The direction XIV is heading

[Kirith]

I'll agree that we need more party-based content, but I think we can rest assured that kind of stuff is on it's way after the battle system restructure. they've said they're going to cut group sizes to 4 and 8 so that pretty much demands rebalancing of just about all party-based content before the update and means theyre likely to be making things with that system in mind (aka. the first dungeon due in 2 months or whenever).

Also, I was addressing this in my post before, so yes, people do want FFXI-2 for some unknown reason.

I never said i want FFXI-2. I just said that considering the game they had when they started making FFXIV the best idea was to remake FFXI and not to risk with another mmorpg.

As you said, FFXI was pretty bad in the start, but it had a certain charm that kept people disliking it, yet still playing it for years. It almost didn't have casual players while WoW is mostly composed of casual players. I played dozens of mmorpgs and felt FFXI had one of the best communities ever in a game because of that fact alone.

So, the best thing to do would have been to remake that game while making it more casual player friendly, which they KNEW they had to do, but still didn't. Too much greed, i guess, wanting to milk players twice with two games. Now they have one game that is too old to be competitive and another that is too misled to be appealing.

[AmyRae]

I never said i want FFXI-2. I just said that considering the game they had when they started making FFXIV the best idea was to remake FFXI and not to risk with another mmorpg.

For a guy who doesn't want FFXI-2, you sure seem to push for it. A lot.

But the market has spoken on this issue. MMO sequels fail. EQ2. Asheron's Call 2. Lineage 2. They all paled in comparison to their prequels. Why would a player give up their mature, leveled character loaded with hard-fought treasures in a content-rich world just to start again in a very similar, barren world at level 1? Fact is, it doesn't hold the interest of veterans for long who quickly crawl back to the comforts of their old game.

This is why Blizzard didn't make a WoW2, but tried their remade-world Cataclysm expansion instead. They're trying to avoid a sure-fire disaster.

Likewise, FFXI-2 is not the best thing SE could have done. It's actually the worst.