Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Gilthas]

1000 wow clones, 0 ffxi clones. Why in the heck would you want another WoW clone?

Because 1 FF WoW clone and 1 FFXI is better for me than 2 FFXI's. It's even better for me because I never played WoW or any of it's clones.

I knew AoC, Tera, Aion, Rift were all going to die or become free to play after playing them for a few months. I haven't decided what will happen to XIV next year. I think it will die since Yoshi is against free to play.
XI lasted longer (still is, albeit it is totally different game now) than all the above as a subscription game (still is too). But XIV... its not made to be a long lasting game. So i quit the game since I dont want to invest in a game with no future. Why do I make these posts? Because I am bored and because I miss XIV 1.23 and what they did to this game!

ARR has nothing good:
1. the battle system sucks
2. it is all instanced
3. gear treadmill
4. doing same dungeons for gear treadmill; get new gear to do the old dungeon to get more gear
5. the world is small and instant teleports
6. the world is dead, the music in environment is bad (Mordhona is so annoying), there is no sense of being in the world

When people realize the above, subscriptions will dwindle.

And like I have pointed out before, while it is entirely possible that FFXIV will die out soon, there is no reason to believe that making it more like FFXI or 1.23 would make the game last longer. Though I doubt most of you will ever admit that fact.