Hardcore, easy mode and the XI veteran

[Wolfie]

Being that you supposedly played XI for 7 years I had hoped that you would be able to at least backup your very first sentence.. what a waste reading that unsupported horribly opinionated wall-of-text rant.

There is no doubt that currently XIV is on easy mode compared to the actually DIFFICULTY of the endgame content in XI. To try to agrue that it only 'seemed' more difficult because of lower drop rates just shows that you yourself were a casual inexperienced player, who prolly just leech'ed at events contributing nothing but a body. Then you claim XI's 'motto' was "allow few to participate..." when XI both launched with more larger scale events than XIV and obviously has plenty of extra large scale events currently. I guess you, for whatever reason, had no friends/ls to run with regularly.. or the desire to create/run/strategize your own events.. because you clearly missed most of the game.

3-5k/hour grind..? Seriously? Even waaaay before SMNburn/Abyssea came in and jacked XI up that's just completely terrible. I see what happened.. you must have been one of those ppl.. ya kno.. who spent 7 years just leveling 4 jobs..

I like how your attempt to argue your points is just ad hominem attacks.

He's completely right about FFXI's motto about allowing few to participate. Here's some of the major limits FFXI had on end-game content:

Dynamis:

Only one group at a time per server.
Insane gil sink as entry requirement.

Open world HNM:

Spawns every 24-hr/3 days/1 week
Only one group gets to kill it

BCNM/KSNM:

Insane farming required to gain entry
Only one group at a time can enter

Sky:

Similar to open world NM, only one group can fight at a time
Harsh farming requirements
Requires long quest chain to access

Sea:

Similar to Sky, requires an even longer quest chain

I mean, I could go on and on, but I think you realize that if you weren't part of one of the few privileged/hardcore/botting end-game LSes, you were screwed. The fact that FFXI had more content on release or by the 1 year mark doesn't mean FFXI had decent content, it means FFXIV is worse than FFXI in that aspect. Compare FFXI to other MMOs' end-game model, and you'll see how terrible FFXI's model is.