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.
XI gardening and other features you mentioned are so much better then XIV, you get your own Mog Garden (with SoA x-pac), You can buy flowerpots to grow them in your Mog house, you get your own house without paying millions of gil, you can actually raise chocobos from chick to adult, there is no weekly lockout, though there are some things XIV that are nice, racing is better whereas you control the chocobo through the course, the the same old course and such gets old pretty quick, and you can obtain different mounts and pets in-game (though idk why we cant use pets in dungeons) and of course the mini games and TT card game.

As one of the previous posters said though when you see threads like Show your <race>, Best glamour, next top model, marriage partner hook-up etc. alot of players care more bout looks/graphics then actual gameplay. FFXI is more involved and draws you in now I will say the HW was good and well done and its not over yet but it can't top FFXI.