Aaah, another "I want FFXIV to be FFXI 2.0" thread?

Disclaimer: I've never played FFXI, so I had to look both those things up.

I might have missunderstood certain parts here, but skillchains sound a bit like our combo-system?
So even if the devs should have never discussed this, I can drop my two cents here on possible reasons for that:
1) Why add a second system when the current combo-system already keeps you busy enough? Depending a little on your job, your rotation already is fairly complexe.
2) How would the skillchain system work in harmony with our current combo-system that we have atm?

From what I understand about skillchains, they wont work well within FFXIV, because the combat here works different from all that I know. The focus is much more on complexe boss-mechanics that require you to pay attention and react to them and still hitting a button every 2 seconds instead of every 2 minutes.
Depending on your job your rotation is already fairly complexe and requires you to absolutly know every second what button to hit next. As you may have noticed FFXIV also doesnt allow for any real customisation in regards on how to play a given job - skillchains sound a bit like they did exactly that? In the intrest of keeping all the jobs balanced, they probably rather keep them static though. And seeing how they treated bluemage I dont see them change that (= a more "free" playstyle comes at the cost of being a limited job).


In regards to the "bazaar"... from my search I guessed you're refering to being able to buy a number of items of your chosing at the marketboard?
Well, given that this game has been running with our current market system for almost 6 years now (I dont know about 1.0), I guess its safe to assume that they have no desire changing that but instead keep this system.

Bottomline: This isnt FFXI. FFXIV works different in some ways and I think thats a great thing because this way everyone can pick the option they prefer - want a system thats like FFXI? Play FFXI. Want a system that works like FFXIV? Play FFXIV.