Quote Originally Posted by Rydin View Post
Asking for things from XI isn't a bad idea....
I didn't even play FFXI and I understand this game could benefit from a lot of what it did right...

But it's the internet... you can't really relay tone well... and some people hear "FFXI had this so FFXIV should have it" and they think "I didn't like FFXI, so we shouldn't add that"
instead of just evaluating each suggestion on it's own merit.

In a way, Final Fantasy XIV is an odd beast... you really can't compare it to anything else...
500,000 people played FFXI... but 6 million people bought FFXIII.... 10 million people bought FFVII... 12-15 million played WoW and over 60 million PS3's have been sold...
thats a lot of different demographics to work with and try to appeal to
I have the say this is the smartest post i've see so far in this forums. This is exactly what S-E is thinking about when they are working on XIV. We got millions of FF fans and millions of PS3 out there... now how do we get these people to buy XIV? They are not thinking about how we can make this more like XI because XI has a fans base, certainly not and that is because XI is still there and they are planning to still make money from it.