How is the community these days?

lonelyrobot

I played FFXI back when it was first released on PC, and was thinking of returning. The only problem is, is that the community back then was beyond infantile; I couldn't gather crafting materials without other people showing up and flaming me for being in "their area". I dealt with constant kill-stealing, frequent racist remarks towards the Japanese and a plethora of other things which were just plain depressing to see.

My question is, is has the overall community matured now that the game has been released for a quite a while? I'm not asking for an elysium as i know there are still some fairly rotten people out there, I'm just looking for a slightly lower ratio this time around.

Thanks for reading.

CactusmanX

To be honest most the time when I play, nothing is happening, occationally someone will ask for something but other than that I don't see any flamming or any arguing for that matter, pretty good community I would say, could be that those inmature people you were talking about have since then got bored and quit

Locutus0

On the server I'm on (I can't remember the name) it is relatively pleasant. Kill stealing has been disabled as well. As long as you have chosen to attack an enemy, no one outside your party can attack it or cast any spells on it. This has been annoying at times though. I've watched ppl die in the past and I couldn't cast poison or similar debilitating spells on their enemies.

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Your biological and technilogical distinctiveness will be added to our own.
You will become one with the morgue.

lonelyrobot

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Originally posted by Locutus0

Kill stealing has been disabled as well.

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Oh it was back in my day as well, I just happened to mentally confuse that with people having very little regard for other people's camps. Anyway, thanks for the input.

Locutus0

In that case, I actually had somebody walk up and ask me if I was leveling and when I responded, "trying to..." he offered to stop killing monsters and finish his mission even though I meant I kept cutting my battles to close not that he was stopping me from accomplishing my task. Quite a nice gesture, but it doesn't happen often. People will randomly cast protect on you, but I'm sure that it's more for their benefit in most cases. WHM spells being cast out of party is a common occurance, however, especially at the lower levels.

Resistance is futile!
Your biological and technilogical distinctiveness will be added to our own.
You will become one with the morgue.