@Diadem: Yes it's the bootleg version of Dynamis, not even "Neo-Dynamis"..just not fun at all once the sheen wears off. Good concept but I much prefer Dynamis. I mean Dino Island Loot Pinata is nice..but anyone who wasnt blinded by "oo shiny!" knew what it would do for the game in terms of gear progression. If it dropped weapons there would have been nil reason to touch Thordan's Reign.

Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
FFXIV has a lot of the same thing, chocobo leveling, chocobo racing / breeding, minion / mount collecting, minion battles, triple traid, gold saucer minigames, gardening, house/room decorating. Both games have a lot of side mini games so what is your point?

Is there some reason why you can't like both games ? There seems to be a lot of FFXI only players who hate on FFXIV but if you spend some time playing it you can find a lot of stuff to do in it.
XIV has a lot of it..and they also let it rot. In XI, it never got "a limelight", but in XIV, it died out quickly because SE made Chocobo Racing part of the content pack in 2.5/2.55, meaning it was the only thing left to do if you weren't farming Final Coil.

I'll make a tl;dr version:

-I did every bit of content, to completion, in the 2 years.
-If they didn't lock you out of gear or systems weekly, the content base of XIV is extremely shallow.
-Yoshida himself in an interview stated they can't do a lot due to fear of crashing the servers or have no funds to do so. You never heard this with XI, you heard "PS2 limitations" in place of "no we won't do this" because in Japanese culture, it's considered rude/bad business to say no - much like when they fire someone, that person merely "left."
-They don't build off of systems in XIV like they do in XI, thus those systems have no purpose after the next update. In XI, some systems die out but if you do them, they're self contained and sometimes benefit you (Monster Rearing for example.) But in XIV, no one does Chocobo Racing to the point if you want to..have fun with those queues.

So yes plenty to do. Much like I can go outside and bench press a boulder. Does it benefit me? Sure, but is it something I'd want to do compared to say going to the movies? Nope. Unless it's to gain access to Ishgard, all 2.0-2.55 content is obsolete and have no purpose being touched. Even Diadem killed the need to do many 3.0 and 3.1 content aside hitting bare minimum Ilvl.