Quote Originally Posted by SessionZero View Post
All the people pining for FFXI do realize it's still running, right?
To preface what I'm about to say with some context, I originally played from 2004-2008 and loved it. I also went back with some friends during the gap between 2.55-3.0, and had an active sub for about a year before deciding I'd seen all I wanted to for now and cancelling again. In my opinion, there's a lot of things about FFXI that could be adapted very well to provide interesting content in FFXIV, but also a ton of things about FFXI that deserve to stay firmly in the past (which, for me, includes a lot of the cons of horizontal progression systems).

With that said: FFXI as it exists now is a significantly different game from FFXI as it existed in its prime. The fact that FFXI is still online does not mean that it's possible for someone to play the game they enjoyed and remember. Suggesting that they can is being either disingenuous or oblivious.