I hope this game doesn't become like FFXI

[Vesperia]

OP: "I suck at videogames, so please make this game really bad so I can play it without bursting into tears."

FFXI was and is a successful MMO. FFXIV is not. There's a reason for that.

FFXI would not be a successful MMO if released today. There's a reason for that.

Only reason it managed to maintain some vestige of a playerbase for so long was a lack of competition. Don't act like it gained subscriptions by any fair means.

[Iron]

The OP is worried that the game might become harder like FFXI?

It's not like the game is even hard right now, and the trend since launch has generally seen the game getting easier, some aspects of it way too easy in my opinion.

Ranking up to 50 is a joke.
NMs are a joke.

[LoLo]

The hardcore nature of FFXI back in 2003 is what made FFXI good. Now a days everyone wants a watered down MMO that plays like a single player offline game but its online.

[Prats_Summmons]

Man, you don't have any *** idea of what a good game is, Final Fantasy XI was the best MMORPG ever, people like you should not be playing a Final Fantasy game. Go play crap games like WOW and let SE work. Go *** another one. Don't ever disrespect this game again.

[Vesperia]

FFXI sucks, you people are delusional.

Games like Ultima Onlne and the original Lineage were where it's at. Pfft, FFXI nerd alert.

[Cxplorer]

The OP is worried that the game might become harder like FFXI?

It's not like the game is even hard right now, and the trend since launch has generally seen the game getting easier, some aspects of it way too easy in my opinion.

Ranking up to 50 is a joke.
NMs are a joke.

I'm having a hard time ranking up to 50. I'm still at rank 32.....

[Zenaku]

The game doesn't need to become more harder. I like it the way it is.

The point of Final Fantasy is about challenge if you don't like challenge then really should looking else where.

[Keith_Dragoon]

I love ffxi. The fact that it was so hard that it really forced you to socialize and make friends. I remember a lot of epic battles that we had, and even some epic leveling. Try same party for 18 hours straight leveling. All those missions or NMs that you couldn't do without the help of good friends. A lot of relationships have formed, even marriages with ffxi. I still keep in contact with some people I meet thru ffxi and sometimes we reminisce about old times like old people remembering WWII. When someone wanted to quit, I really felt like crying many times. Those are the types of bonds that was developed in ffxi, something that is missing in other MMORPGs.

A lot of people didn't like how hard ffxi was, that's because you sat in town and seek for a party for hours on end. You never took that first foot forward and maybe made your own party. You tried to make a party a few times but stopped after getting rejected a few times. You are like that guy who stays a virgin, alone, and living on their parent's basement because they wouldn't take the risk of getting rejected, and tries to rationalize it by saying the world is elitist. Over time, you became hard headed, didn't listen to nobody, and thought you can do everything by yourself and compared yourself mostly to yourself and thought you were better than everybody. So here you are alone, hating this game that you've been playing for at least 6 years, but can't seem to put it down if you hated it so much. Did you really hate it or is the problem you?

Yea the relationships I have seen forged and have forged myself due to the difficulty and forced groupage in XI trumps anything I have read so far. Hell I am going to the upcoming Distant Worlds concert with 2 friends I met in XI who also met in XI and got married IRL Sept 2010. I have never had these kinda bonds in any game I have played thus far and my MMO career doesn't just include XI, I have played every MMO on the market with the exception of Rift after launch because beta was boring.

While I agree XIV needs to retain its solo friendly attitude(which it is) I don't see the problem with it mimicing the good stuff from XI. Even now XI has become a more solo friendly game while partying is still the top dog.

[Vesperia]

The point of Final Fantasy is about challenge if you don't like challenge then really should looking else where.

The point of FFXI is to bore you to death. The challenge was staying awake.

[Cxplorer]

The point of Final Fantasy is about challenge if you don't like challenge then really should looking else where.

Sorry but I don't see it that way...... FFX was fun with Tidus and the blitzball thing.