Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
FFXIV has a long way to go before they hit anyone with a sense of awesomeness and scale, especially when they seem concerned about destroying any sense of scale wherever they go.

I let FFXI go when Abysea came out, hell long before that. It doesn't mean I don't know what makes a good game in my eyes. Saying that people are blind because they enjoyed XI is just asanine XIV has tons of potential to be greater than XI. If your trying to argue that just because I played XI 7 years ago that it's why I think it was a great game you are wrong.

Ultima Online was my first MMO and it was terrible compared to XI, Everquest was even worse. Someone doesn't need to be blinded by nostalgia to think that XI did alot of things right.
But FFXI shaped what you feel is a great MMO. Without FFXI you wouldn't be so critical and make so many references to it. This is evident to the fact that you can't bring up a dislike for one of FFXIV's systems and compare it to FFXI.

In the redevelopment process it's more productive and rewarding to be forward thinking. I'm not saying that FFXIV is definitively forward thinking, but also at the same time it doesn't do anyone any good to go backwards.