We covered hopes for 5.0, but what are your fears?

[MicahZerrshia]

I do not want to derail this thread because there is a lot of good thoughts come from ppl. But I just want to take a moment to say...

But players kept asking for concepts from XI to be brought into XIV..

I wish ppl would stop blaming XI for Eureka. Yes ppl wanted concepts from XI to be brought in, there were many many good concepts, content and designs from XI they could have used. But it was the dev teams decision to bring in the worst of the worst parts of XI, things they even got rid of and no longer exist in today's FFXI because the XI team knew they were bad. But XI was not Eureka and Eureka is not XI, anyone who bothered playing XI for any length of time could tell you that. All statements like this do is tell those of us who played and still play FFXI that you never played it for the long term but heard things you want to rehash on the forums because you have no other argument or are looking for someone other than the development team to blame.

If they actually brought the good concepts from XI into XIV in 5.0 it would breath some much needed life into this game. So please stop using FFXI as a scapegoat for poor development decisions.


/endrant


/carryon

[Gemina]

I wish ppl would stop blaming XI for Eureka. Yes ppl wanted concepts from XI to be brought in, there were many many good concepts, content and designs from XI they could have used. But it was the dev teams decision to bring in the worst of the worst parts of XI, things they even got rid of and no longer exist in today's FFXI because the XI team knew they were bad.

No, no! I'm not blaming XI for Eureka, or even the requests for XI concepts to be brought in. This is solely the FFXIV dev team's responsibility. What I am saying though ties into my last comment about being careful about asking for different progression, longer lasting gear, or pretty much anything really. Just look at mannequins for example. All we wanted was to be able to have mannequins in our homes that we can fashion with some of our glamour choices, but SE turns around and makes a totally convoluted system with it tied into the MB, available retainer space, etc. NO ONE asked for this!

But I played XI for 5.5 years. What my statement should tell you is I have little to no Eureka experience, which I admitted to. However, I will disagree about using XI as some kind of well to draw ideas from to bring into XIV. I would much rather see completely new ideas implemented. And I struggle to understand why this is so difficult for them when I see tons of awesome ideas I would love added to this game on these forums on a daily bases.