[FF11] Just a warning about cancelling

[Asmadai]

I'd play FFXI, but the UI just makes me want to slit my wrists in a blaze of emo glory.

[Saban]

The ui was designed to work with a PS2 controller.

instead of making it work for a mouse/keyboard, they left the shit design intact. The best part is listening to FFXI players justifying it.

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by Saban

Square used to send me emails saying i had an outstanding balance when they couldnt bill me for a month.

Yeah at some point I had an existing account with them, and somehow forgot about it. When I was married I didn't take care of my bills my wife did and so I often forgot about games I had subscribed to and stopped playing. Anyway My visa Expired and I got a new one so I had to re-submit to whatever I was getting charged monthly for, I forgot I even had a FF sub going until 3 months or so later when I started to receive E-mails from them threating legal action over money I owed them due to them being unable to collect payment.

I ignored them,that was probably 3 years ago now or so,maybe longer, whenever the game came out I guess ...

In any case they have some very interesting practice when it comes to their subscription system.

[Arbitrary]

I just hope another game company steals the job system and implements it with a game with WoWesque soloability.

That's a good foundation for a game that would ruin my life.

[kudos]

If I remember correctly everything about this game was a pain in the ass. Even creating an account and canceling an account sucked and was complicated.

Also the controls pissed me off to no end.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by Saban

The ui was designed to work with a PS2 controller.

instead of making it work for a mouse/keyboard, they left the shit design intact. The best part is listening to FFXI players justifying it.

heh, yeah the UI was irritating. Then some players released a Windower which allowed for macros to be scripted, etc. I can now use my G11 keyboard to directly input into the game bypassing the ALT, CTRL Macro menus. With the "Windower" the game has become infinitely more playable.

Windower :: Index

For anyone who is interested.

[Valos]

Originally Posted by Vinen

heh, yeah the UI was irritating. Then some players released a Windower which allowed for macros to be scripted, etc. I can now use my G11 keyboard to directly input into the game bypassing the ALT, CTRL Macro menus. With the "Windower" the game has become infinitely more playable.

Windower :: Index

For anyone who is interested.

Windower is the only reason why I still play it from time to time. That and I can put it on my big screen tv and play with a wireless keyboard for whatever chat and a ps2 controller.

[Ronne]

I dunno, my account is 3(ish?) years old and they never deleted it. A friend of mine canceled his and got that must-rebuy game schtick from them, but he called and bitched at them and they gave him new codes for free.

Goddamnit, now I wanna play FF11 again, I really loved that game, just never had any reliable people to play with.

[Hardcore Cracka]

FF11 is nearly impossible to cancel. I had to just stop billing on the credit card, which seemed to work fine.

[Ziann]

Originally Posted by Ronne

Goddamnit, now I wanna play FF11 again, I really loved that game, just never had any reliable people to play with.

Same. I've been trying to reactivate my old account lately and do a server transfer but they have no record of it. One of the customer service people told me they might have a reactivate promotion soon so I'm hoping they can find it then.

It's pretty stupid to just save accounts for 1 year. They must lose a lot of money they could get from returning players.

[Zehn - Vhex]

Originally Posted by Vinen

I still play this game. It's given me far more enjoyment then WoW did. It has competition and camping "uber mobs" against other guilds doesn't really bother me. It's all worth it when you claim something with 12 people (And they fail with 24+) and beat it right front of their faces with less people and in less time...

You mean in 2 hours rather then the standard 4?

[kasey]

Final fantasy went the same way Ultima Online went for me. INstalled... started... WTF IS THIS SHIT... 30sec later deinstalled. It raped my eyes and wanted to hurt my fingers. I wuld have given it another try beyond the ugly game and klunky interface if they would have let me. But no they prefered deleting my account after inactivity lol.

[Malakie Torsade]

FFXI has probably the shittiest interface known to man, barring maybe Gothic.

But that isn't the main reason I hated it. They also had the shittiest newbie experience I've ever seen. I loved having to rest after every 1-2 fights for several minutes. I spent more of my time alt tabbed out than I did interacting with it (sounds familiar!) I also loved newbie mobs that would stun you for 15+ seconds that you had absolutely no counter to.

The races were bland as hell too.

A real shame as I really wanted to like it. The job system and group combat sounded awesome.

[Gudrid]

Samurais can use scimitars, but not 1h katanas?! I hate the whole max weapon skill rating too.

[Parabola]

Over the coures of 2 weeks I talked to 10 different people at SE trying to get my FFXI account information so I could start playing again. First they wanted the cc# that I paid my account with (I'd replaced the card 3 years ago) so I did that, then they asked for my registration codes (tossed them when I moved), then they asked me questions to confirm my identity, and after all that they said sorry they couldn't find my info in their system. I said I thought you didn't delete info because you were able to reactivate accounts for the return to vanadiel 1 and 2 events but the person didn't know what I was talking about.

So to summarize, game is great but it's run far worse than wow which is amazing if you think about it.