Not all has been good and shiny in Final Fantasy XI

[Jennestia]

Yep, since XI is as bad as you make it out to be OP, that's why everyone is falling all over themselves to play FFXIV now rather than the 2-3k people online atm on my server on XI >.>

XI is a dated game from 2001, many MMOs from 2001 and earlier has a very low customization system -- in FFXIV I see a lot of clones as well because there's a select few models that looks good to a lot of people and it happens to be the same one.

- horrible combat menu (you had to write macros on your own, otherwise combats are a mess "am i a programmer or what?!)

I don't even know what you're saying here -- XIV shares the same macro system.

slow and passive combat (BLM had to rest MP for hours, casting spells each 10 minutes. Melee jobs hit every 5 seconds and have to wait for their TP to finally get filled slowly) (now we have positioning stlyes, combos, spell combos, much faster regeneration etc)

XIV is slow paced combat as well with no form of haste and there won't be any form of haste. XIV also has a slower server check so the battle system currently is at times less accurate than XI's was.

FFXIV char design (it just seems more final fantasy alike to me. (like FFIX etc.))

Same races as XI.

[Blossoming]

Oh the memories

[Ferth]

It's not really rose colored lenses... FFXI is the only mmo I've played that held my attention for over a year. And it held it for 7 of them. Was it all sunshine and bunnies? no. But that was part of the magic. sometimes it kicked your ass. I won't really talk about the graphical changes... we may as well compare pong to virtua tennis 5. Did FFXI do everything perfectly? not even close. But the things it did right were amazing. before abyssea came out, FFXI had a greater sense of achievement tied into almost everything in the game than any other mmo I've ever played.

A lot of people want a similar experience in ffxiv... it doesn't need to be identical... but it would be nice if it had the staying power 11 did.

[Volfield]

What made FFXI great was the competition (actually competing for limited resources), feeling of accomplishment, and community. We can only hope FFXIV can hope to bottle that magic FFXI had and pray for another 8 year run.

All dat delicious drama

[Rau]

don't think OP actually played XI for very long if at all.

[AdvancedWind]

Badmouthing Shantotto?

Good luck.

[Nahaara]

ITT: FFXI fanboys/girls

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Content is more important than your toon looking like you.

Then play WOW.

Wow calling your character a toon and then telling people to go play wow... that post gave me whiplash -_-

[Dubberrucky]

I can see some of the OPs points about FFXI not being all sunshine and roses until I noticed the FFXI leveling screenshot and thought, "Holy crap thats Sylph, and my Cornipoo in there!! I miss him" From that point on it just made me sad they killed such a great game, I would go back in a heartbeat if my old friends were still there. It was the best game I ever played even though it made you want to check into rehab if the internet went down.

[Cendres]

XI was fantastic in many ways, the one way it was not was that I just didn't have the time for it. And for a long time it just didn't care. Now it does, but I've met another and it's called XIV.