The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[saevel]

Well until FFXIV offer Fencer / Red Mage as Class / Job combos, FFXI is the best place for my FF fix.

We should "see" the new RDM SP ability soon so can yell at SE about how badly it was implemented.

[tyrantsyn]

Well until FFXIV offer Fencer / Red Mage as Class / Job combos, FFXI is the best place for my FF fix.

We should "see" the new RDM SP ability soon so can yell at SE about how badly it was implemented.

You know that's going to happen, tho they have held out on any coming information on the thing since they announce it. Which does leave some hope that they took what was being said on the NA boards to heart on it. I never bother to look to see what the Jp players thought of it. I wonder if their suggestion were anything like ours.

[ManaKing]

Well until FFXIV offer Fencer / Red Mage as Class / Job combos, FFXI is the best place for my FF fix.

We should "see" the new RDM SP ability soon so can yell at SE about how badly it was implemented.

Yeah I had a discussion with someone the other day about that. They were impressed by the new cinematic and they were like, do you think the reboot for FFXIV will be any good?

I responded that it didn't have RDMs, so I don't think I would be interested. Also, they made RNG instead of THF. Apparently 4/6 is good enough for classic jobs for FFXIV.

My other jobs are BST, DRG, and DRK.....soooo 1/4 for me. FFXI is valued for it's diversity. Even though we all complain that all of our jobs need improvements and tweaks, we all like that there are as many choices as there are.

To me FFXIV feels too much like WoW for me to care about it. So you stole a ton familiarity from FFXI and wanted to make a game that follows the same business model as the most financially lucrative MMO of all time. Game isn't good enough? Quick reboot it so that players have a ton of new content to grind through. That way they never get anywhere! Yay! We make money!

Players in FFXI like that they have nice things, that's why we spend so much time getting them. I don't see anything permanent or worth attaining in FFXIV, nor have i ever seen anything in WoW worth doing.

If SE wanted to make more money off FFXI, they just have to put more money into it. We are willing to wait for you to fix your systems so we can have nice things. Being able to add more spells and job abilities is worth waiting for. If we could get some more inventory space too that would help out a lot of jobs. Taking the time to really polish all the jobs would make people want to play longer as well. An actual expansion, which we are hopefully getting sooner than later, is a great idea. But what would be an even better idea would be a graphical overhaul.

FFXI has content and goals that players can reach if they want them. That makes it a better game than most.