XIV is Not Being Remade for You/Us

[Jaide]

that's your problem

FFXIV was not planned to made for FFXI market only from the beginning, It's not your (XI players) game, It's our game.

That's the problem. It's fans of FFXI who are most likely to care about this game in the first place. Nobody has a chance of ripping off a significant chunk of WoW's casual market for any extensive period of time. FFXIV's best chance was to appeal to those who enjoyed the first MMO. That doesn't mean they have to clone XI, but going the opposite direction has proven to be a complete disaster.

Appealing to as wide of an audience as possible just involves appealing to the lowest common denominator and, unless you are the lowest common denominator, this only serves to line the pockets of the publisher/developers. If they want to make a quality game, they're better off figuring out who their niche market is (ie, fans of their previous FF mmo - likely the only ones who will care enough to give it a second try) and getting them to come back to the game first.

[hikoneko]

That's the problem. It's fans of FFXI who are most likely to care about this game in the first place. Nobody has a chance of ripping off a significant chunk of WoW's casual market for any extensive period of time. FFXIV's best chance was to appeal to those who enjoyed the first MMO. That doesn't mean they have to clone XI, but going the opposite direction has proven to be a complete disaster.

Appealing to as wide of an audience as possible just involves appealing to the lowest common denominator and, unless you are the lowest common denominator, this only serves to line the pockets of the publisher/developers. If they want to make a quality game, they're better off figuring out who their niche market is (ie, fans of their previous FF mmo - likely the only ones who will care enough to give it a second try) and getting them to come back to the game first.

Yeah I don't think they should clone XI, but XI really have some good elements in it that could bring over to XIV.