Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Alipoprocks]

So from the answers I have seen, it looks like both games are on the same boat in terms of how much content available from launch. It isn't fair to say that XI has so much more content when it has 12 years on ARR. You can compare FFXIV's 12 year period with FFXI's sure, but we haven't gotten 11 years into the future yet. Listing areas doesn't really count unless there was actual content to do in there besides leveling or at most killing mobs to get a item for a certain quest. XIV also has multiple jobs and crafts to level on one character.

You really can't compare the two games. Leveling in FFXIV is stupid easy, even crafts. I had one craft at 50 when 2.0 launched. It took me two months of casually working on crafting to get the rest to 50. FFXIV takes minimal effort, including relics.

But I guess you could say that the amount of content is about the same. It just feels like less content because everything is instant.

[Tupsi]

You really can't compare the two games. Leveling in FFXIV is stupid easy, even crafts. I had one craft at 50 when 2.0 launched. It took me two months of casually working on crafting to get the rest to 50. FFXIV takes minimal effort, including relics.

But I guess you could say that the amount of content is about the same. It just feels like less content because everything is instant.

And XI's content is multi purpose an wasn't easily thrown away. The only time this ever happens is if they redo the content in a later version (e.g Monstrosity over Pankraton.)

Also, XI had it's first expansion by now...there's that too.