I think the reason why everyone is freaking out is...

[MrLion]

ohhh no not more instanced raid garbage, longas they use levequest and instanced bs as filler content the game will never succed , its pure laziness

Also, when FFXI was 2 years old, its players had:
- Sky
- BCNMs
- Dynamis
- 12 jobs to choose from
- Chocobos and Airships
- An engaging expansion storyline not tied to any city
- A working party system
- An awesome search function
- Teleport and Warp spells
- Realistic real-time battles not severely inhibited by server lag
- A (mostly) intuitive menu
- A comfortable console style interface
- Collision detection
- A great targeting system that differentiated between friend and foe
- The ability to quickly engage enemies
- About 40 unique full zones (not including battlefield/misc zones)
- 4 major cities (Windurst, Bastok, San d'Oria and Jeuno) and 5 "settlements" (Selbina, Mhaura, Norg, Kazham, Rabao) which were more than a dumpy building by the side of the road; those are what we'd call "outposts" in FFXI
- 6 amazing beastmen stronghold zones that are entire zones unto themselves and not just blips on the world map

This thread is not a comparison between FFXIV and FFXI...so its irrelevant. FFXI =/= FFXIV, the dev team at FFXIV had to do a major overhaul of the game, FFXI didn't, as a result FFXIV is lacking content because of this, but as you can see its getting here very soon.

[dolionakifkinpos]

sry bout that I was reading another forum and saw it I was impressed by the list

[Alerith]

Not to mention you paid for those 2 years of XI content.

At least with XIV you got one of those years free and still got to see the game develop.

[Answa]

ohhh no not more instanced raid garbage, longas they use levequest and instanced bs as filler content the game will never succed , its pure laziness

Also, when FFXI was 2 years old, its players had:
- Sky
- BCNMs
- Dynamis
- 12 jobs to choose from
- Chocobos and Airships
- An engaging expansion storyline not tied to any city
- A working party system
- An awesome search function
- Teleport and Warp spells
- Realistic real-time battles not severely inhibited by server lag
- A (mostly) intuitive menu
- A comfortable console style interface
- Collision detection
- A great targeting system that differentiated between friend and foe
- The ability to quickly engage enemies
- About 40 unique full zones (not including battlefield/misc zones)
- 4 major cities (Windurst, Bastok, San d'Oria and Jeuno) and 5 "settlements" (Selbina, Mhaura, Norg, Kazham, Rabao) which were more than a dumpy building by the side of the road; those are what we'd call "outposts" in FFXI
- 6 amazing beastmen stronghold zones that are entire zones unto themselves and not just blips on the world map

Bold: check. It's been a year from release, which you may call version -1.00 freely.

Airships: Don't have to wait till rank 5 to use them. Don't have to wait at all.

Chocobos: Hands down beyond better than FFXI's.

<stpc>, <stnpc>, <st> work on this game.

I don't know what people keep moaning about, "server lag". I battle just fine. If I die, I don't cry about server lag. I say: oshi, maybe I did something wrong, let me try again.

Quickly draw out your weapon? FFXI takes FOREVER to take out your weapon. FFXIV? Half a second.

Can't compare Sky, BCNMs, or Dynamis to this game, because they're not in the same world. Though I'll give you we do need more endgame, but they're working on it.

Teleport and warp: Need I say anything? From day one we've had the ability to teleport and warp EVERYWHERE.

A bunch of maps: Consider this: Each zone we have right now is about 4~5 FFXI maps. We have 5. Strongholds are MUCH tougher than Ghelsba and the others. In fact, they're really high level. Not comparable. And I'd hardly call their strongholds in FFXI amazing.

Selbina, etc. The current FFXIV world doesn't need any of this.

We NEED: search function and AH. Guess what? 1.20 gives us this.

I enjoy FFXIV parties about as much as I enjoyed FFXI's. They're very different and ours is more a broad battle (links, etc) which, again, are hardly comparable with FFXI's.

12 jobs to choose from: I would love to have these many classes. Oh, wait.

[AtryxEtair]

Very well put together and written OP. Too bad it was drowned out by pretentious douchebags who's only means of functioning is asserting their thoughts and beliefs over everyone else's. But one question, how do we know that new areas will be released before 2.0? I thought new areas were under the new client...which IS 2.0.

[Answa]

Very well put together and written OP. Too bad it was drowned out by pretentious douchebags who's only means of functioning is asserting their thoughts and beliefs over everyone else's. But one question, how do we know that new areas will be released before 2.0? I thought new areas were under the new client...which IS 2.0.

Look at August to September on the first slide.

[FestAkos]

Saying its near 100% is misleading. And I am pointing out that he is misleading us (probably not his decision) to make it look like a legitimate reason to start charging us.

You realize games have released with less content than FFXIV had when it first came out and they were still a success(success meaning turning a profit), right?

[MrLion]

Very well put together and written OP. Too bad it was drowned out by pretentious douchebags who's only means of functioning is asserting their thoughts and beliefs over everyone else's. But one question, how do we know that new areas will be released before 2.0? I thought new areas were under the new client...which IS 2.0.

lol as I said in my post...people didn't read the roadmaps well...not trying to be mean to you but you didn't know the new areas are actually pre-2.0, not in 2.0.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I agree on what the OP is saying, is exactly what YoshiP and SE said'ed.

[Heat]

i didnt want to pay at first, but when i felt that they might stop FFXIV, i decided to pay, and that's the only reason.

you dont pay for something that is going to happen in the future, its like buying fish in the sea, you pay for what you see and like.

upcoming patches could be canceled or you might dislike them.