Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Tiggy]

Exactly Reeth, perfectly stated. This is absolutely not the game many real FF fans were hoping for. The spiritual FFXI-2 if you will. But it is passable. But passable only keeps people for so long and then bye bye to all those subs and money. You know, we also have to think about mass appeal games that tanked. Looked at the SWtoR debacle. All that money, a sure fire win IP... and *BOOM* (flames). So sometimes it can go either way. But as you said, we will hang here for a bit before we move on.

I am real Final Fantasy fan. Been playing them my whole life. This was the exact game I was hoping for. Honestly, you need to speak for yourself a bit more and less for those around you. It is your opinion and you should keep it as such.

Many people don't have the time to spend a dozen hours a week barely getting anything done like in FFXI, and I am now at the point where I am in that group. It doesn't matter what kind of fan you are to determine how much free time you feel like wasting sitting around town hoping to get things done. In FFXI I sat around town wasting hours upon hours every week hoping to get a party together to get at least one thing done. Good riddance to those days as that kind of game has no place in my life anymore. I didn't remain a college student forever, and I don't have the free time or patience to waste my entire afternoon away. Now I can log into FFXIV and get multiple things done in just an hour. I couldn't say the same at all for FFXI. (It's worth noting I quit about 6 months after wings of the goddess came out. If things eventually got easier I never saw it.) A game should be played. Not a glorified chat room while I waste hours hoping to do anything at all. FFXIV does this much much better than FFXI ever did.

FFXIV is also a PS3/4 and PC game heavily publicized, FFXI is a PS2 game (lol PS2 Online) later ported to PC. The question is, how much will FFXIV last? History shows us Theme Park don't last.

Doesn't even compare.

WoW begs to differ. Most theme park MMOs fail because investors want a return on their investment. Their impatience to turn a quick profit results in the f2p model. This turns many gamers away since cash shops are generally implemented in the most horrible way possible. (ie. SWOTOR) It is largely business decisions that are ruining these games. Not necessarily the games themselves.

Edit: Also, players expectations that every new MMO has 5 years worth of content at launch doesn't help either.