Great job in 1.21 - Let's Talk Future FFXIV additions.

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None, taken and let kill the "your better of playin 11" i did my time done now.

But anyway, im just using what works, obviously they would add different style too it but im just planting the seed.

Sure it a system from 11 but i stick with my sometimes the old is better than the new.

I understand what you mean. Sure, FFXI was a great game and has plenty of stuff that worked, plenty of stuff people remember fondly, but I personally believe SE can outdo it and make a better game than it was, instead of making the same game with shinny graphics. And yes, making a better game *does* include taking good things from XI (and IX, and VIII, III, T, whatever. Heck, if there's a good idea from Dragon Quest they can adapt for this game, they better do it), but not to the point that many people advocate, and definitely not straight copy paste of systems and events from FFXI (or any other game).

And heck, maybe they really can't make a better game, maybe the final result will never be as good as XI was, but I'd still think we should at least let them try it and offer constructive criticism when they are indeed failing to deliver a good experience.

What I'm trying to say is, I don't want them to offer the same game they already gave us 10 years ago, I want them to make an entirely new experience that, yes, do take the good things they've been doing for 20+ years without just doing the same thing again.

In fact, Final Fantasy is a series that excels in this: Each game is very similar to it's predecessors and at the same time it's very different. The most recent entries accentuate this fact even more (each iteration after IX is completely different from it's predecessors and STILL manage to feel like FF. Even XIII.). I don't want them giving up on that philosophy and just resorting to porting as much as possible from FFXI, and I also think this is, commercially speaking, a bad idea.

That's why I *always* post on this kind of thread, I think there are many people that just...can't move on from FFXI and won't accept anything other than a game that allows them to revive their "old times of glory" (not saying this is your case, but definitely with a few other people around this place), and think that turning this as close to XI as possible is what will help them achieve that goal. But believe me, it won't.