Quote Originally Posted by Randnum View Post
That's a bit of a blanket, Mirage.

As a game designer and tester also, I (and my team) have great HOPE for FFXIV, and great respect for Yoshi-P, but we're mostly concerned for that game's longevity. It looks really pretty and fixes many of the issues with this game, but it also somewhat lacks SOME of the charms of this game, therefore on a personal level, I don't want to play it yet (I just wanna look at it... so pretty ~mesmerized~).

I'd hope though that they just talk to each other, learn what to do for both games, because this one doesn't need that much, it just keeps getting more things it doesn't need (e.g. the main topic of this thread), as everyone says.

There's listening to your players too much, too. Now if only we could just take the average of the two games and their design philosophies and rock out.
I agree philosophically, but I feel like 14 is trying to hit the Wow type of market. I cannot blame any developer for trying to get that market, and I've been hoping SE would succeed, but bring the added depth in that I've always loved about 11. I've taken a break from FFXI before and enjoyed the wow-like games plenty of times (Wow, vanguard, lotro, rift, gw2, etc), but they were always games I enjoyed, even loved (I'm a lifer in lotro) for a time, but I always came back to FFXI because there is a depth/feeling/immersion about it that I haven't found anywhere else.

There is an incredible wealth of content in FFXI. So much, that it can be overwhelming. So I've often taken the break, then come back refreshed, excited to tackle tasks I want to accomplish. I've never minded not being the top tier in the game, so long as I could play the game at my own pace and enjoy it with others.

The delve update was so different than most. I feel like the devs just made this huge jump because they don't care about longevity anymore. Don't put thought into it, just add an expansion to keep FFXI going and get what they can out of FFXI until FFXIV goes live, and if they turn off players so they jump ship to FFXIV, so much the better.

Of course, this makes me really want to invest in FFXIV now... NOT! I have friends who left FFXI ages ago chomping at the bit to play FFXIV, and now I'm having a hard time mustering any enthusiasm for it. It may be different devs right now, but SE has been switching dev teams back and forth enough, that I don't consider anything solid with SE anymore.

Before I was planning to play both and see what happens. Hoping FFXIV would evolve like 11 into something that I'd enjoy for a long time. Now I just feel burnt out on MMOs period, particularly SE.