As an FFXI player, thank you for Limited Jobs and BLU SE

[TheHeavenAbyss]

Gonna stop you right here. Absolutely wrong.

FFXIV 1.0 wasn't even FFXI, and that wasn't why it failed. It failed cause it was a completely barebones game that didn't even have ANYTHING the series is known for such as the jobs we all know and love. Everything was basic, the combat was terrible with no depth. You can't say that about FFXI as it had that from the very beginning, and a much more refined game mechanically and the maps were far better designed and much more interesting story.

But it was. Developers have said it in documentaries. I've said it was not the only reason, because obviously it wasn't. But one of the big reasons was that the team was too confident in how FFXI was made and they just had to make more of the same, without having any idea of how the MMO market had changed. Maybe it was also poorly made as a FFXI look-alike, but that doesn't contradict the "one of the big reasons it crashed and burned was that it was trying too hard to work like FFXI".

EDIT: Sorry it the "but it was" was confusing. English is not my first language. The "but it was" wasn't meant to refer to "but FFXIV was FFXI", it was reaffirming what I said about "when FFXIV 1.0 launched one of the big reasons it crashed and burned was that it was trying too hard to work like FFXI".