Final Fantasy XI's rocky start?

[Kiote]

The games released in almost identical conditions. XI did not have adv jobs or anything at release was added after launch.

The major difference between the 2, is Tanaka did not change anything with the release of XI and just added more and more to it every patch.

With XIV currently, the games foundation is being completely rewritten so we are getting actual content at a much much slower rate then it was added to XI.

It is a negative of the revamp. If Tanaka was left in charge there would of most likly been alot more content at this point similar to how XI was done... The timelines of XI and XIV under tanaka where running in parallel almost.

This is pretty much spot on..

The Biggest Reason FFXIV Tanked the way it did was because there was zero content. An MMO can be released with the worst mechanics in the world and just get fixed along the way, they just need to have something that distracts players. I'm glad they decided to do large scale fixes in this game, but the main reason people keep leaving and coming back and leaving again is because there is nothing to do.

The Dev Team needs to get off the WoW-like release a dungeon every few months kick and start making real content or this game will go no where.

[Cichy]

This is pretty much spot on..

The Biggest Reason FFXIV Tanked the way it did was because there was zero content. An MMO can be released with the worst mechanics in the world and just get fixed along the way, they just need to have something that distracts players. I'm glad they decided to do large scale fixes in this game, but the main reason people keep leaving and coming back and leaving again is because there is nothing to do.

The Dev Team needs to get off the WoW-like release a dungeon every few months kick and start making real content or this game will go no where.

This is what I've been saying since the beginning. If there were shinny armors/weapons, alot of missions, etc way more people would be willing to stick with the game and put up with the bs system. However, nothing you did seemed to produce any type of impact or result. MMO players are like racoons, we like shinny stuff. They still need to stop recoloring the same pieces of gear for 50th time if they planning for us to care.

[Demacia]

This is what I've been saying since the beginning. If there were shinny armors/weapons, alot of missions, etc way more people would be willing to stick with the game and put up with the bs system. However, nothing you did seemed to produce any type of impact or result. MMO players are like racoons, we like shinny stuff. They still need to stop recoloring the same pieces of gear for 50th time if they planning for us to care.

Hey at the very least we get a nice start on that department with job armor in 1.21.