"A system that rewards effort and innovation" can't be buzzwords for imbalance-get

[kukurumei]

the problem is lack of content and a release filled with bugs and oversights.

If that was the only reasons FF14 wouldn't be in this state. You can wave the magical memory modification wand, all you want...no one is effect by it at this point.

Let's face it, you can try to pamper the story of the "FF14 that wasn't" all you want, but it was grade A trash and still probably is to many players and former players.

If it even got to the level of classical FF11, it wouldn't have gotten ranked down so hard. That's cold hard truth.

The fact that a bit of FF11-2 creeping back in is still leagues better then the original plan of self implosion. Our standards are so low at this point, it's better we have some then nothing. The bread and butter of FF11 that worked fairly well shouldn't be sneered at even if it's not the greatest taste on earth.

It's like the titanic sinking and you refuse to get on the life boats because it's too crowded for your tastes.

[Physic]

If that was the only reasons FF14 wouldn't be in this state. You can wave the magical memory modification wand, all you want...no one is effect by it at this point.

Let's face it, you can try to pamper the story of the "FF14 that wasn't" all you want, but it was grade A trash and still probably is to many players and former players.

If it even got to the level of classical FF11, it wouldn't have gotten ranked down so hard. That's cold hard truth.

The fact that a bit of FF11-2 creeping back in is still leagues better then the original plan of self implosion. Our standards are so low at this point, it's better we have some then nothing. The bread and butter of FF11 that worked fairly well shouldn't be sneered at even if it's not the greatest taste on earth.

It's like the titanic sinking and you refuse to get on the life boats because it's too crowded for your tastes.

its a bad plan, because your competing only with a shrinking market, and the competitor is yourself. FFXI of now cannot even come close to competing with future games, it can still have a profitable niche though, but not if FFXIV canabalizes it, then you ll have two games not making profit.

Better to strike off in a different direction, heck go F2p or Buy2p, slowly build your game, and cut back servers, but remaking FFXI will kill both properties.

Aside from that in all honesty i had a lot of fun exploring this game, and some of the biggest probs and things people talked about, was fixing the bugs, and all of the cool stuff they would add, like new jobs, new zones, Boss monsters, cool gears, hax skills, etc.
For me this game was much more fun than ffxi was at its basics, they needed to develop the world, there is no point in a battle system with no content, lack of content and bugs is why people quit. The battle system is changing, but they better have a crap load of content to match it. about 8 months worth.