Updates: FFXI and FFXIV, a comparison

[Roaran]

I think the whole idea was to not necessarily stop working on that content, but to not release it. I'm fairly sure, Ishguard & most of the related content is probably ready to go. But they decided to not release it, as they felt it would be a waste with the current system.

[Cutriss]

I think the whole idea was to not necessarily stop working on that content, but to not release it. I'm fairly sure, Ishguard & most of the related content is probably ready to go. But they decided to not release it, as they felt it would be a waste with the current system.

I really hope so. I just wish they'd say so. I guess they don't want to do that until they have a timetable on the relaunch.

[indira]

ffxi was finsh before they released it, expansions finshed before the came out. not the case with ffxiv now there making it on the fly, they should of took everything the learnd from ffxi and used that to build off of, but no the decide to make them selfs look like there new to making games, reinventing the wheel.

[Physic]

ffxi was finsh before they released it, expansions finshed before the came out. not the case with ffxiv now there making it on the fly, they should of took everything the learnd from ffxi and used that to build off of, but no the decide to make them selfs look like there new to making games, reinventing the wheel.

no, look at the patch notes, all of this stuff was not developed before the game came out, we re talking JP release here. They had numerous issues, reworks and rebalances that wouldnt have been needed if the game was already developed, such as adding magic bursts, the addition of Dlevel to all damage and accuracy equations, addition of mining. I dont know why i provide hard evidence, and people are going off supposition, and what they heard, or thought, look at the patch notes, it outlines all the foul ups, changes, tweaks, additions etc that happened in the life of ffxi.

It's not actually, but you're not going to believe anything until you see it with your own eyes.

The class adjustments alone will make a longer list than the whole year of patches in XI combined.

Not that the end result will be a better game, but there sure as hell will be more of it than what XI saw pre-RotZ.

once again look at the notes, pre rotz, they added 5 jobs 3 level cap increases, new zones, and 2 tiers of missions. 15 levels of skills and spells, even with the new job additions and changes the game will not come close to pre rotz changes
AND rotz came out 11 months after the game was released, within 1 year they did massive amounts of fixes, added vanilla content, AND worked on a new LARGE expansion.

there is simply not enough progress for the amount of time, even if they deliver every single thing on that list after a full year of work.

I am not saying they suck or they are bastards im saying ok, now we can look at the 1 year plan, and see that they are currently falling way behind where they should be in a years time. They need to look to increase productivity, i cant think of a single game mmo or not that could show so little actual development in a years time.
this is progress of the game expected by 1 year from release

addition of basic quests
3 large NMs
24 basic NMs
2 dungeons(or types)
7 job specializations
auto attack
rebalancing of job skills.
marketward search feature

thats it for 1 year of development, the list of ffxi can fill multiple pages, look at the list of guild wars 1 numerous class balances, new items and zones and a whole new expansion. aion went from 1.5 to 2.0. AOC, Warhammer.

the worst part is the game didnt even start with a lot, its not like they had a strong base content wise or a complete game, it was full of bugs, basic problems, over sights and a tremendous lack of content.

right now the development team is failing to produce development at a pace on par with thier past selves, and their current competitors, this is a serious problem.