If you want FF XI , then PLAY FF XI!

[charlemagne]

FFXIV wasn't intended for casualgamers. It was intended for both casual gamers and those of us who want a game we need to commit a little more to. I'm staggered that SE didn't realise that making an FF mmo would mostly attract people who played and liked their last mmo. Giving us elements similar to the ones that were successful in xi will make those players happy, and if they want the game to be a success then making the current playerbase happy is the best thing they could do. We after all will be the ones doing a lot of the advertising for version 2.0
I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again. SE should be trying to please the playerbase it has rather than the player base it wanted or expected but didnt get.

[Jinko]

I duno, the player they have right now is what 10k strong, the player base they had an launch was 600k ?

Personally if I was SE I would be trying to appeal to that 600k + PS3 users and not the 10k that's left.

[Enfarious]

Well I'm hoping that Halmet defence is kind of like this, waves of enemies but mainly based on the level of the hamlet so that all levels can be involved.

I agree that it would be cool to see this done in Ul'dah similar to besiged but yea they would need to fix Ul'dah first, I used to love fighting in Windurst-S also so something like that would be good as well.

They are planning front lines in the future as well which looks interesting, It's just a matter of time and patience and these things will come.

I hope for the same.
I also hope that Frontlines and "I forget the other one" that are planned will not fall by the wayside like Ballista and Brenner.

I duno, the player they have right now is what 10k strong, the player base they had an launch was 600k ?

Personally if I was SE I would be trying to appeal to that 600k + PS3 users and not the 10k that's left.

Most of those were FFXI players that not unlike myself left XIV after a short time. The difference being that I left XI again and came back to this when it started to show promise again, and after getting sick of being told how having 76 sword skill was sufficeint for a 99BLU, or better yet, that same blu telling me he didn't have any spells cause he didn't need them, and wasn't planning to skillup blue magic, just run around in full empy+2.
That example is why I left, not cause I only saw it the one time, but because it happened constantly.

[Dubont]

I hope for the same.
I also hope that Frontlines and "I forget the other one" that are planned will not fall by the wayside like Ballista and Brenner.

garrison.....r.i.p...

[Enfarious]

garrison.....r.i.p...

Wow it's been so long since the last time I saw someone do garrison I forgot it existed

[Jinko]

Wow it's been so long since the last time I saw someone do garrison I forgot it existed

It was basically DoA wasn't it ?

[Dubont]

I loved garrison =\

[elreed]

we all know that even if they take FFXI ideas they wont be just copy paste, so stop arguing something that you dont even know about

[Elexia]

It was basically DoA wasn't it ?

No because it's how you got mannequin parts.

[Noblewar]

I duno, the player they have right now is what 10k strong, the player base they had an launch was 600k ?

Personally if I was SE I would be trying to appeal to that 600k + PS3 users and not the 10k that's left.

The way I see it those 590k are not so different from the 10k that are still playing. The only difference is that the 10k are trying to show support and hoping SE will listen. I'm sure 90% of that 600k will agree on many of the same things.

Its just like someone else said already, the only people who are going to be attracted to XIV are the same people who were attracted to XI. Hell the only people attracted to FF are people who have played the FF series. 90% of the people I have met on WoW never even touched a FF game in their life!