Even FFXI patches HARD

Can I STOP writing today? (also considering that this site is a fragment of what I write everywhere)

Final Fantasy XI, also known as another painfully slow mmorpg to release relevant changes, has massively patched today.

Just the new Fishing System deserves a page on its own. Squaresoft is starting to do something about the farmers. Not only they began to take actions against them. But now they are finally also addressing the awful mechancs that *produced* that situation. So we have changes to the notorious monsters and this new fishing system that finally looks interesting. Probably superior to the timid attempt in World of Warcraft.

Now you have to actually “fish”, reacting to the movement and the stamina of the fish in order to successfully pull it out the water. I guess the default AFK-(macro)-fishing will be a bit harder now. A right step to deliver some more gameplay and address the farming problems.

I also noticed that these patch notes make sense and are more detailed. Maybe Squaresoft is also reconsidering the communication process. Maybe they saw as well the subscriptions numbers sinking.

There’s also a new, rather complicated, search system that allows the players to set categorized messages. It doesn’t sound so straightforward in how it’s integrated in the UI. Probably one of those features forgotten and abandoned by the players in two days.

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