Anyone Else Feel Betrayed?

[casker]

nor were most of the promises we were given kept in the final adaptation of the game.

You cannot be serious. The game is extremely accurate to what the roadmap said, and what was said in live letters and letters from the producer.

It has always been extremely clear, they gave us the roadmap, and asked for support to fulfill that roadmap. It wasn't "support us and we'll make FFXI again." Ever. If you supported them thinking they were just going to remake FFXI despite all evidence to the contrary, that is your own idiocy and has nothing to do with betrayal.

[Kittra]

You cannot be serious. The game is extremely accurate to what the roadmap said, and what was said in live letters and letters from the producer.

It has always been extremely clear, they gave us the roadmap, and asked for support to fulfill that roadmap. It wasn't "support us and we'll make FFXI again." Ever. If you supported them thinking they were just going to remake FFXI despite all evidence to the contrary, that is your own idiocy and has nothing to do with betrayal.

I think you're misunderstanding what the OP was trying to say about the game and what this thread is about. Others have made comments similar to "Oh, so you want FFXI-2, well go play that then and stop trying to change our game!" while the OP is simply using FFXI as an "example" and has even stated later on in the thread that FFXI-2 is not what he wants.


FFXIV 1.0 was not made to be FFXI-2, I understand that. It was, however, advertised and promoted to people who were currently playing FFXI or had played FFXI at any point in time (we all got the 2-5 promotional e-mails on the accounts we subscribed with...) because they were trying to entice them over to FFXIV, this was even stated by the developers.

The support 1.0 subscribers gave to the game was based on good confidence that they would put out something that addressed all the problems the previous version of the game had. Instead, we got something that, while improved in the graphic engine and UI departments, still suffers from many of the same problems that 1.0 was dealing with that no other MMO on the market seems to have.

As for that road map they gave us, it is extremely inaccurate (as far as the time goes) being off by a couple months, and does not detail everything that they did to or had stated they would not do to the game. While almost all of it has been fulfilled (if a bit late) we still don't have their current plans for the game or what direction it will go in moving forward.

I agree that anyone supporting the game up to this point believing that it would be FFXI-2 is misleading themselves and should move on. I'm realistic though and realize that I have not read any posts on these forums where anyone has EVER asked for FFXI-2 and when they refer to FFXI it is because they want SE to take a page from something that they themselves have already done in the past and build upon it's good points.