Little Ladies' Day Event 2025 (3rd March to 17th March)

[MikkoAkure]

They did so many things better. Just look at Blue Mage. From lore to gameplay it is a chef's kiss. Here we get a mediocre side show that can't even participate in normal content. It's like, what happened to that talent?

Well you also have to remember the same development team for FFXI is the one who gave us 1.0 so it's not like they always produce gold.

[MicahZerrshia]

Well you also have to remember the same development team for FFXI is the one who gave us 1.0 so it's not like they always produces gold.

You mean the one when the director got a lil too big for his britches and decided to stop listening to the alpha/beta testers and other ppl on his team or in the company and just did things the way he saw fit and the way he thought was fun instead of taking feedback from literally any source into consideration. That one? hmmmmm sounds spookily familiar lol

[MikkoAkure]

You mean the one when the director got a lil too big for his britches and decided to stop listening to the alpha/beta testers and other ppl on his team or in the company and just did things the way he saw fit and the way he thought was fun instead of taking feedback from literally any source into consideration. That one? hmmmmm sounds spookily familiar lol

Not saying the same problem doesn't exist now, but it's not as though as though suddenly everyone responsible for FFXI disappeared after making it. They worked on FFXIV and except for Tanaka and a couple of others, they continued into ARR and beyond.

And while FFXI was full of fond memories for me, it was a product of its time. I don't believe a paid MMO could get away with the same slow grind today and the cutscene from SoA someone posted above that was supposed to impress me is still very dated. 1.0 had a lot of mo-capped cutscenes that put what we have now to shame but it seems like it's not around because the cost wasn't worth it. But it's not as though as we don't have action-heavy cutscenes with people jumping around on things since we still continue to have that. And as for the writing, for every well written and well regarded main character like Prishe, you have characters like Lion who just... exists.