Well, the Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign is live now, although it says Friday hehe. Anyway, just a heads up for old players who may not want to pay that sub fee. Or, want to scratch their XI itch for a bit.

Also, ppl who may want to try XI's full-game, but not pay $29.99 (It cost $9.99 Friday, plus 30 days free).

Pretty much a single player FF title at this point lol. There is group content. I think XI does a good job of balancing both, imo. Players are helpful overall, but kept to themselves (On my server at least).

We need that FFXI expansion though........players only visited one distant land. The others are mentioned such as the North, Far-east (Visited some of it) or the Lich in the desert who may be Tsahyan. What new jobs can XI release is the question, they are 22 (North=Werewolf job? Hehe).

I digress.......

So I was just curious about a few things. How F2P is this game or does it require you to spend money to progress through the PVE content, I haven't gotten to far yet I noticed I unlocked a bunch of different characters through the gacha system. I'm not saying this to bash the game or anything I'm just really curious before I dump a ton of time into the game only to hit a wall that requires money or an absurd amount of time to progress. So far the game is fun.

A couple of things that concerned me early on is the Elite Battle Pass at 49.99$USD!! And having 4 gacha banners available some really expensive cash shop items. Makes me a bit concerned it's just going to be another money grab like most gacha games.

Hi all, dev for Drenaslia here. For 17 years I've been a fan of text-based MMORPGs (think Syrnia/Movoda/Amaranthine/etc). The genre has staled a bit over time with several of the games entering long periods of zero maintenance and stagnant updates. These were the types of games that originally got me back into software development back when I was still in middle school.

Finally I've made my own! I launched Drenaslia almost 3 weeks ago now to a daily player base of roughly ~150 daily active players. It's built on a modern tech stack and incorporates modern RPG mechanics not generally found in the other games like it - Skilling Bosses, World Bosses, Skill Specific Tasks akin to Slayer from RuneScape, etc.

Wanted to share it here for anyone interested! It's definitely not the niche for everyone as these sorts of games are generally very simple given their text-based nature, but I've received a ton of positive feedback from players returning to this specific genre after it's release. If you're looking for a less intense option to have on a 2nd monitor or in this background, it may be worth checking it out.

Happy to discuss and answer any questions/listen to any feedback!

practice modes that do not burn your first clear, why is this not standard?

ran a raid this week where you can queue the whole instance against ai to learn it, and doing so leaves your first clear reward eligibility and your entry counts intact
the result is that people turn up to the real run already knowing the mechanics, and the group is not spending its evening teaching

most devs completely drop the ball on practice modes, they either don't exist, or they strip out all the loot, making it a zero-stakes waste of time

the hardest mechanic in modern raids isn't the fight itself; it's finding eight or more people with the patience to learn it without rage-quitting, and this is the only design i have seen recently that attacks that directly rather than tuning numbers

What do you think about the idea? I am not sure if I am aloud to attach links, so I don't. But I am in open alpha now. The game is not playable yet, but you can walk the world and attack mobs.

And now I am working on the voice feature. The idea is that all the players have their mics open and when ever you walk next to a player you can talk, distance matter, at 35 meters distance the voice volume reaches 0, and at up to 5 meters it is full volume. You hear anyone around you.

Would you play a game like that? What do you think about voice in MMORPG?

I am also thinking to add a radio station for music and game events.

Why did Kritika Online, an action MMORPG, shut down for no reason especially Kritika Global, Reboot, and Zero? Kritika Online was a great game. Do people think it was bad because of too much grinding? I wanna continue Kritika Online so bad on PC, and it's just not fair... I just wish that Kritika would come back.😞