Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Vandark]

FFXI could live because it was unique AND had long term goals to achieve.
FFXIV is a clone MMORPG just like the rest of them that made bank with the privilege of having the Final Fantasy skin available to them to slap it on the game.

It's for that reason I don't understand why they didn't just slap there new graphics on XI and remaster XI, XI isn't even that hard anymore Eorzea could have just been a new continent.
I reactivated my XI account yesterday, plenty of people still playing and demanding for a graphics boost.

WoW as much as I am not into it has done the right thing, there revamping there games graphics slowly but surely they'll have the same game with all it's content remaining + awesome graphics.
Thats the path SE should have taken, XI-2 not FF14-fail then FF14-A Realm Raped

Newer games tend to feed their players constant gear and weapons that it makes their minds think it's less grindy. I.E Get Ifrit weapon, get Garuda weapon quick in no time. Grinding crafts and leveling classes there's so much unnecessary gear you can skip through or do without.

Yeah, I would much rather take longer acquiring my gear with more changeling content thats more rewarding and actually feels like I achieved something rather than walk around with the same gear everyone else has because everything is at arms reach. I also agree about unnecessary gear, how many pointless weapons we will never use do we need?

Extreme Primals should have gear sets not more weapons... SE we have enough damn weapons, seriously!

Hell even make a lvl 99 set for end game that isn't easy to get, the coil gear isn't even that much better than the stuff you get from weekly points, it doesn't even seem worth the effort.

I think you have your chronology mismatched if you think FF XIV is a regression of MMO Game evolutions.

As far as Square Enix MMO Game evolutions go ARR is defiantly a regression, they started a new game then started that new game from square one, evolution would have been remastering XI instead of making the first FFXIV or simply expanding onto FFXIV 1.23 not starting all over again. TWO TIMES!

If you think that ARR is moving forward in MMO evolutions let me ask you this what exactly do you think about when someone says something has evolved? That it has become a better form of it's previous state, if ARR is evolution then it seems to be evolving in the wrong direction.

SE should have stuck with what they know and do best and evolved into something new and original, ARR isn't evolution it's just the same old crap we played in many MANY games before it.

and all SE does it throw more flashy armor in the game to keep the players interested but this is not what the players really want.
the SoA expansion was SE promise to FFXI players to bring back the old play style, if u say ppl were sick of that game play why did SE make that promise?

tbh, I don't think this game will live long if they keep doing this
and Like Dannythm, i loved Tanaka san game more than the Yoshi copy past game =)

Fully, it's lame to have your hard earned gear replaced constantly, thats what ARR is like, it's become a game of catch the chicken. Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched, you might blow all your long waited points on equipment that by the time you earn will be replaced with updated armor.

Oh yeah but Square Enix put a cap on how many points you can hold forcing you to spend your points... LOL Ahhh the plot thickens, SE you are pure evil at heart.

The games so dull it needs intense limitations and gimmick mounts and pets just so they can keep the subs rolling over, you don't even need mounts anymore... there is no point to the open world once your maxed and don't tell me gathering is useful for anything because crafting is pointless now so is gil. The only use for gil now is over priced housing, in FFXI that is free and everyone gets there own house! In FFXI gil was never useless you were always finding ways to improve yourself threw currency, buying spells, armor that wasn't junk, pop items for NM's, items and food you actually had to use because the content was constructed that way.

Why isn't there lvl 90 craftable armor sets that you can equip materia onto? I know I keep saying Verity but seriously come on, we need more Verity here, badly. Crazy armor you can craft and buy with gil is what makes crafting useful in the first place without that it's just a waste of time and resources.