Quote Originally Posted by Onidemon View Post
I'm sick and tired of all the people asking to clone FFXI. I know you guys are in love with the game but you gotta realize that that's only you! How many players does FFXI currently have? Right, not very much.... maybe 200k at best. The game is not popular at all, far from there so get over it.

Do you think SE invested that much money and 5 years of work just to get a 200k or less players base? Also, last time i checked SE wants to keep FFXI alive so why would they turn FFXIV into FFXI and then kill one game in the process. And you ask this as if all they had to do is go into FFXI hit CTRL+C and then go to FFXIV and do CTRL+V to magically turn this into FFXI. My friend you got no idea of the amount of work involved and that would mean scrapping all the work they did during the past months.

So bottom line, if you want FFXI that bad then why they hell are you here and not playing FFXI?
Because they've killed off ffxi. I did go back after playing 14.. and its just not the same. Its too damn easy. Hell, its worse than ffxiv.

And no one wants a 1:1 clone. They want the class system, party system, AH, zone/species variety, lore, quests, mog houses, everything that made ffxi great. Not some crap armory system and a game designed to be easy, bland, and boring.

And if you've been paying attention, SE has invested a ton of money and has much less than a 200k playerbase and has admitted that the game is junk. Will it ever recover? Not in its current state. People want what made them stick around and play ffxi for years. You can say "well alot of people in this thread said they don't want ffxi-2"...

But look at the server populations, most of the people that wanted that left because they saw how far removed from anything good this game is. They are very few of us left here, most have given up on the project. Soon this forum will be nothing but people who "love the game" in its current state, and that will be the end.