare
You should have farmed Saplings in Gustaberg, and sell the Grain Seeds for 18,000 Gil / stack in the AH! :D
That's what I did back in 2005, ohh all the memories!
I love Vana'diel so much!
I tried out Nasomi a few years ago and I had fun for a while but I didn't even make it to Dunes before stopping. I had the same issue with JP farming in retail that made me stop playing. I just dont have the effort or care to give to a long grind anymore.
2019, I'm 34. Mentally, I just couldn't slog through CoP again. Let alone making REM weapons.
3:08 This is what is so sorely missing in today's games. Challenge.
Everything is made to be a comical pushover, so that everyone can get those warm and fuzzy feelings in them. Pretty sad really.
Also, the Nasomi server, is a pretty great community. Love that server.
They could double the exp and it wouldn't change the challenge. Other than that I'd just have pup h2h skill be a b+ instead of that bs c- they started it with
I leveled an RDM up to 10 (derping in King Ranperre's Tomb) on Eden. I didn't have too hard of a time but after hitting 10 i knew this is where the real game begins. It was hard to find low level groups which is a shame. The old school vibe is really addicting but the inevitable time sink of countless hours is really daunting. If the server had players in the thousands instead of hundreds, maybe getting a foothold in the server would be easier. It's a damn shame because the difficulty curve is fun. I'm glad the server exists though and the people behind it are actively making it a better experience (i mean it actually works really well)
I really want to play there but man, i don't know if i have the time and patience (to wait for parties) I highly recommend the server as an experience at least. It was a different time and mind set and this is a chance to experience it all over again (in good and bad)
I tried playing on nasomi and within the first 10 minutes I was met with 3 toxic players who were not allowing me to claim mobs in west Ronfaure to level up. They followed me around claiming stuff before I could. So I just uninstalled and went to a different server.
what 1 you on now been thinking about playing again
Georgianna Bailey Realms of Jova
@@Sir_Elharyc ty
Georgianna Bailey no problem.
I so want to play it one more time. It's been 10years since I played. I still got my ps2 that I played on. I played it for 7years be for I stoped and went back to the real world. Lol
Eden is by far a more stable server with more devs working on it.
Yah but isent the pop so low that the lvl sync is unlimited? I heard of ppl getting to 75 in the dunes.
@@raoinshishiza152 yea but xp isnt going to be as great as it would be in a higher zone. ppl just go and help each other out if they need something. its both a positive and negative of level sync. your gear wont scale down with lvl sync so one must have gear for multiple areas of leveling if they were to go that route.
During peak hours its about 560. Also exp rings work every week as they did on retail. They aren't locked like Nasomi. Level sync functions exactly like retail.
at this point i'd recommend eden as well. nasomi's biggest problem is the guy himself. for one example, ZNM's were on his server for something like 15 months, people like me and my friend were able to join the game, level our first 75, unlock beastmaster and level that to 75 and fully merit it and then farm up gears from the ZNM's. if you ever played old school FFxi you know the type of effort i'm talking about there. and then 1 day he decides hes going to polish up aht urghan content now and so all the stuff everyone farmed is going to be deleted. i dont care what argument you make for being in favor of that, the bottom line is people are being punished for simply playing the content on offer at the time they played on his server, and its pretty clear that he doesnt give a fuck about your time and will delete anything he wants whenever he wants cause its his server. Thats just 1 reason i could really make this comment a rant if i kept going.
Harold Finch could you elaborate on these rings? I don’t recall there being exp rings when I played and I’m not finding a clear answer for how they work on Eden
I tried a private server, i wanted to replay the story.
Bastok 9 was bugged and broken and they didnt care to fix it or didnt know how.
I switched back to retail and never plan on supporting private servers again.
If you see an Elvaan RNG named Didgeron running around, give me a shout. There's solid population here, and it's a great way to recapture the old school feel.
Will do! Been checking out Eden as well to compare the 2!
@SubnoizeSpartan You can see our live server status at edenxi.com/whosonline
During NA prime time we float around 500 people online. :)
@SubnoizeSpartan, Nasomi pretty consistently has 1000+ on at any given time. Even considering dual boxers, there's still 600-700 or so players on a majority of the time.
@@CodyRockLee13 when I joined i saw 2000-3000 then it dropped.....
Eden fanboys everywhere. Full of everyone who got banned or couldn't hack it on Nasomi.
Eden is better
Am I the only one that Did not like Abyss DLC? For me it was not the lvl cap increase it was the whole leveling system.
I started on Nasomi a while back; having no prior FFXI experience, it was a brutal beginning. I started as a WHM, thinking, "Oh yeah, healers are always wanted in MMO parties, right?" Little did I know I was making my start much more painful than it needed to be for a newb in an already punishing game, haha. I definitely want to eventually climb my way to my first 75, but I've actually been thinking of getting a retail sub, too, though, as you suggested. I've been thinking about that for awhile now.
I'm sure I'm one of plenty of other people who'll say it, but let's {party} sometime on Nasomi! On that note, if anyone else reading this plays on Nasomi, /tell Haari!
Haha ya WHm is rough start, but it’s pretty fantastic after you get rolling
@@Huntin4GamesChannel good luck Haari!
What lv are you Haari?
@@CortashGaming, WHM and WAR up to 37, MNK and SAM low 30s, BLM to 18.
@@CodyRockLee13 well I have a level 30 rdm name:Cortash I will look you up!!😀
My very first consistent income was bazaaring Insect Paste at 30g apiece (360g/stack) overnight outside the Mog House in Windurst Woods (pre-CoP). Waking up the next morning 3000g richer was a good night.
I think if the private servers were to merge and actually keep the things exactly like they were before it would be great. As for me I experienced the game for a bit twice, once up to level 59 then again up to level 80. The problem back then was to actually look for parties and find groups, but once you did your experience was amazing and rewarding. Even though I used to check how many active players were in the world several times while logged in and it used to show me “~2500” players, many other times over 4000... and many times you still had problems to find parties (hours) and took time do stuff,(I can’t imagine with a server with less than 1000 people), but was really fun, I met many great people that I’ve never met those kind of people in other mmos (ex: one person helped me once like for 4+ straight hours to do several difficult quest and that person didn’t even speak my language so we used to communicate by the in game translator a little and mostly by in game gestures). And so many other great experiences.
This game is old and not that many new players are trying it out so it’s difficult to revive that experience since most new players are returning players that come back to finish the content/story they couldn’t before, and to try new things/new jobs, etc.
This old experience could be SLIGHTLY revived if most private servers were to merge and leave the game how it originally was in my opinion. That could bring the population to a couple thousands connected at the same time, reviving that experience. I remember going to “valkurm dunes” and seeing like 10 parties at least fighting for experience.
But as I see it now, it’s still a lonely place. So if you are going to solo most of the stuff I rather go retail. At least I get to experience all the new expansions, all the story, all the jobs I want that I didn’t try and all those things I always wanted to do but couldn’t because of lack of people.
On private servers There are many changes that were not there and suddenly they decide to make which turn things upside down for many people.
You cannot transfer your character in case you decide to go to another server or retail. And you could lose it anytime if square Enix or the developer decides to close down that server. So it’s nothing secure there.
I can log it with my character I played in the early 2000s if I wanted on retail, and I know it will always be there.
So if the private servers were to collaborate with each other that would change things but as it is now? I don’t think so. It is good to try them for a little though if you have a friend or group of people that you know will play with you constantly. Other than that Retail in my opinion.
Ff 11 you need 6hrs a day or binge weekend, at least till you get exp bonus and your 1st job past 75. Ff14 you need less hrs. Also whm is easy to get good and get invited to stuff but people love tank. Umm I know in retail rdm/nin was nerfed. Some private servers got customizable things. Books made stuff easier. Tip, dont look at clock
I loved starting fresh on nasomi. Having to save all rabbit hides and bat wings for some quick early gil to get me started. Trying to make sure I had multiple reason to go somewhere before making a big journey to jeuno, bastok or windy. Planning out and anticipating my next big step. Right now I finally got enough fame for nin scrolls and went to norg for 3 reasons. Brought elshimo outpost supplies so I can warp back, talking to an npc for nin quest and questing the 4-6 ninja scrolls. I'm still looking up which ones I need to quest xD norg fame 4 (Ready!)
I just returned to FFXI after being away for 10+ years. It's funny, all these things you say are hardships and so awful I'm just thinking "uh, that's just the way it is, and I love it." LOL
Custom 75/75 private server www.tonberryffxi.com/ if anyone is interested. Just started up a month ago and we have custom EXP share settings to enable 2/3/4/5 man parties so that the partying experience is more flexible than "you need 6 people or you don't EXP".
Ditch Nasomi! Play on Eden :D
Our exp bands work lol
@@mikef6993 If you look at his comments yeah he does now :D
Awesome ^^
The first thing I noticed is the movement speed. I think the 25% movement speed boost is just a needed QOL improvement. Watching you running around at a walking pace makes me cringe.
I started playing in 2003 and I would not do it all over again, specially end game content at 75. Wayyyy to much time investment, very slow progression and needing alliances all the time for end game content is why FFXI lost a lot of people eventually. I sill play today and obtaining things is much easier and their are a few instances where an alliance is needed. FFXI at the start didn't realize people have lives and alliances for everything is not the solution.
I played on private server for a few weeks. It just made me want to play retail.
@Adam McMillin See, I disagree. I can't imagine playing an MMO solo. you literally dont PT in retail, you play with NPC's lol
Great marketing campaign for FFXI in 2002: "Final Fantasy XI - Everything is Dangerous and Terrifying."
At least in a Private Server you would never have to deal with a Japanese NM Farmer using hax to instapull a mob. If you get it or lose it you'll know that it was likely a fair deal.
Hi, sorry, im new in final fantasy XI i just want to know which is the easier way to play for free, without pay fee every month. The private servers is a way to play it for free or not?
I also want to reach odin prime, defeat him and summon him after that, how can i do?
Please.... I REPEAT: P.L.E.A.S.E continue this for a few "episodes" Im begging. This is amazing, Stick with RDM or something out of the ordinary for you. Stay Hume. This is amazing.
Just take your time play casually
It doesn't look like Eden is better than nasomi, its got less population, way less content(dosen't even have all dynamis yet) still has bugs, and just doesn't look that great.
Eden is by far better than Nasomi, not so many elitist and the server feels more true to era, I would know, I played then. :)
I'm playing on Eden at the moment. Closing in on level 30 so I can unlock BST and get back to charming pets, since it has been pointless from retail since Abyssea for the most part.
@Jay Parauka How different is Eden from the retail version? How is Eden more enjoyable? What is different? I'm assuming you are and old school player.
"how is Eden different than the retail version?"
You can level to Max in a day...
"What is different?"
It's from the old school era (TAoU) when you actually had to get a party to level.
Not like retail is now...
Classic wows success shows there are markets for this kind of thing in older games.
Se should pay attention
6:04 Goblin: O shi--
lol I felt it xD
Try setting up a ProjectTopaz instance and get some buddies in there. Stream it. Profit.
I play on Era, we used to be able to go into dynamis unlimitrd times a day, but then they made u have to sac a 100 pieces to re enter
Could you make a how to on private server creation? Ty. Only tuto ive found was kinda not clear.
I really hope you continue and post more of your exp with private servers!
Those books fucked the game up. Made it to easy for gil sellers.
For the lower lvls, you will make the best Gil in giddues
Good god no way in hell would i want to go back to this, the ui alone makes it so bad.
We waited too long for this!
hahah probalby most requested series
@@Huntin4GamesChannel yep
FFEra.com is the best private server to play on.
Prove me wrong!
I wanna try a private server. I actually wanna host my own with my cousins. Just dnt know how to go about doing that.
It is a lot of time, but I love every moment of it. It really does bring me back to the old days of this game.
Ya it’s crazy ^^
Eden is where it's at
Let's all make a pact to get together and play this when we're old and grey and retired. =)
Sold ^^
i'm so itching to go back to FFXI AGAIN
Does that includes waiting in Valkurm Dunes for hours to get into a party?
Not really, the population is good enough to where parties are not hard to come by.
What Brandon said, but waiting *does* happen for sure. I've spent quite a few hours chillin in front of Valkurm OP, haha.
Thanks y'all, the best memories and fun I had was when the level cap was 75 before abyssea and all that stuff. I recently just came back to the game and man, everything is just too different to the point I don't recognize the game anymore. Will definitely give Nasomi a chance
@@temetito2942 Awesome! Try telling me (/tell Haari) when you're on. :)
@@CodyRockLee13 I got you bro
yo lo descargue pensando que era el 14 lo probe un rato y todo se veia bueno pero lo abandone porque me perdi y no sabia que hacer 😂
I picked this game back up after years, started building my Goldsmithing, found that people were buying Copper Ingots for 60K a stack, and became a millionaire in the first two weeks.
Then I did the same thing for my dad’s character.
I had the market cornered for half a month until people picked up on it. I was making 10s of stacks of Copper Ingots a day. They sold fast too. What a time... wonder how the market is these days.
_"Time to experience FFXI like in the good ol' days on a P.server!"_
1:40 *[Tunnel Worm "Diglett'ing" across the ground.]*
_"Wellp! There goes the immersion /uninstall"_
My exact reaction when I looked at Nasomi that and the lag was awful compared to retail
Play on Eden. Nasomi is run by one guy (Nasomi himself) and he's not a great dev and he's the only dev. Eden has good devs. I had the same issue with Nasomi, and while it has a decent enough experience, things like that, old camps not being the same, and other bad things like /sea and delivery box not working, made me jump ship immediately when I learned about Eden.
where can I install the private server?
Seriously play on Eden! Its still a classic server but they fix bugs and develop more content regularly becauser its got like 7 devs. The cop missions are actually hard like retail and not missing most of their ai!
I started a character there too! Following these Nasomi videos I made a char on Eden to see how it’s different :) just made it to the dunes !