Quote Originally Posted by elreed View Post
I agree, i dont want another FFXI but i want a lot of the elements it had like campaign, conquest, beseiged, assaults, chains of promathia, raise of zilart, treasures of ath ugah(or whatever is called) it had a lot of good things, i like more the battle mechanics that we have now even that arent complete yet than the ones XI had, the cross class system is way better than the subjob system in XI, in less words XIV has a lot of good things but needs juice and that kinda juice XI had it in huge quantities, the fear to mess up was common, the stories were one of the best things, exclusive stuff made it even better because a noob had something to look forward to achieve, like getting to sky you couldnt go if you hadnt completed the hard chain of quest, you couldnt travel in airships if you didnt had enough money to get your pass or completed the quest, you couldnt travel in a chocobo if you didnt completed the quest, you couldnt unlock last levels if you didnt fight maat, etc. A lot of achievements, you could see how much everyone had done just by looking their gear....

i can go on and on with that, thats what people want when they say they want a FF XI-2
There's absolutely nothing wrong with taking the GOOD ideas from FFXI and implementing them into FFXIV in a way that makes sense for FFXIV. Honestly I'd be a bit disappointed if they just copy/pasted systems over without even trying to make them work with this game. FFXI had SOME good ideas and FFXIV could certainly benefit from them however we don't need to bring everything over. Some things haven't aged well and some wouldn't work with how FFXIV is. They have the opportunity to make something way better than FFXI ever was and I'd like to see them try to do it instead of being held down by old traditions that have no place in FFXIV.

With enough time I feel that FFXIV can become better, we just need to give it time. I mean also worth considering, they didn't have to rebuild FFXI from the ground up. What we're seeing now isn't the finished product so I mean it makes sense that people aren't happy with how it is in comparison to FFXI and are anxious for new info/patches.