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

FFXI the good part is very relative, not everyone's cup of tea.

- Content: yes it has so many of them, since it has many more expansion. But bottom line, it is the SAME exact thing, grinding with gated time on how many you can do per day/s/week. Not to mention it gets overtly complicated, and they LOVE to make you GRIND for crap before you can even do the actual endgame stuffs. Get key item, do this, buy this but you must farm that said special currency. Bloated overtly complicated, unnecessary time sink grind just to extend gameplay. The Relic Weapon in FF14 has the case of FFXI shitastic grind fantastic fest, I do hope they ease this botched RNG grind fest on 3.0, otherwise I will skip it, optional weapon, not needed at all.

- Sure, stats are more flexible, but at the end of the day, there are certain optimal sets, and you must follow them or don't ever wish to be included on endgame. Rdm/War, just because yeah? How about War/Whm, cuz I want to be able to heal yeah? Nope, do not need this. FF14 is much more focused, curated and simplified.

- Gil and crafting, please do not get me started on this.... FF14 does a much better jobs. I don't ever ever need to buy ANYTHING from the auction house if I choose to spend some time getting things and do research on wiki or reddit. All the BiS gears are from actual events you must do and EARN the rewards. Gils are useless unless you want to power level craft and play Animal Crossing FF edition. Oh yeah, and if you want to make relic weapon FAST and skip all the grinding materia by yourself, cuz you know, apparently people really hate grinding but want to have the weapon ASAP now, and yet complaint when originally, at level 90, the relic quest is rather manageable.

- FF11 story is ok, not great but not bad, too many fetch quest just like FF14, but done in far far far far worse style. The amount of time sink for the sake of "well we just wanna make sure you farm random key item for an hour or two" is ridiculous. No thanks. FF14 is far more focused, streamlined and way better, 3.0 is the step in the right direction. FF14 CS blows FF11 out of the water. CoP is the most atrocious expansion ever, one of the worst missions ever designed in a game. Glad they totally nerf this now. All of those complainers about 3.0 content being gated, they must never play CoP on its original state lol. The amount of sadistic torture FFXI implemented to make sure only 10 percent of their player base ever reach Sea is just bad design decision. Here in FF14, you can access all the theme park content once you finish MSQ that is rather easy to do.

- Community is better yes, mainly because you are all stuck in one server. So bad reputation travel fast and you cannot do anything solo, you end up being forced to play nice with each other or you can't progress in the game.

- FF14 world is far more beautifully designed, very curated, and the creator spend a great deal of time crafting each areas with love. Each is diverse, very immersive and comes alive. The music is just as good as FFXI, some music is better here (those primal).

- Dungeons are far nicer here. Mechanic is far better here.

- Boatload of abilities and spells in FFXI, do you need 6 cures? 4 curagas? NO!! How about 5 regen spells yes? Useless boatload more more shitastic abilities. And people already complaint here when they add five abilities that alter your play style at 60 lol.

- Currency craziness bonanza that will drives you insane... How many different currency must I keep track.... Nope do not need this bullcrap content. I love how FF14 handles it, TWO currency, period, end of story. Simplicity is VERY VERY hard to do, while keep adding features after features are very easy to do. FF14 is great, keep it simple, accessible and yet has quite depth and nuances.

Again all of these are very subjective. Some FFXI veteran players hate FF14 with passion. I love FF14, they did such an amazing job creating this game. It is very modern, very accessible, lots and lots of variety of things to do, cater greatly to people with not a lot of time in their hands.