So you get ONE wish...

[OMEGA_HACK]

really? I thought it aged well, I mean even people who don't like the game (I have a lot of friends who dislike it and don't claim it as a real FF numeral game) but they still give it credit as being able to hold its own against a wave of new MMOs (for the longest time it was holding that steady number of 500k players, a pretty decent number for a going on 10 y/o game)

[SuzakuCMX]

The thing is there wasn't a lot of "best" to take from XI. It didn't age well.

It's still better than what we have.

[Duelle]

Exping was a bore in XI because of Colibri parties required absolutely NO thought process, and same with the new abyssea zones, its not because of lack of things to do in combat, it just gets boring without needing any kind of strategy.

Killing the same mobs over and over again is what made leveling boring in XI.

[MeowyWowie]

The thing is there wasn't a lot of "best" to take from XI. It didn't age well.

How can you say it didn't age well? When FFXI was released in Japan it was more or less a disaster. Sound familiar?

Throughout its 10 year run, FFXI turned into the game of choice for many, many players (you don't need 12M subs to constitute a great game btw.) In my eyes, it was a masterpiece and no other MMO compared to it. But that's just my interpretation. If you didn't like it, fine. But that doesn't mean it was a failure as you seem to be implying.

[Shikyo]

for the game to be enjoyable?

[Carzilla]

upgradable housing/company hall that isnt an apartment. I wanna go from HUT to Mansion
complete with a linkshell based neighbor system: where you can select which linkshell you want as a viewable neighbor so when ever u pass by their hall/house you can see what it looks like.

[Akumu]

A FFXI type Dragoon(meaning with the wyvern).

[Shikaree]

Killing the same mobs over and over again is what made leveling boring in XI.

As well as going to the same areas over and over for killing the same mobs.

[Nakiamiie]

My wish:

complex and lively monster/NPC intelligence and behavior (as opposed to monsters that simply roam in a circle without doing anything and NPCs that stand still waiting for who knows what -- wish is to have the liveliness of the cutscenes outside the cutscenes).

[Duelle]

As well as going to the same areas over and over for killing the same mobs.

So we both agree that camping for exp mobs for hours on end was bad design. *nod*