Hopes for future content and tweaks for current.

[Luvbunny]

I've lost faith in them making anything worthwhile online after seeing just how far off they were with 14. When 14 v2 fails after all the money they put in I doubt they will be as willing to invest big sums again, and trying to run yet more MMOs when they struggle to run 2 won't go well. I think honestly XI is the last best MMO they will ever put out.

Maybe - a very competent director is heading FF14 team now and he is proven to be quite capable to create marketable content, FFXI Abyssea is his brainchild. If he keeps all his promises and there are many, FF14 version 2 could actually work, albeit 2 years later since it's launched. FFXI is heading into the "burn to the ground" direction with the current team, they have one year to finish off the game so everyone will "want to move" to FF14

Yes the current game is somewhat more pick up friendly, but usually this go to the "really good or really bad" since the quality of the players you meet varied. It is nice incentive to meet other players than what you are used to play together with. I suppose once you reach level cap of 99 - it's gear collecting and merit tweaking. Giving us ability to augment all of our gears would be amazing since this can provide incentive for people to keep playing just to get the materials. We probably get more of these so called magian trials - it is easy to do and endless grindfest.