SE just copy FFXI in FFXIV

[Meridian]

I find the whole "XI-2" argument boils down to:

-Basic systems, like a fully functioning linkshell system.
-Basic search systems. XI's was extremely basic and could have been expanded upon for XIV.
-Suitable Party system. Even though XIV's focus was solo, party based content and grinding would have been suitable.
-Client side interface. Speaks for itself >.>
-Content base. While it's a new game, they could have had the content concepts there, e.g the Assault system ontop of the guildleve system would have been great.

Can't really fault this list. This is what most people want I think. Especially the meaningful party play situation, that keeps coming up.

[Ilean]

SE just copy FFXI in FFXIV
Players will never be satisfied because they all have played FFXI. We just need a copy of FFXI with better graphic. Nothing to add.

No.

/moarchars

[Cutriss]

Can we ruin one of the others, FFVII-2 Online!!!

I support that on sooooo many levels.

Mostly the "ruin", just so we're clear.

[Roughgalaxy]

Potential... that's a word I have heard a million times... hell I've used it myself... but you see it enough and it just starts to change meaning... what it means... is incomplete. xiv is incomplete. it was incomplete at launched, it's still incomplete now. We could wait 2 more years and it may still be incomplete. Quite frankly when I plugged this thing in I was expecting more of what I loved, XI-2. I got a bland world, bland story, bland gameplay, and (no offence) a bland in game community. To be perfectly honest, if I could get my money back, I would.

[Anty]

they killed FFXI so fast with short expansions the 9.99 ones, and finally destroyed everything they had for years with Abyssea... they gave up on ffxi long ago, i don't want that in ffxiv! I sure would welcome some working concepts of ffxi ported to ffxiv but i would rather have them improve them. So far they just left everything out.

They should have looked at what the major playerbase enjoyed (is is the ffxi playerbase) and ALSO check other mmos for nice things to copy without alienating their fanbase that much. They did nothing, left everything out. And now they might take as long to fix this game as other developers need to fully develop a game. looking at the speed of changes or the non-changes, i think i am right, even though i hope i'm not.

Its amazing how they managed to keep the game in this state for so long. Its as if they wanted it to die.

[Onidemon]

Players will never be satisfied because they all have played FFXI. We just need a copy of FFXI with better graphic. Nothing to add.

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?

[Blitz0309]

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.

[Jennestia]

So bottom line, if you want FFXI that bad then why they hell are you here and not playing FFXI?[/B]

Lots are, I am -- but it's the case in point they should have taken the bsics from XI built from it like everyone assumed they would. What was wrong with typing "/sea all (name/job)" or /sea inv (level range)? Absolutely nothing.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

yeah I to do not want a 1-1 clone of FFXI....but the basic stuff from FFXI....they could have kept and added the new stuff on top of it. Is that not the basics of what you do when you create a second is a particular "series" -.-

At launch FFXIV should of had all the basic systems FFXI had up to its last expansion. As much as I dont like to tear down peoples visions or ideas...... the original director really screwed things up............

[syntaxlies]

i dont know why everyone was expecting something new, SE didn't even change the races. Unless you call taking a tail away and stamping it with a different name. Has SE's creativity dried up so much that they couldn't provide us with one new playable class. The reason for this was cause SE wanted the game to feel familiar to ffxi fans, not different.