XIV:ARR what SE could change to make the XI Playerbase more Happy

[Steeled]

You seriously have no idea that S/E was never attempting to par with Blizzard isnt it? They never forecasting their playerbase to pass 1M to begin with, their goal is primary a replacement after FF11 is done. FF11 is nevertheless, best selling FF title. Yeah, they gain more from FF11 than legendary FF7.

Thos new mmos you refers as "challenge", you probably want to use it against Blizzard and they are apparently struggling with WoW atm. Blizzard is so desparte now that they are trying to bring back a TBC wanna be expansion because that is the only expansion people really enjoyed. Time travelling? I just want to yell WTF? Bring back Illidan and Kael'thas? Warlord of Dreanor? What a joke...

WoW's problem is that they pingpong between wtf-hard and rofl-easy, and they do this deliberately. Game gets easy and people leave. I played in TBC and Wrath and enjoyed both. Cata came out, and they gutted healing (made all healers the same with different spell names) and I just couldn't even want to play.

I would believe that this game wasn't trying to take subs from Blizzard if they didn't try to make the game like Warcraft. I'm not even saying clone, I'm just saying it's where they picked up the most influence.

Seriously, this isn't FFXI v2, but if they wanted something to take XI's place when it dies, they had a comfortable (at XIV's initial release) chunk of loyal players that would have come over. I think one reason people stayed with XI for so long is because it was one of the last "different" games. Everything else at or above XI's quality was 1,2,3 combo game. Everything.

[whilke]

If they updated FFXI Graphics and put a huge new expantion making the game what it used to be, Id drop this atrocious WoW wannabe in 1 second.

So you'd rather play an EverQuest wannabe (FFXI)? I see where your old school MMO loyalties lie. I'm with you, EQ was way better then WoW, and the wannabe that tried to clone it FFXI.

[Kona4me]

I agree with you on many things except gear switch thing... i really hate it.

[Raven19x]

If you want FFXI, play FFXI. Seems like a simple solution to me.

[Amiantos]

If you want FFXI, play FFXI. Seems like a simple solution to me.

Thats the thing, most of them want the FFXI that was pre abyssea and even pre Wings of the Goddess. You know the one where you had to find a real job that allowed you to be on during most of the HNM windows that were at least 6 hours long. The game where you had 4k exp an hour pts. You know the FFXI that FFXI no longer wanted to be.

[Tanama]

OP, you should really just resub to FFXI because FFXIV will never incorporate anything you are requesting. The most you are going to get is the iconic monsters, Shantotto FATE, a Shantotto minion and things of that nature.

[Dante_Purgatory]

All I want is /jobemote.

{Yes, please!}
I've never played XI but I learned about /jobemote by watching this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VGAwSVKCBc and it's sooo cool, especially the BLM and DRK ones.
Please, SE..make it happen T^T

[MiiyoAoi]

1. FFXI is running. You're not playing it. You're asking developer's to make this new game that had no intentions of becoming a sequel, to become, not even a sequel, but an updated version of a running game that you're not playing.

Replace "FFXI" with "Wow", and re-read what i wrote as if you were talking to someone asking to make this game more like wow and see how silly you seem.

2. The only thing original about FFXI is how they turned DBZ into an mmo. They milked the most repetative and mundane taks for all they were worth. If you played 4 hours straight; changing jobs, sorting out gear, travel, and finding people to tackle things took 3.5 hours of your time and you had 30 mins to play and enjoy content. No one will put up with that bs in these days.

[MiiyoAoi]

There is a fact you and your "community" need to accept. MMO's make decent money. Therefore, everyone's doing it. With competition, very few people will stray far from the "safe bet" of making money as when customers don't like you, they can easily just go somewhere else. With a subscription model attached to this game, it makes it even harder to stray from the "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" niche. Thousands of people have left FFXI and are still leaving simply because it isn't a game worth paying for to them. You're asking them to model so many things after a game that has consistantly lessened in subscriptions dating back to preabyssea times. This is a job for SE. They give 0 fucks about your nostalgia.

[Mahouko]

I started playing XI again,
guys it's fine that you all miss XI, and that you'd like to see this game change abit to be more like that game, but it wont happen XIV and XI where ment to be 2 dif. games...
XIV wasnt charming me like i felt it should too many things where abit of, i felt like this game had not enough skills and was too simple/boring, so our FC (with 1 person who never playing XI) decided to just head back and poke around abit, the new player is totally loving it, yes XI changed too and has become easyer, yes there are less players around, but it is still a decent game to play around with... also i noticed alot of old friends who also have restarted this week... i think people need to decide here what they'd like to do... trying to change this game isn't the good idea you have 2 FF MMO options, so i'd say pick the one you miss/like most, or maybe take a break from MMO's for abit. (just my 2 cents)