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.

[MogBeatr]

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.

I like you! My sentiments as well. Agree wholeheartedly about UO.

On the teleport thing. What makes the game less immersive imo, Is the haphazard map design. Who would know how to get anywhere in this game much less walk from one end to the other without some kind of continuous map? Don't blame teleporting.

On a side note whoever said peeps didnt complain back then: They did, forums just weren't as populated.