Quote Originally Posted by Luvbunny View Post
Well to be fair, FFXI does have a few good battle systems, namely Voidwatch, which is FAR more superior that this absolute mess of The Hunt from FF14. I see no reasons why Yoshi cannot "steal" as many great stuffs from FF11 and implement it here with some tweakings. Lord knows, FF11 is copying a boatload of FF14's features in their game now, which is a welcome change. The old FFXI is trash, absolute garbage of a game, so glad it is no longer exist. The "new" FFXI did amazing job, Seeker of Adoulin was a hot mess when it launched, but the new team did fantastic job in the past one year alone and changed FFXI for the better. So many great features added to make FFXI far more enjoyable and accessible, and yet still obliterate all noobies who try to brute force tank and spank SoA endgame contents.

The new team is hard at work to balance other support jobs but I understand it takes time to untangle the absolute mess of spaghetti code and crappy ideas from "old school FFXI". They added so many new features to Red Mage, Corsair and Geomancer - though they need to work harder on this to replace people's opinion "we cannot win if we don't have Bard in our group" mentality. Give it another year and I would think FFXI will be completely modernized up to par to FF14. The amount of contents they add every month is very good for a game that is 11 years old. Jobs balance still a big issue there - I realize it is not easy to balance over 20 jobs.
Luvbunny, I may have said this before but you were always playing the wrong game with xi (I argued with you on the ffxi forums a few times). FFXI was a certain type of game, and it did what it did well... VERY well. Changing that with abyssea and later on SoA was an affront to people who loved what xi was trying to do in the first place. It was NOT a garbage game it was one of the few mmos that captured the dream mmorpgs were originally chasing. I have to accept that same factor about ffxiv, that it was designed with a different purpose in mind and you should have been accepting of that in ffxi (I have no idea why you stuck around it when you hated its core designs). I accept that ffxiv has a different goal from what ffxi had, but I think there is room to add some things that would appeal to people like me while still keeping that goal at heart. Stop insulting mah game >.>