Petition to Make Game Less Like WOW and More Like FF11

[Saieno]

Actually they've borrowed a ton from FFXI, from mobs to jobs. This however is a completely different game with different mechanics, like every Final Fantasy game that has come before it. FFXI still exists, you can go play it, FFXIV is a different game and is quite successful at the moment.

[Steeled]

Actually they've borrowed a ton from FFXI, from mobs to jobs. This however is a completely different game with different mechanics, like every Final Fantasy game that has come before it. FFXI still exists, you can go play it, FFXIV is a different game and is quite successful at the moment.

Using the same skins, or remastered skins and naming things similarly isn't borrowing that much.

Paladin in XIV and Paladin in XI play nothing alike. White mage in the two games play nothing alike. I can't think of any job that really does.

[Redemption]

Actually they've borrowed a ton from FFXI, from mobs to jobs. This however is a completely different game with different mechanics, like every Final Fantasy game that has come before it. FFXI still exists, you can go play it, FFXIV is a different game and is quite successful at the moment.

Borrowing some art and names is not 'a ton' or even 'a lot'. Second, ffxi isn't really ffxi anymore, they actually seem to have taken on a lot of the ideas from Yoshi P. when Matsui took over as producer and now we have basically a not quite the same but similar experience over there in a spiritual form so going back to ffxi is not going back to ffxi if that makes any sense. I would LOVE to see Yoshi actually add something unique like people seem to think he is but he isn't thus far. All the "this is not like wow" people are fooling themselves or don't know any better, its not a carbon copy no but all the major features of the game are inspired by and are very reminiscent of wow (with a few exceptions of course, hence not a carbon copy) and if you played any mmos that were not trying to copy wow you should see this I would think.

[DeceptionsWrath]

While i understand FFXI had much more time to make more things to do, i'd prefer so much from FFXI over FFXIV. For starters, exp parties were way better than dungeon runs for exp or fate grinding. In the 6 years i played FFXI i made alot of good friends from just exping. And this game really lacks that with the cross server duty finder. You had to communicate in FFXI, because everyone needed help for stuff. With FFXIV i rarely talk to anyone because, what's the point? I still don't even have a FC or linkshell (by choice) because i have very little desire to try and make friends on FFXIV. FFXIV just doesn't seem like a long term MMO to me and i guess that's why i'm reluctant to make friends.

Also in FFXI i felt like there was more to do than just "level something up". That's really all it feels like you can do in FFXIV is "level something up". What are the choices really? Level something up or dungeon runs? Just everything feels so grindy in FFXIV.