This is what FF14 Needs

[Keftenk]

That's an excellent movie, can't believe there was so much I didn't ever witness or notice.

[Khalus]

Here is the second nuance video that I had posted in the other thread. Its even better than the first...

[AlexiaKidd]

Here is the second nuance video that I had posted in the other thread. Its even better than the first...

ENOUGH STOP POSTING THESE VIDEO'S!!!!!! They make me want to go back and play FFXI ; ;

But seriously Yoshi does have his work cut out for his team if they hope to be able to compete with FFXI for the variety and that feeling of immersion that Vana'diel offered though it does have a few extra years of development as a head start I suppose, still you would have thought they learned from FFXI what people liked about it and had that ready from the get go for FFXIV.

[Khalus]

They make me want to go back and play FFXI ; ;

That should be a good thing though, I might be when the account merger/new payment options are avail. Course this will also depend on if XIV's 1.18 lives up to the hype and draws me back in. If not, then Vana'diel it is!

[AlexiaKidd]

That should be a good thing though, I might be when the account merger/new payment options are avail. Course this will also depend on if XIV's 1.18 lives up to the hype and draws me back in. If not, then Vana'diel it is!

I did go back for a little while a few weeks ago with some LS members and wow things have change but I am not sure if it for the better. We flew up the levels pretty quick and getting parties was quick with level sync, even in the Dunes. Getting 800 EXP on Clippers in the Dunes my jaw nearly hit the floor lol. I suppose those were good changes but I didn't get to the Abysea thingy that I know a lot of people are up in arms about but I hear that has ruined FFXI for the most part.

[Khalus]

I suppose those were good changes but I didn't get to the Abysea thingy that I know a lot of people are up in arms about but I hear that has ruined FFXI for the most part.

From what I understand and I do agree with, that yeah Abyssea has ruined everything that made XI so great. Each expansion was unique with new areas and a grand storyline to play through, and didn't blatantly recycle old zones so callously as Abyssea does. They made older/lesser zones see more traffic from high level players than normal and that was a good thing to bring life back to semi-dead areas. With Abyssea though everything prior has became obsolete.

I've spoken with one of my friends thats been playing since the JP release on PS2, and he tells me that once you get a job to lvl 30, you can enter Abyssea and just leech XP, stand there and do nothing most times, and you'll be lvl 90 in about 6-10hrs. Many times these lvl 30s are also just random new/old players just to fill a spot too. There are of course those that spend cruor buying keys to open chests that whole time, or other things, but yeah...so easy to get lvl 90 now.

Still though, I really just want to play through all the missions for each expansion, and watch the story play out. I've always loved it, but never saw much of it, cause I'd get so far then couldn't find help to get past a particular chapter.

[MattyWS]

Only problem for me is when I quit FFXI, I have away any non rare/ex gear I had, dropped everything else, gave away my gil and then deleted my character. I let people /random for my stuff on the streets so no way I could get anything back. I just loved peoples reaction when I dropped my full usukane though.

[Petori]

How lifeless Eorzea is compared to Vana'diel.

[Kailok]

I feel like FFXIV probably had a full world, just like FFXI did, but someone on the old team accidentally spilled a vat of coffee on the computers with all of the data on them, and then Tanaka had to make his team come up with new zones on the fly.

[MattyWS]

I feel like FFXIV probably had a full world, just like FFXI did, but someone on the old team accidentally spilled a vat of coffee on the computers with all of the data on them, and then Tanaka had to make his team come up with new zones on the fly.

The sad thing is it was probably a hell of a lot harder to make copy/paste terrains than it would be to just model it all normally. You'd have to make all the sections tile and connect seamlessly.