This is what we asked for!

[Aramyth]

FF11 is running for 10+ years and still sucks compared to other mmorpgs, and that took 10 years to get as close to perfect as that game can get. Is anyone surprised that 14 is a failure?

XI is a pretty good MMO. I enjoyed it back when I played it from around slightly before CoP release to midway through Wings of the Goddess. I enjoyed it quite well, it was fun, I met a lot of cool people, combat was slow in early levels but picked up especially if you played jobs like PLD and RDM etc. Long story short, lots of people like FFXI. Albeit not as many that like WoW, but that could be said for every MMO.

Then there are games like LoTRO that people just call WoW clones that people don't like as much as WoW either. Does that make it a bad game? No.

FFXIV just happened to fall flat on it's ass at release. The original dev team failed miserably. So yes, I am willing to give the game time to evolve and grow with a new team. I LIKE the direction it's heading with 1.18.

There are so many things that will be coming in the next few upcoming patches that should of been in the game on release day. But they weren't. Now, we're all basically doing a one-time paid beta.

However, you're right the overall quality of Final Fantasy games went downhill once Squaresoft became Square Enix. FFX was the last of the best.