Updates: FFXI and FFXIV, a comparison

[Mack]

Also keep inmind that in 11 for the first 2 years there wasent much to do. Until RoZ came out. Hell Even Chocobos werent open until after a year and a half.

Who cares? why do we always dump this game's shortcomings because of what FFXI didn't do? IMO FFXIV should've been the equivalent of FFXI and 2 expansions at release and its quite clear why considering the game is still FTP.

[Physic]

Who cares? why do we always dump this game's shortcomings because of what FFXI didn't do? IMO FFXIV should've been the equivalent of FFXI and 2 expansions at release and its quite clear why considering the game is still FTP.

funny thing is the dude your quoting isnt even accurate, they had up to level 65, 4 ranks of tiered missions, 5 new jobs with quests, artifact armor quests, and chocobos came out at the very most within one month and a few days of release, this is if it wasnt in even before that
look at this quote

"- Fixed the bug that you still got attacked when riding a chocobo (Lmao...)."- 6/24/02
game came out 5/16/02

i dont know why people are making up information and posting it as fact, the truth is out there.
fact is FFXI was a release plagued with problems, reworks bad ideas, etc, and they fixed the game to basically Rotz within 11 months, even before rotz they had way more content than we have and will have by 1 year anniversary

[viion]

i dont know why people are making up information and posting it as fact, the truth is out there.
fact is FFXI was a release plagued with problems, reworks bad ideas, etc, and they fixed the game to basically Rotz within 11 months, even before rotz they had way more content than we have and will have by 1 year anniversary

And from that experience they learnt: nothing! And repeated.

[kukurumei]

Apologist can run the eternal excuse game, but in the end it's the results that matter.

They can be good they can be bad...sadly, majority is still bad. People still leave, game still blows, and time still ticks tocks.

Reality is a frightening thing, that's that.

[Physic]

And from that experience they learnt: nothing! And repeated.

they should have at least matched their update pace, if they were going to use the same plan.

[Prevbean]

The funniest part about all this is it's the year 2011 and we have seen more done to a game in 2002 that had way less competition to worry about and wayyy more examples to from other games to replicate even their own game.

[Corrderio]

And the sad thing is people still don't realize that XIV is getting a revamp on damn near everything compared to XI.

[feint2021]

FFXI was the first MMORPG that I played (Probably the same for a lot of people). I didn't know what to expect so everything seemed fun. After several years and playing different MMO's I expected a lot more from FFXIV. It's like they didn't learn from their mistakes. Comparing both games doesn't really do any good because we know which is the better game. FFXIV will never be FFXI, but I like to think that SE will make the adjustments needed to make FFXIV enjoyable.

[kukurumei]

And the sad thing is people still don't realize that XIV is getting a revamp on damn near everything compared to XI.

Correction:

And the sad thing is people do realize that XIV will get a revamp on damn near everything compared to XI.

They're slow, and there's a lot of work.

Again it's results that matter, not the excuses. Until results come, it will be the same.

[Rinsui]

Maybe there is a secret, mythical, hidden reason for why SE is slug-slow.
But consider one free market economy fact:

Customers don't care for excuses.

I'm not worried about whether SE is "guilty" or not. I'm worried about the survival of the game.