Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I am biased. Why wouldn't I be when a game I loved playing is no longer enjoyable to play? It doesn't change that subs were lost when it came out. I didn't say it killed the game, as it is still played today. However, it changed the way the game was known in previous expansions RoTZ and CoP. That is what I'm talking about. That is what several people are talking about in this thread. When you change things up drastically, it can potentially be very harmful the playerbase, even if it isn't necessarily harmful to the game itself.

Older content devalues all on its own. It's the nature of an mmo. It is next to impossible to say that an expansion does not devalue older content. But that isn't really either here or there.
So, given that you were turned off by major changes in FFXI, how do you think they should handle FFXIV? I don't think the game can remain the same forever (though hey, I could be wrong). But I don't think FFXI would have lasted much longer than it did if they had stopped innovating. There needs to be change at some point, doesn't there? And I'm not saying the time is now or even soon for FFXIV, just that it will eventually come.