Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
Honest question and hope to get an honest answer. Why are you playing FFXIV (new school mechanics) instead of FFXI (old school tactics).
I'll also take this one.

Most of those who liked XI and moved on did so due to Abyssea. It pretty much changed XI in to ARR in principal, so for us there is no XI to 'go back to'.

A lot of people who stuck with it loved 1.2x. It was a great game. Would have been better with the ARR engine (lesser in some respects, but got rid of the 1.x issues at least). We had hopes 2.0 would follow what we had in the 2 previous SE MMOs. Like or hate it, it was unique and there were those who loved it. Most of us in this category don't appreciate the gear treadmill and don't want to hop games between content patches.

I'm spoiled. I reupped my XI sub for a month after v1 went down to hang out with old friends. As great as it was in its day I couldn't take the clunky controls, graphics, pace and so on. It has aged.