So yesterday....

[Izzy]

768 days spent playing

10.4% of my life Q_Q

[Auspice]

What was the release date for PS2? >____>

I tried looking for it but I couldn't find it!

Pretty sure it was March 20th 2004(shipped the 19th).

[Daahan]

lol ur all losers

(ill check my playtime when i get home)

[vegetaa]

What was the release date for PS2? >____>

I tried looking for it but I couldn't find it!

Pretty sure it was March 20th 2004(shipped the 19th).

No way PS2 version was released in 2004. 2005 sounds more accurate.

[Rescue]

What was the release date for PS2? >____>

I tried looking for it but I couldn't find it!

Pretty sure it was March 20th 2004(shipped the 19th).

No way PS2 version was released in 2004. 2005 sounds more accurate.

Na it was 2004 because I've been playing for 3+ years now and I've been PS2 the whole time.

[vegetaa]

My bad, just checked the FFXI wikipedia page and it was indeed released in 2004 :

PlayStation 2
JP May 16, 2002
NA March 23, 2004
Windows (PC)
JP November 2002
NA October 28, 2003
PAL September 17, 2004
Xbox 360
NA April 18, 2006
JP April 20, 2006
PAL April 20, 2006

[kuronosan]

361 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes.

[Mytiwar]

Didn't know it was on jp ps2 before jp computer.

[arshesney]

187 Days and about 14 hours

Still a long way to go...

[Khamsin]

Yes, the PS2noobs flooded the game in 2004, much to the veteran PC players' dismay. That was the day that we knew what it felt like to be Japanese.

[Plow]

Didn't know it was on jp ps2 before jp computer.

It's the main reason for the "PS2 limitations." They could cut off US PS2 support without much issue, but they'd lose like half their JP playerbase.

[Lebzile]

492 days and rising. .-.

Ps2 since 04, lol. My comp can't handle FFXI D:

[Ryko]

Hey my topic is automatically updating, sweet.

[Alistaire]

So 5 days from now....

...this thread will no longer be called "So 5 days from now....".

...

[Ryko]

It was originally named "so 9 days from now..." but I got the super special automatically updating topic name.

[Alistaire]

It was originally named "so 9 days from now..." but I got the super special automatically updating topic name.

I know, why I say in 5 days (or even tomorrow?) it'll be renamed again.

[Lothiriel]

Don't forget to add in all the time you spent trolling BG and KI and Alla at work.

[Max™]

Wow, didn't know it was just under 4 months from NA PC to NA PS2 launch.

Blows a hole in the "I've been playing this a lot longer than you" argument that I get from some of the NA PC launch folks I know.

[Rocl]

Wow, didn't know it was just under 4 months from NA PC to NA PS2 launch.

Blows a hole in the "I've been playing this a lot longer than you" argument that I get from some of the NA PC launch folks I know.

Except we all had 4 months more than you?

[Max™]

4 Months =/= What they make sound like years of experience.

I figured from the way they were trying to justify things with "I've been playing longer" that maybe the PC launch was a year or so earlier than PS2, but damn, what did you know by your 4th month in? What exactly has that head start given you in terms of miraculous wisdom?

The argument generally comes up when I try to explain things to people (generally when they've asked a question, or commented on someone asking one) like why you would want to use say, Fuma shooz to TP in when you're at 9% haste already, over hume RSE2 feet, about how each point of haste tends to be worth more than the one before it, and that generally unless you're starting at 0% haste, 3% will do more during TP phase than 3 Str and 3 Dex, even for a 2h job such a Samurai.

To which I get a "well, I've been playing for a lot longer than you, and I think this works, so whatever."