FFXI-2?

[Gennosuke]

Call it what you like, some people get sensitive over the name/title, the point is simply to bring the Goodness of XI into XIV with XIV's own flavour, which btw would naturally be the case.

Some people are almost ready to get a heart stroke coz they're so scared it will turn into XI.
Reality check, it will never be XI. It's a different game with different developers, different story and lore, different battle system, the list goes on.

The point is simply to bring XIV to the standard XI lived up to. That's it.

[Lienn]

i've been thinking...since this game will be FFXIV and will be completely different from original FFXIV, they should also resume the beta test of original one. The game is pretty much "complete" to go straight to a beta test and, if this one is FFXIV, the original one could just become a spin-off game from FFXIV...FF already got so many spin-offs...same lore, different games/stories...maybe leaving the original FFXIV at 3rd or 5th Umbral era...chronologicaly far enough to make the stories completely unrelated.

After all its interesting for SE to keep players, no matter if they love e-peens or the Sims ^^: I would gladly quit this FFXIV and go back to original one, even it was in beta phase still...and i bet that, even if minority, many others would too...because not everyone liked FFXI and not everyone is liking/approving these changes...so this would be a win-win deal...those supporting the current FFXIV could stick with it, those who prefered the original one would move to it...it would not only bring peace to both communities but also lessen the burden on current dev team regarding not pleasing a beef of the playerbase.

Its like i said earlier...i just wanted the game i bought (and loved so much)...even if it was downgraded to a spin-off title.

[User201109011315]

i've been thinking...since this game will be FFXIV and will be completely different from original FFXIV, they should also resume the beta test of original one. The game is pretty much "complete" to go straight to a beta test and, if this one is FFXIV, the original one could just become a spin-off game from FFXIV...FF already got so many spin-offs...same lore, different games/stories...maybe leaving the original FFXIV at 3rd or 5th Umbral era...chronologicaly far enough to make the stories completely unrelated.

After all its interesting for SE to keep players, no matter if they love e-peens or the Sims ^^: I would gladly quit this FFXIV and go back to original one, even it was in beta phase still...and i bet that, even if minority, many others would too...because not everyone liked FFXI and not everyone is liking/approving these changes...so this would be a win-win deal...those supporting the current FFXIV could stick with it, those who prefered the original one would move to it...it would not only bring peace to both communities but also lessen the burden on current dev team regarding not pleasing a beef of the playerbase.

Its like i said earlier...i just wanted the game i bought (and loved so much)...even if it was downgraded to a spin-off title.

I liked the previous rendition also, but "loved so much" is a bit of a stretch for me. Basically I just saw the original FFXIV as having way more potential.

This new direction for FFXIV is just crap, sorry, but it is.

[Onidemon]

I liked the previous rendition also, but "loved so much" is a bit of a stretch for me. Basically I just saw the original FFXIV as having way more potential.

This new direction for FFXIV is just crap, sorry, but it is.

Says the dude with a R1 character who never played the game...

[AsterBarnivere]

Says the dude with a R1 character who never played the game...

You don't need to be a rank 50 to sense something is wrong with a game..

[Onidemon]

You don't need to be a rank 50 to sense something is wrong with a game..

Couldn't agree more but you certainly need more then a LVL. 1 to sense anything at all.

[User201109011315]

Devs don't read the english forums and the mods and translators, bless them, probably don't bother relaying anything I say.

[whoopeeragon]

Then I'm surprised that the dev marker has been consistently appearing on a few topics here and there. Perhaps those "devs" are actually Chinese hackers. Hmmmm.

Either way, that's not an excuse for how you're treating Yoshi-P. At least provide something more constructive rather than; "Novelty is all he's got" and "new direction is crap". I can't really see devs getting much feedback on to how they can go about it from such statements, can they? Just because you're upset or in disagreement with a few options does not mean that we can take it all out on Yoshi. Spare him; he's only human.

[User201109011315]

Then I'm surprised that the dev marker has been consistently appearing on a few topics here and there. Perhaps those "devs" are actually Chinese hackers. Hmmmm.

Either way, that's not an excuse for how you're treating Yoshi-P. At least provide something more constructive rather than; "Novelty is all he's got" and "new direction is crap". I can't really see devs getting much feedback on to how they can go about it from such statements, can they? Just because you're upset or in disagreement with a few options does not mean that we can take it all out on Yoshi. Spare him; he's only human.

I am not attacking him so much as his ideas.

"let's turn this into WoW as fast as possible without preserving any of the good features of the original FFXIV, nor evaluating the repurcussions of what we are doing"

That is not a good design philosophy.

I don't know how much more abundantly clear i have to be about this point. But to put it in layman's terms, nobody is going to want to play a carbon copy of WoW without the wealth of content, or a copy of TERA without the combat system and political system, nor a bad photocopy of Blade and Soul without the cobat and gear versatility, nor a SWToR clone without the huge amount of story-mode content and voiceacting.

Having a vision and commitment to that vision is better than trying to capture the dregs of the MMO market that probably have better games to play anyway.