Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
This is EXACTLY what's wrong. You're so used to how FFXI does it that you don't consider other ways to do it. City of Heroes' search system is far, FAR better than FFXI's version in almost every way. Yet everybody is scream for /sea instead.

Regardless of how they incorporate it, I just hope they give us a way to be invis/anonymous. Getting random tells and invites when you're doing other things is extremely annoying.
I've played XI off and on for the total of 9 years, however I've played RO consistently for 5 -- which would mean in reality I'm more used to how RO does things than I am FFXI. It's merely common sense that if both games are titled Final Fantasy and both are built by the same company which also employs the same development team for both projects and had the same director and producer you'll logically assume they would have built off of the basics, which has been proven to work or XI wouldn't exist today.

XI's search system was basic -- which means for FFXIV they could have incorporated it and as I said built from it which means making it better. Instead they went the route of making almost everything worse. I've also played:

Lineage
Lineage II
Knight Online
Kal Online
WoW
TERA
Rift
Rappelz
Iris
Lucent Hearts

So I'm pretty sure I've been exposed to plenty of "other ways to do it", but none of those games are by the same company and same development team.