Other MMO comparisons..

[Azmar]

Hum first thing you say : "...the jumping and childish look everything like gear and all that in WoW sucks.that why i left Wow"
then you say : " But FFXIV should have Jumping and cool gear textures like WoW does"

...hummmm can you tell me what you really want or like or hate????? cos i'm lost?


Me i don't like game with too glowing gears ... Ifrit weapon is not so much glowing cos you can easely see the details on it ...but some game it's like christmass ...

I want FFXIV to be fun and interesting like FFXI. But right now its too different from FFXI.
Why would I want to play FFXIV if its different from FFXI? Then I would just play FFXI instead.

[SkyeWindbinder]

I want FFXIV to be fun and interesting like FFXI. But right now its too different from FFXI.
Why would I want to play FFXIV if its different from FFXI? Then I would just play FFXI instead.

Um, didn't you just...

Hm, not sure if I want to say "contradict yourself", because I'm not sure if that would be the right term to use.

Erm, I guess what I'm wondering is, why would you want FFXIV to be a clone of FFXI when you can just go play FFXI instead? I mean, it sounds like you think that FFXIV being a re-skinned FFXI would make people more likely to play it instead of FFXI, when if they already have FFXI accounts, they can just play that.

I guess what I'm trying to say is...

[Robobandit]

I want FFXIV to be fun and interesting like FFXI. But right now its too different from FFXI.
Why would I want to play FFXIV if its different from FFXI? Then I would just play FFXI instead.

FF XI is different than FF XI now... people don't level in regular parties anymore. Nobody wants to do that when the abyssea alliance grindfest way is faster.

As for comparing FF XIV to another mmorpgs... it's going to happen. Particularly to World of Warcraft, as it has been one of, if not the most successful mmorpg ever released.

Having features that have existed in western mmorpgs for years that players enjoy just makes sense from a business perspective. FF XIV was backwards in a number of ways. Being released in an unfinished state certainly didn't help things.

FF XIV: ARR is going to be the mass market FF MMO and that is going to upset some people who enjoyed being in a relatively small exclusive club who played and enjoyed a game that most people wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole.