Immersive and deep, or archaic and annoying?

[Dreamer]

Sadly, ARR went the McDonalds route with the remake. Depth, uniqueness, and everything even mildly inconvenient was tossed to the wayside all in the name of accessibility to as many people as possible. Welcome to 2.0 - the stuff the OP mentions won't be seen again, at least in this game.

[PallasLloyd]

everything even mildly inconvenient was tossed to the wayside all in the name of accessibility

Are we playing the same game?

There are tons of inconvenient and annoying things about this game. Most of them are technical and design issues though and not "fun" things like monsters following you around and having to know which spells to use to do the most damage to certain enemies.

[Horg]

All of that is very cool but they'd have to write the AI logic to support all of it, that would lead to some immense costs including man hours and exposure to additional risk (more stuff to break and have to support). Would definitely be cool though, maybe they can implement this as the game matures?

@Tupsi - I am an elitist, sometimes I'm a jerk too, but I know most of us mean elitists would actually love to see these features.

[Klefth]

All of that is very cool but they'd have to write the AI logic to support all of it, that would lead to some immense costs including man hours and exposure to additional risk (more stuff to break and have to support). Would definitely be cool though, maybe they can implement this as the game matures?

Most of that stuff was in the original game. It's yet another thing that was stripped entirely for no reason. They could've just changed the behavior of "curious" mobs, but nooooo. It all had to go down the drain.

[Sadaharu]

My only complaint is the size of the world compared to 1.0. Mor Dhona is only about 1/3 the size it was (makes sense, the Battle of Carteneau occurred in the bottom half of Mor Dhona). Coerthas however was hugely reduced in size. It was a massive region with 5 different areas to explore, and ARR only implemented 1 of them.

Also it seems like all underground areas were removed / converted to instances. 1.0 had areas similar to like Crawler's Nest in XI. Just an underground cavern/maze with mobs and levequests.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/maps/eorzea.php

[Dragonskin]

Biggest complaint I hear from FFXI players coming to FFXIV is that until level 35 the game is way too easy for everything. After 35 it's really only the dungeons that can be difficult and maybe some solo class duties.

I wish they would have kept some things from XI like the weather affecting things, elementals being healed if attacked with their own element. Rare mobs as FATEs is fine, but most of them need to be harder and spawn less often. FATE leveling in general should be toned down.. it's the best method to get to end game with a class period, especially 30+.

Overall I like FFXIV, but it has a some areas that need to be adjusted and it is still missing a lot to put it back up with FFXI. I do like that they got rid of some of the annoying parts of FFXI, but this game is clearly more designed for the casual gamer.