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:-D finally I have someone understand what I meant to be in FC not just only raid or loots but make friend :-D

For the record I'm not against raiding or loot btw - in fact I have done the whole hardcore progression thing myself for a while myself, but I find that more often than not they tend to exclude and break people apart, especially in the more modern MMO setting.

Anyways @Endless I've read a couple of your posts on these forums - loving your humour and attitude mate.  Keep it up, the world definitely need more folks like you.  I'm telling you though, it's not gonna last - in a few years time you'd be just like me, all jaded and skeptical, and spending your free time sitting outside the house, screaming at invisible kids to get off your damn lawn, meh.

Not sure if I should be semi-lurking in these forums, since I'm not in the Einsof (or any FC), but I like what you said about chatting and making friends.

the part of MMOs that I used to enjoy the most was chatting with random folks and making friends, but I find that most players don't tend to do that anymore.

That is actually one of the reasons why I am reluctant to join clans/FC/guilds in my MMOs nowadays - sadly a lot of players I encounter are only online for the loot, for the progression, for- well, the greed.  They log on, grind the raids, then log off.

The more fuller clans I find are usually filled with "progression" players like these, who go off in their own little clicks and spend all their time doing dungeon grinds and have no time for socialising.  It's like a job for them. 

Whereas the smaller clans usually have people who rarely log on, or log on at random times so most of the players don't actually get to chat or play with each other, or folks who have purchased the box but are not re-subbing beyond the first month.  Or worse, members who are only there temporarily, just until they have gotten a few more levels and can join a "progression" clan.

Sorry for sounding so jaded btw.  Not trying to troll the forums here, and not trying to be negative, but meh, I'm getting older and just not used to the modern style of gaming I guess.

Anyways I signed up for your site a while back, thinking you guys might be a potential FC for me to join, but I haven't really done anything beyond popping into the forums every once in a while.  What are the folks in Einsof like?  Friendly?  Social?  Likely to make me a sandwich?  And what is the focus of the FC?  Are you guys a bunch of hardcore progression players?  Or a bunch of casual social folks?

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Btw ingame name is Bcanimus Alander, I'm from NZ, playing in the GMT+12-ish timezone.  I have a weird sense of humour but I'm a decent bloke...  kinda - feel free to say 'ello if any of any of yous are on around the same time!

I kinda miss the old harvesting mini games from 1.0 to be honest, though the new one-click system is certainly way easier to understand.

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Hello there Yarki, I'm not in the Einsof FC (or any FC) and I'm kinda in the newbie boat too, despite being a legacy player from 1.0.  Gonna throw in my 2 cents here.

First of all re: language barrier with the Duty Finder - don't worry too much about it, especially at the lower levels.  The game has a built in language selector, and you can select which langange parties to queue for - look out for these four letters, J E D F (J for Japan, E for English, D for- er- German? and F I think for French).  You can see these showing up  the Duty Finder screen, Friends List, and probably other places too.  There seems to be a decent amount of English players on there atm, at least in the past weeks for the lower level instances.  I have finished the first 5 dungeons using the Duty Finder and have had minimal issues.

As for crafting my experience might be out of whack with newer players, since I have a bunch of mats left over from 1.0, and have a few levels into the harvesting classes so mats have been easy for me to find (for the most part).  Can't speak for others, but for me crafting have been great for getting inexpensive newer gear, as well as earning Grand Company currency.  Having said that a lot of gear could be purchased via various NPCs, so if you have gil to spare you could always focus on leveling your main battle classes first.

Btw good morning ladies and gents!

If you have PSN+ then the system will download the update automatically, but I believe it won't actually install the update by itself.

Just incase anyone have actually installed the 4.45 firmware, and wants/needs to revert back to 4.41, just download the 4.41 firmware onto a USB drive (from your PC), and then start your PS3 up in safe mode (by holding down the power button while the PS3 is starting up - keep it held down until you hear 3 beeps) - the safe mode should give you an option to install firmware from media.

Good morning all btw.

Good morning ladies and gents, this is BC_Animus from NZ here...  Just discovered this place - not sure if I'll be hanging around yet, but from what I've read the folks seems nice.

Anyways long time gamer, started on the PC in the late 80s/early 90s and haven't looked back since.

Spend all of my non-work time pretty much on games, movies and listening to music and podcasts.  Gadget lover and console gamer - own several major consoles, but mainly play MMOs on the PC nowadays.  I am quiet & shy but hell of a nice guy.  Consider my childhood days to be the golden age of gaming, with companies like Origin with their Ultimas and Privateers.  For me MMOs are all about the people, and not about gear or loot.

Have to add too despite being a big MMO gamer who enjoys and values random interaction between players online, I have been burnt many times in recent years, and as a result have pretty much reverted into a skeptical and reclusive hermit.  Guess I kinda feel that the online communities in these games have all gone downhill, partly due to a shift in focus in the games.  That the developers and players are now focusing primarily on endless easy grinding of tokens and gear, with lore, exploration, social character interactions, cooperative team work, and other little things like that that I used to value all having been discarded or ignored.

Yeah I know, meh I sound very negative and jaded.  In fact I actually consider myself the Skeptical Hero lol.  Anyways guess that is one of the reasons why I'm here.  The guild recruitment posts I have seen for some of the games, the various texts on the site, and the rules for the forums all seem pretty- well, friendly and welcoming.

I'm a nice bloke really, but to be honest I'm not much of a people person, so atm like I said I really don't know long I'll be hanging around, but, since I'm here, thought I would say 'ello, good morning, and a merry x'mas to you all.