Please kill

[Vadrocant]

Because people don't treat it like a game. They think that because they've killed some imaginary thing, they are some how better in the real world for it.

Yet you make yourself out to be better then everyone who calls it more then a game. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror.

And say "when in Rome."

So what you're trying to do, is make him look like a jerk for putting people in thier place? I don't know, your argument just looks like a last ditch effort to knock him for making sense. People getting looked down on as shit (as shown earlier in this post and other various posts) because they aren't 1337 enough to kill some retarded dragon? Myself and THEPANDA are simply arguing for people to get off thier fucking high horses, but then again you'll just say some shit like "omgz get off YOUR highhorse!"

p.s. "when in Rome." meaning because everyone's an asshole you should act like an asshole too? Or was that Ron Burgundy style and you just stuck it there to look pretty?

[Cantide]

Yeah, sure it's a game. A game that we're better at than you.

[THEPANDA]

Deleted my cookie. ; ;

It looked fucking delicious too.

[Roree]

....straight Tu'Lia LSs....

[layoneil]

Quote it all you want, it doesn't make it true.

of course it makes it true, cause you're still missing the point.

Chain 5 for 450 XP, that's "just a game". Chain #303, that's "just a game". 1274 Tachi: Kasha, 1792 Groud Strike, that's "just a game". Tiamat falls to the ground, that's "just a game". outside of all of that is not "just a game".

you ever take a girl to the shoot pool, bowl, minature golf, etc, etc. yeah all of those are "just a game" but 99 times out of 100 there's a little more going on than "just a game".

if you think Professional Sports is "just a game", you're also missing the point. ESPN - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, the product on the field, court, ice, etc is a game, the rest of it is entertainment and it's a business.

Anyone who says, "it's just a game" is missing the point.

So what you're trying to do, is make him look like a jerk for putting people in thier place?

and who are you guys to "put people in their place"?

People getting looked down on as shit

exaggerate much? for people that are arguing vehemently that FFXI is "just a game", you're obviously missing the "trash-talking" part within every sport in all of America.

[Daahan]

Because people don't treat it like a game. They think that because they've killed some imaginary thing, they are some how better in the real world for it.

Yet you make yourself out to be better then everyone who calls it more then a game. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror.

And say "when in Rome."

do as the Romans do.

[Hirronimus]

All I've got to say about this thread is simple:

My post is...

1337

So is my post count. roflcakes

It /is/ a game, but it's more than just that. The "game" has become a community, and everyone who pays for the service play it as they see fit. Saying shit like one LS is more meaningless than the other because they haven't killed this or haven't killed that just proves the point how rude, concieted and self centered the person who said that is. Trying to apply real life co-relation to this game is pointless, because no matter how much parallels you can find, this will be a separate thing from real life.

I've personally always thought, because of anonymity on internet, people expressed their opinions openly and w/o repercussions. Such is the case with behavior in this game. And to the person who said they hoped the public on these forums are adults? Majority of the people who post here haven't grown their pubes yet. lol If you ever asked your LS to post the pictures of the members in real life, you'd know that majority of them are either in low 20s or mid teens.

Once again, this post is:

1337

Have a good day!

[tiberion02]

This is as much as game as the NFL. The only difference is SCALE. Both are tremendous Wastes of time, both are collosol sources of entertainment, both are despised by the majority of woman in America.

Maybe if FFXI had a larger appeal, instead of the Super Bowl, we'd have the Super BCNM. ESPN would monitor the AH for fast changing prices and Kraken club sales.

Ultimately, isnt pretty much everything a waste of time, may as well enjoy it right?

[Demetrio$]

editedlolz

[Posterboy]

This thread sux

[Gregorio]

of course it makes it true, cause you're still missing the point.

Chain 5 for 450 XP, that's "just a game". Chain #303, that's "just a game". 1274 Tachi: Kasha, 1792 Groud Strike, that's "just a game". Tiamat falls to the ground, that's "just a game". outside of all of that is not "just a game".

you ever take a girl to the shoot pool, bowl, minature golf, etc, etc. yeah all of those are "just a game" but 99 times out of 100 there's a little more going on than "just a game".

if you think Professional Sports is "just a game", you're also missing the point. ESPN - Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, the product on the field, court, ice, etc is a game, the rest of it is entertainment and it's a business.

This is my last post in this thread, people just don't seem to get it.

What outside of what you have listed (Chain 5, etc) makes FFXI more than a game? The "community"? Just because people are required to play the game doesn't make it anything special or more than a game. I could find a group of people and obsess over Battleship for a couple years, but no matter how into Battleship I get into it's not going to make it anything more than a game. Even if I somehow become the commander of a ship in the Navy, I doubt I'd reach back and say "Well going by what I learned in Battleship....G 5!" The whole point of the game is entertainment, and it will never give anything back to me except for that.

Taking a girl out to shoot pool, etc. Yeah, they're still just games because you aren't taking that girl out to beat her ass in pool and rub it in her face and win a bunch of money off her. You're taking her out there to have some fun and hopefully build a relationship with her. A relationship with her, not with pool. A WORLD with her, not with pool.

And about professional sports, of course Entertainment is the point of games. Who wants to play or watch a game that isn't fun? And when you say FFXI is entertainment you're saying basically what I've been saying the whole time. The only thing you're ever going to get out of FFXI is some fun. I'm going to ask the question that nobody has tried to answer yet but I've asked multiple times...what happens when people stop playing FFXI and eventually it gets shut down? What happens to your world and community then?

[Eadrick]

By the way..


Did anyone ever kill Jormugand? Or were you all stuck here reading this thread? :D

[Okan]

By the way..


Did anyone ever kill Jormugand? Or were you all stuck here reading this thread? :D

Still working on it, but it's hard to do it alone... I think the rest of FFXI community is reading this thread.

[Ankiseth]

I called my good friend MacGuyver who showed up with a plastic drinking straw, 2 mechanical pencils, a stuffed elephant, and a Marine Hat, and killed Jormungand in 67 minutes. He only got 2 ores.

[Genosync]

Taking a girl out to shoot pool, etc. Yeah, they're still just games because you aren't taking that girl out to beat her ass in pool and rub it in her face and win a bunch of money off her. You're taking her out there to have some fun and hopefully build a relationship with her. A relationship with her, not with pool. A WORLD with her, not with pool.

I don't even have anything else to say to you, you've lost trying to defend your point yet you insist on holding it anyway. This section proves it.

[Okan]

I called my good friend MacGuyver who showed up with a plastic drinking straw, 2 mechanical pencils, a stuffed elephant, and a Marine Hat, and killed Jormungand in 67 minutes. He only got 2 ores.

VICTOLY!

[Milks]

http://www.generation.nl/~hitoshi/hd9904-01.jpg

Yo I am cool dude man.

[Eadrick]

I called my good friend MacGuyver who showed up with a plastic drinking straw, 2 mechanical pencils, a stuffed elephant, and a Marine Hat, and killed Jormungand in 67 minutes. He only got 2 ores.

VICTOLY!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...09macguyvr.jpg

!!!!!k

[Okan]

I remember an episode where he dismantled a bomb with baseball tickets.

[THEPANDA]

I don't even have anything else to say to you, you've lost trying to defend your point yet you insist on holding it anyway. This section proves it.

Uh, equating being an immature prick in a game to being an immature prick in high school sports is hardly a winner of a connection.

EXP, fights, etc. is just a game, I'm sorry. Everything else is just a chatroom with 3d avatars.

So you take a girl out just to play a game? In that case, it would be just a game. However, you're taking her out on a DATE, you just happened to play a game while on it. And, gasp, it's still a game.

Someone gets paid way too much to play a -sport- for the entertainment of others. Do you get paid to play FFXI? Is it your job, career? Do people watch you play on their TV every Sunday? I didn't think so. And even if this WERE close to being relevant, I've still yet to see anyone on a Super Bowl winning team say LOL UR ALL NOOBS.

It's sad that our point is "lost" when you're trying to do nothing more than defend being immature. Because no matter what silly attempts to equate FFXI to real life, one thing will remain constant: The real life thing will continue long after FFXI is gone, and the real life thing will grant you real life benefits while the game will still be nothing more than that... a game.

Of course, you could call it GAME+AOLCHATROOM if you wish.