well, from my perspective, only the real true hardcore FF gamers are staying, I think the server is dying a bit. Ifrit by far is one of the smarter server with older, more mature, and smarter players. However, so many ppl that used to log in multiple hours now only come on for sky/God runs dynamis, or some other LS event. Many of the once super rich/high lvl crafters quit which hurt supply in craft markets, lvling still takes a while, yet a little longer as sometimes one can venture in high xp lvling areas and see them abandoned on weekdays but see a few groups lvling there on weekends. Players are simply playing less, or finding other more productive ways to spend their time. However, from this, the world has gotten smaller and now you have the ability to see those that play a lot, less noobs play because their reps are destroyed, and relationships with those you alrdy know as the 1 yr anniversary of PS2 release is out is now being strengthened. From the time that I have put into this game, from lvling, from quests, from farming, from staring blankly at LS websites because I wanted to be an "active" player I see now why many players get 1 or 2 jobs to 75 and are pretty much satisfied with that end result. In marketing, we are in the maturity stage of the product life cycle stage, eventually we will enter the decline stage. From reading several of the latest posts about ppl pretty much quitting FFXI I wonder when we'll start seeing the open HNM camps and other things. Something tells me that by June or July, an uncontested HNM camp may actually be fathomable just from the way ppl are quitting and the way we are declining as a server. By then, I probably won't be playing as much as I am now either.

I've only really compared first hand to Hades and an old Ifrit friend that's over there.

Since really - the migration from multiple servers and few noobs to speak of really boosted that servers ability to get people who know how to get it done.

I find the ones that are left - play for fun and are more organized then when I started. There are few true noobs or other nameless asshats (can I say that here.) than there were when we all started.

Loving Ifrit.

Still playing too much, but hellah fun along the way.

Alp

i don't see KFC leaving hnm camps any time soon

they have been playing the game way longer than most NAs and probably will continue to keep playing it after the NAs decide to quit

i will come back to this game if HNM camps are worthwhile in the future 0.o

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Supa, you need a new Avatar,,, youve goit that "thing" by your name. Go yell at Vael to make that say FS.

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retired for now- Lyndis = Karlyne <3

ohh yea, i forgot, -- congrats supa on making it in fatesealers. ^~^

yay for supa!

WoooooooP WoooooooooP~

If I had the choice to move to another server, and I could choose which one, I would go to Sylph without any hesitation. One of the reasons being that some people I know irl are there, but I didn't know about that till my character and tradeskills were already at a quite high level, so I didn't want to start all over. Even though Ifrit has a few nice people, it really sucks not having any irl friends to play with, I oftenly feel very lonely on this server because of that.

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