FFXI crossover event comming to FFXIV

[Castanica]

I have to be honest, when I saw this I did laugh.

A celebration on FFXIV at the ending of content on FFXI, party hat time!

[Stompa]

I have to be honest, when I saw this I did laugh.

A celebration on FFXIV at the ending of content on FFXI, party hat time!

It is more about honouring ancestors. It is custom in many parts of the world, to celebrate those who have gone before us, and in the case of games, to honour the earlier games in a series. In the case of this event, it is not celebrating the end of anything, it is recognising the achievements and life of something.

Also, some FF14 players have never played FFXI at all. Any event that ties the two games is a good thing, if it leads gamers to try FFXI for the first time. I meet new players in FFXI from time to time, some of them arrived in FFXI after playing FF14, and they are amazed how much they enjoy FFXI, and surprised that it had somehow eluded their attention for all these years.

[Kjara]

It is more about honouring ancestors. It is custom in many parts of the world, to celebrate those who have gone before us, and in the case of games, to honour the earlier games in a series. In the case of this event, it is not celebrating the end of anything, it is recognising the achievements and life of something.

Also, some FF14 players have never played FFXI at all. Any event that ties the two games is a good thing, if it leads gamers to try FFXI for the first time. I meet new players in FFXI from time to time, some of them arrived in FFXI after playing FF14, and they are amazed how much they enjoy FFXI, and surprised that it had somehow eluded their attention for all these years.

Yup, true. In my linkshell, when this event was announced, we had two FFXI ex-players come back to the game, and one who had never actually played it buy it to give it a go. Collaboration events are a wonderful thing and I'd love to see more.

[Castanica]

It is more about honouring ancestors. It is custom in many parts of the world, to celebrate those who have gone before us, and in the case of games, to honour the earlier games in a series. In the case of this event, it is not celebrating the end of anything, it is recognising the achievements and life of something.

Also, some FF14 players have never played FFXI at all. Any event that ties the two games is a good thing, if it leads gamers to try FFXI for the first time. I meet new players in FFXI from time to time, some of them arrived in FFXI after playing FF14, and they are amazed how much they enjoy FFXI, and surprised that it had somehow eluded their attention for all these years.

Feel free to take it how you wish to take it.

I'm entitled to my opinion.

I don't see it something worth celebrating. Especially since they gave more content for XIV on this event than XI will get from here on out.

It's like your boss saying "Surprise, you're fired! now lets have a party and celebrate your years of service to the company at a party for the new guy that will replace you!"

[Alhanelem]

Feel free to take it how you wish to take it.

I'm entitled to my opinion.

I don't see it something worth celebrating. Especially since they gave more content for XIV on this event than XI will get from here on out.

It's like your boss saying "Surprise, you're fired! now lets have a party and celebrate the guy that will replace you!"

So do you consider it your civic duty to poop on every party you come across or something? Do you hate Veteran's Day because you see it as celebrating our wars?

FFXI is still going to keep running and its even still going to get some content updates past this coming spring. So this has nothing to do with firing people and everything to do with honoring a legacy. Which I might add, if you went through the event, you'd see they did a really good job of it. Even going so far as to putting FFXI battle music into the game for the event FATEs, and the great references to the good ol' days. It's probable that this event was even good for FFXI as others have said, leading to some people who never played/heard of it wondering what the heck this FFXI thang is (Well, it's not the first time they've done anything like this, but it has been a while, to the point where a lot of current XIV players might not have seen the past event or played XI).