Skill based fights..

[Dyvid]

Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).

[Axidrain]

Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).

Lol this is not new school buddy. This is dumbed down

[Marxam]

Skill = Memorization

This game pretty much personifies that idea. Boss fights only require you to know WHAT to do when it happens not what to do, SHOULD it happen. Big difference.

[TrystWildkey]

Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).

I'll bite.

I'm playing XIV because I thought 1.23 was going in a great direction. I'm 90% certain that when my sub runs out, I won't be playing this game anymore because the dev team that gave us 1.23 seems to have been swapped with their bizarro world counterparts.

I'm NOT playing XI anymore because that game has changed and gone to iLevel weapons/gear. They're doing the same thing with XI that ARR is, vertical only. Oh, and good luck getting the new iLvl weapons and stuff, last time I was in XI, you couldn't get into a party to challenge the content that drops the weapons unless you already had a weapon.

[NefGP]

Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).

Several reasons really.

1) I played XI for a good 9 years, and I was satisfied when I hung it up. There's new story content now, but it's just not enough.
2) I really, really hate XI's dated mechanics and horrible crafting & gathering. While I still think it's the best job system of any MMO and the UI isn't all that horrible once you get used to it, I rather like how polished and streamlined ARR is. I just wish we had more freedom within the armory system and combat was a bit more engaging than simply 1>2>3 over and over.
3) I'm fairly certain all my friends who used to play XI have quit, and I don't fancy going back alone (though I did keep all my gil and items just in case I ever decided to).


And lastly, I'm legacy. I stuck out 1.0 to the bitter end in the hopes of YP turning this game into something far grander than XI ever was. So far it's been about 50/50 - the potential is definitely there, but it's largely being squandered in my eyes to cater to the scrubs.

[Yashnaheen]

Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).

I'll also take this one.

Most of those who liked XI and moved on did so due to Abyssea. It pretty much changed XI in to ARR in principal, so for us there is no XI to 'go back to'.

A lot of people who stuck with it loved 1.2x. It was a great game. Would have been better with the ARR engine (lesser in some respects, but got rid of the 1.x issues at least). We had hopes 2.0 would follow what we had in the 2 previous SE MMOs. Like or hate it, it was unique and there were those who loved it. Most of us in this category don't appreciate the gear treadmill and don't want to hop games between content patches.

I'm spoiled. I reupped my XI sub for a month after v1 went down to hang out with old friends. As great as it was in its day I couldn't take the clunky controls, graphics, pace and so on. It has aged.