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[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I wonder if anyone will look back at XIV and be like "Man that **** was fun! I want my next MMO to be more like it at launch!"

As much as you assume people are looking through nostalgia goggles, the fact of the matter is that XIV is a far inferior game to pretty much anything that is currently on the market. So I wouldn't get all upity on people for remembering how fun a game can be instead of how "Meh" the one they are playing currently is.

I can almost guarantee that when FFXIV goes to pay to play, the only people who will be thinking that will still be the FFXI nostalgia driven players. :P

FFXIV will never be good enough til you let FFXI go. Sorry, but that's a fact.

[Jynx]

I can almost guarantee that when FFXIV goes to pay to play, the only people who will be thinking that will still be the FFXI nostalgia driven players. :P

FFXIV will never be good enough til you let FFXI go. Sorry, but that's a fact.

FFXIV has a long way to go before they hit anyone with a sense of awesomeness and scale, especially when they seem concerned about destroying any sense of scale wherever they go.

I let FFXI go when Abysea came out, hell long before that. It doesn't mean I don't know what makes a good game in my eyes. Saying that people are blind because they enjoyed XI is just asanine XIV has tons of potential to be greater than XI. If your trying to argue that just because I played XI 7 years ago that it's why I think it was a great game you are wrong.

Ultima Online was my first MMO and it was terrible compared to XI, Everquest was even worse. Someone doesn't need to be blinded by nostalgia to think that XI did alot of things right.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

FFXIV has a long way to go before they hit anyone with a sense of awesomeness and scale, especially when they seem concerned about destroying any sense of scale wherever they go.

I let FFXI go when Abysea came out, hell long before that. It doesn't mean I don't know what makes a good game in my eyes. Saying that people are blind because they enjoyed XI is just asanine XIV has tons of potential to be greater than XI. If your trying to argue that just because I played XI 7 years ago that it's why I think it was a great game you are wrong.

Ultima Online was my first MMO and it was terrible compared to XI, Everquest was even worse. Someone doesn't need to be blinded by nostalgia to think that XI did alot of things right.

But FFXI shaped what you feel is a great MMO. Without FFXI you wouldn't be so critical and make so many references to it. This is evident to the fact that you can't bring up a dislike for one of FFXIV's systems and compare it to FFXI.

In the redevelopment process it's more productive and rewarding to be forward thinking. I'm not saying that FFXIV is definitively forward thinking, but also at the same time it doesn't do anyone any good to go backwards.