Player's Poll: FFXIV or FFXI-2?

[SionDurant]

I'm happy it's winning.

I look at posts like this, and see the same complete morons that think it's okay that half of the world's Politicians squander their taxes on stuff like 800,000 dollar parties etc.

I also look at the amount of players XI and XIV have combined, then look at most other MMO's and scratch my head with an auspicious Hmmm....

QED, while I did love XI very much, and we all know the worlds politicians are completely bass ackwards... I'd have to say any change in direction from all of the above would be warranted.

XI was great, but it abandoned solo play, and created a dwindling player base that got chipped away from at every single new MMO's release. Also, here's a thought, instead of creating stupid and actually poultry challenges, why not ask SE to well put their minds to it and make more interesting things. Does Cloud Strife get his panties in a bunch over a common rabble of shinra goons? No, that's why things like that annoying Tonberry, Ultima Weapons, Bosses in general were made..

Durm...why not make a post that says, SE, please give us Elite Zones, where only parties can survive grinding or leveing??? Nah..let's just make the game stupidly boring and sloooow right out of the gates of the city states. That's a grandiose idea.

[SionDurant]

I look at posts like this, and see the same complete morons that think it's okay that half of the world's Politicians squander their taxes on stuff like 800,000 dollar parties etc.

I also look at the amount of players XI and XIV have combined, then look at most other MMO's and scratch my head with an auspicious Hmmm....

QED, while I did love XI very much, and we all know the worlds politicians are completely bass ackwards... I'd have to say any change in direction from all of the above would be warranted.

XI was great, but it abandoned solo play, and created a dwindling player base that got chipped away from at every single new MMO's release. Also, here's a thought, instead of creating stupid and actually poultry challenges, why not ask SE to well put their minds to it and make more interesting things. Does Cloud Strife get his panties in a bunch over a common rabble of shinra goons? No, that's why things like that annoying Tonberry, Ultima Weapons, Bosses in general were made..

Durm...why not make a post that says, SE, please give us Elite Zones, where only parties can survive grinding or leveing??? Nah..let's just make the game stupidly boring and sloooow right out of the gates of the city states. That's a grandiose idea.

TO add to that. LEVELING UP...should never, ever be a challenge in an MMO. Playing endgame should be 100% of the challenge, and should be the abundance. I know people who maxed every job to 75 and simply stood around in Jeuno all day cause the endgame content was not abundant enough, and lacked flare. So they made gimmicks like besieged and abyssea.

Why the blazes would anyone want a game that focuses on getting to endgame, with no endgame, making the game pretty weak on replay value, ergo generating weak financial gains, ergo getting 1 expansion every 2 years or possibly none at all.

I know! I actually have the answer. Because the trolls who say "ohhh it's about community" actually cannot make it in a group of civilized human beings long enough to organize a 40 man raid and actually succeed at anything other than getting gibbed by things that glow on the ground, so they want the consistency of their game to be about the shiny AF they have on in Ul'dah and how many jobs they have maxed.

Zzzz... Guild Wars 2, MoP, Tera, well just about every other MMO including Runescape = XIV's absolute doom if that's the model SE goes with, 100% truth.

EDIT:

And I'll tell you haters another thing. You might say stuff like WoW's easy etc, but it has enough endgame content / pvp content to keep it boasting 2+ million active players weekly. Multiply 14.95 2 million times, and Acti-Blizzard's ----ing on SE's revenue across all projects.

These polls do nothing but point out that only heartbroken FF nerds, like me, want to stay and tolerate this game and some of the completely whacked out individuals that have stayed behind with it. It's like the rapture happened and I'm in the tribulation with XIV, only I won't give up on FF because it's my favorite series of games.

Clearly, the masses have spoken. They don't want to spend obscene amounts of time fighting a Marmot in Central Thanalan, they'd like to fight epic monsters and villains that actually do interesting things or maybe even talk a bit.

The ----'s a marmot anyway, and how is a walnut getting through my baller chainmail???

[Rokien]

I look at posts like this, and see the same complete morons that think it's okay that half of the world's Politicians squander their taxes on stuff like 800,000 dollar parties etc.

I also look at the amount of players XI and XIV have combined, then look at most other MMO's and scratch my head with an auspicious Hmmm....

QED, while I did love XI very much, and we all know the worlds politicians are completely bass ackwards... I'd have to say any change in direction from all of the above would be warranted.

XI was great, but it abandoned solo play, and created a dwindling player base that got chipped away from at every single new MMO's release. Also, here's a thought, instead of creating stupid and actually poultry challenges, why not ask SE to well put their minds to it and make more interesting things. Does Cloud Strife get his panties in a bunch over a common rabble of shinra goons? No, that's why things like that annoying Tonberry, Ultima Weapons, Bosses in general were made..

Durm...why not make a post that says, SE, please give us Elite Zones, where only parties can survive grinding or leveing??? Nah..let's just make the game stupidly boring and sloooow right out of the gates of the city states. That's a grandiose idea.

Tell me what FF had solo play? None, every FF encouraged to "party" with people(npcs). So why should this FF break away from that nice bond.

[Pandastirfry]

Tell me what FF had solo play? None, every FF encouraged to "party" with people(npcs). So why should this FF break away from that nice bond.

Uh... All of them (excepting XI and XIV )
You see in the console games The "party" existed solely for narrative purposes and one player controlled all party members, they could have given every skill to just one charcter and the overall combat would only marginally change, but the story would be greatly hampered. It's not like a second player could jump in and take control of one of the other party members, making the previous Final Fantasis the very definition of "solo" play.



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