Thread: Please help me understand why i should continue to play a repeat of 2.0?

This isnt even a FFXI fanboy thing it comes down to. I paid for 2.0 content with different skin pretty much. Handouts are given left to right that only favours a person that does not have alot of time and should you have alot of time and your hands and want to play this alot you will get punished in all ways possible. Look at the relic quest for example pretty much not even upgradable instead we get a new story to make a new quest. How much money you want to bet it is going to be exact the same thing as before due to lack of creativity? Regardless of what you say and its an MMORPG, FFXI was not this way and some things that are a grind challenge should have been as they are. The Zeta should just continue to expand from i135 and onwards. That will give old areas replay value for all new people aswell as it can make you feel you earned your relic (slightly).

Instead of spending all your time on the forums crying, try spending it in game having fun maybe and not worrying about things, youll live a longer life

It was useless bloat.

Weaponskills were some of the worst offenders. With how many you actually had, 2 or 3 were actually useful outside of chainskill fodder. And so many spells were because they didn't know how to upgrade spells currently known, so instead you just kept stacking tier after tier. Cumbersome and not well planned out.

And on that note:

Plenty of missions (not quests) had you collecting random shite or doing some sort of overly convoluted task.

If thats the case then why hear Yoshi P talk about he is trying to make a new creative and fun MMORPG when its exactly like everything else? These where his exact words so somewhere along the path you are kinda contradicting yourself as the executive director for an MMORPG. I know its hard trying to make something new just like that and get it to work I never said it was easy but build somewhere. If you used the lets make a WoW easy gameplay clone to get peoples attention thats awesome but then along the path form it differently. I'm sorry for beeing negative but he did a poor coca cola marketing stunt with 1.0 and most of us bought it for the better good in hopes of something better. In return most of us got stuck with FFXIV A Communism Reborn with Free handouts WoW Style.