What is so bad about FFXI?

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It wasn't, if i recall XIII was pretty much up there alongside VII. Even then, as this person said:


This is exactly the point. No a 'party search system is a FFXI exclusive', but it's from an MMORPG Square Enix made 10 years ago, there's no reason XIV should have lacked the same basic systems.

We get it. You hate FFXIV and run a fansite for it (ironically).

And we get it. FFXIV needs a good search function. We get that. I don't think anyone is saying otherwise.

What FFXIV doesnt need however is to degenerate into a FFXI clone, making all the same mistakes FFXI made.

I see FFXIV making the same mistakes FFXI made, even now, and it's a path which won't lead them to success. Going back the the required class and rank thing, for example. Freedom was one thing FFXI lacked entirely. And it's funny to see every other MMO moving toward giving players freedom, and at the same time see FFXIV pulling away from that trend.