Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

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It was also probably an attempt to kill off XI and make people go to XIV, seeing as how it was shortly before XIV's original release, which was a mistake by SE, they even admitted to it. How is killingoff your cash cow and hoping people jump to the new one a good idea? lol /SElogic

Wrong. Dead wrong.

SE stated many times that they wanted to keep both games running simultaneously (they purposely designed FFXIV 1.0 to be VERY different from FFXI)... players were even offered a special deal for subbing to both.

Abyssea was actually a desperate gambit to KEEP FFXI subscribers from leaving in the wake of the 'brand new FFXIV'. The shocking and unbelievable announcement to raise the lvl cap to 99 (!), happened on the same day that FFXIV was announced. Not a coincidence.

SE was worrried that FFXI players would leave in droves to FFXIV which would hurt their profits, so they threw caution to the wind, and opened the floodgates of content hoping to keep FFXI players engaged in the game.



Sadly, it was a very bad gamble. FFXIV 1.0 wasn't well received at all (and thus wasn't leeching FFXI subs), and meanwhile, the drastic changes in Abyssea ended up damaging FFXI in a myriad of ways; causing life-time fans to walk away from it.