Fighting Talk: New vs Old MMOs

This is a pretty good article, 2 of 4 parts are available thus far. When he's talking about the nostalgic elder days of MMOs, I can't stop the massive flood of memories hitting me, but I love remembering how great those days were! Those were some truly good times indeed, and I'm very glad that Square-Enix still sees things that way and FFXIV as with FFXI is holding onto as much of those early days as it can!

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The lines have been drawn and MMORPG.com's Adam Tingle is ready to sound the battle cry in his latest Fighting Words column. This time, Adam pits old MMORPGs against new MMORPGs. How much do shiny sparkly graphics matter when compared to huge expansive worlds and massive factional battles? Find out what Adam think and then, as always, give us your thoughts!

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I have fond memories of EQ.

Then realize that those were memories of when I was a grade school student and my responsibilities included mowing the lawn and cleaning my room.

I'd never have time for an old school game at the age I'm at now.

All my fond mmo memories are with FFXI ^_^ having a deep storyline and epic battles are the best ^_^ and I remember the huge Christmas Tree Event... fun times ^_^

agreed ffxi will be forever in my heart... i'd go back and play ffxi if they remake their graphics lol...

If I was able to use the 10,000 Crysta I bought for FFXIV on XI I'd prolly return immediately, but thats not possible...sigh

why the hell did you buy that many crysta???? oh right you still need to buy even tho you are in free period... sneaky !@#$%%#

Hyorinmaru Touchi wrote:

why the hell did you buy that many crysta???? oh right you still need to buy even tho you are in free period... sneaky !@#$%%#

Hey when you spend that much time and money on a new computer to play a game. buying 10000 crysta is just the tip of the iceburg

Angstrom Sanchez wrote:

Hyorinmaru Touchi wrote:

why the hell did you buy that many crysta???? oh right you still need to buy even tho you are in free period... sneaky !@#$%%#

Hey when you spend that much time and money on a new computer to play a game. buying 10000 crysta is just the tip of the iceburg

i was sarcastically attacking SE's payment system

c'mon FF is the only mmo that i know of that requires players to pay in advance regardless free period (the crysta system)... why not give me free 10k crysta to pay for the first month instead when i chose to pay by crysta? instead i had to purchase a full mth worth of crysta to access the free month???

answer is simple.... let the $$$$$ flows in first... at least they gave us another free month tho... that was the "shut up & don't sue us for making you buy a pandora's box" money.... and it works btw... at least for me

I wasn't required to purchase any Crysta when signing up.

I still have 0 Crysta on my account.