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

[LillithaFenimore]

Yeah I can't read through this entire thread...it's complete and utter nonsense.

Look, people don't like change, and God forbid there is an MMO of a similar title that they are used to playing and it's not the same exact thing...actually it turned out to be pretty craptastic in many aspects.

I agree with many...the things that worked well in XI maybe should have been implemented...however, I am happy that this isn't an exact copy of XI. When I pick up a game...ANY game...weather it be an MMO or a console game...I expect there to be certian things borrowed from other games...but I don't expect the same thing over and over again.

Good example...I loved TES III. Awesome! However, I would have been thoroughly pissed if I played through TES IV only to find out my character was some born again god that needs to save the world from some crazed bad guy who has been reborn in the center of a mountian using Kagrenac's tools to destroy blah blah blah.....

I don't want to go through that crap again...great story....great game play...I don't need a reskinned version of it...and the same goes for XI to XIV.

I want a unique game, unique quests, unique stories and unique methods of going from point a to point b.

I don't like change myself...but it's inevitable and might as well deal with it.

XI had a great run, many years spent playing it and making friends and such...time for me to move on...so here I am...waiting for XIV to gets it's shit together...and I am enjoying watching it grow into it's own.

[Khal_Drogo]

The thing is, like you stated in this paragraph, XI and XIV are mostly only similar in appearance and aesthetic. The main reason behind this (which has been stated in interviews) is that XIV started out as an HD remake of XI, and then the team took it in a new direction.

Some things from XI worked, but it is not the only place that SE can borrow ideas from.... Again, I understand that you are saying that SOME things from XI were great, and it can't hurt to look to those ideas for inspiration. There is just usually a better solution than "copy this from XI, it was good".

Ya, I see where ya'll are coming from now. It's true that I (as well as many others, I'm sure) have, absolutely, no experience with *any MMO other than FFXI. I don't think Halo and CoD count, so I won't bother "pretending" that I do lol So, naturally our suggestions are going to be kind of biased. But we're not so close-minded that we're saying XI was perfect, and "we want every problem that SE is having w/ XIV to be solved using XI. That would probably turn XIV into an awful game xD

I don't know if we chased off all the haters, or if ppl are finally starting to understand what I *really meant by my first post. You pretty much summed up everything that I was trying to say in one paragraph Tsuga lol -I think I'll add that to the original post to try and calm ppl down. Thanks for the input.

[Aeyis]

Ya, I see where ya'll are coming from now. It's true that I (as well as many others, I'm sure) have, absolutely, no experience with *any MMO other than FFXI. I don't think Halo and CoD count, so I won't bother "pretending" that I do lol So, naturally our suggestions are going to be kind of biased. But we're not so close-minded that we're saying XI was perfect, and "we want every problem that SE is having w/ XIV to be solved using XI. That would probably turn XIV into an awful game xD

I don't know if we chased off all the haters, or if ppl are finally starting to understand what I *really meant by my first post. You pretty much summed up everything that I was trying to say in one paragraph Tsuga lol -I think I'll add that to the original post to try and calm ppl down. Thanks for the input.

That's not what your thread title is saying tho.

[Vanguard319]

Actually I didn't notice, I was too busy playing FFXIV.

[Raagnar]

You have backed yourself into a corner here.. the only point youre trying to prove is that there are similarities between ffxi and ffxiv? great job... useless thread.

FYI.. when you quote someone you might as well have said it yourself so dont act like you didnt mention food, chocos and airships.

[LillithaFenimore]

Actually I didn't notice, I was too busy playing FFXIV.

LOL. Yeah I agree with this right here

[Khal_Drogo]

That's not what your thread title is saying tho.

lol nope, the title was meant to get my point across in the most spiteful way possible...Mission accomplished, I guess. I was actually just hoping to pull in abuncha ppl who *agreed w/ me, and have us all just talk back and forth about how right we are, and how wrong and ignorant "they" are lol

And, then, I envisioned a thread with thousands and thousands of views and replies, and SE deciding that, clearly, ppl loved XI, and that they should (at the very least) adopt the former job system from XI, or some sort of XI/XIV hybrid xD

Instead, it turned into a long drawn-out "fight" of denial and insinuation.

[LillithaFenimore]

lol nope, the title was meant to get my point across in the most spiteful way possible...Mission accomplished, I guess. I was actually just hoping to pull in abuncha ppl who *agreed w/ me, and have us all just talk back and forth about how right we are, and how wrong and ignorant "they" are lol Instead, it turned into a long drawn-out "fight" of denial and insinuation.

It's a public forum...what did you expect? A welcoming comittee? /facepalm

[Overkill9000]

...the only point youre trying to prove is that there are similarities between ffxi and ffxiv? great job... useless thread.

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@OP everyone has known this since release and argued it death... let it r.i.p.

[Verecund]

Maybe they should implement paid subscriptions immediately so we can see how successful the game will be under the current FFXI-driven model.

Hmm.