Who the heck is mrhappy? Lmao

Don't we have enough drama here without importing youtube/twitch/twitter beefs?

The entire argument that it hurts retail FFXI is absurd. They're not pulling from the same population of people, so there's no competition.

How many people here would honestly go play Retail if Nasomi was shut down right now?

If Mr. Happy wants to call it disrespectful, whatever. He's entitled to that opinion. "Games evolve, generations grow up" is the part of his argument that I think stems from actual retardation. Yes, people grow up - and can not like the same thing you like. Yes, the game did evolve, and a lot of people don't like it. The act of "playing on a private server" is not disrespectful, in my opinion, because the content they have developed since then sucks compared to the previous content. I played WOTG, Abyssea, some Adoulin - I tried it - it was poor quality and execution. It isn't disrespectful to the devs for liking something that they developed in the past. That's like saying "You shouldn't like X person's old music, because they made new music" where music = whatever the heck you want it to be.

I'm not saying that games shouldn't evolve, I'm saying games CAN and DID evolve in the wrong direction. I've played UO, EQ, XI, WoW, GW, GW2, XIV - etc. The reason XI excelled because it differentiated itself (maybe not so much compared to EQ, its inspiration) and did not fit the mold.

I'd love to see Asura's/Retail's population in a fictional world where SE did launch an official CoP/TOUA era 75 cap server. I'd be willing to bet it would tank in comparison.

It isn't "nostalgia glasses" or "remembering it being better then it was" - no, the game was just hands down better. If retail XI was more fun to me, or felt better to me, I'd play that instead. That's why we play Nasomi instead.

tl;dr Mr. Happy is a tool.

This is just another example of a dying shitty "content creator" trying to get attention by starting up drama with someone MUCH more successful than he.