Wednesday, August 13, 2008

18+ Hours Fighting One Boss?

This, my friends, is the embodiment of why I quit Final Fantasy XI all those years ago. There's a new boss they put in the game that takes over 18 hours to defeat. This isn't the only boss of this sort, either. The previous one, which was at one time thought undefeatable, took a top guild around 18 hours to defeat.

The new one caused them to stop after 18 hours (notice, they didn't defeat it), because members of their guild were passing out and vomiting.

Seriously, what is going through the developer's minds when they design something like this?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

FFXI attracts the "hardcore" MMO gamers. They -want- to spend tons of hours trying to kill something like that.

Or of course, they're just doing it wrong. A lot of FFXI bosses were like that until someone figured out the secret to down them.

Anonymous said...

Haha, wow. You were just attacked by a FFXI gil spammer. Funny how it happens on a post with a rather nasty view towards FFXI. The sap could get more money somewhere else.

Unknown said...

There, its gone. That's my first spam post evar! ;)