Why do you all feel FFXIV is a sequel to FFXI?

[ChiefCurrahee]

I never viewed FFXIV as a FFXI-2. What I was expecting from SE was that they take concepts that are tried and true from FFXI to be implemented in some fashion in FFXIV.
For instance, Fields of Valor from FFXI. It was a means to supplement exp PTs as something a little extra, not to be taken advantage of more than once a hour. Now that concept came to FFXIV as guildleves but SE screwed it up by making the MAIN content of the game but limiting it to 8 every 36 hours!

SE expanded on the subjob idea buy letting you take nearly any ability and stick it to any class, but forgot to apply some type of real focus on a per job basis.

What about events like campaign or besieged? I'm sure hamlet defense is what this will turn out to be, but that should have been there from day 1.

A large majority of this games supporters are FFXI vets, and while I don;t think we're upset that it isn't FFXI-2, as i've played and enjoyed other MMOs that played much different than FFXI. But that fact that we were given a game that has nothing going on when FFXI had so much.

It's like this, lets say FFXI is super mario 3, Super Mario 4 turns out to a graphically enhanced pitfall for the atari 2600. A total let down.

[darkstarpoet1]

anyone that expected xiv to be like xi didn't read the ads promoting the game. the game was advertised as a completely different direction than what xi was which is why i got the game.

this game failed because of a very poor release quality. they have alot of things i like in the game and some not so much, but the stage it was released was equal to a prebeta stage not a final release quality. i feel once alot of the fixes are added and the new classes and more for people to do the player base will drastically increase again. that and a severe lack of content that forced alot of the higher level people to leave. this game was very highly populated, but after people started hitting 50 they left and some of their friends left with them once they found out the grinding to 50 was a worthless concept at this point.

[Yuuki_Talamara]

i honestly like the separation between the 11 and 14. admittedly there are somethings that i would like to see changed in the game but really the fundamentals are there for an awesome game! one that could be obtained in a solo or party setting. and thats something i hope stays with the game. 11-2 well...have to say they shoulda learned their lesson from -2 sorta thing. look at 10-2 and then all the different extras off of 7....really thats enough said for that :/ anyways i'm hanging in there to see what they have in planned for the near future for this game.

[Mega]

It's pretty obvious how XIV is apart of XI's legacy.

FINAL FANTASY XI
FINAL FANTASY XIV

They should be almost identical in presence and flavor. It's very misleading!

[Spuffin]

i honestly like the separation between the 11 and 14. admittedly there are somethings that i would like to see changed in the game but really the fundamentals are there for an awesome game! one that could be obtained in a solo or party setting. and thats something i hope stays with the game. 11-2 well...have to say they shoulda learned their lesson from -2 sorta thing. look at 10-2 and then all the different extras off of 7....really thats enough said for that :/ anyways i'm hanging in there to see what they have in planned for the near future for this game.

your reference's to 7 and 10-2 are irrelevant as they are OFFLINE and additions to unanswered story line. We are on topic of an MMO here.

A -2 would have been better as WoW is doing the same thing... WoW-2 with better graphics and I can guarantee you it's going to be bigger than 14...

[Corrderio]

I want to see XIV as different as XI myself. I got bored and burned out after playing XI for over 5 years and don't want to pay for something that almost feels like a reboot.

[Keith_Dragoon]

So far the new, original features turned out to be not so much better. It's a new game with a new storyline, new gear, new formulas, new setup, and hopefully soon a new and better class system. Other than that... Come on. If its not broke, don't fix it. Targeting system? Mob claiming? Magic system? Is it REALLY necessary to make sure its not the same, and sacrifice quality in the process?

Summed it up pretty nicely for me

Basically building FF14 off FF11's foundation and constructing/twisting as time goes on thus making it still a Different game than FF11 AND much more enjoyable and time worth dedicating to. IF they did this then they would both satisfy the 60% AND 40% thus turning it into 100%....

Nailed the rest

[Kilta_Firelotus]

actually curr
FoV is now non stop exp...just gil and tabs once every hour. They woulda done it with levequests but felt it woulda been taken advantage of due to the possible high rewards

The class system wasn't meant really as a main class with meny sub jobs, it was to allow players to create a class. No one really understood it, and the min/maxers hated it (since they hate anything different) So cries about class definition erupted due to the majority beng the min/maxers. If used as intended no one would be complaining.

I just personally want to play this game for ps3, And i gotta wait because ppl complained over stiff they didn't understand, they specuated it too much and got dissapointed (which will never stop).

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Personally I'm not looking/ not wanting an ffxi-2. I liked ffxi but I didn't like what it slowly became. I want to beable to pick a style of choice and not get bullied over it. FFXIV has some nice features if used properly. And SE and the new dev team are trying to make them easier to understand so you guys can use them properly.

I honest to god hope they do not add auto attack. It gets boring watching your character fight. And in all honesty no one chats in parties much anymore. Most english parties tell ppl to stfu to focus on the exp. Most talkative parties i seen where from japanese. It was not like that in the old days.

I want a new mmo, not a WoW clone that i've seen 30+ times. And not an ffxi clone where min/maxers rule the game like the "popular" kids in high school. And you get bullied for being different.

I just want a fun mmo to play that is new. Something I never played before. And cuz ppl hate change we will never get that : /

Mostly i just want this on ps3 asap...... It suck not playing.

[Dubont]

Mostly i just want this on ps3 asap...... It suck not playing.

so...you haven't played it yet?

Also, the "elitists" (which is the word I think you were looking for) are in every game. In PWI, I was constantly laughed at for switched from xbow to a sword on archer whenever an enemy got to close for my bolts to do any real dmg. In SUN, I run an assassin that is based around his dark magic abilities, rather than his stealth abilities which results in me being shunned. In FFXI, I ran a DD Cor and almost always refused to /whm in non-event parties which resulted in me being blisted by many people. In FFXI on DRK, I almost never subbed nin.

My point is that in every game, there are those who will cut down others based on their play style. I, personally, will cut down people if their play style is completely stupid and makes no sense at all (Thf/Sch for example...and yes it happened). The thing with FFXIV is that any job can be really..any other job. You can put almost any ability from any class on another class. I can turn my CON into a ghetto tank or my GLA into a ghetto mage. This kind of avoids the whole "I'm better than you" thing, but at the same time, it causes the game to fail horribly because there is no real class separation.