Quote Originally Posted by Ranka View Post
You really have missed my point completely. EVERY MMO has something that makes it unqiue, FFXI had those things. I am talking about those, not things a crap load of MMO's have, and things i expect them to have. This FF should have the basic things the other final fantasys had, chocobos, classic FF names, NM's(essentially NM are just bosses or minibosses). It is what makes a FF game FF. I am asking for the points made that are NOT those. We do need things from FFXI, generic MMO setting that FFXI was really good at, but we do not need the exact same specifications, as in specific extra's of game content/gameplay that defined FFXI. We need something that defines FFXIV. Well if you do not get this I do not care, not going to make it any easier to understand than this. Last reply post I will be doing on this thread.
If you were on my server I would give you sooo much free stuff for this thread.

People are so used to digesting content from MMOs like WoW and FFXI they've lost all vision. That's the impression i get. Every single suggestion is something another MMO had or did. It's like, if you want housing, that's great, but we don't need a mog house. It can be much more flexible and amazing. The moghouse system was so limited and claustrophobic. If you have to use a suggestion for housing, then I'd rather people use Mortal Online as a reference point, since it was obviously the superior game in that one regard.

Just because FFXI was a good game, and just because FFXIV is its spiritual predecessor, doesn't mean that in 2011 everything from FFXI is still worthwhile. FFXI suffered so many technical limitations, which is in part why many of its features needed to be designed the way they were. You just couldn't build your own house in a 3D MMO from ten years ago because it would have been technologically infeasible. But now we have that ability, and I would hate to see the potential squandered because people only call for what they know: mog houses etc.

This is just an isolated incident, there are so many other examples, apart from housing, where people request specific things from FFXI rather than simply call for their fundamental equivalent. If you want large scale warfare and instances, that's fine, but don't ask for assault or dynamis. People need to be waaay less specific.