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

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Originally Posted by quantumsaint

What exactly from FFXI did they implement in FFXIV? I thought it was well-established that FFXIV "failed" because it tried to distance itself from FFXI as much as possible.

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I agree completely and people saying that is just them showing their ignorance towards XI.

You know all those awesome features XI has? OP yeah well XIV has none of them.

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Originally Posted by Greencactaur

I thought 14 failed cause they put tanaka in charge 0.0

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That's just what they wanted you to believe.

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Originally Posted by quantumsaint

What exactly from FFXI did they implement in FFXIV? I thought it was well-established that FFXIV "failed" because it tried to distance itself from FFXI as much as possible.

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xiv failed because they designed the game around what they didn't want players doing rather than actually making a good game.