SE and Community is a little imbalance such a bad thing?

[Lambdafish]

Did 1.0 scare square enix yes I honestly believe it did, and that to me is a contributing factor to the play it safe mentality that Yoshi p no Square enix the company has, but play it safe is not final fantasy.

To be fair, I think SE has done a good job in making sure that XIV isnt like world of warcraft, the game feels fresh in comparison to other MMOs I have played, and I feel that the dev team have done well in this regard. I was simply using WoW as an example of a game that is a lot closer to XIV than XI, and that we should be looking at games like that (or GW2, or other MMOs on the market), and not wishing this game was XI

[Roegadyn_Bear]

Don't get me wrong, I loved it back then... but I don't think going back to FFXI in this day and age is a good idea.

[sorahu]

To be fair, I think SE has done a good job in making sure that XIV isnt like world of warcraft, the game feels fresh in comparison to other MMOs I have played, and I feel that the dev team have done well in this regard. I was simply using WoW as an example of a game that is a lot closer to XIV than XI, and that we should be looking at games like that (or GW2, or other MMOs on the market), and not wishing this game was XI

interesting point, I guess the real question is what can Yoshi p and the dev team do moving forward to keep the player base happy and interested in playing final fantasy 14? because I'm not following what direction the game is going in and the gear to content or content to gear without individuality is just not getting it. storyline is great don't get me wrong, its just takeing them to long to release major content releases. to be 100 % honest heavensward was way to easy and as a expansion go.

[sorahu]

Don't get me wrong, I loved it back then... but I don't think going back to FFXI in this day and age is a good idea.

I don't think so either but I do believe Yoshi p and dev team have to find they're own unique way on delivering to us final fantasy 14.

[Neridine]

Don't get me wrong, I loved it back then... but I don't think going back to FFXI in this day and age is a good idea.

Surely there's a happy medium though and I think that's what is a bit disappointing for quite a few people now.

[Lambdafish]

interesting point, I guess the real question is what can Yoshi p and the dev team do moving forward to keep the player base happy and interested in playing final fantasy 14? because I'm not following what direction the game is going in and the gear to content or content to gear without individuality is just not getting it. storyline is great don't get me wrong, its just takeing them to long to release major content releases. to be 100 % honest heavensward was way to easy and as a expansion go.

long lasting content is the way to go, the game itself doesn't have anything wrong with it, and 2.x was very enjoyable. I've said this before, but in my opinion 2.5 was a strange, but enjoyable patch in that they really didnt add much new, but somehow pony farming became endgame. This lead to an interesting case where all of the extreme primals became relevant and fun to run again, and it was great to see this old content being run again. Think about it this way, if bismark and ravana had dropped the same ilvl weapons and also dropped accessories, but it was designed so that for example: the ravana BLM staff is better than Bismark, but the BLM bismark ring is better than ravanas, we would have a lot more people running this content. Same with if they dropped mounts like the old primals. This is not changing the design of the content at all, but rather thinking about the reasons that players run the content.

[dinnertime]

Don't get me wrong, I loved it back then... but I don't think going back to FFXI in this day and age is a good idea.

This image is so innacurate on both ends.