Quote Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang View Post
You are comparing two different games based on your senses of both with one leaning heavily on the past. This is nostalgia driven. If you had nothing to pull from in terms of FFXI then you wouldn't be doing the, "Remember way back when...?" and you wouldn't have a point.

When all you can pull from is FFXI, you have to question what is driving that. It's obvious what "that" is. Also, you cannot compare the two anyway as FFXIV is not fully redeveloped as I have stated a few posts ago. Hell, it's also been stated by several people throughout this thread. It's not an original point on my behalf, but it still holds true 35 pages into the discussion. You cannot preemptively combat what FFXIV will be in the end of it's redevelopment, at least not fully. Especially when all of your thoughts are pulled from obvious FFXI nostalgia driven systems.
you can't use the "ffxiv isnt fully redeveloped" argument anymore. Its been a year. People like you will make this same argument a year from now when the game is still free....

If you are a company with a successful product, you copy the parts that were successful and throw away the parts that were unsuccessful, thus resulting in a -more- successful product. Thats fairly logical.....
FFXI was a success. To ignore it and make a game that is the complete opposite and then wonder why it falls on its face is ridiculous. I don't see why anyone thinks a team that couldn't fix a game in a year will magically turn things around in a few months and make a game a hit success? Thats not realistic -at all-.