Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
Am I the only person on this planet who loves both games?!

I think XI and XIV are great in completely different ways. They're so night and day different that even comparing the 2 seems pretty redundant.

Sure I'd LOVE to play game with the sense of danger and atmosphere like XI someday but does it mean I can't enjoy a game like XIV?
The close mindedness of frankly both groups in this battle saddens me. If you can see good in only one or the other then trust me you're denyong yourself from having great gamin experiences and memories.
It's not so black & white as that for a lot of people unfortunately.


I hated quite a bit of what FFXI forced on people back in the day and then later forced again with the Abyssea expansions, but the good parts ultimately out weighed the bad, so I stuck with it for 8 years.

In the case of FFXIV though (keeping in mind that the game has only been out as "ARR" for a couple months) I see far more bad than good and it irks me to no end that they didn't fix many of the problems that should have been priority #1 on the reboot.

Seeing the good in something doesn't really work if while you're looking at it, that dense cloud of bad is hovering in front of everything making it difficult to see.

The good and bad will be different volumes for each person who looks at it so there will never be a "perfect" formula for how to do things right. Much like I'm colorblind and have difficulty seeing things in a "vibrant" atmosphere with a lot of color which results in me hating a lot of "good looking" things, a person with perfect vision will have no problem enjoying something while still being "blind" to those things that only color blind people can see.

Currently, the number of people without color blindness out weighs the number of people with it, so everything is designed with the normal masses in mind, much like the gaming industry has been doing for the past 10 years.


Now you might think I'm nuts because I liked version 1.0, more specifically version 1.23, but it was because I absolutely HATED all the previous versions and 1.23 was showing a lot of us that the game was moving in the right direction. Many of us took that as a sign that Yoshi-P would do wonders with A Realm Reborn and he has... but it's not at all what, at least I, expected. I subscribed for 6 months in hopes that, just like all the versions leading up to 1.23 were improvement after improvement, we would get the same after a while of ARR being released. How do I feel about it? I feel like someone flew me up 20,000 feet on a private jet (never flown before but I'd love to), opened the hatch and then just threw me out...

I've seen it said "It's just a game, get over it." but they need to realize, many of us have invested in this game (not just money) for 3 years now, and when you spend that kind of time on something and it fails to meet your expectations, especially after seeing all the improvements up to that point, you will end up some of these or maybe all of them: depressed, disappointed, angry, sad, confused, or indignant.