Go play ffxi, you love it. This game should never be ffxi. Im not saying its perfect by far, but as developers you should look to making a new game experience. You should petition ffxi to remake their graphics/polygons and make an HD ffxi.

Im not even really hating on what your saying, im dead serious. Whatever they end up making this game, it shoud offer a unique expereicne from ffxi. FFXI can have expansions to expand the story, and they could theoretically redo the whole graphic engine while keeping the same game and data for probably a lot less money than making ffxiv ff11. There is no logical reason to make this game offer the same expereince as ffxi.