FF11 "Classic Fresh" - WoW is rebooting classic! How would you launch XI Classic?

[Lortheron]

The thing is, FFXIV is really NOTHING quite like FFXI, nothing at all. Zero similarities in the experience for the player.

I know many people that hate the way FFXIV took but still play it because they feel like there is nowhere else to go. Many people would LOVE FFXI but the interface and graphics are a HUGE problem, even the installation and account creation are barriers. I do believe a remaster of any kind of FFXI would drawn many frustrated players from FFXIV and they would really prefer the FFXI experience a lot more.

Most people don't even know how much FFXI is all they are looking for in an MMO but keep away from it because of how much of a huge starting barrier it got and how old it's graphics and interface look.

[Immortal]

The thing is, FFXIV is really NOTHING quite like FFXI, nothing at all. Zero similarities in the experience for the player.

I know many people that hate the way FFXIV took but still play it because they feel like there is nowhere else to go. Many people would LOVE FFXI but the interface and graphics are a HUGE problem, even the installation and account creation are barriers. I do believe a remaster of any kind of FFXI would drawn many frustrated players from FFXIV and they would really prefer the FFXI experience a lot more.

Most people don't even know how much FFXI is all they are looking for in an MMO but keep away from it because of how much of a huge starting barrier it got and how old it's graphics and interface look.

Yes this is very true. It is honestly extremely sad, most of the 11 players back in the day HATED the WoW gameplay and concept. Yet now the majority of them all went to XIV because its supported by its actual DEV team and company, and it has pretty graphics and FF related nostalgia bombs. They would all come back to XI if the graphics were remastered and the UI and clunkiness overhauled. The global cooldown in XI is pretty horrible, I find myself spamming macros or actions for them to go off, feels very clunky. I am almost 100% positive they could have two very successful MMOs that cater to different crowds, if only they would put more life and money into XI...

[Lortheron]

Yes this is very true. It is honestly extremely sad, most of the 11 players back in the day HATED the WoW gameplay and concept. Yet now the majority of them all went to XIV because its supported by its actual DEV team and company, and it has pretty graphics and FF related nostalgia bombs. They would all come back to XI if the graphics were remastered and the UI and clunkiness overhauled. The global cooldown in XI is pretty horrible, I find myself spamming macros or actions for them to go off, feels very clunky. I am almost 100% positive they could have two very successful MMOs that cater to different crowds, if only they would put more life and money into XI...

I 100% agree with you. Classic 3D MMORPG players are orphaned with no where to go... Just FFXI, EQ1 and DAoC still have retail servers up, from the true classics.

[Alhanelem]

Yes this is very true. It is honestly extremely sad, most of the 11 players back in the day HATED the WoW gameplay and concept. Yet now the majority of them all went to XIV because its supported by its actual DEV team and company, and it has pretty graphics and FF related nostalgia bombs. They would all come back to XI if the graphics were remastered and the UI and clunkiness overhauled. The global cooldown in XI is pretty horrible, I find myself spamming macros or actions for them to go off, feels very clunky. I am almost 100% positive they could have two very successful MMOs that cater to different crowds, if only they would put more life and money into XI...

Personally, I picked up FFXI while waiting for WoW to come out. At the time I was a big fan of Blizzard's other games, like Warcraft II and III and Diablo II. But a friend invited me to play this game and it's been hell ever since lol. I did play for a time, but I just didn't quite fall in love with it the way I did FFXI. I didn't hate it by any stretch of the imagination. But FFXI just had a certain charm to it that WoW couldn't replicate. Probably the biggest reason for this was its lack of a real story at the time.