Dear Square Enix Make this game more like classic Final Fantasy

Make Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn more like classic Final Fantasy with MMO elements like open world , PvP Zones and story line expansion and less like a traditional MMO. Also can we get a marriage system and the ability to customize everything about our character in game with the exception of race.

And I want a pony!

*twitch*

PvP was never a Final Fantasy element.
Full character customization was never a Final Fantasy Element.

The Jobs are based on equippable stones much like the Crystals of FFIII on.
The storyline is chalk full of FF tropes and callouts, right down to the theme of the crystals.
All of the basic FF Elements are there, Mootles, Magitek, Cid, Bigs, Wedge, Gilgamesh.

Every FF game varies the system somehow. To try to claim one as 'the' system to base Final Fantasy off of insults the series's trend of redefinition, in my opinion.

Can't have classic FF without these guys.

Nobuo Uematsu
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uo_Uematsu.jpg

Hironobu Sakaguchi
http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../Sakaguchi.jpg

Yoshitaka Amano
http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...2/2d/Amano.jpg

I'd kill for Rydia's outfit though. Leotard and awesome dangling arm thingies. If we need anything classic, it is those clothes.

I wish pvp would go away in FF.

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Originally Posted by Akiza

Make Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn more like classic Final Fantasy with MMO elements like open world , PvP Zones and story line expansion and less like a traditional MMO. Also can we get a marriage system and the ability to customize everything about our character in game with the exception of race.

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If you want a 'classic' feel MMO just like the old Final Fantasy games, you could try playing Ultima Online ;) Nothing like that 'classic' top down view with an open world in an almost 8-bit type (feel) gaming environment ;)

But yeah.. Classic Final Fantasy is and was.. a single player game.

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Originally Posted by Pinworms

I wish pvp would go away in FF.

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I think they handled PvP as they should! On an island far, far away where I'll never have to f'in deal with it.

You mean like having a gauge bar gradually fill up to wait your turn to be able to attack?

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Originally Posted by Lecreuset

You mean like having a gauge bar gradually fill up to wait your turn to be able to attack?

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They actually did that. It's called vanilla FFXIV 1.0.

I always thought the story was very old school final fantasy. Some of the music was composed by nobuo.

I'll admit some of the jobs and classes don't have certain abilities, yet. There's no elemental weaknesses and such.

This game was more Final Fantasy than FFXIII at least. It has a coherent setting with a storyline lore that seems to take itself seriously. XIV is chocked full of Final Fantasy cameos and elements. I guess the OP just doesn't read the stuff.

Elemental weakness is missed, but honestly it's a terrible bane of MMO gameplay design, and I for one am estatic that the developers have noticed as such. It's shallow depth at best, and in the dozens of MMO's ive played, the only thing it ever contributes to is a Mage class with like 50 more skills than anyone else, all situational and terribly unbalanced.

They didn't really replace it with anything, but here's hoping that down the line that may be fixed. Umbral Ice / Astral Fire was a great aversion to the Mage class, though.

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Originally Posted by Akiza

Make Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn more like classic Final Fantasy with MMO elements like open world , PvP Zones and story line expansion and less like a traditional MMO. Also can we get a marriage system and the ability to customize everything about our character in game with the exception of race.

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Since when are classic Final Fantasy open world, PvP oriented and I don't recall any of them having story expansion (except X and XIII)

I have no idea where your impression of classic FF came from

I think considering classic Final Fantasy games are single player and this is an MMO the translation has actually gone across quite well. It definitely feels like a Final Fantasy to me (perhaps in some areas more than others) but that's just my opinion.

FF games are about the journey and gathering allies to slay some magical enemy. Fun weapons, magic, and abilities to play with, so yeah pretty much more FFXI than FFXIV.

It is classic. the old black mages had Fire Blizzard and thunder. What do we have now on our black mages? Fire blizzard and thunder...

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Originally Posted by axemtitanium

They actually did that. It's called vanilla FFXIV 1.0.

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/shudder

Stamina...../shudder

Can't have classic FF without these guys.

Nobuo Uematsu
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uo_Uematsu.jpg

Was pretty much erased from XIV ARR by Soken

Hironobu Sakaguchi
http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__.../Sakaguchi.jpg

Left SE because he didn't have creative freedom at SE (lost odyssey is great btw)

Yoshitaka Amano
http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...2/2d/Amano.jpg
Was excluded from xiii-3 (though this might be a good thing as according to reviews it's doing even worse than the 1st one)

Don't know what to tell you buddy except recommend FF dimensions and especially the DS III remake. They are good games.

Final Fantasy classic was a solo game and if you want a good feeling of old school final fantasy, get Bravely Default!

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Originally Posted by Rhas

But yeah.. Classic Final Fantasy is and was.. a single player game.

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Oh my god. Someone actually gets it!

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Originally Posted by axemtitanium

They actually did that. It's called vanilla FFXIV 1.0.

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The GCD in this game is also meant to simulate wait times between actions like in console FFs.

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Originally Posted by MysticNeko

It is classic. the old black mages had Fire Blizzard and thunder. What do we have now on our black mages? Fire blizzard and thunder...

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We have spells that resemble those elements >.> however they aren't even elemental. Astral 1-3, Umbral 1-4, Dot 1-3

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Originally Posted by Doo

FF games are about the journey and gathering allies to slay some magical enemy. Fun weapons, magic, and abilities to play with, so yeah pretty much more FFXI than FFXIV.

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Well, maybe for you but both do the same thing... so does this mean you like games less "final fantasy" since you are playing 14 and not 11?

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Originally Posted by Hyrist

*twitch*

PvP was never a Final Fantasy element.
Full character customization was never a Final Fantasy Element.

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I think she meant she wants to merge classic final fantasy with modern MMO elements like open world, character customization and PvP zones and I agree. I don't know why everyone on this forum is borderline aggressive towards PvP being in the game (not aimed at you specifically) if you don't like it, don't do it. The game needs PvP to be competitive with every other modern MMO in existence regardless of whether it is classic final fantasy or not. It's not going to go away.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

The GCD in this game is also meant to simulate wait times between actions like in console FFs.

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This. The GCD is basically the ATB bar... though limited to a single slot as such. With the off-GCD stuff meant to be more than one slot ATBs. Still would have been more interesting if we could decide on what we want to do with the ATB than just have a selection of skills.

Classic Final Fantasy. PVP. Right.

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Originally Posted by Akiza

the ability to customize everything about our character in game with the exception of race.

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My logic tells me this will never happen. Now that SE is adding Fantasia on the Mog station, they have the least interest to give us more customization in game, and the most interest to give us more customization through Fantasia.

SE should have took the aestetician idea and grow upon it and expand on it, or add different systems like it. But players asked to pay and well, who would say no to money? lol

Now we can probably forget about any kind of customization that is not through fantasia in the future (except only Hairstyles and face paints cause it was already promised).