Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Also somebody already called you out on it but the fact that youre using addons in FFXI actually proves my point in how you have to get outside help in order to make the game playable.

Dont be a hypocrite and call people "babies" about not playing the game when you yourself dont even follow the initial game's design (which fyi the ffxi director forgo the mini map feature to make traveling more involved btw...but here you are ignoring it).

Stuff like this pisses me off about people. But anyway yeah, like I said great game, but outside guide is required for full enjoyment.
The game is super outdated, but as you can see the game does have a market for it. People use a ton of add ons for XIV too. It's just not something that's going to stop but it doesn't make it a bad game. Also, people used guides since it came out. The quests give you clues where things are at and you could go at it hardcore for hours finding stuff without a guide, but people didn't operate like that. Guides aren't anything new and people use them all the time for XIV too. Where to unlock things, what mobs drop what items, where to gather.

The thing is, theres a market for it and while a lot of people here wouldn't return to play it, or wouldn't play a new MMO like that, there's plenty of people that would. Thats why having two MMO's catering to two different types of players would be good.

In fact, this two MMO system could be co-developed and share assets. Imagine a parallel XIV with no teleports, no quest markers, a different MSQ but same map and assets, and you get access to both games with one sub, the company saves money on developing assets... I think both would be alive and well TBH.

A lot of people would fall in love with the alternate version and it minimizes the risk since assets are joint.