FFXI: Fishing
Feb. 24th, 2005 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I made my last post before reading my flist, wandering FFXI boards, or really seeing anyone else's opinion on the new stuff. Now that I have seen what others have been saying, I can pinpoint those who like the new changes:
People with no attention span. People who hadn't been willing to put the time/effort into fishing before. "Thank you, SE! I gained 58482750257023 skill in negative time! I like fishing now!" That really pisses me off. Fishing had been something where your massive amount of time invested paid off, and now? New fishers can flood the market and get fast skillups with little time invested. The children have been catered to.
Everyone who had put major time/money/effort into fishing before the patch? Well, maybe now the fishing guild can join the leathercrafting guild in using the motto "Bend over and enjoy it, bitch".
Ha ha. I feel so disgruntled. I need to stop caring about fishing, really.
People with no attention span. People who hadn't been willing to put the time/effort into fishing before. "Thank you, SE! I gained 58482750257023 skill in negative time! I like fishing now!" That really pisses me off. Fishing had been something where your massive amount of time invested paid off, and now? New fishers can flood the market and get fast skillups with little time invested. The children have been catered to.
Everyone who had put major time/money/effort into fishing before the patch? Well, maybe now the fishing guild can join the leathercrafting guild in using the motto "Bend over and enjoy it, bitch".
Ha ha. I feel so disgruntled. I need to stop caring about fishing, really.
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Date: 2005-02-24 07:30 pm (UTC)On the other paw, I really did enjoy other people being around to chat with. People were interested in fishing again. Sure, some people griped, but for the most part people seemed to be enjoying it and learning how to do it again.
I want to do more fishing before I truly decide if I love / hate it, but so far I'm leaning towards like. Heh, and you can hardly call me a casual fisher ;)
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Date: 2005-02-24 08:00 pm (UTC)They're changing player behavior and it might do so in a good way. Less profit in fishing, more people might move to farming, more people farming, means crafted goods might come down 'cause the supply of low level materials has increased and competition has renewed.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be pretty bummed if I was making most of my gil off fishing like D does. But they nerfed fishing for me to the point of "hobby" about 3 patches ago. I only really bother with "time-killer" fishing and "rusty" fishing anymore. Crafting and farming treat me well when I'm looking for the gilz. But with this new system, it's intriguing, so "skill up" fishing might actually come into play again.
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Date: 2005-02-24 08:26 pm (UTC)Less profit in fishing, more people might move to farming, more people farming, means crafted goods might come down 'cause the supply of low level materials has increased and competition has renewed.
I was thinking about that. But also, that would mean less profit in farming. It's all so complex!
I'll be interested to see how I (and others) feel about this in a few weeks, once the "emotionalness" of it wears off.