Quote Originally Posted by Ranka View Post
Just to state, I am not talking about Yoshi P or the team behind FFXIV. I think they are doing a awesome job overall. I am talking about players who keep wanting stuff from FFXI. Prob should of just edited this in, but whatever. <.<
I agree with most of what you said.

The players that shown the most interest in having an "FFXI clone" are in the minority, albeit a very vocal one. The first polls has proven that majority of players (more than 50%) have never played FFXI before.

I do not disagree with the notion that some elements of what made FFXI unique and work well should be looked at more seriously and maybe to incorporate it in some interesting way into FFXIV. However, I left FFXI because there were many things wrong with the game. I've played many other MMO games and they all had something unique and interesting to offer and I think SE shouldn't ignore this fact. They would do well to largely protect what's unique about FFXIV while researching into what made other MMO games more successful and then incorporating some ideas from those titles into this game without copying and pasting the exact idea code for code.

But this discussion is relatively dangerous to have with the community way after the release date has past. I don't want to see SE "bow" to pressure from the community and do whatever it asks because majority of the time when that has happened in the past with many other games, only disaster followed.