did FF14 fail because they used FF11 as a "beta"

It failed for a lot of reasons.

Sincerely?

I don't give a sh*t.
You don't give a f*ck.
We don't give a F*ck.

What we have to know is: It has rushed out, been released when it was at the embyro state. Why that happened is not what we gamers care, and we aren't some CSI, FBI, Gossip lurkers or whatever.

This thread is mindless. Not only is FFXIV far away from FFXI. But its nowhere even near what FFXI should have led a developer to. It just lacks. Please stop FFXI bashing.

Some parts of XI were specifically being created with XIV in mind, like Abyssea and the crystals you had to go to are aetherytes and such. Guildleves are FOV mixed with the flexibilty of MMM. These aren't stretches. I think it isn't because FFXI had concepts from XIV tested on them, I think this game failed because their main market was always gonna be those niche gamers and they alienated them.

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Originally Posted by zaviermhigo

Some parts of XI were specifically being created with XIV in mind, like Abyssea and the crystals you had to go to are aetherytes and such. Guildleves are FOV mixed with the flexibilty of MMM. These aren't stretches. I think it isn't because FFXI had concepts from XIV tested on them, I think this game failed because their main market was always gonna be those niche gamers and they alienated them.

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Another popular thing i see from usual MMO gamers is the infamous: "If i wanted to play WoW, then i'd play WoW", anytime another MMO tries to copy/paste too much. The same is true with FF14 & FF11.
IDK about you, but virtually no one i knew in FF11 moved over to FF14, lol.

have you ever seen a man eat his own head?

The games has thus far failed to attract large numbers of players because they built it around stopping RMT rather than making an enjoyable gaming experience. Every single system in place at launch seemed to be designed to do nothing but slow people down.

*stares at the random group of clone lalafells sitting at horizon @ R43*

Yeah, that worked well....

I thought 14 failed cause they put tanaka in charge 0.0

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Originally Posted by Kimowar

no it failed because of the anti social players

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You should probably shout this opinion in ul'dah . . . oh wait . . .

biggest fail thread evar /facepalm