XI-2 was released this past September, or didn't you notice?

[Khal_Drogo]

We already have 3 more genders confirmed, and there is a new race already. And more are to come. Are you saying that, to turn this into a FFXI-2, let us scrap the new class (I don't know the name, the one with horns) and remove all future races which we can have, remove the genders which have been confirmed, continue making Miqo'te females the powerhouse of their race, and make Roegadyns start reincarnating?

First of all, I read your entire post from beginning to end, but I found no reason to add to the quote I posted of your post. I wasn't attacking you, personally. I was using your statements as a means of "attacking" anti-FFXI ppl. I didn't mean to get you so upset lol

I was pretty pissed, myself, back when I posted that. The level of ignorance people were displaying, and the blatant denial of obvious facts was just to overwhelming to tolerate. Second, the whole reincarnation thing about Galka...it was a running joke if I'm not mistaken. Like the Mithra males, we just never saw any of them. And a Mithra male did appear in one of the FFXI expansions. Whether or not their role was one of power or not, was never fully explained, but that means little to nothing. As for the "evidence" of you contradicting yourself, I thought it should be apparent: You stated that XI and XIV have as much in common with each other as they do because they draw from previous FF titles, and not because XIV drew off XI. Then, you proceeded to name a long list of FF titles that have many similarities w/ both XI and XIV, which is to be expected. However, what you failed to realize is that XI and XIV have more in common with one *another, than any other FF titles before it have ever had in common with each other (aside from, LITERAL, sequels). By naming as many FF titles as you did, trying to show the extensive number of commonalities between "all" FF titles, you actually ended up reaffirming my initial statement: FFXI has more in common with FFXIV than any other FF games have ever had in common with one another. And the only way to find similarities that BOTH games share with each other *as well as other FF titles, is to name off at least 5 different FF titles that came before them. I don't know enough about each and every single FF game that's ever been released. Hell, I don't think I was even "alive" for all of them. However, all that aside, even if there *are two other FF titles out there that have just as significant of an amount of similarities between them, it doesn't dispute the fact that XIV and XI are *very similar. Yes, you can break things down into EXTREME detail, and say they're nothing alike: "Oh, Roegadyn don't have a dimple on the left cheek of of their face, right next to the pronounced lower jaw like in XI....they're nothing alike!" (not a real feature...just trying to prove a point). But, either way, the facts are the facts. They are very similar because SE wanted to repeat and increase the success they had in the MMO world. And they didn't simply cater to FF fans in general; they wanted to make sure XI fans, in particular, would come back to support them in their endeavor (the only audience they could 100% count on to support them, because even I, a MAJOR FF fan, was hesitant about XI when I saw it). And the only way to ensure that their XI fans "jumped aboard" was to make a "fake sequel." The races aren't just the same, the face choices are the same. They're the same damn ppl, and this is an online game where "everyone" is different. As for the reference about bringing back characters from or to FFT or w/e you were talking about. It doesn't really apply here because the setting in which they were "brought back" was entirely different. This is an MMO. It's FF's 2nd MMO, so it's only natural that they're going to be, virtually, identical.

Anyway, when we all say "identical" and "similar," we aren't talking about every SINGLE tiny trivial detail like you seem to think we are. Instead of "nit-picking" aspects of our arguments to use as ammunition against us, why don't *you try reading our posts more carefully. More often than not, the only reason anyone EVER brings up the similarities, between XIV and XI, is to try and battle the logic that dictates "XI sucks, so we don't want anything from it coming to XIV or it will suck too" -too LATE, XI content was there before you even knew the game existed...[races, bazaars, linkshells/pearls, architecture, music, landscape and terrain, many from the XI crew as you said so yourself, all the chat features, chat log colors (green ls chat, pink /tell chat, teal party chat, orange /sh chat, and so on), and SO much more]. I wish you wouldn't have brought this up again. You ppl really hit a nerve w/ me. And yes, my BELOVED XI is extremely special to me. It and school were the only escapes I had when I was a kid. So, forgive me if I don't want to let it go completely when there's already so much there, practically slapping me in the face, saying "I am XI-2...play me, and love me."