Quote Originally Posted by FrankReynolds View Post
Yeah, I don't get this whole "FFXI sucks and the dev's don't listen! Let's all go play FFXIV now!" attitude. As if it weren't the same people making the new game...

Remember when Ford Pintos used to explode any time they had a little fender bender due to the faulty rear fuel tank? Nobody thought it was a good idea to take the insurance money they got from their burnt up friends / family / car and go buy the new model Ford Pinto. WTF is wrong with people these days?
Simple, that game looks good, is new, and looks like they are putting resources into it right now. This game looks like shit, is old, and it feels like they are only providing the bare minimum of services to keep us paying. On top of these things, FFXIV fucked up, they took it down, and it looks like they fixed it, FFXI is fucking up royally right now, and they are having a hard time figuring out why and correcting the issue because it seems to be going right over their heads, and rather than focus on real problems, they want to give us things like Item Levels and such. Also, FFXIV is made by a different team, the leader of which is the same person who gave us Abyssea, an add-on which many loved and many hated, those who loved it get extra incentive on why to get FFXIV, we liked his work before. On top of everything else, they seem to be more willing to listen and they are providing info, where as the FFXI team has always treated everything like it was imperative it be kept secret until the players found out on their own, as well as the fact their team has the man power to keep their word when they say they will release content, rather than taking years for the simplest of things.

Your saying its the same as buying the same thing from the same company after they mess it up. Its not though, this was not made by the same team, it was not made with the same ideas in mind, and it was not made in the same generation. FFXIV shows a lot of promise for players, more than this game has, it looks like they are trying to improve on some of the things FFXI had problems with not only in game, but out of game too. Part of which is for instance, the information, getting an official source for information about the game sounds great to me. I love what this community has done, but the problem is that we should not have had such a large reliance on wiki sites or forums, so much so that I have even literally been told by GMs that rather than fix my issue, or help, if it is not a bug in a quest they will provide no instruction or guidance, and I must go through a community site. That, is an improvement in service I think. The game shows many differences from gameplay to the team, direction, how things work, story, and so on, but in the end I think the game is different even if it is from Square Enix, and I think it will be great to buy. To me, comparing FFXI to FFXIV is like comparing FFX to Kingdom Hearts, they are developed by the same company, but different teams, different design aspects, and different features, even if made by the same company, under the same kind of genre.