Problems letting go of XI? Japanese too.

[Lstkaws]

I am having fun playing xiv, and I am looking forward to 2.0. That being said if FFXI-2 was announced I would be packing my bags. Since no such announcement has been made I will continue to enjoy XIV and hope that it continues to improve.

[Drunk-Bandit]

lol I guess what the OP is really trying to say is... that people are living in the past too much which is somewhat True... as for me I'm looking for FFXIV to be a way better experience in the long run... We Just need to be patient it takes an mmorpg time to grow

[Gramul]

Seriously don't get the XI hate.

[Levian]

Maybe i should put /sarcasm but an last 0.1 in the tree fighting crabs could take hrs.

Wouldn't know honestly. I didn't keep track of each .1 skill point, but when it got to the point that I was getting increments smaller than .3 or .2 (I think?) I would stop doing tree parties and either eat sushi and bust the weapon out in an LS static, or ask to use it for a few minutes in Sky.

[Riaayo]

People are generally terrified of change and MMO 'loyalty' is akin to loyalty to football teams for people... IE, everyone rabidly defends their MMO of choice and bashes the ever-loving hell out of any other. In the end, people need to realize that it doesn't matter where a good idea came from, it's still a good idea. This does include good ideas from XI as well (though you can't say an AH or LS/Party controls are something from XI because it's just common game design sense from any mmo).

The multiple job per character system is an amazing concept pulled from XI that I am glad XIV has. Skill points for weapons and spells I have to grind hours for? Not such a good idea.

I think there's way too much resentment from the community towards anything to do with WoW etc, however I also think there's a lot of fear from players who don't worship XI about anything from that MMO rising from the grave to "infect" this game. XI's not a horrible monster, it's just an old game. It used old ideas, many of which should be left to the past, and some which should be brought forward and expanded on into this next generation of MMOs.

I can tell you that I personally don't think anything needlessly tedious needs to be brought back, though. I love challenges, I love hard content, but doing something easy 500x is not "hard" as some people seem to think.

[Alerith]

While I wouldn't want XIV to become XI-2, saying "Keep XI out of my XIV" is just pure ignorance.

Being developed by the same company, SE has the ability to pull on a past MMO for ideas, inspirations and systems. Honestly, they didn't use enough from XI at launch. The player search function, hotkeys and some other basic system items could have been implemented based on XI without changing XIV's core.

You have to take the good with the bad. You can't simply shun an idea because "They did it in XI" and you can't accept every idea because it was "Done in XI."

[Nixius]

FFXI-2 with new story, cater better to casual players and take away some of the more horrible things.

[Majidah]

I'm pretty sure tanaka wanted to make ffxi 2.0 but they forced him to release too early so they had to burn it down to look good.

[Vuen]

I've played tons of MMOs and I have to say that FFXI was far my favorite next to mabinogi. Mabinogi would be number one IF it didn't have soo many instances.

Ya other MMOs have great ideas, but really... Final Fantasy, they should be taking MOST of their ideas from FFXI and a few from other games. Sorry but I would rather have FFXIV be closer related to FFXI than WoW or Rift or Starfail.

The only problem with Mabinogi was Nexon, I loved that game.

[Majidah]

The only problem with Mabinogi was Nexon, I loved that game.

I hear nothing but good things about Mabinogi , why do people quit that for XIV?