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This whole thing has shown me just how many scumbags there are in FFXI and how they are willing to cheat at the drop of a hat with not a care in the world.

On the other hand, especially in this thread, I am seeing there are morally just people in FFXI. People just like me, filled with anger, clenching fists and gnashing teeth.


Fuck the exploiters, we want blood.

example above.

poor attitude of the addicted gamer thinking just because he plays more, he deserves more. truly a shame.
dealing with poor droprates is one thing, exploiting the game is another. i remember a few years ago some sort of NPC buy/sell scheme that a few people exploited without general knowledge of the public, and they were whooped with the ban stick something proper.

I wasn't trying to call you out. You have more right to be angry than me at these people, as someone who participates legit. I don't even do salvage.

To those that keep saying "Well its rare/ex gear, who are they hurting?". You do realize a lot of the big LSs on different servers that were using this exploit have been profiting from it by selling those same rare/ex items.

It makes a lot of sense too why they started doing this just recently. They get 3 of the item, sell 1 of them for millions to Joe, and keep the other 2 for themselves.

So yeah it was just rare/ex gear, but that doesn't mean they didnt profit off it just the same.


Cheating is cheating is cheating.


*Edit* Here is an example of what I mean: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=42;mid=122365378594647193;num=7;page=1

Edited, Nov 26th 2008 1:34pm by Chocoblo

o.o When I first wanted Dynamis and sky gear for my PLD, I definitely wasn't 'skilled enough' to wear any of it, if you compare who is worthy or not based on skill level and time involved in attempting to aquire the gear. However, my time and effort and repeated runs of sky and dynamis built my skill and experience. Therefore, when I got each new piece it was simply augmenting my perfected skill and teamwork, not making or breaking my ability to play and thus not making me butthurt about not having it. I agree however that droprates can really REALLY suck. In 2 years of dynamis I saw 1 valor coat, and 2 coats in the 3rd year(after I quit and after that update to droprates -_-)

Regardless, it's the journey you take in earning the gear that makes you worthy of it. Lots of people just skim through events with not much skill or teamwork skill( teamwork skill is way different than having individual skill<_<) I've seen great tanks, great whm's, great players in general lose or wipe to things because there just wasn't good communication and too much ***-u-me 'ing going on.

I guess it's just a big suck-it to those who did abuse the glitch and are now ******** about the fix, its whiniers like you who made them tone down CoP which was the most enjoyable thing for me in-game because of its difficulty. I hate you all. If you are ******** because of this update, push my mother ******* red arrow! Do it! take that rage out! rawrrrrr angry angry!

Edited, Nov 26th 2008 1:52pm by FenrirXIII

The thing that annoys me about that BG thread is the ones complaining are sporting multiple salvage gear drops in their sigs, they show them off yet they were all pretty much duped. How can you be that proud of something you cheated to get.

I know FFXI is basically a "i'm better than you" game but still, if your gonna be proud of something or show it off at least make it legit. They should be ashamed of that crap not show it off as a badge of honor..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPgI-7hTZkQ

wonder what will happen to this surge in moral standing when people realize that there will now be:

1) absolutely no chance for them to buy Sandworm drops
2) higher prices on pieces dropped from Campaing Ops
3) far far fewer Alexandrite available

but on the upside:

1) mabey, just mabey, there will be a slight drop in the price of Imp. Wootz ingots. mind you a slight drop. Because crafters, like myself, will surely resist the price dropping by much in favor of letting 64 or more Khroma ores rot on AH while all others undercut each other in hopes of selling their Khroma.

Is it really an equitable trade for all involved/uninvolved to have this removed from the game? I honestly do not know. But looking at this, i would say that it is not. I would argue that everyone in the game got hurt with this maintenance.

This does not seem to be something that only cheeters are to get butt hurt about. We are not talking about common items here. We are talking about items that people would love to have, but really have no opportunity to obtain due to how endgame LS's work.

Lets not even get into the cut in alexandrite that will happen. It wont be a huge cut. I dont think. But, from what i understand each group using this exploit would receive triple the alexandrite returns. I am guessing that 2-3k alexandrite is now going to take even longer to see that it would have with the exploit intact. So, i am upset about that as well.

just something to ponder.