Anyone else hope the I-level doesn't go up again in 2.4?

[ShinkuTachi]

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Personally, I don't exactly agree or disagree with you here, as I really don't know what all goes on behind the scenes in creation of any FF game (specifically FFXIV).

However, I feel the reused assets are more about development convenience than actual relation between one game and another. Every FF (that I know of) after FF1 has been reusing FF assets, while still bringing new stuff to FF at the same time.

I personally don't have a problem with the reuse of old assets, especially since FF, as a series, has a great deal of nostalgia associated with it. The only problem I had with XIV was the fact that they chose to reuse the playable races and just stick different names to them, and the way they attempted to originally work 1.0's economy. The former, I got over because it was no big deal; and, the latter, because it's no longer an issue. However, those two issues are neither here, nor there in the discussion of this thread. I simply wanted to share my PoV about the reused assets.

[BobbinT]

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I agree with what you said there. It's just that XIV are IMO 1st series that's using really alot of reused content. I played every FF series, except 13, and majority of them are usually redesigned, which I'm cool with.