Surprisingly, The outdated MMO is WOW, not FFXI/XIV1.2

[ShanXiv]

I liked FFXI better because for a dated game, it was far more massive than FFXIV. FFXIV is MMOing pared down to the bare minimum, almost to the level of an action game. Something as simple as going on airships and ferries in real time, and having meaningful travel time adds so much to an MMO. Fishing on the mhaura/selbina ferry and having to duck into the ships hold to avoid the sea horror was so much more immersive than the little static ship out in Costa. Seeing people leveling in the world was better than everyone just hanging in limsa and only gatherers and the occasional quester in FFXIV zones.

Endgame is just no contest, even coil was tiny compared to sky or dynamis. The 24 mans in this game are just bosses strung together. The sad thing is that crafting and gathering is probably more involved than actual combat in FFXIV, in a sense.

I play this game ,but I think if they don't improve on the whole "solo everything, group up with strangers for tokens" aspect, I can't see lasting much longer. You don't really get the same level of stories and experiences here. Like you say "valkurm dunes" or "garlaige citadel" and ffxi vets will tell you stories. Or "run to Jeuno." Here all the edges are sanded off to the point where there's little memorable.

Well said， the theme park formula may be more profitable at the beginning,
but it will cause some kind of permanent damage to the FF MMO title.
I mean, how many players are going to buy Diablo4 or Romance of the three kingdoms XIV? FFXVII? another round of "solo everything, group up with strangers for tokens" ?no

You know what my story of the valkrum dunes is? 3 hours waiting for a party, 20 mins of killing mobs, party disbanding. after 3 weeks of this i quit. Didn't even unlock subjobs. You can keep your XI in XI, I like being able to progress solo when I need to.

When I was playing XIV 1.2x, I didn't have this problem, we can always form an exp/primal party in 10-20mins，
if we can't find enough people, we will disband & do other things, or you can solo the weaker mobs, just fewer exp
and I met new friends almost every time, had many memorable memories

Now, 30+min for PVP roulette, 5-20mins for Leveling or Alliance Raids roulette, with strangers, same old dungeons,
and what you've got so far? some tomes, gil, gears that will be obsolete in 3-6 months, (and the gears are more and more ugly..)
and what?