I just want a FF11 modern game.

[BigCheez]

I have fond memories of that era as well but the truth is most of the modern MMO audience just doesn't have the time or patience for it and wouldn't play it. FFXI isn't even like FFXI anymore, the retail game is a cakewalk compared to how it was back in the day.

That being said, I think FFXIV can still take some lessons from that era. I'd love to see more content that requires people to communicate and work together in some fashion.

In what way is retail a cakewalk compared to how it was back in the day?

The leveling experience is much easier, sure, but Odyssey V25s and master trials are infinitely harder than anything that existed in the game back in the day, with the exception of legitimately broken content like AV and PW that was designed in such a way that it just wasn't possible without exploits given the 250+ms latency that Western players were playing with.

I don't think anyone has even cleared the master trial that was added last year yet. The world's first clear of the one before that took 11 months and no one else has cleared it besides the first group yet as far as I'm aware. If you think the game is a cakewalk, you probably don't play or know very much about the modern game.