FFXI crossover event comming to FFXIV

[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.

[Alhanelem]

It was a pretty fun event, and Iroha's outfit looks good.

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

The intent was honoring what came before, not to go "YAY! CONTENT IS OVER!" (which, by the way, they've said it's not).

The cutscenes were enjoyable, with lots of pictures of classic moments throught FFXI's history. Having played XI for most of its existence, I thought it was awesome and it brought back memories.

I'm not going to speak much more of the release pattern complaints other than I disagree with them, however they just released a cool new area called the Diadem, which is strikingly similar to Neo Dynamis (perhaps before we got so OP)- openworld endgame that's actually able to deliver a bit of a challenge, and it even drops gear on the same order as the previous raids (suprisingly, no item level increase in this patch, either.) So this latest update broke with a number of patterns.

[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!"

[detlef]

Haha you must be a huge hit at those firing parties.

[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).

[Jin_Uzuki]

FFXI has been a game without a leader for years. There are several groups making content - but these groups don't know how to come together logically. The result is a world of clutter where countless activities are worthless from day one and outdated content surrounds you everywhere you go.

Are you sure you are not talking about XIV?

[Alhanelem]

Are you sure you are not talking about XIV?

Nope, particularly considering this latest update has given us a lot more choice and hasn't raised the ilvl cap yet, which is kind of surprising. I mean, I know they will eventually but at least they've slowed down the progression path.

And like I said before, they've gone off and made some different content for a change, so this latest update has been rather refreshing. Of course, they had to torture me, as a player of both games, by also updating FFXI on the same day...

[Zumi]

Just finished the whole event it was pretty good them flashbacks.

Hinting at that you are the same person from FFXI was a nice touch.

[Catmato]

Where's the XIV event in XI?