Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[WeiShan]

I played WOW for 6.5 years,player eq for 2 month,UO for 2 yrs
liked UO the most, EQ the second, had a memorable adventure in these games.

played WOW for the longest time but I hate it at the end.
vanilla WOW was great, after that I slowly realized WOW was just using a gear treadmill to take my money.
no more adventure,players don't help each others and blame each others because they wiped.

Then I tried XIV1.0, I was surprised,it had the charm, the sense of adventure.
it's the game that I've waited for a decade,I was so regretted & asked myself why I picked WOW not FFXI?
Yes 1.0 UI & copy pasted maps were suck.1.0 wasn't that bad, it was just unfinished
I kept playing it, after patches it became better and better.
The game required player interaction, community was great,it was a real MMO.

As you can see 99% 1.23/XIV players love XI/1.23 & don't like ARR/WOW clone.
because XI/1.23 had some magic in them


Yoshi chose an easy route,he made another wow clone,a gear treadmill dungeon co-op game,
because it's much eaiser to design,
but I think it won't last for more than two years,just look at those "modern" WOW clones on the market.

New patches won't save ARR,because the game is heading to a wrong direction,it is going downhill.
and this time, I think Yoshi may really ruin the Final Fantasy brand.
I mean, ask a kid "Do you know what is Final Fantasy", "Ah,I know,an easy & simple MMO?"
The brand doen't mean "the best of the best" , it isn't a memorable game title, anymore.