Quote Originally Posted by Alukah View Post
I thought 1.x failed because they took XI as a reference
Considering XI is one of the most successful MMOs to come out and one of SE's most financially successful titles? No, it didn't fail for taking XI as a 'reference' (so much hate towards XI by XIv players lol.) 1.0 failed for these two reasons:

1. It was unfinished.
2. It was on an engine not designed to run MMORPGs.

FFXI was built from the ground up on a custom engine - something they decided to do for ARR while maintaining most of 1.x's content and systems. So those who say they get rid of most everything from 1.0 didn't play it past September 2010.

So if they truly did use XI as a reference, it wouldn't have failed because they would have known better.