XIV:ARR what SE could change to make the XI Playerbase more Happy

[Errors]

I had this nicely written up response, but then deleted and figured it's just not worth my time to point out some of the flaws of the OP's suggestions. I'll just say I disagree with many of the suggestions the OP has suggested and leave it at that.

Everyone's got opinions.

[Reslin]

Oh, as to the comparison to FF14 and SWTOR.. SWTOR dropped below 1,000,000 in 3 months. It's been about 3 months and we rose 500,000 in the last month alone to have a population of 1,500,000.

[Orophin]

Stopped reading at "building TP to use weaponskills".

[Pandastirfry]

I'm not sue WHY XIV should be changed to "make the XI player base happy"

Shouldn't XI be the one making changes to keep its playerbase happy?

[NovaUltimatum]

Question: what can SE change to make the XI Playerbase more Happy?

Answer:
Step 1. Keep FFXIV:ARR the way it is
Step 2. Merge the players on current FFXI servers so they can become populated again
Step 3. Use the remaining servers to create a Vanilla FFXI instance for players who are nostalgic for old FFXI
Step 4. Everyone wins!

[Niniyo]

Question: what can SE change to make the XI Playerbase more Happy?

Answer:
Step 1. Keep FFXIV:ARR the way it is
Step 2. Merge the players on current FFXI servers so they can become populated again
Step 3. Use the remaining servers to create a Vanilla FFXI instance for players who are nostalgic for old FFXI
Step 4. Everyone wins!

Aside from the poor FFXI developers who have to try and fix bugs in two divergent code bases D= Won't anyone think of the developers! *crickets*

[Cynric]

Well like I said you're asking for something unique but we only have the very base game at this time. Once we get a few patches under our belt we'll see where the direction of the game is going. The stuff you mentioned like mounts and such have been in many games before and after WoW. WoW just kind of popularized the system. Dunno why. They're just mounts but meh.

If you want to help make this game better it's probably better to try to help it earn its own identity instead of asking to make it similar to a game many years past it's prime. You'd probably have better luck convincing 11 to turn back to old 11 than you would getting Yoshida and his team to put things into this game they seem very against.

[ufufu]

Oh, as to the comparison to FF14 and SWTOR.. SWTOR dropped below 1,000,000 in 3 months. It's been about 3 months and we rose 500,000 in the last month alone to have a population of 1,500,000.

FWIW, we are not at 1.5mil subscribers. We're at "over 600,000".

[Evangela]

FFXI is an outdated MMO that lack a lot of things, why should SE make XIV more like XI to make XI players happy?

make no sense.

XIV already has more subscribers than XI at its peak. stop crying about XIV not being a niche game like the one you love. XIV is not XI-2, if you love XI that much you can play XI, the servers still running.

[Divinemight]

FFXI is an outdated MMO that lack a lot of things, why should SE make XIV more like XI to make XI players happy?

Not all old bones FF11 players agree with OP. I personally only want the famous main job / sub job system to be back into the game. Get rid of FATE mindless exp grinding and put back really meaningful HNM hunting.