Quote Originally Posted by KraggyKor View Post
V1's abject failure simply shows FFXI-type group-or-die mob-kill grindfests are a thing of the past, thank God. FFXI becaume hugely more enjoyable once COP was no longer current content.
By "successor to FFXI" I think what NefGP was trying to say is that it was going to be the next MMO from SE that we've seen on this scale. It's not like FFXIV is the second MMO SE has done... there is another unmentionable out there that they gave up on after a year.

Also, version 1.0's "abject failure" does not show that a FFXI model doesn't work (specifically because nothing but the race designs in ver. 1.0 were taken from FFXI), but shows that when you originally slate a game for late a 2013 release and then push it up to 2010, you should expect it to fail because it's missing 90% of it's features at release...

Why they thought they could get away with releasing a game in a less than finished state is beyond me, except that everyone else seems to be doing it these days too... and most receive a ton of complains and negative reviews which stain them even after they've been updated to a finished state years later. *sigh*